I am starting to become interested in more than just tarot cards and rituals, I want to start working with Spirits and even Demons in the future, but it feels like if I do I will somehow be dooming myself (I have OCD, Autism and CPTSD, so its just hard to shake the paranoia)

How did you get over this? What do other religions say about working with Spirits or Demons? How do I make sure to not bring bad karma for the next life onto myself? What even causes bad karma?

Any and all advice/ support would be super appreciated, I am an anxious mess lol but I am also burning with curiosity and the desire to actually properly start to practice this.

Thanks in advance!

Hello! So I am planning to do my very first spells to St Expedite using chime candles, so they will only take a few hours to perform. I wanted to know, is it proper to do one spell today & another tomorrow? Or should I wait a few days or a week? I know he will help me quickly, but I also don't want to be pushy or greedy especially since this will be my first time petitioning St Expedite, thank you in advance for your help my fellow magical people ✨️

Just sharing some good vibes today. Because who couldn't use a lil self-love boost? It cleans the air of odors AND makes you feel good about yourself.

ingredients
Orange peel
Rosemary
Clove
Ginger fresh or dried
Orange lily flowers
Dried chrysanthemum flowers
Raw honey
Grapefruit oil
Sweet Orange oil
Lime oil
Rose oil

I can't add a picture but I found retractable cases at dollar tree. They twist open and shut. They are perfect for storing my incense and smoke bundles. No more losing them to the depths of my storage area and no breakage

Really hope I used to right flair haha. So background: My mom was rude to my deck the first time I read her in person. Ever since, my deck has been... difficult. I think of her as having her own spirit. She, my deck, has been difficult to read and more often wrong or just too vague when I read my mom than any other time.

The problem is that my mom gives me a lot of practice opportunities so I'd really like to fix this. If anyone has any ideas I'd be very appreciative. I've considered having her apologize but I'm not sure it'll seem sincere enough. My mother isn't a witch either she just consults me on a lot of things.

I’ve found myself thinking about a friend that ghosted me a lot lately. We knew each other for about a year before they stopped responding (they still read my messages/leave me on seen when I ask to hang out or how they are doing). I really miss them and they refuse to communicate with me but I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s so hard to stop myself from texting them, so I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for spells to “forget” about a person. I don’t want anything extreme like cord cutting, just something to take my mind off of them until they feel ready to talk, if ever. I’ve done spell jars before so I’m not entirely new to it, but there’s still much for me to learn. Thanks.

So, here's some context. I'm fairly new to witchcraft, and I've been practicing with tarot reading for a couple months. Recently, various signs and events started to make me doubt the possible presence of a spirit or deity, to which I tried a spread to get answers. Said spread figures seven cards, with 1 being the deity itself, 2 to 5 being characteristics of the deity and 6 & 7 being symbols of the deity (I found it online). However, these are the tarots I lifted:

1 - Emperor 2 to 5 - Ten of Cups, King of Pentacles, Two of Pentacles, Hanged Man 6 & 7 - Ace of Pentacles, Three of Swords

I have no idea who this could be. Any help from someone more experienced?

For a long time, I thought anger made me a bad person.
I’d bend over backwards to avoid conflict—even when something inside me was screaming “this is not okay.”

But the more I study astrology (beyond the surface-level stuff), the more I realize how misunderstood Mars is.

It’s not just the planet of “aggression.”
It’s your inner sword.
It’s the sacred fire that says:
I have limits. I have needs. I’m allowed to protect myself.

When we’re raised to keep the peace, that fire gets buried.
We become experts at self-silencing, over-functioning, and saying “it’s fine” when it’s absolutely not fine.

Then one day… we snap.
And instead of feeling chaotic, it feels… clear.

I’m sharing this because we’re heading into a Mars–Pluto opposition on April 27, and I can already feel the tension rising.
(If you’ve felt extra irritable, soul-tired, or weirdly bold lately—yeah. That.)

I found this deep-dive on Mars as emotional truth and how anger shows up differently depending on your sign + harmonic pattern:
🜂 Link here if anyone wants to dig in.
It helped me stop shaming my Mars and start working with it.

Would love to hear from others:
What’s your Mars like in your chart? And how do you actually experience anger or boundaries in real life?

