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Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 8

Hey occulties,

I’m going to try to get a few articles which aren’t this series in after this but going on in our series, let’s just roast this horrid chestnut;

Misconception: The general public understands at least a fair amount about spells, spellcasting, and the occult, (or isn’t there some reliable and trusted way of accrediting people who cast spells?) so if I want to learn to cast spells or hire someone I shouldn’t have a hard time, despite knowing literally next to nothing. 

Reality: It would be fair to say maybe even 99% of the world is actually so ignorant on spellcasting and the occult and that which they do know is often very very very loosely based on reality. To complicate this, there are posuers and psychos around every corner who if you know magic arent usually hard to spot but if you don’t know much of that you do know is trash, you’re gonna run into some problems. 

Back when people read, this was still a problem, but now that you have a generation of people looking for notoriety on the internet, it’s exploded. Terribly. 

Let’s pretend for a moment (and I’m going to use American restaurant practices as my base,) that you’ve never been to a restaurant in your life. Let’s further pretend that about 75% of people have not. I realize this is unlikely but what most of you know about dining out compared to someone who knows next to nothing about it is how painful this is to hear people who know nothing about spells or spellcasting discuss spells and spellcasting and try to put people who are experts down. So you join a Reddit like r/restaurantsreviewed and after reading a few posts, you think you understand how it’s done and you walk into a small restaurant near your home and sit and wait for the wait staff. People come and go. No one comes to get your order. Finally a young lady behind the counter says “Sir, can I help you?” And you say “yeah um I thought you came to the table-“ and she says with a giggle “No I guess you missed the ‘order here’ sign above the counter,” (how DARE she embarrass you by telling you to read a sign!?) “but if you come over here I’ll gladly take your order!” Despite the “attitude” of the smiling friendly girl, you walk up and say “I’d like a turkey sandwich, with Swiss and bacon and mayo” The staff looks at each other, confused. “Sir,” says the girl, “this is a noodle shop. We basically sell ramen and pho dishes.” How dare she humiliate you?! So you go back to your friends and say “I would like to say that Steaming Noods is a scam! Not only did the staff not take my order and refused to give me a turkey sandwich, Britney laughed at me and was rude!” The leader of this band of reviewers says “yeah if they’re rude they probably don’t even have turkey and sell cat meat.” You know because a noodle shop that has no bread and treated you courteously deserves both of you tearing them down, and making bold accusations like they sell cat meat for you not reading the menu or a sign instructing you to order yourself at the counter, but others chime in and one girl even says “I used to date the owner of Steaming Noods and like I’m pretty sure he got me pregnant but like he totally wouldn’t return my calls so you know his food is garbage,” So, a trashy girl claiming she had a fling with the owner also now has something to do with food service or quality. I’m so surprised I don’t see this in respected food review journals, But unfettered by all of this, you walk into Gary’s Steak House. A nice young man greets you at the door. “Do I order here?” You ask. You are told you’ll need to be seated and wait staff will bring you a menu. So you sit at a nice table and a different young man comes to your table and plops down a thing that looks like a paper folder. He asks if you’re thirsty. “I’ll just have a water, I guess,” you say and the boy writes this down, mumbles that he will give you a minute to decide what you’d like to eat, turns to leave and you say “I want a turkey sandwich with Swiss cheese, bacon and mayo.” The boy looks at you for a moment then gently says, “We don’t have that here, but we do sell a few sandwiches - burgers mostly, but there’s a fried chicken sandwich you might—“ EXCUSE ME!? Is this child telling you that you are WRONG!? You become indignant and while the young man says you just need to look at the menu as surely something will appeal to you, you scream “I said I want a fucking turkey sandwich and if I don’t get one, you aren’t a real restaurant, you fucking frauds!” Now other people are staring at you. Gary, the owner, walks over and says “I won’t have my wait staff abused sir, - you have to leave.” You immediately review Gary’s Steak House as having rude staff, an evil owner who humiliated you and the food (of which you ate none) as being full of visible insect activity. Your friends on r/restaurantsreviewed join in and then post reviews ranging from that Gary’s is a secret sweatshop full illegal immigrants, that Gary doesn’t pay taxes, that Gary has herpes, that several of them - all of whom have never been to Gary’s steak house - got food poisoning there. 

I could keep going but you’re getting my drift, I hope. It’s hugely accurate as well because this is about how realistic “reviews” of most spellcasters are…it’s someone often not even having any idea of what they are talking about and trashing someone who is doing a competent job and has been more than courteous to someone who is confused, rude, - and the amount of times people ask me things that are on the contact form they need to fill out to speak to me isn’t small…so also at fault for being oblivious. In this example, the person could have read a visible sign, or looked at a menu, but having no understanding of restaurants and how they work, instead blamed perfectly courteous and innocent people and even lied on them because this person felt embarrassed by their own misunderstanding, and this was then supported and fueled by others, many of which likely had no understanding that they were supporting bad behavior. And frankly I’m not exaggerating. Years ago, I believe THE Becky of Becky’s Diner (the owner anyhow, as Becky sold the restaurant in the 10s as I recall,) had the audacity to tell a patron to quiet their screaming child who had been wailing for at least a half an hour, much to the annoyance of all other patrons. The butthurt parents posted a vile review, and Becky responded. Then a bunch of parents of small children started flinging complete falsehoods about Becky’s. Even the health inspector came. These accusations were made by people who had never even been to Portland in many cases. And mind you, this child’s parents were the ones in the wrong. Many people did defend Becky and her diner, but it’s an internet famous incidence of a business being unfairly maligned and lied on because someone had their feelings hurt when they were the ones in the wrong to begin with. 

