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Hi!

I've been kinda playing around with witchcraft recently. I've done a few rituals and to my knowledge, I believe everything has worked so far.

Here is today's experience.

I work night shift on a horse farm and help mares give birth.

To keep it simple and short, I was asked to do the impossible but I couldn't do it. I prioritized my 2 mares that don't show a lot of signs of getting ready to give birth over something else they wanted me to do (everything is totally fine, management just wasn't too happy that I could only give the minimum)

So, they weren't happy with me. I got off, went to bed and when I got up I decided to try something to kinda rid myself of the negative energy / thoughts/ feelings.

I lit a black candle to burn away the negativity.

My husband has been growing sage and thyme so I grabbed just a few of the fresh leaves.

For some reason, I wanted to snatch a crystal from one of my tarantulas. Ran it through Google and it is an orca agate, which I learned is commonly used to work out negativity ( the random crystal grabs are getting strange) *I had another run-in the other day where I grabbed 3 blindly and they turned out to be exactly what I needed*

I just said a little something of ridding myself of those feelings and lit the candle. (I'm not creative enough to creat original actual spells)

About 20 minutes later, my manager calls to check in (I come in late so I take the calls to get caught up before heading in)

I apologized for this morning and stated my reasons and she said "I've thought about it and you were in the right of setting those priorities. No harm, no foul, all is well."

It worked.

Witchcraft is fascinating me. It always has but, like many others, I was brought up on the Christian faith. Not only did I never feel a connection in that faith but no matter how hard I tried, nothing ever came off the prayers and things. Walking my own path and learning about using the earth and everything she has to offer has been nearly life changing.

I've always felt closer to nature than any church. So finding this and studying on it and now actually using it (with permission) has blown my little mind 🤣

And if you have read this far, please tell us a story of things working!

And thank you for sitting with me tonight. 💜

Hi all!

I ask this question due to a blog post I happen to come across when looking a bit deeper into black magic.

In the blog post, the writer talks about the use of "gentle love magic" and how she layered rituals and spells, along with her coven, to get a client's wife to be more *explorative* in the bedroom. It came off a little anti-Christian (as the wife came from a strict Catholic background and the husband was already on the left hand path, as per the article writer who practices "ethical" black magic as she calls it), but overall it made me think: Where does one draw the line in the sand?

I'm not writing to judge, but to try to understand. My brain can get a bit obsessive when I encounter something I don't understand or agree with initially, but I wanted to hear different perspectives on something like this.

Also, if this violates any of the rules or I used the wrong flair, I apologize. Just let me know where this conversation will be better suited and I will take the post down.

My FIL fell and broke his arm a couple of days ago and now he’s dehydrated and confused and his diabetes is out of control. Usually I can tap into a persons aura and know “what’s going on,” but being in an ER, if I even try, I seem to invite all the lost souls wandering the hospital to come find me.
Any advice? Thanks 🤞🏻

Hi there! I was in a relationship with my ex for one year and a half. We even lived together for six months. We had broken up, stayed in no contact for about four months, reconnected, and now we are in no contact again.

Every time we go in no contact, I have sudden mood changes that I subconsciously know are not mine. I randomly feel my stomach drop and my heart skipping beats. I find myself thinking of him at random times. I wake up and go to bed with anxiety.

He is a really anxious person. He told me his stomach would turn every time he feels really overwhelmed. He would wake up in the middle of the night having cold sweats and palpitations when stressed. When we lived together, I would always feel when he was off and he would always tell me, “How do you always know I feel bad? It’s crazy.”

We recently talked very briefly via text. He told me he’s going through a really tough time emotionally and mentally, and that he can’t take a conversation with me.

When we reconnected for the first time, we have talked about the crazy synchronicites that were happening for both of us in the period of no-contact. I had been manifesting him using robotic affirmations. I got him to say exactly the things I was telling myself. As of lately I have been seeing many signs (for example, hearing his name a lot, seeing stuff that are correlated to him, seeing angel numbers daily, very often throughout the day, etc.)

Do you think this is a soul tie?

When doing divination like tarot or using a pendulum, since I am the one technically answering all my questions, how do I know it’s not clouded judgment or I’m seeing what I want to see if it’s not from an external source that has no emotions attached to the questions?! Like say I miss an ex, and I ask “will we get back together?!” And it answers yes, how would I know that’s not just my subconscious saying yes because it is what I want to hear?!

