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More on Being Thankful

Hey Occulties,

I know I had recently posted that the problem with most prayers “failing” was that people often express little or no gratitude towards the very beings they make requests of. This weekend, a frustrated reader expressed to me that she would gladly give thanks and praise, but she couldn’t think of anything good in her life, so she couldn’t be thankful. 

*Sigh

Right now, to read this article, you must have wifi access and/or access to the internet. You also have a computer, smartphone, and/or tablet with which to access the internet. Even if you are using someone else’s device and internet, you have access to those things. That is something to be thankful for.

Do you have food? Heat? Air Conditioning? A home or apartment you can live in? How is your health? Does anyone love you - your parents, friends, pets, family? If you said yes to any of that or are enjoying good health, be thankful for that.

Even the most miserable person I have worked for had plenty to be grateful for, but because all they did was focus on what they didn’t have or what they didn’t like, they took for granted all of the blessings surrounding them. Furthermore, this willful blindness towards anything NOT upsetting them actually amplifies their suffering. 

You don’t need to be so miserable. Shifting your focus to your blessings - that is, the things in your life that are really good and that you likely take for granted, - is going to take away so much of the pain and distress you feel from over-focusing on the negative things you wish to change. You don’t even need to be a spiritual person and thank a spirit or supernatural being - just say to yourself a list of things you are thankful that you do have at least once a day.

The reward is that you stop feeling so miserable. Not surprisingly, if you stop fixating on a problem or situation and overthinking it, and put focus on the good things in your life, you actually feel better and are in a far-better frame of mind to tackle that stinky problem or situation. It might not be instant (just acknowledging things which make your life better, that your survival needs are met, and that you have some stuff that even makes you happy just the once won’t do much,) but if you even take TEN consecutive days where once a day you either just give thanks to God/dess, spirits, the universe OR even just read aloud to yourself a list of things you’re grateful you have, and I promise you, you’ll start to feel better.

As an added benefit, if you’re thanking the Almighty or a spirit for those things without asking for anything for ten straight days, you’re building a relationship with that being so that when you do ask for something, you’re more likely to get your prayers answered with yes (though I would hope the thanks and praise you give to another being is sincere...because spirits and God/Creator/Almighty know when you’re insincere.)

I understand how easy it is to slide into negative thinking. I have had instances where I found myself stuck in a rut, and it felt like everything was just more dreadful bullshit everywhere I turned...and by shifting my focus to the good things I did have, I managed to pull myself out of my funk. Spellcasting to fix the situation causing my distress certainly helped, but keep in mind, to let the spell really help the situation, I couldn’t think the situation to death (lust for results), so counting my blessings and focusing on the positive things in my life also helped my spellwork to do it’s job.

Hopefully this was enlightening. ;) I would like to focus more on traditional topics like money spellwork and cursing and love magic in my next posts. But after being told by someone with good looks, a good job, a nice home, and in perfect health that they had nothing to be happy about, I really just had to write this article. 

So don’t forget - you have good stuff in your life. As they saying goes, “if you only focus on what you don’t have, you just miss out on the things you do have.”

~Cat

Little Things You Can Do to Make your Reconciliation Manifestation Go Faster

Hey Occulties,

Sorry for the wait on this....I seriously re-wrote a bunch for not really liking the first two versions of this article....I think that just comes with being a writer....and my bird destroyed my keyboard, which didn't really facilitate either first versions being quickly edited. ;)

As I'd said before, this is part of a special series, and with that being said, if you are looking for all of your reconciliation problems to not be problems anymore right this very moment and you want a full manifestation of all of your work RIGHT THIS SECOND, you probably aren't going to find this useful. 

I am writing this article mostly for people who, because they got sick with lust for results and it slowed manifestation, OR because they had a very crappy situation before they started the work and that translated into a long manifestation wait, OR both of those problems at the same time, are finding themselves needing just one little glimpse of the situation turning around in their favor to help them along their journey of manifestation. 

I would guess that if some of you could just feel a little bit better, waiting a few more weeks for all that big glob of reconciliation spellwork you did to manifest won't feel like you're waiting three million years for each single day that passes. And there are some things we can do to make the situation brighten for you a bit while you wait...some pretty fast acting stuff, in fact. :) This might lessen those nasty emotions making you have lust for results, or drag you up from depression...and you won't contact me to discuss the meaning of a single emoji,* - so it's a WIN/WIN sort of situation.