And most of us understand how restaurants work, and what manners we should have while a patron and what the expectations are on both sides. 

Plus we live in an age so stupid that Yelp allows people to review the county jail. Like you arent going to get anyone too happy about getting arrested so I’m reasonably sure your drunk uncle Randy isn’t giving five stars for that super fast book and release on his last drunk driving request. 🙄 Who knows? Maybe they’ll get 2 stars for feeding him a bologna sandwich while he waited for bail. 

And yet we expect fully ignorant and in many cases fiendishly misleading people to serve as our benchmark on how to get spellcasting advice. I remember a Reddit where I asked someone who posted a spell why bay leaves in this spell as they really didn’t fit. She couldn’t explain it and said just because. This is not expert. Experts can tell you why any ingredient and I shared this with friends and we all snickered on it. Because it would have been ineffective for the inclusion of bay leaves. The ego bruised “witch” told people I was mean and a hack because she didn’t know what she was doing. Many years ago I told a girl to stop posting my blog articles. She stalked me for years after my saying this and hurting her feelings by saying it, often writing awful things to me for no cause, and even posted on a go fund me for me after my house fire that I should have died. This is someone who other people thought was an “expert” because she ran a group where she posted other expert’s material. 

But in defense of others, you know little about something and you want help understanding it. I’m with you there. Find any self described expert. Not a customer but an expert. Most experts - not all certainly - will have a blog or a spell posted. Find any spell on my blog, ask me why I included something. Give the link and I’ll look and tell you. Ask me questions. I won’t pause to look it up. I need to know which post you’re referencing, past that I have been casting spells for longer than many of you have been alive and don’t require books or google to know why I do a thing. And any real expert can do that but a few frauds can as well. But you’ve just cleared a large number right out. Next look for a list. If they have a list of bad people they are probably insane. Like if you have three or four years to allow me to speak nonstop, I can list every single fake I know but the reality is I wouldn’t take the time as frankly if I’m attacking other businesses to look good it’s probably for attention and honestly talking shit comes with the responsibility of handling angry people who’s business - scam or no - I’m damaging, so they will retaliate and if they got a personality disorder they’ll publish all sorts of weird lies and dramas. That’s a lot of horseshit to trudge through on top of an already demanding job which is why the vast majority of real spellcasters might defend themselves if someone else fires the first shot but don’t bother making fraud lists. So if they got bad shit to say about people - named people - and they make full lists to “warn you”probably also a fraud. Now you just cleared the field so well, you’ve got a huge chance of finding a real practitioner.

I mean, my greatest critic is a dope-addict from Portland who tried to steal my husband (she likes married men) and who’s stalked me for years because while she failed as a home wrecker she did get chased out of Portland for being a shameless scumbag. She posted I was arrested in Portland when I wasn’t even living in or present in Maine at the time, and included a Portland police log where my name isn’t on the police log since I didn’t live there nor was I arrested there. She was never a client and you can tell it’s her because she calls my husband my boyfriend to deflect responsibility. She actually lost me business. Let that soak in. If you believed her or promoted any of that or joined in on it you actually victimized her victim with her, - a woman who sleeps with other women’s men and stalks them and bullies them by posting fake stuff online. Bravo. Several of you have had me curse your antagonists for doing less. 

But shameless failed homewreckers aside, this has become the norm. Your feelings get hurt, or you don’t understand how something works or you don’t read the instructions and you blame honest people. Maybe you really even had a bad experience - you know I’ve said this a thousand times but even 300 bad reviews would be less than 1% of my lifetime business. But the ones that stand out and that I was shown come from people I never wronged (arguably I didn’t let failed homewrecker take my husband but that wasn’t business lol) like one comes from someone I didn’t reply to a scheduling inquiry on my posted day off. I have another from someone who got mad at me for not replying to a text while getting a root canal. I had a drill in my skull so I sure didn’t reply then. 

So start by asking questions. An expert can answer them all. Why this thing or why that day. Avoid people who have a lengthy list of bad spellcasters or who frequently review them. I can tell you right now if you’re working with 8 different people, the problem is probably you. You know if 100 doctors can’t save someone with stage four pancreatic cancer, it doesn’t make all of them quacks so if a bunch of people can’t fix your problem maybe it’s unfixable. 

I realize this will make me unpopular but IDGAF. The only way to know who’s real and who’s not is to either find a completely unbiased board of review composed of other experts (no such thing) or to know enough to spot who’s fake. I got 20 years of posts here. Feel free to find one. Click the link, copy, paste, email and ask me anything. Almost all of this except where noted is my original work. I won’t need to look anything up. That’s a sure sign of an expert and any expert I know can do the same. 

~Cat

Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 7

Good afternoon, my dear ones, 

Today’s misconception is one of the most stupid which arose in the later 20th century, and continues on to this day…and it goes like this:

Misconception: It’s always better to do spellwork yourself rather than have someone else do it!

Reality: An expert is always is the best choice to perform the most skilled and effective work, and even experts have their expert peers spellcast for them from time to time, because just as heart surgeon or brain surgeon can’t easily operate on themselves, so are there times even the most expert spellcaster needs the help of another. 

Anyone who tells you, assuming you’re a novice or have never cast a spell before, that you would do better than an expert in casting a spell is stupid or lying, and should not have your trust either way. 

Oh, I’m sure I hurt the feelings of a few stupid people and liars. I don’t mind being the most unpopular girl in the room, though. I see that rotten piece of foul smelling garbage passed around, normally only in places where the stupid and dishonest pass around advice to those seeking knowledge from people without any, so rest assured, if you see advice presented, you are nowhere you will learn anything at all, and it’s best to move on. 

