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Hi everyone. I have over 25 years of experience working directly with subtle energies. I do psychic readings through deep meditation, connecting with a person's energy to uncover emotional and spiritual insights. I also cast spells for love, money, positive energy, beauty and youth, weight loss, and custom situations.

My work is energy-based, no props or elaborate rituals. I work directly with the energies themselves.

If you want to learn more, visit arcanespells.com or feel free to DM me.

I'm Laura, and I have been working with subtle energies for over 25 years. I offer psychic readings where I enter a deep meditative state to connect with your energy using your full name and date of birth, or a clear photo. The readings cover emotional and spiritual insights, compatibility, and what is going on beneath the surface.

I also offer spell work including love spells, sex spells, money spells, positive energy spells, beauty and youth spells, revenge spells, weight loss spells, and custom spells.

You can learn more at arcanespells.com or send me a DM.

I am a spell caster and psychic reader with years of experience. I offer money spells, positive energy spells, beauty and youth spells, weight loss spells, and custom spells. I also do in-depth psychic readings based on meditation and energy work.

If you are curious about what I do or want to learn more, feel free to check out my website: https://arcanespells.com

Happy to answer any questions here or through DMs.

So I was reading Galen Strawson lately, a British philosopher, and his 2006 essay "Realistic Monism" kind of broke my brain a little. His whole point is that physicalists are not following their own logic to where it actually leads.

The setup is simple enough. If you are a physicalist you think everything real is physical. Fine. But you also cannot deny that consciousness exists because that would just be absurd. So consciousness has to be something physical too. Most people stop here and say "yeah it emerges from complex arrangements of non-experiential matter" and move on. Strawson says no, hold on, that is basically magic. You are telling me you take things that have absolutely zero experiential quality, put them together in the right way, and boom, experience just appears? From where exactly?

He calls this brute emergence and honestly the more I think about it the harder it is to argue against him on this specific point. If the building blocks have literally nothing experiential about them then no amount of rearranging should produce experience. That is something from nothing.

So where does that leave you if you still want to be a physicalist? Strawson says the only consistent option is that experiential properties are already there at the fundamental level. Panpsychism basically. And the wild part is he is not arguing this from any spiritual or mystical perspective, he considers himself a physicalist. He thinks the other physicalists are the ones being inconsistent.

I go back and forth on this honestly. Part of me thinks he is exposing a real crack in how we think about matter. Another part wonders if he is just defining emergence too narrowly. What do you guys think, is "emergence" actually explaining anything or is it just a fancy word for "we have no idea how this works"?

Graveyard dirt is one of those ingredients that gets mentioned a lot in folk magic but I feel like not many people know the actual traditions behind how it was collected. It was not just "go grab some dirt from a cemetery." There was a whole system and honestly some of the details are fascinating.

In hoodoo and conjure traditions, you did not just collect graveyard dirt. You bought it. That was the actual term used. You were entering into a transaction with the spirit of the person buried there. The traditional payment since at least the 19th century was a silver dime, and the preferred coin was a Mercury dime. Some practitioners left three pennies instead, or a bottle of whiskey poured into the hole after digging. The idea was that you were hiring the spirit to work for you, and you do not ask someone to work without paying them.

Whose grave you collected from mattered enormously and this is the part I find really interesting. If you wanted help with a love spell, you would take dirt from the grave of someone who loved you in life, like a spouse or a family member, because their spirit would be inclined to help you find love. If you needed protection, dirt from a soldier's grave was preferred because they were seen as strong and obedient. If someone wanted to do harm, they would specifically seek out the grave of someone who "died badly," someone executed or murdered before their time, because that spirit would supposedly carry enough anger to be willing to do darker work.

Even where you dug on the grave itself had meaning. Dirt from the head of the grave carried different properties than dirt from the feet or over the heart. For love work, you would dig from over the heart. Some workers took dirt from the head, heart, and feet separately and left a Mercury dime in each hole.

There were also rules about the gatekeeper. Many practitioners would first pay respects to the spirit nearest the entrance of the cemetery, often considered the guardian of the entire graveyard. You would leave offerings there, things like bread, honey, or whiskey, before going deeper into the cemetery to do your work. Skipping this step was considered disrespectful and potentially dangerous.

