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Woke up from a dream with a theory about dreams.
My dream brain told me that it's not doing anything differently than it always does. The subconscious is just shifting around all the puzzle pieces of info that we keep dumping into it trying to find patterns that make sense. It's just trying out scenarios without our conscious says "no, that doesn't make sense".
Dream brain says it does it when we are awake, but we rarely pay attention.
How the fuck can there be anti vaccine âwitches?â If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subjectâs blood against the full force of that very same entityâs curse then you are not and can never be a witch youâre just a karen who buys rocks
Keeping secrets in my spiritual relationships comes in handy when a stranger voluntells me they have a message for me from my spirit guides. âOh, really? Then give me the password.â And when they don't have it, whatever they want to tell you is 100% not about you or the spirits you honor at all.
I love the conception of the Occult as "Knowledge or action that is by nature un-systemizeable" because it means that wondering what dirt tastes like is a magical act.
What's great is that it's entirely correct

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Doing Magic Without Casting Spells
When I was a witch I thought âdoing spellsâ was the height of all magic. After I left witchcraft I found myself doing spells less and less until I just⌠stopped. But this didnât mean my life was without magic. The form my active magic took just changed.
I do magic with talismans now. Others may call them âaltars in a box.â I call them talismans ^-^
Once a talisman is built, it works forever as long as it is properly charged. In the photograph is the charging of my personal prosperity talisman.Â
Talismans are a low-spoon magical solution. The creation, use, and upkeep of a talisman requires no personal energy beyond putting a few objects in a container. You do not need to charge talismans with your personal energy.
A talisman is, in my definition, a magical trinket which can manipulate energies in your favor. In this article I am talking about container talismans.
Container talismans are built like puzzles. Each object added holds a special meaning and will affect the energies of the talisman in a special way. In my example money talisman, I have added:
Lodestone, to draw money, prosperity, and wealth.
Lodestone oil, to draw money, prosperity, and wealth.
Coins, to represent what I desire.
Gold pebbles, to represent what I desire.
A jar of iolite crystals with a $1000 store price tag, to represent great wealth (dressed with lodestone oil).
A bottle of pure gold flakes, to represent great wealth.
A charm bag of basil, to get the spirit ally Basil to work on my behalf for profit.
A sigil to save money, for obvious reasons!
A small jar of marijuana, a gesture of sacrifice to give back to the spirit world, and to represent what I desire.
My last dollar until payday, a gesture of sacrifice to give back to the spirit world, and to represent what I desire.
This talisman brings me a lot of spending money and I am rarely ever out (except now, which is why I am recharging and donating my last dollar!).
On the other hand, talismans are a practical low-fund solution because one can literally be made out of paper slips stuffed in to a jar. No need to get fancy!
Try building different container talismans for prosperity, relationships, wishes, and protection.Â
Try adding dried herbs and stones of traditional correspondences.
Add representation of spirit allies who will help.
Include poems, images, sigils, or references of your goals and dreams.
Talismans can be simple or complex. Make them to your tastes and the preferences of the spirits you work with.
To build your own talisman, select an appropriate container and cleanse it using your favorite method. Cleanse objects and state their purpose as you add them to the container. âThis dried rose represents eternal love within my heart.â âThis quartz chip is to empower the other elements of the talisman.â And so on :)
When your talisman is assembled, charge it by placing candles on or near it and lighting them with intent to draw down power. Or, place it in the Sun and Moonlight for 24 hours, asking Nature to rise from below and complete the trinity of empowerment. In the picture, I placed a candle in the middle of the talisman jar. I dressed the candle with lodestone oil for extra power.
Place talismans on an altar or safe space where it will not be disturbed. Allow it to work for you; I see results within an hour typically but I have many allies so donât be bothered if things donât work for you so quickly! Give up to 4 weeks to see real changes; up to 2 weeks to see signs of change. Speak to it regularly. Give things time to manifest. Charge regularly or as needed (I charge mine once every⌠2 years on average).Â
If you want to include spirits to help you in your talisman, try this method of obtaining a spirit friend from a crystal (modify from the âprotectionâ theme to your own talisman purposes) or this method for making a contract with a spirit.
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I feel like these 5 things were the most important pieces for me to build the foundation of my personal witchcraft practice:
1) be curious and develop your critical thinking - ask questions. Allow yourself to follow down rabbit holes of thought. Let yourself follow link after link through Wikipedia. Fall asleep in a bed of library books with conflicting information and have the skills to sort out whatâs right and true for your practice.