Casting spells is a skill. When I was 13-14,and just learning magic, I couldn’t do the things I can do now more than thirty years later. This isn’t because I had no innate ability for the practice as I excelled quickly, but because I was a novice, so if I were to choose who to cast a spell for me at that age or this one, I would choose me today. I also had to take a wood shop class at that age, and have assembled a few pieces of furniture and so forth from diagrams since and if I had to choose my very young self vs me now, we both suck at that stuff but young me would have more patience than me now so I would actually choose anyone else, then young me, then me now since me at any age has not refined that skill. I took a first aid class and I’d still choose a medical doctor over myself to treat a wound of mine, even though it’s my wound…see because that’s what experts are for - dealing with those matters they are an expert in. 

Truly, any thinking person doesn’t require me to tell them something of such simple reasoning: if you are not an expert at a thing, an expert will do better at that thing than you would.

And all experts even hire experts in their own field from time to time.

But most of all, anyone who passes on this piece of rubbish advice - that your novice work will exceed that of an expert - is a fool and should be avoided at all costs.

~Cat

Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 6

Hi Occulties, 

As we continue on with our series, let’s hit this revolting piece of garbage with a little bit of truth…

Misconception: Love spells don’t work, and when they do, they make the relationship cursed and it can never be happy again, plus it’s evil to make a person love you anyhow! 

Reality: People are not always compatible with the person they want to be in a relationship with, and let’s not forget, a large number of people refuse to address the problems that led to a relationship falling apart (to make needed changes to have a healthy relationship,) or they do not want to see that the person they claim to love isn’t really the person they perceive them as. This means a lot of people complain that this must be wrong, when in reality, they are merely experiencing that they should have been careful for what they wished for (a person’s love,) and now find themselves regretting having it! In other words, they have a fantasy of what the love of this person would be like and it isn’t reality. 

Let us first discuss that fantasy rarely if ever matches reality. When we first find ourselves attracted to a new person, we often project this fantasy of who we want them to be, who we hope they are, onto them, and everyone is acting as their perfect selves if they too are interested (probably you aren’t even sure if this person farts yet, but I assure you that they do,) so this is a very exciting and fun stage, but as you come together the cracks in that perfect veneer do begin to show and you start seeing the bad and ugly and annoying parts of a person…and fantasy gives way to reality. My mother always said you need to love someone warts and all - meaning the awful stuff too - and you know this is true. If you only want the good and can’t bear any other part, you do not love this person…at least not enough to be compatible with them. I’m not saying you should tolerate abuse, but rather they will enjoy hobbies and foods you do not. They will be annoying sometimes, and they will be selfish sometimes, and lazy sometimes and maybe pick their teeth at the dinner table and if that’s enough to make you feel like you can’t love them through that, the problem isn’t spellwork. The problem is you don’t really love them, at least not enough to be more than friends. 

Sometimes the physical chemistry - that is, that sexual attraction to another, - is so strong, that we confuse this overwhelming urge with being in love, especially when we are young. Unfortunately, in time, the same cracks in that perfect veneer show and someone comes to me telling me they want so and so to stay but they don’t like (here say all this person’s personality quirks,) so I need to change that and keep them invested in my client. Again, this is not being in love nor will a love spell change this person into who you believe you love into the person you want them to be. 

And like I always say… just because a jerk loves you, it doesn’t make them not a jerk. 

And you know, just because you love someone, it doesn’t stop you from being a jerk, either. All of us, myself included, can be awful to our partners. I’m not saying we should be but rather that everyone is sometimes. We should strive not to be awful, and we should always work on ourselves…but there is no healthy relationship that never ever suffers a conflict throughout its duration, except maybe in a novel. At this writing, there’s a wonderful fellow Jimmy_on_relationships who is on several platforms but I will link to his Instagram here. He, and many other relationship coaches, relationship therapists, and the like are all very helpful in helping you and your partner work on and overcome toxic behaviors, because…

Even if you use spellwork, continuing to engage in toxic behavior patterns will continue to erode the relationship. Love spells don’t create an infinite dose of Molly in the other party, but instead create a period where during their influence you can nurture a relationship into being or into healing so it’s whole again. It’s not the spell’s fault if you refuse to address the toxic behaviors that keep destroying the relationship. 

Basically, love spells aren’t responsible for you having emotional issues, confusing infatuation with love, having unrealistic ideas of love, or having misguided ideas like everyone expresses love how you do. Feelings of love and affection don’t fix people, they just help to create or mend relationships. They also don’t create compatibility when it doesn’t exist.

So they do work and quite well, but people misunderstand that love doesn’t fix a number of issues, and even given an opportunity to fix their issues, continue to not work on them. 

And love cannot be falsely created…affection, infatuation, desire, cameradierie…these all can be instilled, but while these are the seeds of love, if no love can exist, love will not grow, so technically you can’t force anyone to love anyone, but those proverbial seeds do often blossom into love. The idea that love magic creates a synthetic love though is a misunderstanding. Love is both something which grows from the rockiest and most inhospitable environments, but also something which too often withers before reaching maturity, - that’s not spellwork, as much as it is the nature of love.

~Cat

Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 5

Hi occulties, 

In continuing on with our series, another old false chestnut I am so sick of seeing, hearing, or reading:

Misconception: Only newbies and untalented people use candle magic! A talented practitioner doesn’t need candles so wouldn’t use them!