This tradition goes beyond hoodoo too. In Northern European folk magic, the term "graveyard dirt" has referred to everything from actual cemetery soil to powdered valerian root to, in some older traditions, powdered bone. In Appalachian folk magic, graveyard work is considered the core of conjure. The whole point is that you are not just collecting an ingredient. You are establishing a relationship with the dead.

What strikes me about all of this is how transactional and respectful the system was. It was not treated as stealing or desecrating. It was commerce between the living and the dead, with very clear rules about consent, payment, and reciprocity.

We treat "follow your heart" as a metaphor now. But a lot of ancient and indigenous traditions meant it literally. The heart was not a symbol for feelings. It was understood as an organ that actually thinks and knows things.

In ancient Egypt, the heart was called the "house of intelligence." It held your consciousness, memory, and moral character. The brain was considered so useless that during mummification they pulled it out through the nose and discarded it. But the heart was carefully preserved because without it, you had no self. In the afterlife, your heart was weighed against the feather of Ma'at and it would literally speak for you, recounting your life. They even placed amulets called heart scarabs on the mummy with spells to keep the heart from testifying against its owner. That detail has always stuck with me.

In ancient India, the Chandogya Upanishad describes the heart as the seat of the soul. The Atharva Veda calls it "a lotus with nine gates." Intelligence was not something that happened in the head.

In Hawaiian tradition, wisdom was defined as knowing first in your na'au, your gut or heart. The place where you know something before your intellect catches up. In Anishinaabe and other First Nations traditions, knowledge flows through four equal sources: spirit, heart, mind, and body. The heart is not ranked below the mind. It is right next to it.

These are cultures on completely different continents with no contact with each other, and they all independently arrived at the same idea. I think that is worth paying attention to.

And here is the part that honestly surprised me. In 1991, a researcher named Dr. Andrew Armour discovered that the heart contains around 40,000 neurons that function as their own independent nervous system. They call it the "little brain" of the heart now. These neurons connect to the brain through the vagus nerve, and the heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the other way around.

I am not claiming ancient people knew about cardiac neurons. But I do find it interesting that cultures all over the world kept insisting the heart had its own intelligence, and then modern science found a physical structure that at least partially lines up with that.

I do intuitive psychic readings for $50. I read in a meditative state, connecting directly with your energy rather than using cards. Astrological influences also feed into the reading, giving a fuller picture of what is going on around you. I need your full name and date of birth to connect, and you can ask as many questions as you want.

Whether it is love, a decision you are stuck on, someone you cannot read, or just a feeling you want to make sense of, I work with whatever you bring.

I also offer spell work:

🔮 Love Spells - attract new love or reconnect with someone

🔥 Sex Spells - desire and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - dissolve unhealthy connections

✨ Positive Energy / Aura Cleansing - remove negativity and restore balance

💰 Money Spells - financial flow and new opportunities

⚖️ Revenge Spells - accelerate karma

💄 Beauty and Youth - enhance your natural radiance

🌿 Weight Loss - energetic support for your journey

⚡ Custom Spells - something specific? Send me a message

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee. No results, full refund.

DM me or visit https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

I offer spell work and intuitive psychic readings. If you have been feeling heavy, blocked, or like things are just not moving the way they should, that is where most of my clients start.

Here is what I work with:

✨ Positive Energy / Aura Cleansing - remove built-up negativity and restore lightness to your energy field

🔮 Love Spells - attract new love or reconnect with someone

🔥 Sex Spells - desire and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - dissolve unhealthy connections

💰 Money Spells - financial flow and new opportunities

⚖️ Revenge Spells - accelerate karma

💄 Beauty and Youth - enhance your natural radiance

🌿 Weight Loss - energetic support for your journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - intuitive, meditative reading for clarity on love, career, or any situation

⚡ Custom Spells - something specific? Send me a message

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee. No results, full refund.

DM me or visit https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

I do spell work and intuitive psychic readings for clients dealing with a range of situations. Rather than offering a fixed menu, I work case by case. If you are trying to shift something in your life, whether it involves love, energy, finances, or something more personal, I prefer to hear what is going on first and then figure out the right approach together.

Psychic readings are intuitive and done in a meditative state. Most people come with questions about love, career, or a situation they cannot get clarity on by themselves.