HEALING- I would say almost everyone in a reconciliation situation needs healing. Sometimes, no, but if the applications for spellwork are to tell me anything, it's common for people to write something like "My mental state is fine, though I do sometimes cry for several hours a day, and then I haven't left the house in a week, and I lost my job because I'm really depressed, but that's pretty normal, so I'm sure I'm working through it." That actually is very unhealthy. I am not the crying police (I really hope there is not such a thing,) and I admit I come from a generation that isn't about crying a lot (my father's generation only has the proverbial stiffer upper lip to mine own,) BUT it is NEVER healthy to cry so much over a break up that you don't leave your house for weeks. You are not OK. But it's fine to not be OK. That's why you need to do some healing work on yourself.

Heck, everyone needs to do healing on themselves when they are still crushed by a break up or by grief. IT CAN ONLY HELP!

And think how much better you will feel! :D :D :D Everyone likes feeling better. 

I take absolutely no credit for the following spell. It's from Draja Mickaharic's work, and while I would normally be nice to put all the necessary info like which title that is, I lost the book in my house fire a few years back. I think it is in either Magical Techniques or More Magical Techniques from his work published on Lulu, and about 15ish years ago. All you need to do - and this is so easy, - is get yourself a chicken's egg, and now if this was in the fridge, you let that set out an hour or so to let it get to room temperature because otherwise it will sweat. Is it room temp? Great. You need a saucer, an image of yourself, and that egg. At bedtime, place the saucer on a table, place your image in the saucer, and then place the egg over the image. Pray sincerely that all of the grief and paid and trauma you are feeling right now will be pulled from you and into the egg. Now go to bed. In the morning, crack the egg into the toilet and flush. Repeat regularly (even nightly is fine) until you feel better. It works VERY WELL. 

I know I have suggested a salt bath to remove negativity to more than one person (put salt in bath, lie in salty water, then stand and wash down -head to foot- to remove negative influences,) though something stronger might help more... Please visit a site like Hoodooroots.com for healing and blessing baths. You can also do a simple healing bath with pink or white rose petal, balm of gilead bud, and a bit of chamomile made into a tea and added to a bath. Wash UP (feet to head) to bring the healing on you.

And keep in mind, sometimes the energies used in reconciliation can warm up (excite) emotions, and this can lead to a stinky side effect of exciting your need for someone you're trying to retrieve...which is fine if they are there, but if you haven't gotten them back yet, those "excited" emotions can really be frustrating. I am sure I have said this before on my blog (I know I have taught it in my classes before,) but if you're already emotional and frustrated and upset, it does help to focus your spellwork ONLY on the target. A trap many people fall into is working love magic on themselves AS WELL AS their target. If you feel like making yourself even more in love with your target would be detrimental to your mental and emotional state right now, then DO NOT put yourself in that spell. When you make your name paper, instead of crossing your target's name with your own and writing the command in a circle around the names, write the target's name, then cross it with a command, for example "John Smith" (target) written nine times (once each line), crossed with the command "Loves and desires only Jane Jones" (where the petitioner is Jane Jones.) This will place the spell solely on "John Smith" rather than both the target and petitioner. 

ATTRACTION- You know what feels really awesome? Everyone thinking you're really awesome. ;) And you know what else? Sometimes if everyone thinks you're awesome, your ex turns around, notices how awesome everyone perceives you as being, and then is like "why did I let something so awesome go?" And then makes them give chase as well. :)

So if you're in a funk, and you feel underappreciated and unloved, then it's time to do some SUPER SIMPLE spellwork and get that attention from everyone. Your ex will almost certainly notice.** And even if they don't, it really does perk people up to do a little attraction work and feel wanted. :)