Reality: The only part you have correct is that someone with talent doesn’t need candles. 😑 I don’t even require tools but I use them. My first husband is a carpenter and can build you a house with hand tools too but he prefers to use modern power tools and a nail gun, just…  he could probably do everything with practically zero tools at all, which because first Mr NinjaCat isn’t an insufferable hipster douche, he doesn’t have to prove that in such a method for people to believe he’s an amazingly skilled carpenter. I can fuck your life up or bless it with zero tools or even just a drop of ritual oil. A single drop. But I don’t need to work that way because I’m only an insufferable douche incredibly rarely and almost always when you’re not paying attention. 

Candles, like herbs, oils, roots, minerals, rocks/crystals, metals, incense, dirts, and even animal parts and biological witness samples are all some of the many ingredients and tools you may find in spellwork. The meatball waving around a lovely crafted wand and saying abracadabra (it’s a pointing tool, actually, to focus energy and send through the wand, and as a hoodoo, I might argue your hand can be used in place of it, much to the annoyance of my Solomonic brethren,) and complaining it “didn’t work” (no, you just do not understand how it is used,) is the same person who is generally dictating what real magic is, whilst also not knowing what a wand is for. Candle magic is popular because it works so well. There are legions of other methods for spellcasting, but having an affinity for candle work does not make for less of a spell or even a more simplistic spell. A few of you have seen my complicated set ups and realized “shit, she isn’t just burning a chime candle in a bowl, and this is wild.” 

Hoodoo has a tradition called “setting a light.” This is literally burning a candle, it’s a single candle spell. And, while it’s not the route I’d recommend for very complex issues, - at least not by itself, but certainly it’s recommended in conjunction with other work, - it’s very effective! I think my first “go to” for myself is just setting a light, and I’ve been spellcasting for over thirty years. So it’s not just for newbies, and yet it’s also a fairly good method to try for your first spells, too. I mean, I’ve been crocheting a long time and knowing how to do a single crochet and half double crochet (and the full double,) - none of these are hard stitches. Beginners use them and experts do, too. Every skill a beginner learns is a fundamental skill, and therefore experts use it frequently. 

Furthermore, depending on your paradigm (loosely, the type of spellwork being utilized,) candles may be present in a working to represent the element of fire, which, in certain traditions, is essential. 

And keep in mind west I said above - just because one CAN work without tools, that does not make it the most effective manner of working, nor the most expedient…just like anyone skilled in many things, you probably can accomplish the same task without tools - just like I can do arithmetic without a calculator, - but you will do the task faster with tools. 

This means candles may very well not be required or used in many many spells. But it also means that their inclusion of candles and candle magic are not in any way suggestive that someone lacks skills as a spellcaster. If you or your caster only know candle spells, then yes, you are likely a novice. Of course if you only know how to work magic in one way…you’re a novice. 

This douchebag hating on candle magic needs to stop though. It’s like looking down on someone for enjoying scrambled eggs when you like yours hard boiled and assuming they can’t poach an egg or male it over easy or devil it because they prefer the damn egg scrambled and that’s “beginner shit” ever since you just barely learned how to poach an egg and can’t cook an egg 50 different ways. To say candle magic is only for novices in fact reveals that you are not an expert and are putting on airs  having probably recently learned how to do some singular spell thst isn’t a candle spell. So stop showing your ass by saying it. 

Candles have a place in many spells and novices and adepts use candle magic. 

~Cat 

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Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 4

Hi Occulties, 

Today’s part of the lecture on misconceptions and myths is one I find most tedious and tiresome, but mostly just… I’m baffled how it even persists among the muggles, neophytes, and a portion of the masses. 🙄 Luckily, it should also be a bit more brief than my previous lectures on this.

Misconception: If someone is a bad or immoral person, if they are selfish, materialistic, or use magic for selfish gain, they will never be any good at magic, and furthermore, people who are not compassionate towards others are incapable of casting spells. 

Reality: This has absolutely nothing to do with skill or power in spellcasting and that people believe it after centuries of saying the polar opposite - that practitioners of magic are evil and immoral people by default, which is also false, - should be the first clue it’s a myth.  

For some, the journey of learning and developing the skill of using magic is, at its core, a more noble journey than it is for others. For many it does not start in a noble way. We find ourselves interested because we want a particular lover or we want money or we want fame or power or many other self serving notions, and so we seek out magic as a solution. 

This is no different than a person learning most any skill. Some people become doctors because they want to make money and others because they want to cure a certain condition that has plagued themselves or family (so to aid in preserving their bloodline,) and others to help people. Some people become lawyers to defend the wrongly accused, others for money or power. Some people build homes because they want to house the homeless, others because they enjoy the work, and others because it pays the bills. All of these people most likely found they had a bit of a knack for the field they ultimately chose to pursue so they developed the skill. It is the same for those who work spells. 

Anyone can learn to competently use magic. Not everyone will become good at it. Some will have an innate ability, and others will always struggle. At no point does anyone’s morality have any bearing on their innate skill. I’ve met a fair number of complete fucking assholes who are amazing spellcasters, and some deeply compassionate and wonderful people who’s magic was tepid at best. I’ve also met assholes with garbage magic and saintly folks who could knock your socks off. 

Some see magic itself as evil. Therefore those who use it must, in their mind, be evil. Some instead believe it is a holy force and therefore must only be wielded only by the holy. However, I’d like to say as the chaotic neutral that I am, it is neither because it is like calling rain good or evil, or fire good or evil. Neither is evil. They are desirable and good at times, and at others deadly and damaging. So we must understand that magic is also helpful as it is harmful, and good and bad and neutral. It can be used to harm and to heal and to help. 

since we do not live in a cartoon we must also understand the villain is the hero and the hero is the villain depending on perspective. 

But mostly we must also realize that sometimes we do harmful things that are done for good reasons. Killing another is wrong, but what if I kill someone who is trying to kill my family? Killing is still involved but I’ve saved lives by killing the would be killer, yes? So by that, sometimes even good people must do bad things…the lesser of two evils of you will. 