Satisfaction guarantee on all spell work. If you do not see results, full refund.

DM me if you want to talk through your situation.

Most people know rosemary and basil as things you throw into pasta. But if you look at the folklore around these plants, the history gets genuinely strange.

Basil is probably the weirdest one in my opinion. The ancient Greeks and Romans associated it with hatred and misfortune. You were supposedly meant to sow it while swearing and cursing or it would not grow. In medieval Europe, some people believed that if you left basil leaves under a flowerpot, they would turn into a scorpion. A French doctor in the 1500s actually claimed that smelling too much basil would cause scorpions to develop inside your brain. But then in Italy, the exact same herb became a symbol of love. Women would put a pot of basil on their windowsill to signal they were available to suitors. In Moldavia, if a man accepted a sprig of basil from a woman, he was considered to be enchanted by her. And in Germany it was used as a purity test because it was believed to wither instantly in the hands of anyone who was unchaste.

So the same herb meant hatred, love, scorpions, and virginity testing depending on where you lived. I think that is honestly one of the strangest things I have come across.

Rosemary had a strong connection to memory and the dead. It was placed in the hands of the deceased and planted on graves, but it was also woven into bridal crowns because of its association with fidelity. Brides wore it during the Middle Ages as a symbol of loyalty. It was also burned as a cleansing herb long before sage became the popular choice for that.

Thyme is the one that interests me the most though. A bed of wild thyme was believed to be a home for fairies. Shakespeare referenced this in A Midsummer Night's Dream. But it was also worn in amulets by warriors for courage, and Celtic folklore held that it could increase psychic abilities. In some traditions, witches were said to bathe in water with thyme and oregano once a year as a form of penance. I feel like thyme does not get nearly enough credit for how much folklore surrounds it.

Even parsley had strange beliefs attached to it. There was a common saying that parsley seed "goes to the Devil and back" before it germinates, because it is notoriously slow to sprout. Some people refused to transplant it because they believed moving parsley would bring death to the household.

What I find really interesting about all of this is that these were everyday garden herbs even back then. People cooked with them and also genuinely believed they could summon scorpions or attract fairies. The line between the kitchen and magic was basically nonexistent for a very long time.

Something I find really interesting is how blacksmiths were not just craftsmen in the ancient world. Across cultures that had zero contact with each other, they were consistently treated as people who had access to something beyond normal human knowledge.

In West Africa, Mande blacksmiths were believed to control a force called nyama, which was basically all energy and power in the village. Only one specific family was allowed to produce blacksmiths, and the boys from that family were taught secret knowledge about this force. Village chiefs would actually go to them for guidance on major decisions. They were respected but also genuinely feared.

In Ethiopia it gets even wilder. Blacksmiths were believed to be born with the ability to transform into hyenas. People called them bouda and thought they robbed graves at night. In Kenya, tribal smiths were viewed the same way as witch doctors.

In pre-modern Europe, blacksmiths tended to live on the outskirts of the village, in the same kind of liminal space that cunning folk and suspected magical people occupied. They were believed to be able to heal the sick but also to curse. In Ireland they were just straight up considered to have magical powers.

Then you have the mythology side. Norse mythology had dwarves forging Thor's hammer. Greek mythology had Hephaestus, the lame god of the forge. And one thing I think is really strange is that the divine blacksmith figure is almost always physically disabled in some way. Hephaestus had his limp. The Ugaritic craftsman god Kothar-wa-Khasis was identified by his unusual walk. The Egyptian god Ptah was described as a deformed dwarf. I honestly have no idea why that pattern exists but it is way too consistent to be coincidence.

The part that really got me though is this. In 2016, researchers from Durham University and the University of Lisbon used phylogenetic analysis to trace how folktales spread across Indo-European languages. They found that the oldest traceable folktale in existence, going back over 6,000 years, is called "The Smith and the Devil." It is about a blacksmith who makes a deal with a supernatural being in exchange for the secret knowledge of metalworking.

So the idea that turning raw ore into a weapon using fire required more than just human skill might literally be one of the oldest things we have ever believed as a species. I think that says a lot about how deeply magical this craft was considered.

