u/Dizzy_Way_4608

I’ve never done this before and really am trying it just for the proven benefits a ritual can have on the psyche. I won’t say I knew exactly what I was doing material wise but I think I did well with what I had. I asked for protection and banishment from specific people causing negative energy in my life. I’m writing this here to just get some feedback on how people think I did and how I’m doing at interpreting.

• I cleansed everything with an incense stick I love.
I lit a candle rolled in rosemary inside a salt circle on a little angel alter I made a while ago that I always wanted to use for something like this.
• I wrote down their name on some paper ( in pencil for impermanence) and my partner and I name on another (in pen for permanence).
• This may have been extra and unnecessary but I really dislike these people so when I wrote my partner and I name I did it inside. But for them I went outside my house and wrote it while bearing down on the lid of my trash bin.
• I folded up the paper. Mine towards me to keep the energy. There’s away from me to send it back.
• Tied the two pieces of paper together. Said my intentions and called for help completing the severing and keeping the negative people and energy they make away. And cut it with scissors I cleansed earlier.
•I then but my paper in a nearby flower vase we always have around. And theirs was burned in the protection candle and left to burn in a little cauldron.
•Ashes were thrown directly into the outside bin. Cauldron was rinsed outside.
•Candle burned a bit to the left but I blame the draft because I thought opening the window was fine before thinking about how that could interfere with the burn.

Because of the initial draft, I’m unsure if reading the wax is reliable. However, I tried anyways and the conclusion I got from the way it burned down seems good. It dripped to the left which should indicate the past and past feelings which this should all be in. Some of the wax dripped off into a little nub that positioned itself off of the angels platform outside the salt ring. I’m deciding this means I’m protected and the past is cast off away from me. The dripping at the start I really just want to blame the draft I let in and not read into it being tears as I’ve cried enough over all this. So that’s how my first call for protection went. Any opinions? I’d post the wax remnant’s if I could. I don’t think there are enough examples online of wax puddles. But maybe people aren’t that into that and I’m just doing too much.