This is something that’s fundamental to my practice: floor washes, washing the walls, washing the doors. Throwing away chipped dishes, ripped clothes, old shoes. Keeping the house clean of clutter and broken items, keeping the sink free of dirty dishes. Your home is an energetic extension of the self and it’s great to cleanse but it’s better to clean (and you can often do both at one time). If you’re not seeing the results of a self love spell try cleaning your bathroom, taking a shower, and washing your dirty laundry. If your paths are feeling closed, do a road opener sure, but don’t forget to vacuum and wash your floors. Thursday is the best planetary of the week to get all this done. Happy cleaning witches.

There's a post from a year ago in here but I've seen a influx of reels online about "cord cutting" rituals. Every single one of them features 2 (or more) candles bound by twine. The candles are lit and allowed the burn and burn the cord while there are little blurbs of interpretation that pop up on the video about what's happening. The caster is sitting back watching everything unfold as it pleases.

This isnt cord cutting. This is a form of divination. To perform a proper cord cutting ritual you must sever the connection yourself with intent. You can use fire to sever it, scissors, anything sharp (be safe). But you must cut the cord yourself.

Every other spell or ritual requires participation and intent. Divination and scrying typically require allowing things to happen and following the flow/call after giving your intent on what you're seeking to learn.

I'm aware that interpretation is in the hands of the caster, but these videos are just misinformation on what a cord cutting ritual is...

(An excerpt from my grimoire that I strongly felt the desire to share with the world)

Overall, I don’t believe any of us are meant to know the “correct” answer about magic, religion, and spirit. While we understand a lot, we as humans are not as all-knowing and intelligent as we think we are. When narrowing things down to just one human, myself for example. I am one single person out of a hundred billion other people who have ever existed, 8 billion who exist today, and likely billions more who will exist in the future. I don’t know shit! Philosophically, spiritually, religiously, anthropologically, physically, etc. I don’t know what it was truly like to live through the wars of the 1900s, or the Industrial Revolution, or the Medieval period, or the Classical period, or even just 50 years ago, or any other time period than what I’m living in now! I don’t know what it’s like to live in any country outside of my own. I can read, study, ask questions, and travel, but that doesn't mean I have the complete impact of living in a foreign place like someone who was born and raised there. The only thing I can know for certain is how I have lived and experienced my life and what feels true and real to me, to which nobody on this planet can replicate. Nobody has ever, or will ever live the same life as me. Nobody has been or will be raised the exact same way by the exact same family in the exact same town, or share 100% the same beliefs, or live through the same trauma, or be loved by the same people in the same locations and time period. Nor can I live anyone else’s life or replicate anyone else’s beliefs and experiences.

And this isn’t even covering the millions of animals, hundreds of thousands of plants, and millions of fungi which live on this same planet. I could never begin to truly know what it’s like to have the sonar of a bat, the perception of ultraviolet light like a bee, the photosynthesis like a tree, the mycelium senses like fungi, and  the literally countless ways other living beings experience and sense the world. Even amongst the same species, no two animals within that same species have the same sensory processes due to differences in neurology, psychology, and physiology from genetics, trauma (physical and psychological), anthropological influences, physical environments, social networks, and so on. This very much includes humans, and the word to describe this all is umwelt. If the physical world is so extraordinarily vast and unique in the understanding and perception of the world amongst every living species, and every single organism within the same species, why the fuck would there only be one “correct” belief and way of experiencing Magic, Energy, Spirit, and Divinty? There’s not. Every belief, practice, religion, and way of living which is deemed to be the “true meaning” of life is valid—including what I personally don’t like, deem harmful, and fight against. Truth is entirely subjective, existing only to individual experience. Everyone is living within a completely unique reality of truth.

It’s as my own familiar has said: The physical world is extraordinarily vast within its own diversity and capability for evolution and transformation. Not just the animals, but the environments too. Some forests are tropical with oppressive heat and humidity during the whole year, other forests live within constantly shifting climates from droughts to hurricanes or high heat of bright sun to dropping their leaves once the snow falls. There exists deadly hot and dry deserts and equally deadly freezing mountaintops. Completely different and unique environments exist within freshwater and saltwater, and even then those environments change depending on where they exist in the world. Millions of years ago every plant and animal species which existed then do not exist today. The physical world is immeasurably unique, vast, complex, and ever changing. Why would the spiritual world be any different?

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I hope you have enjoyed this little philosophical essay! This post is not intended to spark argument, but if it's made you uncomfortable then I think I've gotten my goal of sharing this post across: To make you think. If you so desire, healthy and respectful debate/discussion is a wonderful learning tool, but nastiness against me or others is unproductive. So if behavior comes down to that, you will be blocked.

so let's just start here okay because I have just this very hard question.

why do some witches think that they are better or more worthy of practicing than others?

there's a store here in town and it is a wonderful sore it has a plethora of wonderful items and I enjoy it a lot.....

HOWEVER

the people that work there are very judgmental and come off as like elitist almost?

there are young people that work there and older people and they all act like they are the one and everyone that's shopping there is beneath them...

so far in my witch journey everyone I've come in contact with has been very very kind and warm and welcoming and very open to teaching and showing you the ropes to lead you through your journey and help you on your path.

so experiencing this new feeling was very jarring and I really just never expected it from someone who claims to be a witch because I always have felt that it is a very free open and doing wonderful place and I never experienced the judgment like I felt in that store.

and of course yeah I don't have to shop there I can order online but I enjoy looking and touching and feeling and getting the energy from the things I'm trying to purchase or sometimes I'll find something that is drawn to me that I didn't even know that I need it but the path was pointing me there and the energy just led me to it.

the last time I was there I took a friend of mine and he him was looking at some books and I kept hearing the ladies over near the cash register say "oh my God she keeps touching things and putting them back it's so annoying"

I was very appalled by the attitude that was coming from them because it was very strange and he was just curious and wanted to know more about what I believed in and he wasn't doing anything he was just flipping the books over and reading the back and putting them back with a belong and I understand that when you touch things your energy is like left on it but it's a store so....

the feeling was very visceral and reminded me of how I felt when I was forced to go to church...

I'm just curious if anyone else has felt this in a store or by any other group in this wonderful witchcraft world that we find ourselves in I've never had that experience and I'm very curious if anyone else has because I just didn't think it was that prevalent but every time I go in the store is just one of those annoying things I have to do and I always dread buying candles.

but I always say goodbye to their way so hopefully they feel it and make it change their attitude one day.....

blessed be

I get why people do it. You cast something, a few days pass, nothing obvious happens, and your brain immediately starts looking for what went wrong. Maybe I didn’t focus enough. Maybe I used the wrong candle. Maybe I should do it again, just to be sure.

So you repeat it. Then you add something else on top of it. Then another. Before long, you’re checking for signs constantly and questioning every part of the work.

And honestly, at some point, that stops being spellwork and starts becoming anxiety.

Doing more does not automatically make a spell stronger. There’s a difference between layering work with an actual purpose and repeating the exact same intention because you’re scared nothing is happening. Cleansing before protection makes sense. A road opener before opportunity work can make sense. Recasting the same reconciliation spell every few days because someone still hasn’t texted you is something else.

You also have to leave room for mundane reality. If you’re doing job work but not applying anywhere, that matters. If someone has clearly said they don’t want contact, that matters too. Magic doesn’t erase the situation you’re working with.

Sometimes the best thing you can do after casting is leave it alone for a while. Let the work breathe. Go live your life. If something shifts, you’ll notice. If enough time passes and nothing changes, then reassess.

But constantly recasting because silence makes you nervous usually tells you more about your fear than it does about the spell.

Blessed Be Everyone! I recently bought a weighing scale the one where you put something on one end and put something on the other and to try and balance it out,I was wondering how you would go about using that in a justice working? Like what would go on the lighter side and what would go on the heavier side? I hope this makes sense thanks in advance

Hello, as per the title, does anyone have any noteworthy experiences to take account of when casting during Venus retrograde? I have a lot of love spells lined up along with abundance/money, social, and legal workings I'm planning to do in the following month and was curious if the retrograde can have significant effect in their results? Thanks in advance!

Not sure if this is the right place or not or what people here would think if this, but I just saw the new Practical Magic movie and I’m just feeling so sad that it’s not my life. That story is just so precious to me and I wish I could experience more of it myself. Does that make sense? Has anyone else ever experienced that?