However this isn’t a discussion on morality, as much as trying to help you understand that someone can be absolutely the worst and biggest degenerate and still be a very skilled doctor or craftsman or swimmer or gardener or any number of things. Because being a piece of shit human does not make you unable to be skilled. 

The myth that someone must be saintly or must be evil to be skilled at spellcasting is merely propaganda used to keep people from using magic or to only use it on a manner these people feel is appropriate. So if someone tells you someone must have no skill if they are an unpleasant person, know you are dealing with someone who is either trying to manipulate you through fear or propaganda to only use magic as they see fit or knows so little of magic as to be incapable of educating others. 

Spellcasting - use of magic - is a skill, and the morality of how it is used does not denote ability. Period. 

~Cat

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Misconception vs Reality, 2024 edition, part 3

Hi Occulties,

Lets continue on with our discussion on current misconceptions neophyte spellcasters, spell customers, and to a lesser extent, the muggle public have presently, and what the realities to these confusions are. 

Misconception: Doing spell work that takes away another’s free will is evil! People who use magic like that are evil! Or that’s what I really want maybe because if I don’t override this person’s free will, I won’t get what I want!

Reality: Evil or not, it’s technically next to impossible in most cases to actually deprive someone of their free will. 😂 Yeah, if you’re the puppet master and have taken the full autonomy of another human being, you’re badass. That’s metal. I’m impressed. Especially if you used no spirits and did the spellwork in under 2 hours. 

Because while one might heavily influence another person, when we speak of losing your free will, this is technically full possession of the body of another person, and for great lengths of time, which having studied in this field for a long time, is something that takes a fair amount of dedication from a spirit to take over full autonomy of a human for great lengths of time, so I guess it’s not impossible as much as highly improbable that most humans walking this earth, would have the dedication and will to fixate on this person after breaking them down to take full autonomy etc etc. 

Ive said this before, but using controlling spellwork is one of the hardest things to master for many and we are attempting to influence someone strongly, - not steal autonomy from the target- and even if we arguably gained autonomy for a brief moment there the expenditure of energy required to do so is usually greater than the value of the outcome, and there are much much better ways to get what you want which would not require such measures. 

Hold up, you say, what? Autonomy? Possession? 

Yeah, taking free will. See I can manipulate a target, I can influence them, - both are much easier - and yet, as a being which is autonomous and has free will, that target will react as it wants to, albeit it will react predictably in most cases and therefore do what I want or feel the way I want it to feel. Still, I never took its free will. To take it’s free will I need to take its autonomy and that is very difficult. Much harder than influencing a target. 

You see the Creator, or the universe, or nature has bestowed free will on most creatures. Not just humans - bees and crickets, gold fish and sharks, eagles and crows, cattle and bears….we all have free will. This is for our benefit in many ways, and in some ways also to our detriment, but it does not mean that we are not incredibly predictable. Just as most children will choose a candy bar over broccoli, or most animals will abandon a den that has become saturated with water to find a drier home, or a fish will stop inhabiting part of a lake which has become alkaline, or many other examples, so can we use spell work to create a situation in which the target reacts somewhat predictably to stimuli. Of course the target still has autonomy of themselves, and therefore has the will to react however they choose, but like it or not, most living beings are incredibly predictable. 

It does, however, help the practitioner greatly to understand psychology as well as the myriad rules of attraction. If you suck at seduction in your mundane life or only understand hetero male desire (and not what makes the hetero female respond,) or vice versa, if you do not understand the subtle differences of queer desire (it’s quite similar but there are a few subtle differences when working w a target who is non-binary,) or how to work with the sexual and romantic attractions of all of the lovely colors on the sexual/romantic spectrum, you won’t really excel at love and lust work. This is why there are so many incels failing at seduction magic, which is probably for the best, as they have no understanding of women or what attracts them to begin with. 

But of course, in none of these cases did I suggest someone take full autonomy of their target, merely that by understanding the normal psychological responses of a target, they could create the desired situation. 

True controlling magic (as in taking over the autonomy of the target for extended periods of time,) would be hugely difficult and strenuous. Many people would call spirits in such cases and even then, the price the spirit would request could be rather steep. 

So when you say you don’t want to affect someone else’s free will, that’s good because most practitioners do not want to do so either. The cost (energy and time wise,) surpass the value when one really does not need to. Why not just apply certain stimuli to the target which will cause the desired outcome instead, and for probably 1/100th or less the time and effort!

And, when it comes to comes to good or evil, both are subjective terms, but not wanting to use COERCIVE spellwork (that is not wanting to apply manipulative spellwork to influence your target,) I’d s choice, but it’s not something that impacts free will anymore than my wearing make up and a sexy dress as opposed to no make up and a sack cloth impacts your free will when dealing with me. 

~Cat

Common Misconceptions vs Reality, 20/4 edition, part two

Hey Occulties, 

Continuing on with yesterday’s discussion, we went over success rates being faulty as people often misdefine success. Furthermore, renowned experts themselves would tell you that the most expert among us would never have a 100% or even 99% success rate. Therefore it isn’t a scam just because the client/petitioner didn’t get what they wanted or did but not how they wanted. But…there’s more to that, namely:

Misconception: If the work doesn’t manifest almost instantly, - or by a brief period of time under 4 weeks, - and in a way which has a complete absence of false negatives, it’s a scam and no one did the work or a failure as in the spell failed. 

Oh my sweet, sweet summer child, wouldn’t it be nice if all things in life including spiritual work gave you a nice exact time line with exact benchmarks and nothing scary, and also rewarded you with instant gratification like ordering off of Amazon?! It sure would!

But most things in life aren’t instant, sorry to break that news to someone who was raised in an age where being bored is practically a crime and who has become acclimated to a world where most things are rewarded to you with little effort. Much like that meat sack your soul lives in hasnt rapidly adapted to the modern world (which is why so many of us are fat,) real magic has not adapted to instantly manifest for you like you’re living in a Harry Potter movie/book. This has been made even worse for legitimate practitioners who have worked decades as authors, educators, and even for-hire, to deal with a new generation who instantly becomes indignant when a spell isn’t instantly manifested. 

I have absolutely no qualms with being the most unpopular girl in the room, though, so the REALITY is: Magic uses the path of least resistance to manifest and it will take as long as it needs to take to manifest. 

Read that again.

Because what I am saying is there may be some nasty stuff ahead, even if you’d not intended it, and you might wait longer than a few weeks (and definitely probably more than a few days,) for your end result. And you may even lengthen said wait by acting against the work. People have even killed their own work, even yours truly who has cast spells longer than several of you have walked this earth (or breathed air, and before your parents even conceived you, lol,) because everyone who uses magic has been their own worst enemy at least once - if not several times. 

Now we can deflect some of this. Yesterday, when I spoke of my friend who had his home burn down, I’d he had added the stipulation that said money be received without damage to humans, animals, or property, he would have likely not have experienced the “oh shit” moment when handed the insurance check. HOWEVER, the more of these caveats or attempts to control how a thing manifests are added, the harder it becomes to manifest the spell. So if you tell me it must manifest exactly in such and such a method from point a to point b, I will te you that you are being unrealistic and probably that I can’t help. BUT when we ask for more money it is wise to stipulate we don’t want relatives to die or to receive a large insurance check. 😉

But if you think you can dictate the work down to almost having control on how it manifests (remember, you merely get the end result, not control over how and why it comes about, (though you can make A FEW exceptions to what may NOT happen,) and if you need this much control, you actually need to do more spells. For example, let’s say you want your ex back. You say: this person must fall deeply in love with me (one spell,) profess this love to others (another spell,) be incapable of orgasm except with me (another spell,) be rejected by all men/women who aren’t me (another spell,) feel all the pain they caused they caused me (another spell,) and of course return to me (and another spell.) I dare say, that’s a lot of work. Would you like your ex back and maybe gushy and full of love? Cuz I could do that with a lot less work. 😂 But, I get these ten page missives from people all of the time containing even more steps they feel need to be taken to have all they want. 

Don’t forget that after that ten page missive I’ll get: “And what’s the time frame?” As long as it takes to manifest. But let’s touch on that in a bit. 

I want you to think, what is the core of what you want? We need to simplify. Now ask yourself is there something that would completely override my desire in having this goal and how likely is that to happen? Chances are that death and disaster and loss of property are very unlikely to happen in most requests but unless you are cursing another you might add that no physical harm come to person, animal or property. But remember the more “stops” you need to make from point a to point b, the longer journey is, so stop trying to dictate how or why a thing manifests, and draw to you the core thing you want. 

If you lack adaptability, and if you see even trivial setbacks as absolute impeding doom, do not use magic at all. Because I’ve cast spells for over thirty years and experienced these seemingly negative events in my own personal work, and they are not as uncommon as one would hope. I’ve told the story before, but I was once in court (civil court, right around my divorce,) years ago and a hysterical client kept blowing up my phone so that even though it was on vibrate the judge called a recess while I’m on the stand because a client’s ex whom she’d been broken up with for months was, according to her friend, seeing other people. Keep in mind, he did come back, but she was so hysterical that someone she broke up with months before had the audacity to go in a date with another woman that she literally disrupted an entire court proceeding when I’d told her I’d be in court that day. She was someone who should never use magic. That level of hysterics was next level. And he did come back. In fact, dating other women made him realize he only had that connection with her and it was a few weeks later he came back to her. But, if you are so fragile you won’t be able to withstand trivial negative movement like that in a reconciliation case, you should not use magic…because reconciliation work is hard. It requires emotional stability, and calmness of the mind, and sometimes withstanding a few unpleasant things you will go through on the journey. 

So I think we have covered that our expectations must fall on receiving the desired END result, and that unexpected or even unpleasant things may happen during the manifestation phase, but what of time frames?

”When will this start working?” is, in fact, a sign you are dealing with someone who has zero understanding of magic. It starts to work immediately, and that you don’t understand that fully manifested is well past the point of when it STARTS working is very telling. Because, remember, as we discussed, that magic is taking the path of least resistance BUT changing someone’s mind or altering the course already set isn’t like flipping a switch. Changes start with much smaller shifts to the currents than we can fathom, and then build to the desired outcome. A fair number of spells manifest in four weeks or less…maybe even 60-65% - and even more will have manifested in 6-8 weeks. Yes there are some that take longer. This isn’t implicative of failure inasmuch as it is implicative of the amount of changes required to create the end result. The number of spells that manifest fully over night are not a large percentile. 

And anyone who assumes a fail by date is a good idea is drawing failure and no manifestation by creating that date. You literally manifested something not happening by that date - because you sent out the message to the universe that you wanted to fail on that date (or else that’s my understanding, and the amount of people who have come to me a few days after they “reported” to be that all had failed as it didn’t happen by [specific time frame they chose,] isn’t small.)

So how can you try to be more realistic in when you start to notice the spell working? Will you notice the spell working? Again we run into another wall… overthinker-types hate this - maybe, but you might be projecting something as relating to your spell and just have confirmation bias. 

