u/Visible-Badger-6523

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Someone read my birthchart and told me to stop witchcraft, should I listen?

For context, I've been getting into spirituality and the occult for around 1 to 2 years now, I'm obviously still learning and all I did till now is reaserch, protection spells, cleansing and I do admit I did start tarot reading and did work with a pendulum pretty early on (as they are what got me into the craft in the first place)

I come from a religious family AND religious country but I do not believe anymore as I believe I was never fit for this religion and ever since I started spirituality I felt really good with myself mentaly and energetically speaking.

Now here's the thing, I have an acquaintance who knew I was into tarot and I did do her a reading, and in exchange she proposed to read my birthchart which I accepted.

Today she came to me and told me about what she read. She told me that I should quit the occult because the energies around me are really negative (which is weird since I've been feeling better since I started like I said) and that if I continued that I could get possesed or smt, and when I said that I mainly do cleansing and protection she said that I should pray and read the holy book as a protection, even after saying that I do not believe in it so it would be useless to me and even after saying that I cannot mentally do it anyway she still insisted. Other than that she also told me about a field I should focus on for work which has nothing to do with my actual studies and what I want to do?

I genuinly don't want to quit witchcraft because it brought so much to me and it helped me a lot in these past 2years. Doing as she said and praying again is also out of the picture no matter what even tho I feel guilt.

I also wanna add that:

-1 yes I do have religious trauma and guilt which might be affecting my POV and -2 I did have someone read my chart before but it was just a quick read and they actually mentioned opposite things than her when it comes to both careere and my relationship with spirituality. I only asked her because she said she'd do a more in debt reading and send it to me (which she didn't do yet)

So please can anyone give me their opinion on this situation? I really need outsider insight on the situation

I also appologize if this was innapropriate to ask in any shape or form, I basically never use reddit, and thank you for you attention.

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