Hey everyone,
I wrote you a lovely questions you've asked me article which apparently has disappeared. I have no idea where it went, so that's 2 or so hours of my life that just went missing. Grrr...
So, since it is missing, I'll expand on my first question and answer on that now missing article as it seems some people don't understand something so I do get this sort of inquiry a lot... It goes a bit like: "Cat, I have this issue, and practitioner A got some movement on it for me, but not the full desired results. Then about 2 weeks later I hired practitioner B who also got some movement on it, and yet still not the full desired results, and so is it that I have an impossible problem, or was I 'scammed'? Who's fault is it that the spells 'aren't working?"
The answer seems to surprise a fair amount of people, but a lot of the time if you're asking me this, you are the one at fault. BUT, let's take a second and ask is this problem impossible? Alright, did you ask someone to turn you into a werewolf? Ask if they could shrink you to two inches high? Ask to be turned into a toad? If that all sounds ridiculous, people do sometimes ask for such things. If you asked for a lottery win, to be married to a movie star, or to get a job you are in no way qualified to have (for example, you couldn't pass algebra class and barely graduated high school but want to be a rocket scientist,) then let's say all of that is because you have an unrealistic idea of spells and what they can do, so the request itself is the problem.
HOWEVER, most of you really don't seem clueless there, so the next step is we ask does this problem, on the surface SEEM realistic enough? Do you want your ex back? Do you want a job you are at least mostly qualified for? Do you want your long term partner to marry you, or for your nasty neighbor who keeps making his dog poop in your yard to move away? Do you want more sales at your small business or to get your misbehaving cousin to stop stealing bikes and being a petty crook? All this stuff is normal enough requests for spells. So, when we can gauge that yes it does, we move on and look at the issue being worked on and ask "okay but IS THIS so simple?" Of course, it generally is not so very simple, and sometimes surprisingly large details are left out of the description. This one person who wants their ex to call doesn't add that their ex has a restraining order against them and has changed his or her number and contact details seventeen times in a bid to avoid them. This person who wants a job at this company doesn't add in that they live nowhere near that company and that while they are qualified that the job requires a great deal of people to refer them and support them to break into working in that particular company (for example, a job in the entertainment industry.) The person who wants their long term partner to marry them didn't mention the person is a mega-commitmentphobe that they broke up with about three years ago. The nasty neighbor with the dog pooping in their land just so happens to be the mayor of their town who basically runs the entire city council. Their small business doesn't advertise and is only open 2 days a week and relies on a low traffic area unappealing store and only takes business out of the store. That misbehaving cousin is stealing bikes and being a petty criminal because of a massive drug issue which requires a long stint in rehab the client can't pay for and the state won't help with.
Now some of that, to be fair, is still quite fixable, but the client having been dishonest or misleading might make someone apply spellwork that would not suit the situation as well as it could. Furthermore, many of those issues are going to require a few spells, because they are HUGE issues that can't be solved with a tiny spell. So, if you want to marry that long term partner who hasn't been your partner in many years, you do not want a marriage spell but instead would need to step way back and get a reconciliation spell, which you would them want to have a working relationship with them for a time before considering marriage for example.
Because I have noticed that when people complain of "partial results," because their problem is "unfixiable" as the problem returns or the results seem transient, a lot of the time, the real issue is one of two things - either they are undertreating the problem with too little spellwork, OR they are addressing part of the problem which is itself merely a symptom of a larger problem. So if you have a massive issue with business because your store is in an undesirable location, and is only open 2 days a week, the problem is probably that you need to move to a better location, at which you keep your shop open for more hours. Just throwing business drawing spells at it won't help so much, especially without improved hours. You are, in that example, drawing opportunity to knock at the door, and then repeatedly ignoring its proverbial knocking. Instead, one might try to accumulate money to move the store to a better location, or, depending on the type of thing being sold, to offer better hours online so as to allow more customers the ability to find the store and make purchases.
With love, the most common offender after undertreating the issue goes a bit like this: "I brought so and so back, and they were nice for a time, but went back to being a jerk." See, the problem there is much like a rash might go away and come back over and over, their leaving you over and over because they are acting churlish is that you love someone who a jerk. Well, after some examination it comes to light that the problem is the target has a personality disorder is just a jerk. Much like if you paint a red bird blue (please don't paint living creatures) the poor little bird will eventually molt out the painted feathers and return to being a red bird, so will a jerk eventually return to it's natural status of being a jerk. You did have a working spell, but you are asking a proverbial red bird to turn blue and it will always be a red bird, just like that person will always be a jerk. Just because a jerk loves you, it doesn't make them not a jerk...so the spell worked fine, it just couldn't change what the person is.
In all my years of working for myself and others, MOST (as in 99%) of "unfixable" problems were either that someone refused to break a huge problem into smaller steps, had unrealistic expectations, or refused to address the real problem and continually complained that symptoms of said real problem WERE the problem, not the thing which caused said symptoms. So...most likely this is going to be the answer to you if you complain the problem is unfixable, and you're not asking for something which is clearly ridiculous like wanting to be a fire breathing dragon or to have magical powers which make you fly on a broom.
Now could it be the person you hired? In the above question the person stipulates a wait of 2 weeks. Honestly, spells can take longer than 2 weeks to work, so that isn't the practitioner's fault if you expect overnight results, though if they promised overnight results, that might be a red flag. But, it's fair to say that many practitioners excel at certain types of magic (business and success, or hexing or healing, or love, etc,) whereas some are jacks of all trades but masters of none. Still, the person inquiring does stipulate they hired not one but two practitioners and did experience results in each case, so the most likely problem is...
The petitioner. Look, I hate to say this because it's so upsetting to several people, all who honestly believe they are doing nothing to harm their spellwork, but even yours truly has been my own worst enemy, so I can say with some authority it's pretty common to be the reason your spell isn't manifesting as fast or as well as you'd like it to. Are you obsessing about the situation or people involved frequently, or do you keep the whole matter as far out of your mind as possible. For example, are you thinking about what color socks I'm wearing right now? Well, now you are, of course, but is this something you thought about yesterday, several times a day? No? Didn't occur to you to think of it? If at all possible that would be how much you'd think about the spell, the situation being spellcast upon, and the people involved. Of course, life is often not so convenient. If you are working on your partner and you live with them, it's nearly impossible not to thinking of them AT ALL, so realistically, you just need to keep your mind off of the situation as much as possible, and do not dwell on. Next be PATIENT. Spells do not often manifest overnight. The amount of people who have come to me to tell me they got what they wanted basically the moment they gave up on it because they prolonged the manifestation phase through lust for results isn't small.
So, what have we learned? You need to keep expectations realistic, that big problems sometimes require multiple steps, that sometimes "The problem" is actually a symptom of the real problem and until you address the real problem, the "symptom" keeps returning, that sometimes the problem is you asked your practitioner to work on an area outside their expertise, and that lust for results is still in the champion number one spot for being the cause of spell failure.
Hopefully that was educational! :)
~Cat
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