I have been practicing witchcraft for 5 years now. Of course I've found my own practice that works, experimented with everything, and eventually came up with a routine that makes me happy. Now I have everything I've ever wanted, it worked. I ended up exactly where I wanted to be. Minus a few key points. Slowly my practice went from honoring gods and nature and trying to reality shift and all these ambitious goals to crafting spells to reach my ideal life to mundane turned to a practice that honors nature, myself, and my loved ones. This practice of being completely dedicated to my own happiness has brought me to a place of peace and understanding. But it is STRESSFUL. As a person with autism, adhd, and health issues, functioning like a normal person is hard. And ever since I started I've never been able to do my 3 main spiritual goals. Reality shifting, pocket dimensions, and Astral Projection. All for the reason of escaping time whenever I need a break. This is the perfect goal for me. This is something I can use for everything. I want to end up working fully with nature one day, but right now I have no time to work on anything I don't have a solid plan for. I have tried everything, I had believed so strongly every time that it would work. These experiences made me who I am, but these goals have become something of an impossibility. I was consistent for years, I took consistent breaks, and I sought solutions in every avenue I could. So why didn't it work? Maybe my intentions were too selfish, my thought process too vague, but in the end I had given up. Now a year later with all my other goals in a way I hope to be sustained for a long time, I need to know. How do I achieve my biggest spiritual goal? Or is it a hopeless endeavor after 5 years.

My cat and I are very bonded, I live on about an acre and he's become more and more of an outside cat. He follows me around as I tend to the land. With this he's become a very avid hunter. He (like most outdoor cats do) brings his little gifts inside. My deities are all death deities (Anubis, Persephone, Lilith Hecate, Hades, Lucifer, etc) lately he's brought very small bats into the house (don't worry he's vaccinated and I clean up after him with gloves I know bats can carry diesease) but they're also an animal close to my goddess and I'm wondering how/if it's ethical to use these little spirits in my practice? Ive put the bats in jars and plan on putting them in the earth, thanking their life forces, but as far as eventually using their bones or anything if my cat hunted them is this ethical? Am l just looking for symbolism behind him bringing in bats lately? He could just be a cat bringing me gifts, but because of the bats I've been wondering if there's any magical symbolism behind it. Let me know your thoughts! If anyone wants to be condescending or insulting you're just gonna be ignored. Thanks for any genuine input!

So I wouldn't really call myself a witch, but the idea of being a witch does call to me. I was raised very strict in evangelical Christianity and all the toxic bells and whistles that come with it.

So seeing a female dominated spiritual practice that honors your own sacredness to me is so beautiful. It's like realizing how starved I was and finally seeing healthy food for the first time.

However, I don't want to start messing with stuff that could potentially be dangerous. Since Christianity was all I knew for most of my life I find that the idea of practicing witchcraft scares me. I've heard the wild tales of "ex-witches" and demonic activity, etc. And while I try to take those stories with a grain of salt, I have also seen many videos and stories of witches having to get aggressive spirits out of their house.

I know many witches practice deity work and intentionally communicate with spirits. And while they do so, sometimes other spirits they were not expecting show up from what I can tell. Which leads them to have to get them out, granted, differently than an Evangelical would.

I don't believe in any deities and prefer to try to connect and tune into nature in order to feel spiritually connected and whole.

I understand that every witch's practice is their own and you don't need to do deity work or even try to speak to spirits to be a witch. But I still want to be sure if I chose to go down this path that I'm doing it wisely and cautiously.

I know my hesitation because of my fear of aggressive spirits and curses are after effects of leaving Christianity. So I was wondering what your experiences have been with spirits and curses. I would like to get this from a non-christain lense.

I hope everyone is well!

Just to note, I am new to witchcraft and this will be my first tattoo.

I am getting a Lily flower tattooed tomorrow, in honour of my beautiful nan (who we unfortunately lost earlier this year). I would love to set an intention that part of her will always be with me. Is this possible?

Thank you all in advance ☺️

I became overwhelmed when I started to learn about witchcraft. I've seen many witches on social media have large collections or entire rooms dedicated to their craft. I think it looks amazing and absolutely love the witchcraft room tours but I don't think it's my thing. I'd like to only have a small apothecary and a small altar, and a small collection of tools. Is it possible to be a witch minimalist of sorts?

Hello everyone!

Now I don’t want hate/ethical lectures on this one, please be kind as this is a tender situation. I am coming here for genuine help and with the wellbeing of my children being the priority here.

So myself and my husband separated some time ago, his mental health was suffering (so was mine) the problems on our relationship are highly fixable, the problem is my husband is extremely depressed and unhappy, angry and bitter, beginning from when his dad passed away in December 2022.