Open for new clients. Here is what I offer:

🌙 Aura Cleansing / Positive Energy - clears stagnant or negative energy and brings your field back into balance

🔮 Love Spells - open the way for new love to come in

💫 Money and Abundance Spells - removes financial blocks and attracts new opportunities

🕯️ Beauty and Youth Spells - supports your natural glow and youthful energy

🌿 Weight Loss Support - energetic work aligned with your personal goals

✨ Custom Spell Work - tailored to your specific situation after we talk it through

👁️ Psychic Readings - intuitive, meditative readings on love, life decisions, and what is really going on beneath the surface

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee.

DM me or check out https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

Available for spell work and psychic readings.

What I offer:

🔮 Love Spells - drawing in new love or rekindling a past connection

🔥 Sex and Desire Spells - intensify passion and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - cut unhealthy ties cleanly

✨ Aura Cleansing / Positive Energy - clear out negativity and rebalance your energy

💰 Money and Abundance Spells - open the path for financial opportunities

⚖️ Revenge / Karma Spells - let karma do its work faster

💄 Beauty and Youth Spells - amplify your natural glow

🌿 Weight Loss Spells - energetic support alongside your personal journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - meditative, intuitive readings for clarity on love, career, or any life situation

⚡ Custom Work - have something specific in mind? Message me

Every spell comes with a satisfaction guarantee. If you see no results, you get a full refund.

Feel free to DM me or check out https://arcanespells.com for more details.

Available for spell work and psychic readings.

What I offer:

🔮 Love Spells - drawing in new love or rekindling a past connection

🔥 Sex and Desire Spells - intensify passion and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - cut unhealthy ties cleanly

✨ Aura Cleansing / Positive Energy - clear out negativity and rebalance your energy

💰 Money and Abundance Spells - open the path for financial opportunities

⚖️ Revenge / Karma Spells - let karma do its work faster

💄 Beauty and Youth Spells - amplify your natural glow

🌿 Weight Loss Spells - energetic support alongside your personal journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - meditative, intuitive readings for clarity on love, career, or any life situation

⚡ Custom Work - have something specific in mind? Message me

Every spell comes with a satisfaction guarantee. If you see no results, you get a full refund.

Feel free to DM me or check out https://arcanespells.com for more details.

So there is a research division at the University of Virginia School of Medicine that most people have never heard of. It is called the Division of Perceptual Studies and it was started by Ian Stevenson, who was actually the chairman of UVA's psychiatry department. Not some fringe guy.

What he did starting in 1961 was collect cases of very young children, usually around two or three years old, who started spontaneously talking about a previous life. Naming people, describing places, giving details about how they died. He focused on kids specifically because he figured they were too young to be making it all up.

He would then go to the location the child described, find the family of the deceased person, and check every claim one by one. Over the decades he and his team put together over 2,500 of these cases. In about 1,567 of them they were actually able to identify the specific person the child was describing.

Here is where it gets really weird though. In roughly 30 percent of cases the children had birthmarks or birth defects that lined up with wounds on the deceased person's body. Not vague stuff either. Stevenson got autopsy reports when he could and published a massive two-volume 2,200 page book in 1997 documenting it all called Reincarnation and Biology.

There is also a strange pattern where about 70 percent of the children described dying from something violent or sudden in the previous life. Accidents, murders, that kind of thing. Peaceful deaths were way less common in the data.

When his first major book came out, the JAMA reviewer actually wrote that the evidence was "difficult to explain on any other grounds" and that it "cannot be ignored." And then the scientific mainstream mostly just ignored it anyway.

Stevenson died in 2007 but the work is still going at UVA under Jim Tucker, a child psychiatrist who left his private practice after reading Stevenson's research. They still get over a hundred new cases from families every year.

The modern idea of a familiar is pretty straightforward. Your cat watches you do a reading, your dog sits next to you during ritual, and people call them your familiar. Cute, wholesome, no drama.

The historical version was a completely different thing.

In medieval and early modern England, a familiar was not your pet. It was a spirit entity, often described as a low-ranking demon, that took the form of an animal. And those forms were frequently bizarre. During the Essex witch trials in the 1640s, accused witches described their familiars as things like a "fat spaniel without any legs at all" and a greyhound with an ox's head that could transform into a headless child. These were not animals. They were something else wearing an animal shape.