I need one of these here 😬

Yep, unfortunately, if we are very attached to our situations we are working on, we aren’t really great at avoiding projecting our hopes and fears onto the events we see vs objectively observing the situation. Think if it a bit like intense hypochondria except here it’s magic working or not working and not sickness. And even experts do this from time to time with their own work. 

Do now you’re probably like “Let me get this shit straight- I can’t dictate how or why something manifests without impeding or even slowing manifestation, so I want to have as little as possible input on how or why a thing happens (just accepting that I put in the order to have it so it will come) so I get the end result, which the result will probably come in less than say six weeks but could take longer!? And during that time, shit I might totally be scared of happening might happen, and I can’t trust that anything that seems like positive movement or negative movement is even movement!?” 🤨

Yeah kinda. 😬

See, as you become more acclimated to using magIc,it’s easier to tell what is signs of the work manifesting but when you’re anxious and freaked out as a lot of people are by their situations when they are first using spell work there’s a fair chance you are going to project false negatives or positives. It’s best for the novice spellcaster or the petitioner paying a for hire spellcaster to remain calm and try to keep their mind in the present rather than future or past. And keep in mind, much of the time you will see results in 28 days or less, (probably about half the time or more,) so when someone offers you a ballpark figure for when you should start seeing results, be cautious if they say in a week because those are the people preying on anxious desperate souls (and not real spellcasters) more often than not…but all magic is working from the moment you’re done casting. Let it do it’s work, don’t expect visible results overnight and realize the path from point a (the spell is cast) to point b (it manifests), may contain some unexpected twists and turns along the way, - and just be patient. What you want is coming to you and acting like a cracked out squirrel if it doesn’t happen in a few days will just make it take even longer. But what you want is coming and if you want it so much, waiting a few weeks isn’t long to wait at all. 

~Cat

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Common Misconceptions vs Reality, 2024 version, part 1

Hey everyone,

I realize I’d been neglecting my blog as I’ve been dealing with my Instagram more due to the influx of the spectacle over substance people who, if it’s not something you can contain in a 90 second clip, they dont want it.🙄 Sadly, that’s too many people these days but it is what it is.

This will be presented as a series and these are in no particular order of importance. 

Today let’s discuss one of these misconceptions which will come up again and again in the series, as it is pretty common. 

MISCONCEPTION: An effective spellcaster or a real spellcaster has close to a 100% success rate* and will get you exactly what you want** or else they are a scam.

Reality: To understand spells, we must first understand that the goals we wish to achieve are the end point, not what was between doing the working (beginning point) and not yet having what was desired to having it. For example a rather well-known occultist friend of mine did a working for a relatively specific amount of money. I do not know the amount but for argument’s sake, let’s say it was $111,111.00. Within days, his home burned down, and the insurance company gave him a check for this amount of money. Certainly, he never wanted his home or possessions lost, but as magic takes the path of least resistance and he had not specified no loss of property, this was the most expedient manner in which to bring the money to him, therefore this is the manifestation of his work. The working, therefore, was a success. 

You read that correctly. 

Another story I have is of a woman who came to me wanting her ex back. He had just begun seeing another woman. I did the work and he came back, and as they lied together talking in a post-coital chat celebrating their reunification and returned relationship, the ex/again-boyfriend says, “I feel so bad about how much us getting back together will hurt (new flame) when I tell her tomorrow morning. It’s just awful of me to have done this to her. She really is a great girl.” Incensed that her rival would be complimented she threw him out, then proceeded to tell me my spells don’t work. Well that’s funny. He came back, he’s ending the relationship with rival, you said you wished her no ill so presumably ending it nicely, but your ego is hurt that he has guilt over how their relationship ended (not my problem, my work gave you all you wanted,) and my work was an astounding success. You got to the end point (reaching the desired goal,) and that this person has some scruples bothers you isn’t spell failure. 

Both of these are examples of highly successful spells. Unfortunately, both petitioners would have preferred they manifested differently, despite getting exactly what they wanted. And I can think of numerous examples of this type. Why is that? Because we put the order in, and magic tales the path of least resistance. The more caveats added, the harder it is to create manifestation. 

BUT being too vague might also lead to getting what you asked for which isn’t really what you want.

This is why sometimes a novice caster will find they’ve reconciled with an ex, but only to become really good friends. 🙄 Or, they leaned too much on the sexual based spells and now they have a friend w benefits who isn’t much of a friend and doesn’t want to get back together. 

Keep in mind, your idea on how something should manifest is often highly improbable. It may seem perfectly probable to any rational person who has all the knowledge you yourself have on the situation. For example, I might want a particular job at a particular company, not realizing that they only listed it as this was a law that they must do so in that state even though they ONLY hire within the company (meaning they promote within their ranks,) and only hire someone to this listed job level after they have worked for the company at least five years in lower r el positions, always starting at lowest level (example store clerk.) Imagine applying for an upper level corporate position, and being offered the position of store clerk. This would be the beginning of your spell manifesting and many would say NO WAY. But the spell is successful, you’re just refusing the path to your goal. Or maybe a man desires a woman he knows sexually, so he does spellwork towards the goal of her being willing to give herself to him in any way he desires sexually, and being as she is very devout and will have sex with her husband, she pleads with him to marry her. The man, only wanting a fling, is mortified and doesn’t understand why his magic “isn’t working,” when in reality, the way to his desires  manifesting is by the woman marrying him wherein she will give him all he wants of her sexually. 

This is why I interview prospective clients, - because I must know if their desires are realistic or if I’d be like to hit one of these barriers where I will be blamed when in reality, the spell is manifesting just not in any way the petitioner had hoped. 