2)Â learn a bit of the history of witchcraft - Enough to know that the âBurning Timesâ were not a thing, there is no unbroken line of ancient witches, that the rise of modern witchcraft and our contemporary understanding of it grew (and changed) out of the Wiccan religion from the middle of last century and filtered through the 80s âSatanic Panicâ and the 90s âlove and lightâ, that actions and beliefs that look like witchcraft exist in many folk and cultural traditions but they are only witchcraft when self identified as such.
3) The mechanics of your practice - whether it is an existing magical tradition or a practice you have built from scratch, whether is is religious or secular - know your own mechanics. Knowing mechanics isnât the same as knowing how magic works. Knowing mechanics is understanding the why of you practice and the how you do your practice. What value do you find in techniques, correspondences, paradigms, and methods that go into your practice? Are you doing things by rote or have you found personal gnosis? That being said, you donât owe anyone any explanation, you should just know it for yourself.
4) Know theyself- this is more than just high magick navel gazing. Know yourself and what you are capable of. What your boundaries are, how you react to certain things, whether you can actually commit to celebrating every moon cycle, setting realistic expectations and goals for yourself, learning that constantly comparing your practice to others can be a hindrance and keep you from focusing on you own practice.
5) How to claim your space - this, to me, is such an important foundation and a way to put all the other things in practice. This can be your own combination of cleansing (mundane and magical) , protecting, warding, defense, and safety. This can be applied to physical spaces and witchy spaces. This is making your house or other space your sanctuary. Also, knowing some fire safety so as to not set your claimed space on fire or knowing enough about herbs you decide to work with so as to not get poisoned.
A lot of this isnât even spell work. Itâs just study and observation. This is just a good place to start. I see a lot of witchlings scared to do spell work or not knowing where to start, just pick a direction and go. Youâll learn things along the way, sometimes not even things you were looking for. They might not be useful now, but they might later. You are building skills, and with any skills, it takes time. You should enjoy that process.
Lemon Test
Have I been cursed? Only one way to find out! The lemon test, much like the lemon curse, uses a lemon to find out whether or not you have been cursed: Buy one lemon. Anoint a black slow burning candle with an oil with a scent that reminds you of the person who you believe is cursed. Cut the lemon in half and write the name of the person on a small piece of paper and place it on one half of the lemon. Lemons that are cut and left out of the refrigerator only last one day before they start to go bad. leave the lemon halves on the table next to the anointed candle that is burning. Be very concise and ask if the person has been cursed and then leave the candle to burn with the lemon next to it. When the candle burns out, if the lemon with the small piece of paper on it is significantly more âdecayedâ than the other half of the lemon. Then there is a curse. If they look the same, youâre fine. When you are done with the lemon, rub it in salt and dispose of it. This wonât get rid of the curse if there is one. Just helps with determining.

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Okay I know it's been like 5 days, but I'm not really feeling the affirmations & they haven't really taken off yet so I'm going to instead do a tiny little challenge every day.
This will range from as simple as, "Meditate in front of a candle for 5 minutes" to as complicated as "Dedicate a page in your grimoire to dissecting your dreams"
But I'm going to try to never do anything too difficult or that will require a lot of tools. Just one little witchy thing you can do each day to help feel closer to your practice.
You should never feel bad if you can't/don't want to complete a goal.
This is just for fun. I will be tagging this one as:
Daily-witch-goals
In case you'd like to follow or block that tag :)
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Frater is a prefix men use when theyâre an incel but think that they might actually be really good at Babylonian sex magic.
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The Law of Attraction, Prosperity Gospel, and Other Ways of Controlling How People Think
In the words of Rhonda Byrne, who brought the Law of Attraction to popular consciousness with her book The Secret:Â âLife doesnât just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what youâve given.â
Or, to put it even more bluntly: âYou attract to you what you think about most.â
At first glance, these words seem empowering. We all want to be the masters of our own destinies. Itâs that desire for autonomy and agency that attracts many people to witchcraft and alternative spirituality in the first place.
Until very recently, I was a firm believer in the power of the Law of Attraction. I believed that it worked the same way magic did, and I encouraged other witches to add it to their spiritual toolbox. I even included an episode about it in my Baby Witch Bootcamp series. (Which you will notice has since been taken down.)
That all changed when I started reading a book about mind control.
For context: I grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, better known as the Mormons. Whether the Church is a cult or not is up for debate, but it definitely uses cult thought control techniques to control its members. Although I left the Church several years ago, I never untangled myself from the Churchâs flawed and harmful rhetoric. Recently, Iâve decided to take on this challenge, and I started my healing process by reading the book Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control by Luna Lindsey. This is an extremely well-researched book about how the Mormons use cult thought control techniques to keep members enmeshed.