While I would more strongly suggest using a red figural candle responding to your own sex (so people who are female or identify as female should use a female candle, and people who are male or identify as male should use a male candle,) I realize not everyone has a ritual store to hop on over to (or even some people don't identify as male or  female,) so just using a regular old red candle will do. I have gone over fixing a figural candle here, but if you're using a regular candle instead, write UP (base to wick) "Everyone who comes in contact with ("Me" or "(Name of target)") is attracted like a moth to a flame, feeling love and desire for (Me/Name of target), they are all drawn to me." Add a bit of semen or of menstrual blood/cervical secretions (if you can medically still menstruate, the menstrual blood is a stronger link, but if this is no longer possible or if you really just can't wait to have a period right now, just the normal cervical secretions are just fine,) to some attraction oil, and anoint your candle UP (base to wick) with this mixture. Now sprinkle some sugar on this - just regular old table sugar, - and light this saying "I draw to myself/(name of target)***  the attentions of all those around me, that they come to me filled with love and desire, seeking to be near me, to love me, to know me. Like moths to my flame, I attract the love of all those around me to me. As is my will, so be it!" And let that candle burn all the way out. The attention should be noticeable almost immediately. :)

ROADOPENING- I really love roadopener work. It pretty much suits ANY AND ALL situations. Think of it like this, if spellcasting is us deciding what we want, and manifestation is the road to that desire, roadopening is like a little road crew that clears debris, fills potholes, and speeds your journey. It breaks down obstacles, and speeds up the outcome. That's a very good thing. My favorite road opener spell is very easy and anyone can do it. While I do have a recipe for roadopener, Hoodooroots.com is a very reputable source for any needed oil or candle or etc. I am relatively sure at this writing that Dara at Hoodooroots will prepare a road opener candle for you, but if that isn't the case, you only need a yellow orange candle and roadopener oil to do the work yourself. How I do this is that I dress a 7-day vigil light (the large, glass encased candle,) with roadopener oil, and then as my target I use the situation or people involved. So, applying this to a reconciliation situation for "John Smith," and "Jane Jones" I would write John Smith's name 3x (once per line, ie 

John Smith
John Smith
John Smith) then turn the paper so that the names run vertically, and write (horizontally) Jane Jones' name 3x (once per line) which creates a sort of "tic tac toe" shape then in an approximate circle around the names, I would write "Break down all obstacles currently preventing this couple from reconciling," repeating that command as many times as I need to (2 or 3 times with my handwriting,) to complete the circle. I then fold this towards me once, then once more towards me to quarter the paper. And place this beneath my candle. I then light the candle, and holding both hands up, one on either side of the candle, would ask that all obstacles keeping this couple apart be removed, so that they can reunite and reconcile. I know a lot of you don't like to ad lib (and that's OK,) so you might say "I ask sincerely that all obstacles keeping (name) and (name) from reconciling be removed, that all that prevents (me/name of targets) from coming together in love and in happiness and in desire now be cleared from my path, as is my will, so be it!" and then allow the candle to burn out on it's own. The name paper is one I generally leave in a crossroads or in a public trash can near this type of area. 

OUSTING THE RIVAL- While it is generally something I don't share, due to a huge proclivity towards misuse, I will offer a little something to get that rival who your beloved is currently seeing out of the picture because I know a lot of you give TOO MUCH POWER to your rival. See, most of us would be well served as seeing that person as a random vagina he fell into that is no big thing, or a random penis she fell onto and who is no big thing. If we did that, then we wouldn't have that person as being some big powerful thing that our ex can hurt us with, but...that's easier said than done. Your ex went and hooked up after you broke up and now this person is sitting in your "seat" and you're just livid about it. So what can you do?

I'd had so much damn fun making someone a sour jar recently, that I will share how to do a sour jar. :) So, here's what you do, - first get an image of your rival, then get an image of your ex, and a jar. Now, get a lemon (the more bitter the lemon, the better,) pickled jalapenos or pickled banana pepper (I prefer the former,) some dead bugs (the more pestilent, the better...so ants, cockroaches, or even - and it's off season at this writing, - flies and mosquitoes,) salt and white vinegar. Now also get a black pen or marker and some black or purple candles. So, let's use John Smith and Jane Jones again as our target couple. This time, we're making them sour at each other. On John Smith's picture, write "Detest Jane Jones with every fiber of your being," and on Jane's picture, we write "Detest John smoth with every fiber of your being," writing this over the face area of each image. Throw these into the jar, adding lemon juice, some peppers, dead bugs, about 1/4 to 1/2 cup salt, and filling this to full with white vinegar. Place the lid on the jar tightly. Now hold the jar in your hands and envision the couple being cold and avoidant towards each other, just really being annoyed and sour and silent towards each other. Place the jar on your altar, and light a black candle and say "By this candle I conjure (name of target) and (name of target,) to detest each other, and feel only cold anger and resentment for the other, - as is my will, so be it!" And now let the candle burn out. Place this jar in your REFRIGERATOR (do not use the freezer, - exploding jars suck,) taking it out of the refrigerator for about 2 hours before burning a candle on it again. You should burn candles on the jar every Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday until the couple splits up. :)

Hopefully this is some help in awakening some more positive feelings about your situation, and any of these little spells can put the spring back into your step while you wait for a bigger manifestation (that giant glob of spellwork we spoke of, above,) as well as prevent lust for results from making you obsessive and crazy. 

~Cat

*Because I've been asked, yes, people ask me what their target or their rival means when they see a single emoji placed by this person. I am expected to come up with at least a few paragraphs which illustrate some sort of crazy amount of secret intention behind a single emoji, and my interpretation is, I gather, to bring forth ground-breaking insights. This is not ONE PERSON who has asked this of me, but a hoarde of them. In all honesty, if you send me an emoji, or a screen shot of said emoji and where it has been placed, I will probably not have any earth-shattering insight or novel-length-meanings for it. I will simply say, "I think that emoji means s/he was amused," or "That's pretty standard of an emoji for someone's new profile picture." I also do not have really insightful things to say about someone liking a post, or hearting it....and I know of What's App and SnapChat and have seen them, but never used them, so I am useless as tits on a bull if you tell me like someone SnapChatted an emoji image over an image of an otter, or something (I clearly have no idea what SnapChat does or what people send on it...something to do with temporary stuff, and I think sometimes people send racy images, but it's not exactly secure...and maybe pictures of otters, too, - I really don't know.)

**I want to add the caveat that if you and your ex do not live near each other, inhabit the same social circles, and/or have no contact, they might not notice. I have very few exes (I can think of maybe one,) who are people who would not get some sort of feedback that suddenly I am the most awesome thing since awesome became a thing, but I realize modern dating means some people do not share enough people in common or have geographical distances which mean they also don't share geography in common. :P Attraction can still make you feel better in these cases, but will likely not affect your reconciliation case either way.

***Obviously, replace "me" and myself with the name of the target/petitioner (the petitioner, or person the spell is cast on behalf of, is the target here) or the proper pronoun. 

 

A Little Ray of Sunshine Goes A Long Way

Hey there Occulties,

I realize that, from my perspective, there are a lot of people out there who basically are like fish who jump out of water, and then complain that they can't breathe, and then when I put them back in the proverbial water so they can breathe again, they almost instantly jump out and flop around, and complain they still can't breathe. This is what lust for results/thinking spellwork to death looks like to a person who isn't in it's throes. I mean, like the old saying goes, you only need to get burned once to not make the same mistake of touching a fire happen twice...but if you have lust for results, you just keep burning your arm off and saying you can't help yourself, you have to. Okay, that second part is new, and I added it. 

BUT DO NOT WORRY, THIS IS NOT A LUST FOR RESULTS ARTICLE,

Instead, I am just saying, probably I focus on that so much because from where I sit, that is exactly what my entire day is... People torturing themselves, working themselves into hysterics, and then, often, acting out and hurting their spellwork. It might make me a little glum now and again. :/ I even have been in the throes of the evil lust for results, and no matter how "good" you think you're being, it is a bad spot and it's like watching someone punch themselves in the face repeatedly and then ask why they can't get rid of their black eyes. So...yeah. 

So that got me to thinking, some of this is caused by people wanting some sort of just even trivial positive sign that they are making progress (at least I think so,) and while we all want exactly what we spellcasted for to plop in our laps RIGHT NOW AT THIS VERY SECOND, there generally is a waiting for manifestation phase...and it's that waiting that really kills some people. They just can't take it. They go over the archives and go "FUCK YOU, CAT, AND YOUR CONSTANTLY MAKING ME FEEL BAD FOR DOING THE OPPOSITE OF THE THINGS YOU SAY TO DO TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL SPELL MANIFEST! IF I JUST HAD ONE LITTLE THING GO RIGHT, MAYBE I WOULDN'T BE YELLING AT YOUR BLOG WHERE YOU CAN'T HEAR ME!" 

While I don't literally hear you loud and clear (because if every epithet yelled at a screen which was directed at me was heard loud and clear by me, I'd probably have some interesting PTSD issues,) I can understand how that little glimmer of hope is going to help calm you and put you closer to an emotional point where you aren't basically panicking and acting like you would be if you threw gasoline on a fire in an effort to put out the fire. And you know what? It's easier (not surprisingly) to do the "little things." 

Like what? Like what do I mean? I mean, it's easier to get communication than you think...I mean maybe not, - maybe there is a restraining order, - but for most of us, yes, it's not that hard to get that little bit. Or, perhaps you need a LARGE sum of money in the next 3 weeks, but if your boss would just put direct deposit in NOW, you'd at least be able to get groceries. That might also be possible. Just one little GLIMMER of hope could totally make you feel better. 

I realize my archives are a gigantic hellbeast which even many of my more devoted readers are like "But this shit is like 15 years old, Cat - how would I know to read an article that old!?" and so you might have missed a few gems. One is to open up the mind of a target to make him or her more suggestible. It is very easy. You need a small vial or jar (like even a baby food jar,) a lot of poppy seeds (I buy them in a BIG BAG) and an appropriate oil, as well as a witness sample (really really helpful,) and a little slip of paper. So, let's say your spouse is being rude and snappy at you because you did something hurtful. It wasn't something you are proud of, but it was also something most of us would agree is entirely forgivable. Put your poppy seeds into the jar to almost fill it, add some oil (in this case, reconciliation would work nicely,) to coat the seeds and stir, and now push your witness sample and a slip of paper with the target's name on one side (their full name) and a command on the other side (so in this case, "Name of Spouse, forgive (your full name) for all that you feel anger towards them," would work pretty nicely,) and then seal the jar up tight, and hold it and envision what you want, for a few minutes and wait.

It totally opens up the target's mind, and in the way you want it to. 

Or use some roadopener work. I LOVE ROADOPENER. This is going to break down those obstacles and draw positive changes into your life. All you need is a gold candle and some roadopener oil (from a reputable source,) and you will see a positive change shortly. So let's say I am arguing with my partner a lot, and while I get there is a difficulty in communication, I don't clearly see why. I can make my petition out to be that I would like all blocks removed to positive and helpful communication between us, so that we can communicate freely like we used to. Roadopener can be applied to anything and it is CHEAP AND EASY TO DO. 

But right now some of you are like "No, Cat, that sucks. I don't want to talk to this person and some namby pamby influence spell just won't make this one budge." You have found yourself a stubborn love target, they went and started dating someone else, even though you love them to bits, and, what's worse, you acted out and were scary and stuff. At this point, it's like you took a priceless ming vase and smashed it and then jumped on the pieces, and someone handed you a tube of Gorilla Glue and told you to put it back together...that's how hopeless you feel. Well, you could benefit from healing yourself, and you can also use "dripless" candles (these things really burn clean, leaving no, or almost no, wax bits once they have completely consumed themselves,) to even help make that rival's power disappear. Yeah, you can do that. 

I am still seeing some glum faces in the rant room.... and I can say this: sometimes working on a big stinky issue is like losing weight. If you expect massive results in a week, you are bound to be disappointed. BUT, if you could see 5lbs fall off in a week (that's pretty good,) you'd be more likely to stick to that diet than you would be if you were losing like 2 lbs a month. I want you to have what you want today, too (well, unless what you want is for me to be miserable, ha,) but we might need to get there with some smaller steps. 

Wouldn't you like to be talking with that person who stopped talking to you? What if we start there? Would you like to feel like people at work appreciate the work you do (which may lead to a raise soon)? Why don't we start there? Once you get those little "blips" of movement on your situation, you're going to feel a whole lot better, and this crazy social media stalking, and asking me to write essays regarding the meaning of a single emoji left on some post in social media will begin to abate. 

So, this is what January is about. I am going to try to do about 7 articles, all regarding easy spells with "smaller" outcomes (so not a marriage proposal from someone who blocked you on every form of social media and their phone,) and work that focuses on making you stronger and happier, so your (and my) 2019 will be better. :)

Since most of y'all want some lovin', the first in the series will be about RECONCILIATION, and I will try to get that up in 12 hours to 3 days from now, depending on how popular I am this week (if I get slammed, it will be in a few days, and if this quiet spell keeps up, it might even be tonight.)

Stay tuned, or follow me on Twitter to get the latest updates! 

~Cat