❦ OCCULT MECHANICS 101: Foundational Spell Theory for Feral Thinkers
✧ Welcome to Occult Mechanics 101✧
A crash course for magical girlies, theybies, and cryptid-coded grad students who accidentally developed a thesis-level obsession with ritual structure
and just want to know why their spell didn’t work
without getting gaslit by Mercury Retrograde.
This is spell theory for the spiritually overcaffeinated.
We're not blaming the vibes.
We're building the system.
What we’re covering (so far):
✥ What Is a Spell? — Function vs. Form
Types of Magic — Sympathetic, Contagious, Apotropaic, other sexy categories
🜋 Spell Anatomy — What are spells made of and why does it matter?
🜏 Magical Materials 101 — Your herbs, bones, metals, and metaphysics
🜲 Ritual Structure — Scripted vs. Improvised; how not to confuse enteties
❉ Energy Work — Without the fluff
⦗⦘Magic as Code — Syntax, runtime errors, and energetic execution
⚖︎ Magical Ethics — With zero Abrahamic guilt and no cosmic police
⋈ Magical Ecology — Offerings n’ shit
Extras & Add-Ons (aka DLC for your brain):
⚯ Build-A-Spell Flowchart — Like Build-A-Bear, but with more fire
⚙︎ Diagnostics Manual — “Why Did My Spell Flop: A Brutally Honest Guide”
⚭ Comparative Systems Table — A cross-cultural look at ritual forms
↮ Future expansions as the spiral deepens
This will be modular, expandable, and occasionally feral.
There will be diagrams. There may be memes.
There will definitely be opinions.
If you’ve ever gone from
“I found this spell on Pinterest”
to
“I accidentally wrote a dissertation at 2am while sobbing over a planetary hour calculator and now I’m in a codependent relationship with my citation manager”
This is a safe zone for overthinkers, ritual theory goblins, spreadsheet sorcerers, and anyone who wants to cast spells and cite sources like their grimoires are peer-reviewed.
Information spirals are my love language.
Hopefully posted once or twice a week.
Light a candle. Scream into the æther.
And of course, bookmark the tag and stay tuned
Series tag: #occult mechanics 101