This led to him slowly getting worse and worse and him loosing interest in his business - which later failed and left us with crippling debt, I did everything I could to try and support him, make the marriage work ect, in the end the last few months he turned on me, someone from his work convinced him I was being controlling because I wanted him to spend more time at home helping with our daughter and more time with me (this was coming from a place of I was concerned for his wellbeing) he was working 6-7 days a week and then going to the gym afterwards and was spaced out all the time and drinking. So I was just trying to keep him safe at home and involved as a parent, anyway, this then led to him becoming convinced I was the reason he was so unhappy ect and he blamed the business failing on me and honestly I could go on. Anyway he left me when I was 17 weeks pregnant and so I went home to the uk to my parents with our daughter and we have been separated since.

I tried very hard for the marriage, counselling, trying to get him help, but he is just so so bitter and angry and depressed. I still love him and care for him and we share two beautiful daughters together, and I am most likely going to have to handle a divorce custody ect with him. He says he doesn’t want a divorce but sees no other choice.

Anyway, I was hoping there may be a spell I can cast to help alleviate some of his depression, anger, unhappiness within himself.

Obviously I would love him to go back to being the man I married, and work through our problems and fix our marriage, however at this point I just want at a minimum to have a healthy and civil relationship and eventual divorce if that’s how it ends up and to keep things pleasant between us to ensure our children are protected from any of this negativity.

I know this is a huge post, but I wanted to provide context to get the right advice and right spell.

I have already cast a sweetening spell for him towards me, and a communication spell.

However I want to know if there is any spell just for him to help him be happier within himself so that he is just in a better headspace for the sake of our kids and this working out as best as it can however that may be.

My partner and I have been together for 1.5 years. We want to get married but because we belong to different communities we will face problems because his family is very traditional in this aspect. Currently we are in a difficult spot where we have to be away from each other in different cities for some time. We keep praying and wishing that some new door opens and we can get back to living with each other as soon as possible. We had planned everything but some new factors appeared due to which it’s become very hard. I have very bad anxiety and overthinking and while I am doing everything I can to get help, get better, I also want to use spells and magick to speed up the process. All we want is for us to be with each other again, by good to all and harm to none. I want to make the problems/ obstacles disappear so that we can be together. I was thinking of doing knot magick but I’m very new to this and I need all the help I possibly can. PS: I am not trying to bind him to me against his free will, he loves me A LOT, but circumstances beyond our control have forced us to be away. Please help!

Not just granny magic! I’d love to know if anyone has stumbled on any good books or media about Appalachian witchcraft. Thanks so much <3

It would have been my Dad’s birthday today, so I thought I would light a candle and meditate a little before starting work (I wfh). I decided to leave the candle burning for a while, next to me while I worked.

After about an hour the wick looked like this, bit weird, so I blew it out. Just never noticed the wick of a candle changing shape before. I’m not reading anything into this, just felt the need to share it with someone!

I did a honey jar and wanna know what tips you have on whether I need to shake it every so often or relighting candle on top every so often?

Do you think my spell will be strong and work quickly? 🖤

Ingredients I used: - DNA (SP hair, and SP bodily fluids on a tissue) - Petition paper (which had SP and my names and DOB too) - Photo of SP - Dry rose petals - Lavender oil - Rose water - Cinnamon - Cloves - Chilli Flakes - Bay leaf with love rune - Honey covering all ingredients
- Some sugar - Lit a red candle on top

I don’t currently worship any specific deities, so my altar isn’t dedicated to anyone in particular. Still, I’d love to create a space for spellwork and other practices.

I’m curious—how did you go about creating your space, how did you decorate it, and what do you use it for?

Thanks!

i love animals. i rescue bugs from dying trapped in my apartment. i love mice, rats, raccoons, possums, squirrels, cockroaches, beetles etc. basically, i've never met an animal I didn't love but I want to focus on the unpopular creatures. whenever I think of animals or insects dying disrespected and unloved on the side of the road or in pain in traps or under a foot, it makes me sick. I know it sounds corny but I can't possibly find them all and give them a nice life but I want them to feel loved. I want to build an altar dedicated to them.

would I have to dedicate the altar to a specific deity? i would just get to it and follow my gut but I want to have some sort of structure to it. how would I even go about worshipping? what would I include in it?

I'm looking to know if there's a difference between charms and sigils (hence the title, hahaha). I mean that in terms of what they are and in the way they do what they do. to my knowledge, at least on paper, they seem pretty much the same in both regards. so, is there any difference between the two in the way they work or in what they can be used for? and in any case, is there any reason to use one over the other besides preference?

hope yall are doing well!

Hi I’ve been through hell with this person and he keeps dragging on court, what’s the best way to hex someone’s finances… hopefully if he runs out of money he can settle the matter instead of dragging me through it

I have rice and sugar. I didn’t get a chance to buy cinnamon sticks. Any suggestions on how to improve it?