In a section on the Churchâs mandatory tithing (a sort of tax paid to the Church by members) and promise that tithe-payers will be rewarded with material wealth, Lindsey quotes the book Recovery from Cults by Paul R. Martin. Martin says: âThe prosperity gospel holds the conviction that if a believing person has enough faith, is completely repentant of all sin, and gives at least 10% of his or her income to the church or to some Christian ministry, then he or she will have good health, obtain financial wealth, and experience general prosperity in all areas of life.â
I was taken aback by how similar this concept â the so-called prosperity gospel â is to the Law of Attraction. Prosperity gospel teaches that faith in God will be rewarded with material blessings. The Law of Attraction teaches the same thing, but replaces the word âGodâ with âthe Universe.â In both cases, believers are encouraged to focus only on the positive while ignoring or minimizing any problems they may face.
In the church I grew up in, we were taught that doubt comes from the devil and prevents us from receiving Godâs blessings. Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a member of the governing body of the Mormon Church, says: âWe must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,â and coined the popular Mormon mantra âDoubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.â
In The Secret, Rhonda Byrne quotes Henry Ford: âWhenever you think you can or think you canât, either way you are right.â Later in the book, Byrne says, âInstead of focusing on the worldâs problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.â
I was struck by an eerie similarity between Uchtdorfâs and Byrneâs words. I had turned to the Law of Attraction as a means to empower myself after trauma connected to conservative Christianity and its values. Was it really possible that I had merely swapped one kind of thought control for another?
This lead me to look into other similarities between the Law of Attraction and other forms of thought control, and what I found was frankly disturbing.
The Law of Attraction employs at least three of the four components of the BITE model, an illustration of cult mind control techniques created by cult expert Steven Hassan. The four aspects of the BITE model are: Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control. These are techniques used by cults to mold the identities of their members.
Both prosperity gospel and the Law of Attraction employ Behavior Control; prosperity gospel demands outward displays of faithfulness from believers, while the LoA teaches that we should âmake sure that [our] actions are mirroring what you expect to receive,â as Byrne puts it (i.e., act like our lives are already perfect). Both systems employ Thought Control; prosperity gospel warns believers to keep their thoughts pure (âIf ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, ye must perish.â â Mosiah 4:30), while the LoA teaches that all of our thoughts have energetic vibrations and that we should focus on âhigh vibrationalâ thoughts. Both systems employ Emotional Control; prosperity gospel labels certain emotions as sinful and promotes shame around these âsinsâ, while Rhonda Byrne tells us to, âAsk once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.â
The fourth aspect of the BITE model is Information Control. Although not everyone who believes in either prosperity gospel or the Law of Attraction will engage in Information Control, many do. Many Christians are encouraged to avoid media or informational resources that contradict the Churchâs message â I know I was in my church. Believers in the Law of Attraction are encouraged to avoid âlow vibrationalâ media and anything else that makes them feel even a little uncomfortable. In either case, this selective consumption of information feeds into confirmation bias and creates a closed system of logic. As Luna Lindsey puts it in Recovering Agency, âAll signs point to âYes.â It transfers the burden of proof to an emotional basis for evidence, which is extremely easy to engineer.â
But Sam, you may argue, the Law of Attraction is a belief â it isnât tied to any organization! There is no Law of Attraction cult!
Tell that to authors like Rhonda Byrne and Esther Hicks, who are making millions of dollars from books about the Law of Attraction. Tell it to the thousands of people who treat those books like gospels, and those authors like modern day prophets. Tell it to the life coaches and âlifestyle gurusâ building social media empires by appealing to people who want to believe that they can manifest their dream life just by changing their thoughts.
And that rhetoric is inherently flawed. Both the Law of Attraction and prosperity gospel employ cognitive distortions in order to plug holes in their logic. Cognitive distortions are irrational or illogical thought patterns, and overcoming cognitive distortions is one of the main goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Both prosperity gospel and the Law of Attraction often lead to overgeneralization (the tendency to find patterns where none actually exist), personalization (believing that everything other people do or say is a personal reaction to us â taking everything personally), blaming ourselves for situations and events outside of our control, and the fallacy of change (expecting other people or situations to change to meet our expectations). All of these are cognitive distortions.
The biggest and most obvious of these cognitive distortions is black and white thinking, also called all or nothing thinking. As Luna Lindsey points out in Recovering Agency, black and white thinking is also a common element in cult thought control. Black and white thinking divides everything into âeither/orâ categories, with no room for shades of gray. In terms of mental illness, someone with an anxiety disorder may feel that if they canât be perfect theyâre a total failure â this is an example of black and white thinking. In conservative Christian theology, everything is either righteous or sinful, aligned with either Jesus or Satan â this often leads church members to feel like the world is out to lead them into sin. In the Law of Attraction, everything is either âhigh vibrationalâ or âlow vibrationalâ â you never hear about neutral emotions or experiences.
In fact, the concept of low vs. high vibrations is just a way of rebranding the Christian concept of sin vs. righteousness. Take virtually any quote from a Law of Attraction author, replace âlow vibrationâ with âSatanâ and âhigh vibrationâ with âJesusâ and youâre left with typical conservative Christian rhetoric.
(By the way, the idea of emotions having vibrations seems to have originated with the book Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins. I can find no scientific evidence to support the idea that different emotions have noticeably different frequencies. The idea of sin is just as unverifiable, since thereâs no way to prove that something is or is not sinful.)
Finally, both prosperity gospel and the Law of Attraction can have a negative affect on the mental health of people who believe in them. A study from the University of Toronto, lead by Nick Hobson, Geoff MacDonald, and Juensung Kim, found that exposure to prosperity gospel sermons lead to an increase in risky financial behavior.
âNew research out of the University of Torontoâs department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science suggests that exposure to prosperity gospel messaging â thinking God wants you to be wealthy, prosperous and donate money to the church â makes you more likely to show an exaggerated and unrealistic sense of optimism for life and take more financial risks,â Alexa Zulak says in an article for U of T News. âHobson says atheists and agnostics were just as likely to be susceptible to âunrealistic optimismâ â as long as the prosperity sermon they watched was masked as a motivational speech. Even when the research team removed all references to God and religion, participants still exhibited increased optimism â meaning the messaging is less about God and religion.â [Emphasis added.]
These ideas are dangerous, whether theyâre packaged as gospel or a manifestation technique. And thatâs not even getting into how both of these systems can contribute to perfectionism, victim-blaming, or toxic positivity.
Iâm not the only witch who has noticed a disturbing similarity here. @north-of-annwnâ has a great post on this subject, where they say that, âThe Law of Attraction is just Prosperity Gospel and Thought Control repackaged in a new age wrapper.â
They go on to explain how both of these systems are inherently ableist and are based in privilege. Later in that post, they sum up exactly why the Law of Attraction is so dangerous: âIt introduces a fear/shame relationship with your own thoughts.â
So⌠yeah. Iâm going to go ahead and admit that I was wrong â wrong about the Law of Attraction and wrong to spread these ideas to other witches without doing more research first. I hope that this post has been informative, and that this information will serve readers on their journey to find a spiritual belief system that serves and empowers them â without telling them how to think.

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Hey there! Why you dont practice the law of attraction no more? đđđ
Time to get a lil controversial. My first problem with the Law of Attraction is that it is an incredibly privileged belief system. The principal concept behind the Law of Attraction is that âlike attracts likeâ and âour thoughts create our realityâ. According to the Law of Attraction, every single experience our life has been a manifestation of our houghts or feelings. Iâm sure you can already see where I am going with this. How do you explain the Law of Attraction to a child who is being abused by their parents? How do you explain the Law of Attraction to someone who can not afford to buy basic necessities to keep themselves alive? According to the Law of Attraction, that child did something to bring about that abuse. Did their âlow vibrationalâ temper tantrum trigger the abuse to manifest? Fuck no. Do you see the problem? If we choose to believe the Law of Attraction is a Universal Law, which it claims to be, then we inherently choose to believe that we have manifested every single traumatic situation in our life. If it is truly a Universal Law then it would be proven true 100% of the time. The Law of Attraction is not a fucking Universal Law. It is a system of belief. A belief system that is honestly dangerous as fuck. It perpetuates a sense of self-doubt, guilt, and shame. It teaches us to abandon our ânegativeâ emotions to avoid manifesting negative experiences. I can not express how concerning this is. This is called spiritual bypassing and can lead to prolonged mental health issues. Do not try to mask, run from, or ignore your emotions out of fear of manifesting something negative in your life. Bad shit happens because of fucked up people, human mistakes, and messy accidents. Not because you experienced a depressive episode and cried. Fuck that shit. The Law of Attraction is a belief system that you can choose to subscribe to but, for the love of God, it is not a fucking Law. I still practice manifestation, meaning I believe our energy has an influence on the world around us. I do not believe that we are subconsciously manifesting positive and negative experiences based on our thoughts alone. There is so much more to the equation. I believe manifestation is more about intention than thoughts. I also believe in the alchemy of our emotions. I think itâs beautiful how we can transform rage, pain, joy, love, and sorrow into something powerful. I choose to believe in an empowered system where we are consciously creating, honoring all human emotions, and reclaiming the power of the soul rather than the ego (thought).Â
I find it interesting that both science and magic exhibit margins of error in their results, but only one of them is considered to have consistent results by the majority of the world.
âMagicâ is just whateverâs left over that no oneâs figured out how to measure yet.
(Or what we already can measure, but everyone likes calling magic because they donât think science can be fun.)