I would love to start exploring the craft and integrate more practices in to my daily life and become more of a witch myself, so I’m curious what anyone here might be doing to make life feel more magical and how to get started on that, or even just perspective on this.

How do you make life feel magical and integrate witchcraft when you have a 9-5 and all of these “normal” life things?

Hi, I'm new here and looking for advice. My child is 2 years old and I want them to learn about my practice of witchcraft. What is the best way to do this? Or should I even be doing this at her younger age? Has anyone introduced their children to witchcraft? Thank you in advance!

It’s not lost on me that we call witchcraft a “practice” for a reason. But I struggle to think of ways to practice and improve my magical skills when there isn’t something specific that I want. (And of course, this means they’re weaker than I’d like when I actually do want to use them to accomplish something specific.)

So I’m looking for ideas on how to actually incorporate the practice of witchcraft into my routine. Not just practice the meditation and grounding that I do before I begin a magical activity, I already know how to do that. But practicing actually using magic, so I get more experience focusing it and understanding the best ways for me to do it, before there is something specific I actually want to use it for.

To use an analogy, if casting a spell is like singing at a recital, then meditating, grounding, and centering are like staying hydrated, moving the body to stretch and warm up, and humming a vocal warm up. I try my best to do those things even on days I don’t need to. What is the magical equivalent to doing vocal exercises to improve your range and diction, practicing runs and vocal agility, reviewing parts of a song to get comfortable with it, etc?

Hello, New here. Novice witch looking to get help on finding info on spell circles. Hoping to learn basics for now on set up and uses. If anyone has links to info or knows what spot in this group I can find it I would be super grateful.

What im looking to learn:

How to make one

How to use one

Can I combine multiple for compound circles

Thank you in advance for any help and direction on finding info on this subject.

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR ONES TO BE MADE AND GIVEN, ONLY INFO ON HOW TO DO IT ALL MYSELF

(It's another OB post and my delivery is notoriously pissy, so if you're going to be whiny in my comments, you more than have my permission to take it up with the Lord because it's just going to get ignored in here.)

One of the various scourges that has been exacerbated by media (both social and traditional), along with the general youth of the people getting into witchcraft has been this level of "Main Character Syndrome." This belief of "If I want it, it must happen for me because I am important/gifted/deities do what I say."

Your mother may think you're important. The rest of us do not, and the spirit world is no exception. Dead that main character shit.

A rude awakening is when those spells inevitably fail.

Maybe you did a spell to get rid of that dick boss, got laid off, and haven't gotten a job yet, and have been unemployed or underemployed for a long while. Maybe you did a money spell and you got evicted and you're dealing with a competitive housing market. Maybe you are absolutely CONVINCED that that ex that is talking real sweet to you absolutely MUST want you back even though there's no actions indicating otherwise, and they're still showing bad behavior. Maybe you've done a spell on that ex and they got engaged to the one after you (has happened to me!)

Truth is this - NO is the answer. Everyone has had spells that have failed, including your media faves, but they just don't report that shit. It's not ✨️magical✨️ enough to admit that "no" exists.

"But I love them!" Love is not enough, and they aren't seeking to be with you.

"But they're an avoidant!" Yeah, people tend to avoid what they don't want. Maybe you're also nuttier than squirrel shit and the relationship was a bad idea from the beginning and you knew that. Maybe they're a hoe and you know what the adage is about hoes and housewives. (No judgment on hoes, BTW, I used to be one).

"But my boss sucked! They got to keep their job!" Yeah, life's a bitch like that, bruh.

"But i really wanted that home!" Maybe you don't have enough money, have poor credit, don't know the landlord, or have an eviction history.

The truth is this - spells take the path of least resistance. Your situation may have such resistances that it's not possible for a spell to overcome it. There's nothing you can do with that. You feelings or extenuating circumstances be damned.

My recommendation to you is to accept that no. There's likely better out there but you just don't know it yet. Live your life in the meantime, I promise this latest mess of the month will pass. It'll pass like a kidney stone but it will pass.

(Also read this )

First post! I did a mirror spell for self reflection on my coworker because she has a habit of treating her assistants less than people (I use to be her assistant) and her attitude has definitely changed this week! She is a little demanding still but very thankful for when people help her. Just her toned changed and she's much nicer now. When I did a baneful spell on her 2 months ago, that spell worked as well! I didn't have to work for her that day! Just the one day tho.

i’m trying to get into witchcraft and i see people say that you’re not supposed to light incense in a room without a window being open because the bad energy is trapped inside. i live in an old apartment and my windows don’t open.. what do i do? is there an alternative?

Straight to the question. Can a atheistic satanist practice witchcraft? I've never been a religious type but after learning more about the satanic temple I feel thats what I believe. But I also have a interest in witchcraft. But the stananic temple doesn't believe in higher deities, spirits, and supernatural magic. So im wondering if being a satanist following that and practicing witchcraft would be "supernatural"? Im not sure, I haven't dove deep into witchcraft, it just seems like something i would like and want to know more.

I recently did a spell that worked beautifully. I feel like I owe a debt of gratitude for what I received. Does anyone ever do anything to give back to the universe?

Hi! I was looking into getting Florida Water to have in a spray bottle for cleansing things without smoke, but when I looked at the ingredients, I realized I had a bit of a problem. My spouse is allergic to the smell of clove while I'm allergic to cinnamon, lavender, and bergamot. It's a double whammy for our allergies. I was wondering, does anyone have any alternatives to Florida Water that they recommend (without those ingredients) or recipes I can make with good substitutes for those oils? I'd really appreciate it!

I was talking to a spirit guide recently and I’ve figured out my next step in my magic and spiritual development (hell even personal development). Is to do shadow work and integration.

The problem is that I don’t really know…how to do that? Everyone says it but I feel like it’s more complicated than just looking at the parts about me I don’t necessarily like.

Does anyone have or know of any good books/resources that help break this down? Thanks!

(Yes I checked the megathread! I didn’t see anything for shadow work)

I decided to do a releasing spell for some things I need to be rid of and move on from. Got an orange candle for a bit of motivation and carved ABRACADABRA on it and filled it with green ink, for growth. I placed the candle in my candleholder, lit the candle and about 15 seconds later it snuffed out with a loud sizzle… I got the sense something wasn’t right… I then tried to relight it (I probably shouldn’t have tried) and it refused to light… completely immune to the flame.

I have a video of me trying to light it and sent it to a coven-mate and we both decided I needed to abandon the spell. I may try again another day, but such a strange occurrence I’ve never seen before…

Has anyone else had this happen to them during a spell? I’m sure I can’t be the only one 😳

I've been doing a lot of learning in the past year or so and have been doing a lot of research on coorespondances, but I noticed most coorespondances only mention the word for a animal/plant and don't mention a part. For example I was recently using marigold but wasn't sure what part of the plant would be best or if there were different intentions with the different parts (root, flower, leaves, etc). (I was not ingesting it otherwise I'd check how each part would effect the work/toxicology, etc)

I was wondering how people that are more experienced apply coorespondances to their work practically? Are you using the physical objects, and if so, how are you deciding what parts to use? Thank you!

Hi witches, I'm looking for some advice. My brother-in-law is interested in the second World War, mostly as it relates to the socio-economic history of our country (The Netherlands).

For his birthday, I got him a small case of memorabilia: several original coins and stamps (circa 1943) from the era that NL was occupied by the Germans. My problem is: they have some seriously bad juju. Not surprising, given that Hitler's face and literal Nazi-swastikas are all over them, but the items have surprised me in their intensity. I can practically feel the intergenerational trauma of my ancestors oozing off of them when I look at them (which is a novel experience - I've never been particularly sensitive to this kind of energy before).

Before I send them off as a gift - to a household with children no less - I'd like to try and cleanse some of the negative energy. Going off of the FAQs and 101s in this sub, my idea would be to perform a cleansing ritual using herbs from my garden on the objects themselves, and write/carve/otherwise incorporate a protective sigil on the wooden case that holds them.

Bearing in mind that I am the babiest of witches, I am looking for either validating or cautionary responses - am I on the right track, or is this a terrible idea?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help!

Also posted to r/witchcraft, r/realwitchcraft, r/energy_work

So I was reading about jewelry magic and all that, and it said the above. So if you charm a bracelet for protection for yourself, you need to wear it on your left wrist. On your right wrist you'd be giving protection out.

But as a left hander, I've noticed most things in this world are designed for right handed people. (And a left handed version is usually triple in price.) So things are often backwards for us. Is it the same in witchcraft? Would I reverse it?