When I first started diving into witchcraft and learning about it, I was in my late teens and heavily in love with my boyfriend at the time. We had a pretty intense falling out, but I was still so in love with him and was blinded by that, so I ended up doing a bunch of love jar spells (this was close to 8 years ago now) to which I have no access to them anymore. I had left them in my childhood room when I moved out and my mom asked me what I wanted to do with them to which I told her to just toss them, thinking that would be enough. I have since grown and learned a LOT since then, and one being to never do love spells and fuck with others free will. The problem I am coming across is I am now far far moved on from this man, but I still occasionally get haunted by the forgotten love for what he used to be and what we used to have. I’m certain that after years of meditation and allowing clarity to come through to me about this that it’s the fact that I did so many love spells and never properly broke them that’s causing me to be tethered to the past with him. I don’t recall what kinds of spells I did besides them being jar spells, I know at least two or three were sugar sweetened jars (not honey) but that’s about it. How can I go about releasing this connection and spell for good? What can I do to energetically disconnect the tie between myself and these spells for him? Thank you <3

My husband and I are expecting our first baby at the end of August, and as someone who just stepped onto this path about 2 years ago I'm thinking a lot lately about what it will look like to continue it as I step into a mother role.

So I have both a specific question and a general one.

My general one is just looking for other moms to share what their practice as a parent has looked like. Our baby is very much planned, but something I do worry about is losing myself to be a mom and nothing else. Maintaining my own interests and identity is important to me. However, as someone who had religion pushed on me by my grandparents I do not want to push him into any one path. Meaning I will of course not hide anything from him, but I don't want to raise intentionally him to follow Druidry or practice Witchcraft until he expresses himself that he wants to, if he does. So I think I'm just interested in stories about what motherhood looks like for you as a Druid, Pagan or Witch. Just hearing about other similar lived experiences i guess. I don't have many friends who are parents and have none who are parents and pagan or anything similar.

My more specific question is, a friend and I had been planning to do a proper Samhain celebration this year, so dumb supper, bonfire dancing, maybe some readings etc. with maybe a dozen people. At that point he will only be about 2 months old, if he isn't late. Of course there's the possibility I won't feel up for it, but if I do I'm wondering if anyone has done celebrations like this when they had newborns and what it looked like. When he's older I can visualize how it might look (though the silent supper may be a challenge for a long time), but with a brand new baby is it unrealistic to even consider still doing this?

I found these in my daughter's work bag/purse that she intentionally left behind for me before she died-these three small bottles containing different substances (along with other daily use items). I'm not sure if they were actually left for me or just something she carried with her. I’ve been trying to understand whether they held personal, spiritual, symbolic, or healing meaning for her, or if they may have been connected to something painful in her life.

Part of me feels protective over them because they were hers and were left for me to find. Another part of me wonders whether keeping them could also mean holding onto energy or associations that may not be healthy for me in my grief journey.

I was considering posting here to see if anyone recognizes what these kinds of items may represent from an ancestral healing, spiritual, holistic, or ritual perspective.

This is an extremely sensitive subject tied to the loss of my daughter, so I’m respectfully asking that if you have negative opinions about ancestral practices, spirituality, or healing traditions, please just scroll past this post. I’m not looking for debate or judgment — only thoughtful insight and compassion.

Hi everyone. First of all, I'm sorry if my english is bad. It's not my first language.

A year ago, I wrote a post here about how my spells weren't manifesting. Some lovely people gave me advice and I tried to follow it. Since then, some of my spells seem to have worked.

What I have noticed, however, is that my spells are kind of weak or limited. Sometimes only part of my intention manifests, and other times it seems to manifest but doesn't last. I'm trying to remind myself that witchcraft is a skill and that I'll get better and see more results with practice, but it's kind of hard to stay motivated.

So, what I really want right now is to hear about your experiences with this, because I think it would help me stay motivated and keep believing in my practice. When did you notice your own spells getting stronger?

The reason I feel the need to come out is because I can't stand living a lie anymore. I can't stand pretending to believe in God just so they'll respect me. I'm so sick of hiding my practices, not being able to wear anything that resembles witchcraft, tired of being scared if they will smell my incense. I'm seriously at my limit here.

But on the other hand they are those kind of christians who will judge someone as being a witch just cause they didn't answer "God bless" back. We don't live in the same house, but we do share the same yard, and others live very close.

Plus, they are my husband's family (he supports me and is even showing interest in what I practice). But they blame me for literally everything that goes wrong in our lives, and also I notice they are less and less affectionate towards me since we stopped going to church, and I'm pretty sure his aunt say my pentagram the other day. I'm genuinely sad about all this, from me having to hide to them blaming me and pulling away.

So for those who share a similar background, what was your experience with telling them the truth? If they don't know, what made you decide not to share?

I broke up with my ex yesterday and I have in my room 3 dead roses he gave me a while ago. Is there a way I can dispose them safely? I don’t want to hurt me or him but I need that energy out of my room.

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.

I saw the tik tok charm posted about being mistreated in the witch community because he is black, so do any other black witches feel this way? As a black beginner witch i wanna create a space to talk about these things! And im so happy charm brought this up.

I’m genuinely asking to learn. I’ve seen some people say they are bad but they don’t explain how or why they are bad. Would a love spell really influence a person THAT much that they fall deeply in love with a person immediately without their own doing? Or what if you did one where the person noticed you do something and had a change of thought like “wow they looked pretty doing that” or something and maybe made them think about the person that way just for a little, but they still are able to choose if they want to pursue that person or if they decide not to act on it? I just want to learn