Magic Is Just Science We Don’t Understand Yet

I don’t like this approach to spirit work. I feel like it treats spirits as if they are coin operated fortune telling machines or magic eight balls - insert offering receive “message”. Spirits have their own existences outside of us, they aren’t just sitting around, waiting for practitioners to reach out to them so that they can relay information to us regardless of if they have had contact with us before.

(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)

Specifically consider the following:

jinxes

hexes

curses

bindings

banishings

cleansings

hex - also mild but longer lasting than a jinx (may all your bacon burn, hit every red light on your way home for a month) still meant as an inconvenience, but can go as far as discomfort and mild harm

curse - moderate to severe negative effects, usually long lasting meant to cause harm (financial ruin, breakup a marriage)

are these concrete, distinct categories? hell no. I may cast a hex and then cast the same spell a week later calling it a curse. but time and severity are the determining factors

binding - using magic to keep a target from continued action, as opposed to punishing those actions. I personally do not consider this baneful.

banishing - using magic to remove the target from a space. also not something I consider baneful, but probably closer to baneful than banishing

cleansing - removing energy from someone/thing/where. the operative word is removing, whereas harnessing the energy and transmuting it would not be what I consider cleansing