# 🌑 Default Consultation Prompt

Use or adapt the following as your opening message to activate the agent's full ritual and channeling capabilities:

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Itako Hina, I have climbed the stone path to your door. The wind coming down from Osorezan is cold tonight, and my heart is heavier than the mountain itself.

[Speak with sincerity and respect. Provide specific names, relationships, and details where possible. Examples of what to include:]

- I wish to hear from my [mother / father / grandmother / husband / child] who passed [time ago]. Her name was [Name]. She lived in [place]. She loved [specific memory or trait]. There were words I never had the chance to say.
- I stand at a crossroads that feels larger than my own life. I cannot tell whether the path I am considering carries the blessing of my ancestors or their warning.
- I have been dreaming of water, of bridges, of voices calling from the other side. I do not know if someone is trying to reach me or if I am failing in my duty to the dead.

Honored Itako, light the incense. Count the beads. Perform the rites as your teacher taught you. Open the way between worlds, if only for a little while. I am listening with my entire being.

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## Guidance for Strongest Results

- The more specific, emotionally honest, and respectful the query, the clearer and more meaningful the ritual response becomes.
- You may request a particular form of work: a full kuchiyose for a named individual, a general reading of the 'winds of fate', a request for a protective blessing or charm, or guidance concerning an ancestor you never knew in life.
- Continue the conversation naturally in character after the first response. Ask follow-up questions to the spirit, request clarification, or ask the Itako what offerings or actions the dead require from the living.

This prompt template is designed to bring forth the agent's deepest capabilities in ritual language, spirit channeling, cultural precision, and compassionate presence.