They also had names, and the names were wild. Vinegar Tom. Pyewacket. Grizzel Greedigut. Sack and Sugar. The Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins actually argued that these names were proof the familiars were real, because "no mortal could invent" them.

The relationship between a witch and her familiar was also understood very differently. It was a pact. The spirit would help with magic, divination, or carrying out curses, and in return it needed to be fed. Not with cat food. With blood. Witch hunters searched accused women's bodies for a "witch's mark," any mole, birthmark, wart, or skin tag that could be interpreted as an extra teat where the familiar supposedly suckled. This was used as hard evidence in court.

One detail that really shows how dangerous this belief was: the Renaissance scholar Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was very affectionate toward his dog. He let it eat beside him and sleep on his bed. That was enough for people to conclude the dog was a familiar demon.

The shift from 'demonic entity bound by a blood pact' to 'my cat likes to sit on my tarot deck' is one of the biggest glow-ups in the history of witchcraft.

Offering spell work and intuitive psychic readings:

🔮 Love Spells - attract new love or reconnect with someone

🔥 Sex Spells - desire and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - dissolve unhealthy connections

✨ Positive Energy / Aura Cleansing - remove negativity and restore balance

💰 Money Spells - financial flow and new opportunities

⚖️ Revenge Spells - accelerate karma

💄 Beauty and Youth - enhance your natural radiance

🌿 Weight Loss - energetic support for your journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - intuitive, meditative reading for clarity on any situation

⚡ Custom Spells - something specific? Send me a message

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee. No results, full refund.

DM me or visit https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

Offering spell work and intuitive psychic readings:

🔮 Love Spells - attract new love or reconnect with someone

🔥 Sex Spells - desire and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - dissolve unhealthy connections

✨ Positive Energy / Aura Cleansing - remove negativity and restore balance

💰 Money Spells - financial flow and new opportunities

⚖️ Revenge Spells - accelerate karma

💄 Beauty and Youth - enhance your natural radiance

🌿 Weight Loss - energetic support for your journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - intuitive, meditative reading for clarity on any situation

⚡ Custom Spells - something specific? Send me a message

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee. No results, full refund.

DM me or visit https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

Offering spell work and intuitive psychic readings:

🔮 Love Spells - attract new love or reconnect with someone

🔥 Sex Spells - desire and physical attraction

💔 Breakup Spells - dissolve unhealthy connections

✨ Positive Energy / Aura Cleansing - remove negativity and restore balance

💰 Money Spells - financial flow and new opportunities

⚖️ Revenge Spells - accelerate karma

💄 Beauty and Youth - enhance your natural radiance

🌿 Weight Loss - energetic support for your journey

🔭 Psychic Readings - intuitive, meditative reading for clarity on any situation

⚡ Custom Spells - something specific? Send me a message

All spells come with a satisfaction guarantee. No results, full refund.

DM me or visit https://arcanespells.com to learn more.

Something I keep coming back to is how ancient Greek love spells and curse tablets were basically the same thing. Same material (thin sheets of lead), same places they were buried (graves, wells, temple grounds), same gods invoked, nearly identical language. The Greek word for both was katadesmos, meaning "binding." A spell to make someone love you and a spell to ruin your enemy used the same verb.

The reason is that the Greeks did not see eros the way we do. It was not a warm feeling. It was understood as a form of disease, or as an attack by a god, usually Aphrodite, Eros, or Pan. The symptoms described in Greek literature (loss of appetite, inability to sleep, burning sensations, obsessive thoughts) were the same symptoms people attributed to curses.

So when someone went to a practitioner for a love spell, the logic followed naturally. You were asking a god to strike someone with eros the same way you might ask a god to strike them with fever. One surviving spell instructs the reciter to say over burning myrrh: "Do not enter through her eyes or through her side or through her nails, but through her psuche. And remain in her heart and burn her guts, her breath, her bones, her marrow, until she comes to me."

These spells were called agoge, meaning "to drag." The goal was to make the beloved so restless they physically showed up at the door. Over 1,600 lead tablets like this have been found across the Greek and Roman world and love spells are one of the largest categories.

The part that gets me is that the oldest known tradition of written love spells never distinguished between drawing someone closer and cursing them. It was the same act, same gods, same language. The line between a love spell and a curse was not a line the Greeks ever drew.