There’s also what I term “self-made delusions” we all operate with at any given time. I might think someone would be a perfect partner, only to realize they are treacherous, unfaithful, and cruel to their romantic partners, then blame the spell for “not working” because it brought me the person I named to me, made them mine (which was the spell being successful,) only to have discovered I made a jerk love me, and just because a jerk loves you, it won’t make them not a jerk. In fact, it often makes them an even bigger jerk. A prime example of this was when I’d set out with some goals for a target of mine own many years ago and as I recall they were that I wanted him to say he loved me and mean it, that our mutual friends (we have several,) know he loved me and we were an item, for them to envy our love, and for reasons I can’t recall I wanted to see him cry just once. I believe I also wanted him to finally be able to commit, without ever saying commit to me. 😂 What resulted was he admitted he loved me very much and even told people as much, and many of our mutual friends remember us as a tumultuous on again off again couple, so obviously they feel we were an item at some point, and when one of his close relatives was ill, he broke down and cried in front of me about it. Of course, he could never commit. He even broke up with me to sleep with one of my friends which I found out a decade after the fact. I don’t hate either of them (she had no idea of what was going on between him and me,) and I laughed my ass off about it years later when she told me. And so many people absolutely envied him because I was so devoted to him that when we finally broke things off for the last time, and he was so mad at me for moving on and he started talking crap people told him to shut up because I “never” love anyone like that, (I was notorious for being difficult to gain my devotion and wasn’t known for falling ass over elbow in love with anyone like I was with him,) and that he never deserved me. That they would have killed to trade places with him. Then after he recovered a bit, he finally found a girl he’d commit to, realizing he’d thrown away love. So losing me taught him to commit. This is me literally getting everything I’d wanted and not at a how I wanted it. 😂

So the work was…sadly…successful. 

But if I was a knob who did not understand spellwork, I’d complain it had not worked as yes sure I got all those things I’d specifically requested, but I had visions of us being a power couple, and not basically being in love with someone terrified of love like he was, who would get a case of the vapors every time he felt like it was getting too serious. The best part? I still love him very much, and my understanding is he still loves me very much too, but we are both happy with our current partners and I can say totally truthfully that I’m quite happy for him, with no resentment. Love, - real love, - means it stays with you forever and while I’ve no intentions of trying again (which I believe is mutual,) to paraphrase Michael Nesmith, I have no tears to cry for him, and my only thoughts of him are kind. 

Plus, my work did work… just my ideas of what we should be did not suit the reality of our compatibility and temperaments at that time in our lives. 

So while we sometimes think of a working as not successful, it is, just not how we would have wanted. 

However there also exists the possibility in all spiritual work that we will not get what we want. Sometimes this is because we are being cheap or lazy. People use money spellwork to get money, then get incensed that burning a birthday candle dressed in money lol didn’t net them thousands of dollars. 😂 If I go to Shein for a dress to wear regularly at work, and you ho to the Chanel store for the same reason, 2 years from now, if we wear the dress every other week for two years, who is more like to have a dress in good condition? Yes, the person who bought Chanel. In fact, if you spent even $75 on a new dress as opposed to $14 like I did, you probably will have a dress in much better condition than I do, and I love Shein, at this writing, they are fun and I enjoy lots of their items, but if I’m being fair, I do not purchase from there with the idea I’m getting the same quality as designer clothing. Yet people invest no energy or money into their spell work and expect it to work as well as it would if they had. 

And we neglect to admit we work against our own spells, don’t we? Even me! I’ve cast love spells only to argue with my target and tell him off! I’ve done money spells meaning to pay my bills then, went out with friends with some of my money, only to come up short at bill time! The spell worked but I worked against it! 

Plus spells can’t make someone gay or straight, they won’t always override obstacles of great magnitude (if you didn’t get your high school degree you won’t be a heart surgeon with one spell,) and if we do not understand how they work (for example gambling spells up your percentage of success which really doesn’t help much with Mega Millions or Powerball with such foul odds,) and as i will go over it it another post, sometimes we slow down our own manifestation or lessen its impact.

But lastly this is NOT a job wherein you are guaranteed any result because you are paying for skill and knowledge and not at all for the outcome. Much like when you get medical help, you could still not be cured. Or you hire a lawyer and even with a slam dunk case, you might lose. There’s always going to be a chance of failure, no matter how good the person you hired is as their job. If you call that a scam, then I guess every single person who did their job to the best of their ability but didn’t get the result you desired - be that because you had very unrealistic ideals of what you could expect or because you hit an unforeseen obstacle, or you didn’t follow instructions, or you acted against that work, or just you got to be in the 5% of people where what you want isn’t yours to have despite all the efforts made on your behalf by yourself and others to bring to you what you wanted - just must be a scam. 🙄 You would be wrong to think this, probably lack the ability to be responsible for your own actions, lack self-awareness and possibly have a personality disorder to think like this, but rest assured, if you do, you don’t understand how spells work and have no business casting or purchasing them, so you would be wise to do neither, and that will help prevent this misconception from spreading further.

I think more spells are a success than people believe but I’ll be fair with you, and say even keeping a the above in mind, the most successful spellcasters EVER are going to fail probably 5-10% of the time. Draja Mickaharic had once claimed it was possibly even a larger percentage, and many occultists I know say it’s closer to 15% of the time. 

~Cat

*The idea of a success rate in this example meaning every single spell working exactly as the petitioner not the spellcaster intended, or better, in a time frame the petitioner decides is exactly x amount of time, being the benchmark most people use for successful work. 

**as discussed above, these people often get exactly what they want, they just don’t like how getting it came to be, or have underlying complaints that didn’t exactly mirror their expectations. 

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