If you’re suffering spiritual upheaval, don’t be too quick to assume you’re under attack.
Dozens upon dozens of people have come to me asking to have hexes removed. Some think they know who is hexing them, others don’t know who but they know they’re under spiritual attack. They blame demons, spirits, other witches, Satan himself, old friends who’ve turned against them, bosses, coworkers, and on and on.
There are means of removing hexes, yes. But once I started charging for my services, I started taking my work a lot more seriously, and stopped being so eager to pump out spells without understanding what’s happening in the clients life first. So when I do receive a client suffering from supernatural causes, I take the time to do a reading, like checking their temperature, so to speak. In my experience, when somebody has been hexed right and proper with malice and intent to harm, it manifests to me as a pressure around that person that feels like somebody is holding onto them very tightly. If I try to dislodge the energy, there’s sometimes a violent kickback, or a threatening mood that comes over the room, like the person responsible for that hex is standing right there and warning me to stay out of it. But sometimes, there’s no such kickback. There might be the generally frazzled energy of the client themselves, but no figurative bite marks on my hand when I withdraw it from the ether. What then? Usually I say something along these lines:
“So, what makes you think you’ve been hexed?”
Several clients have told me they’ve confirmed that they’ve been hexed. Either because another witch told them so, or because the person responsible for the hex fessed up in person. While the client is explaining, I’m probing around the ether, feeling for bursts of energy that can shed light on what my client is saying. Sometime there are little hexes to break, but often these are petty hexes that were cast over some silly coven-related drama. And in all honesty, don’t worry yourself too much about these kinds of hexes. Petty hexes yield petty.results, and worrying about it often casts a bigger shadow than the hex itself, and many witches know this and will use it to their advantage to intimidate you into thinking they’re all great and powerful. Throw a handful of salt over your shoulder to blind your attacker and get on with your day, content in the knowledge that you don’t need to waste your time with petty people anyways. Its cheap, you can do it yourself, and you don’t have to come all the way down to my house to do it.
Much more often, however, I find that its not a spiritual attack from outside that’s causing upheaval, but inner turbulence caused by the problems in life that we all face, whether we’re magic, mundane or otherwise. General lack of direction, tendency to look for the negative in situations, feeling anxious and depressed, genuinely struggling with mood disorders and other mental illnesses, or just lacking mojo and struggling to break old patterns of behavior.
These common problems that we all struggle with are in fact, WAY scarier than a hex, because you can’t come to a witch and have that magicked away. We can help you of course, and I often send my clients away with an armful of spells, potions and rituals for setting themselves up for success, often at the same time that I recommend they buy a copy of Marie Kondo’s “Tidying Up”. But the real work is done by you, a witches job is just to provide you the catalyzing energy to push you into a path of positive, forwards motion, and guide you down that path. Different witches will offer you different levels of guidance. Some hold your hand and walk you through it step by step, others throw you a survival kit and a thumbs up as they shove you into oncoming traffic where experience will do the guiding.
So if you’re a witch who offers magical solutions to people’s problems, don’t be afraid to be honest when a client is asking for something they don’t need. You might lose money, and that’s okay, better to have integrity. Don’t let your ego get ahead of you of course, because someday science is going to catch up with witchcraft, and when they can prove who is actually working magic and who isn’t... well let’s just say it’ll be easier to have subsisted on a diet of humble pie from the start than it will be to have to eat the whole pie at once.
And lastly, if you or somebody you know might be suffering from a hex, before you go jumping to conclusions, ask yourself if maybe you’re suffering from just being alive in a world that has a lot of challenges and not a lot of people to warn you about them.
This is me, dropping in and out all evening long, wishing you a happy day.
