Hey occulties,
It seems to me that as many. of my peers and I become older, there is a section that wants to behave like these sage old hippie types...which I guess is predictable but always comes off as a bit douchey to me, which the amusing part is not a single one of them were ever cool and tend to be the extra nerdy ones of our youth - the airy fairy nonsense ones (many of which were the hippie type people in youth), and then the ones like me who are the cranky old ones that say "you damn kids," a bit too much and are sick of repeating ourselves, damnit. Thing is, out of that group, the people who don't just want to blow sunshine and encouragement up your ass are often the people who are also most able to teach you since the first group is putting on something of an act, and the second is composed of some very air headed people. So, while I hate repeating myself, I do like pointing out shitty things that other people won't and I can therefore be of some use at educating you today.
Like, did you know that...
People often fail at learning spellcasting because it takes a lot of practice and dedication and research in a field where publishers have knowingly published completely fabricated books based on absolutely no tradition or with false history. This means there is an actual point in your spellcasting education where you realize that at least half of what you learned from varying sources is complete bullshit. This is, in fact, a huge milestone and means you're starting to be advanced skill level. To make this even more irritating, almost everyone around you continues to be absolutely ridiculously and willfully ignorant (or at least it feels that way.) So basically you spend years learning and reading and educating yourself, only for a large portion of that to be entirely false, and when the epiphany hits you WILL find yourself disgusted with people and yourself, but that's a good thing, because now you aren't an idiot...but it doesn't feel good. I actually get excited when students and readers come to me and they've had this moment, and they are so disappointed and I' like "Aw, you broke your cherry!" However, when people learn this (should they do so before they reach this point,) some get frustrated and give up on learning at all. And it takes years to be good at it. Not you read a book once, or cast a few spells. I mean years of regular practice. THEN you hit that point where you realize a bunch of what you learned was absolute garbage.
People who are bargain shopping for spells more often than not are going to fail at achieving their goals. It's surprising how many people have told me that the person they love most in the world isn't worth even $100, or that getting passing marks on a difficult course is not worth that amount either. I understand not wanting to invest money but if you can only part with $30 for the thing you want most in the world, then you don't want it very much and the most like to take the money and run are often the too low priced or the ridiculously super high priced. If its going to cost tens of thousands of dollars, that person also just wants your money.
Love spells do not change someone's personality. If you complain that someone loves you but doesn't love you in the way you want to be loved, you need to understand that this means they are never going to love you how you need to be loved. Of course, you're equating the way you love people and understand love as being as how everyone works and this is very untrue. For example, I find a lot of physical affection and frequent cuddling absolutely awful. It makes me claustrophobic. No amount of spellwork you put on me will make me suddenly love cuddling for the rest of my life, and if you need a lot of that, I'd be a terrible match for you, and not for a lack of love but because I do not like being cuddly and I resent it and feel smothered if it's done a lot. So consider things like communication, physical affection, religious/political beliefs, taste in food, taste in clothing, etc...little things that can still irritate you, and if that person is not naturally inclined to any one of these little things you need, then just using a love spell will make them love you more, not do things like suddenly not be a slob, or suddenly really love exercise.
You won't be successful with money spells if you expect a windfall of money. It's hugely unlikely. People really think if they spend $20 that they will get some huge lottery win, when first off, that's a gambling spell, and secondly, if you spend $3 on a ticket and make $21 on that particular ticket (I didn't mean $3 total, just per ticket,) you already got 7x return on your investment which is a pretty big windfall for your investment. :P So maybe go with doing some job spells and getting paid more. But everyone thinks it's a get rich quick scheme.
Being a good person doesn't make your spellwork stronger, nor does being a bad person make it weaker. Being a selfish asshat doesn't make you bad at spells. Being a complete cunt won't prevent success unless you're being a cunt to a reconciliation or love target, or telling off the interviewer for the job you cast a spell for. Your niceness and your ethics do not negate skill and intellect. This is the most stupid idea ever that they do and is only said to reassure people that others would never use magic for foul purposes...which people will use whatever tools are available to them that they can use, and their ability to wield these tools has zero to do with their ethics, so of course they will use spellwork to do bad or good or just whatever they need it for.
If you're desperate or petulant, you're probably going to experience spell failure thanks to lust for results. The sad thing is, the more you fail, the more desperate and whiny and anxious you'll become which merely serves to elevate the likelihood for failure. This is why I tell people to cast a spell for something you don't care that much about - you'll forget you did it and then when it manifests, it will spring to mind that you'd spellcasted for that and it will help with this lack of faith and desperation and anxious and morose attitude that is death to spells, thereby increasing your chances of success. If you know the exact amount of weeks or days since you cast the spell and it was over 2 weeks ago, you definitely have lust for results.
The annoying "is this permanent" question fails to understand life is evolving all the time. So even if you overcome your problem with spellwork, it doesn't permanently prevent the problem from becoming a problem again, and if you keep making the same mistakes, it likely will be a problem again.v That isn't the spell's fault. It's yours.
Spells don't care if you didn't mean to do something or did something in a moment of weakness anymore than a falling boulder cares that you didn't mean to walk under it just at the exact time for it to fall on you. Stop making excuses to yourself and/or your caster since it doesn't matter how you felt or why you did something, just that you did something that would harm your spell.
Even the best and most perfectly made tool or spellcasting item won't overcome inexperience or inability to cast spells.
If you expect spells to fix anything in under 36 hours you should probably neither attempt to hire a worker nor learn spellcasting. Results are rarely instant.
There, now that I've done my job bursting some bubbles, I hope it was at least educational.
~Cat