Hazel's Witchcraft

Hey there,

So I have a friend who's struggling with mental health problems and medical bills and I want to help out.

So I'm opening up rune readings!

It'll be $1 per rune drawn.

So depending on your needs, it can be anywhere from $1-7 depending on the spread setup.

Your choice of Elder Futhark or my custom set of Arda-inspired runes (some of you have gotten reading from these before).

Payment will be through PayPal.

🌙before you start, spray your yoga mat with essential oils (orange, lavender, grapefruit and mint are great)

☀️put your favorite crystals around your mat, especially any crystals that are good for relaxation or balance

🌙listen to soothing nature sounds (like ocean waves, forest, campfire, thunder, etc.) to help you focus and ground

☀️make yoga spells by combining certain positions with intent (sun salutations and tree pose for confidence and happiness, cobra and warrior for warding and banishment, etc.)

🌙do some tea, infused water, or smoothie magic before you start. This works great in combination with the yoga spells since you can match intent (and strengthen the spell)

☀️you could also make whatever you drink (or eat) before yoga correspond with energy (cinnamon, ginger, strawberry, French lavender, apple, rosemary, and citrus fruits are great energy boosters)

🌙do some yoga with your plant babies! Place your plant near your mat, as you breathe and stretch your plant will absorb the energy. It also will help you ground and meditate. (Just make sure you don’t accidently knock them over)

☀️light some incense or a candle (it can correspond with your yoga spell, cleanse the air, or just relax you)

Ok children, Auntie Witch is in, pull up a chair and get out a pen. This is how Auntie Systlin curses a bitch who needs cursing. 

TOOLS NEEDED; A stick, some red makeup, a knife

(For the red paint, I use red ochre and my own spit, but anything will work. Red invokes the color of blood.)

STEP 1

Protect yourself. I paint the rune Algiz on myself; on my forehead and on the back of each hand, and invoke its aspects of protection, to protect me from any kickback. 

(that’s this rune right here. Algiz, the elk, the rune of protection and defense)

STEP 2; cast a circle or prepare a ritual space however you prefer. 

STEP 3; Carve the curse on the stick, while invoking the name of the person you wish to curse, the runes you are carving and what you wish to invoke from them, and the effect you wish to have. Hold your target’s face in your mind as you do this, and pour all your intent and will into it. 

RUNES I USE;

Isa, the rune of ice, to freeze whatever fuckshit actions are warranting the curse in place, and to cause the target nothing but delay and frustration. 

Thurisaz, the rune of Thor’s Hammer, reversed. To bring down destruction and ruin on your target, and to harness the sheer (and serious) elemental power this rune can bring to the party. 

Haigall, the rune of hail, to bring chaos, radical change, and catastrophe to your target. 

And finally Nied, the need-fire, to teach them a bitter and painful lesson drawn from their own deepest folly. 

Carve these, speak their names, invoke the aspects you want. Speak the name of your target, speak why you cast this curse and what you wish the curse to do. MEAN IT, EVERY WORD, and drive all of your emotion and intent into those runes. 

You can carve them separately or make them a bindrune. Caster’s choice. 

Ask for the aid of any gods you wish to involve (optional)

Just to be clear, affirmations are healthy tools used by therapists and psychologists to encourage self-love, self-acceptance, and self-confidence.

The Law of Attraction is a toxic concept that is rooted in prosperity gospel and thought control that reaffirms shame/guilt cycles. 

You can have affirmations and use them in a healthy way without even touching the toxic beliefs in LoA that teach you’re responsible for any and all hardship in your life due to your “vibrations.”

You are not alone.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to observe holidays, blot, or even engage on a metaphysical level with anything. If I sit down to pray or talk to my deities, I’m lost for words lately. I feel them there in silent understanding, but it seems that words often fail them too. That or I’m having trouble discerning what they’re saying as effortlessly as I normally do.

A crisis is not the time you’ve been waiting for to read all those witchy books, start shadow work, or work on your grimoire. If you can do these things and they’re helping, great! (Although I don’t recommend shadow work in a time that we’re going through a collective cultural trauma). But no one is expecting you to use this time as some kind of spiritual retreat. It isn’t one. We’re standing on the deck of the Titanic either listening to the mistrals play or being one of those playing the violin. It’s not the time to pull up a chair and learn to play the violin. Just like now is not the needed time you’ve been waiting for to advance in magic or your spiritual journey. 

Do what you can. Don’t push yourself. And remember, even us more experienced witches are having a hard time getting off the couch, keeping a sleep schedule, and practicing our work. 

For those criticizing witchcraft as the placebo effect, I don’t think you quite understand the Placebo Effect theory. The theory states that we are capable of duplicating results despite not being given real treatment - Scientists still don’t fully understand the Placebo effect or WHY it works but it does. Placebo Effect actually confirms that we have far more control over our own body and our life than we may think we do. 

If magic is just the placebo effect, then magic is working the way that metaphysics is intended to work. There’s no brainwashing going on with a placebo… there’s no agenda… there’s nothing harmful taking place. The placebo effect literally means you believed in something so hard that created the results it was supposed to despite not having a scientific reason to have caused them. This isn’t happening through trauma, community policing, or anything else. There is nothing unhealthy about the placebo effect.

Sources:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect