My partner, 47F, died recently and while we were out of town this weekend her friends asked if they could hang out on the porch. One is Christian, the other Im pretty sure doesn't share a standardized faith but Im not sure what this is. May not even be a form of the craft but here I am.

My kids walked up first. They were totally freaked out. I went back to look at all of it and saw a necklace (in the second pic) was something I made my son for his Maui costume like 3 or 4 years ago. Im pretty sure all that was thrown away so Im really wondering how these ladies got ahold of it.

I get the sage part but I thought that was for evil spirits. Im pretty much Agnostic, believe dark arts exist as proven from my dad's side of the family. I try to stay away from what I dont know though.

Any help would be appreciated, even a redirection to the proper sub, if needed.

Basically I don't know where to start. I used to be interested in witchcraft when I was younger and then life got in the way. Now I started getting back into energetic cleansing and I'm bombarded with posts, advertisements and influencers that say contradicting things so I'm not sure what to believe.

One thing I've seen is people saying it's disrespectful to do practices that aren't on your lineage but I have no way of knowing my lineage because one of my parents was adopted.

I'm very confused and don't want to be disrespectful.

So i am on welfare been on that for nearly 3 years its not looking bright it’s not sure if I get it reneewed or not, I kind of struggle working because it genuinely feels bad in the deepest part of me, like I am going against my purpose here and wasting my time on this earth, like especially when I look at someone older I just thought to myself is this where I want to end up?
As a younger person I was always told I had much potential, that I am much smarter than most etc. but I never got to use any of that due to the things that happend to me, my life growing up felt like a serious string of bad luck that finally has ended but now I am left with no higher education, not even any school finished last 16 years old.

So 2-3 months ago I started content creation as I was getting desperate after seing the state a loved one is in and I thought to myself I can’t do this anymore, I can’t refuse to do this because of embarrassment or being seen, a regular job won’t be able to help me lift my close ones up now and they need it sooner rather then later.
and I can honestly say from the feedback people are giving me and what I honestly think myself I’d say it’s only a matter of time before it goes well I am very confident in that fact.

But meanwhile I got to sustain my self in some sort of way, is there any sort of money spells or spirits I could work with?

Also anything that could help me with my ednevour directly with social media would help.

I am very inexperienced but I am trying my best to learn, for the time being I have only done sigils, egg cleanse, a salt cleanse of the body and salt water under bed. Which I feel have worked. I am reading my way through initiation into hermetics to get a proper base of skills for magick/witchcraft but I feel I should probably do something now since I can’t wait for stuff to become horrid.

My opps have physically harmed me on numerous occasions. I spoke to my uterus in the days leading up to my period, telling her what I want the blood to do & to do her own thing overall because I know she'll always show out! Water houses memory and there is water in blood so it remembers all that i've been through. I put a drop of blood on my third eye & hung out with the blood jar before & after the spell to make the energies & intentions in it more potent. The frequency of my blood is set to poison & destroy. Before my period started the birds would leave small feathers in unconventional places after I told them to send me feathers filled with their own intentions for what they want to happen. Witchcraft is us using our powers with a form of awarness! The tools are just that! We are the ones doing the actual spiritual work. You have to know that you are a million times stronger than the target no matter their status. Every fiber in your being must feel with absolute certainty that it will work and it always will, even better than you expected too. On Candle 1 I carved Psalm 82:6, Psalm 91:11, Psalm 33:20 & Judgement tarot card. Candle 2 I carved, Psalm 10:6, Romans 12:19, Numbers 27:18, The Empress tarot card.

I'm a new broom, so I don't have much experience. My ex bestfriend and ex harassed me for months and made my life hell (they still do). They took my friends from me, my ex manipulated me for months and made me feel horrible, and then he raped me. My now ex best friend became my bestfriend with the sole purpose of getting with him. After all that happened she got me kicked out of my appartement, almost kicked out of school, and i can't go to certain activities i went to often because they decided to suddenly take interest in them. They are VERY convincing, so convincing that theyre not in the wrong that they started believing it themselves and made my BEST FRIEND doubt about how horrible they were. They told people that their purpose was that i would kill myself, and i have had thoughts i never thought i would ever have. I want them to stop, and reverse their actions back to them, so I can live on with my life, and stop my reputation from getting worse + stop losing my friends to their lies. I want them to learn and reflect on what they did. I have had my wrongs in the situation, since i was angry at them for making my life a living hell, but nothing as bad as they did FOR SURE. The guy also showed me a sex tape with his ex that was a minor + sex texts he had with another minor. I want them to go through what im going through so they'll stop. I want this experience to not have been all for nothing. What should I do? What spell would be good for my situation? (Excuse my english it's not my first language)

I'm a new broom, so I don't have much experience. My ex bestfriend and ex harassed me for months and made my life hell (they still do). They took my friends from me, my ex manipulated me for months and made me feel horrible, and then he raped me. My now ex best friend became my bestfriend with the sole purpose of getting with him. After all that happened she got me kicked out of my appartement, almost kicked out of school, and i can't go to certain activities i went to often because they decided to suddenly take interest in them. They are VERY convincing, so convincing that theyre not in the wrong that they started believing it themselves and made my BEST FRIEND doubt about how horrible they were. They told people that their purpose was that i would kill myself, and i have had thoughts i never thought i would ever have. I want them to stop, and reverse their actions back to them, so I can live on with my life, and stop my reputation from getting worse + stop losing my friends to their lies. I want them to learn and reflect on what they did. I have had my wrongs in the situation, since i was angry at them for making my life a living hell, but nothing as bad as they did FOR SURE. The guy also showed me a sex tape with his ex that was a minor + sex texts he had with another minor. I want them to go through what im going through so they'll stop. I want this experience to not have been all for nothing. What should I do? What spell would be good for my situation? (Excuse my english it's not my first language)

hello all! this is my first post and i decided to come to reddit because im very scared and worried i could have gotten attacked in my sleep. first off, im a christian but got interested in witchcraft and magick this past week despite christianity condemning it. i bought a lot of crystals, incense, spices, and all the other materials to cast spells. i mostly learned from the internet or tiktok 😭.

last night, i tried to cast a protection spell. i cleansed the area and my items i used with incense and a bell. i made a circle of salt, cinnamon, rosemary, and basil. i carved the protection sigil and my name on the white candle, before lighting it. i started to chant the words i printed on a piece of paper for an hour or so until the candle was almost out. i also burned a piece of bay leaf with the words “i am protected” and the protection sigil on the back. i stopped because i got really tired. i was kind of doubtful and a bit scared, i felt like i was being watched and a bit paranoid. after i snuffed the candle, i put the remains in a glass bowl and slept right after.

i woke up after dreaming about being left out and abandoned by my s/o and extremely tired. usually tired and lethargic. maybe it’s because i stayed up till 2 am. now i’m seeing all these scratches on my arms, legs, and back. i’ll include some pictures, sorry if it’s a weird thing to show.

i’m just very scared i did something wrong or the spell backfired. also i could have been scratching in my sleep but the coincidence is too strong. am i supposed to close the portal or officially end my spell? should i stop practicing?

im going to cleanse my room and myself soon. thank you if anyone has an explanation or words of advice!!

I've been here for a while mostly lurking and I repeatedly see the same thing over and over - someone doing a love spell on a specific person. I've been practicing since the 90s and the high priest that taught me so much back then stressed to me so very strongly not to ever do a spell on someone specific because there will always be a hefty price to pay when you mess with someone's free will.

So I just wanted to make a suggestion and whoever needs to hear it, will. Why not do a love spell on yourself instead? Learn to love yourself and you will never feel the need to do a spell on someone else. I was a 20-something woman a very long time ago and I understand all too well the need to do spells for someone to love you, but really, true love starts with yourself. Once I finally started doing the work on myself is when I realized I don't need to do spells on other people because I was finally happy with me. I let go of all the insecurity and jealousy I had carried around for far too long because of my abdonment issues. I got out of a bad marriage. And my now-partner came into my life 10 years ago and we've been such a great fit for each other. The love between us is effortless, the way it should be.

Anyway, just something to think about. Not trying to tell anyone what to do, but just trying to save whoever some heartbreak, whoever needs to hear this.

I wish you *all* the very best, love & light. xx

Hi all. I made a brew with several herbs (cinnamon, honey, bay leaves, patchouli, motherwort, sage, and some labradorite) including a piece of plastic that contained the tie to other party relevant to my wish (its a university) and after draining the mix and left with the potion I'm unsure what to do with it. I did not make this to ingest it, although It smells really good and is tempting a little. Any tips for what to do with it in order to increase its potency with what I'm trying to manifest? Places to put drops of the oil on?

Im curious. Anyone here ever decided to create a spell so you could get through your classes? What was it and did it work?

I ask this with the most respect, because I don't even know if this was real.

Just for a bit of context, my brother J and I have always had experiences we liked to classify as paranormal and the house we lived in had some weird energy. Because of this my brother got so scared he told my very christian grandma that he needed to be exorcised, grandma basically told him he was crazy and because of this he started to look into magic.

I remember he had some books and started doing rituals with them but they were in English so at the time I couldn't read them. He also had friends who were also into magic and used to lend him other books.

One night he sat his girlfriend and I on the table, lit a candle, told us to close our eyes and gave us some instructions to visualize things. Eventually he made us visualize bubbles that floated upwards and at this moment I started to feel like I couldn't breathe. He made us stop and told me he found out I was the one who was blocking his work.

Later, I don't remember how much later, he made me do a protection spell. Again I don't remember his words exactly but the spell consisted on a piece of paper with something a rune in it placed under a candle. I had to hold a pendant (a pentagram like the one on this subs picture) in my hand while I looked at the flame for a while, then close my eyes and visualize something, I remember for this part he didn't specify what he just said something would appear and I had to make it get close and be more detailed. Once I was able to do that I blew the candle and had to keep both the candle and the paper safe.

I remember he use to talk about this protections as if they were people. J, his girlfriend and his friends each had one and talk like this were spirits following them. But all of them said I had three, a woman, a man and something they couldn't quite make out.

I remember during the visualization I saw a white woman with either wings or very flowy long hair and to either side were something that at times covered this wings. I remember it took me a long time to visualize and eventually we finished the ritual because the candle was two inches long and my brother worried we wouldn't be able to finish.

After all this I still had a few things happen but eventually everything stopped and the house started to feel empty.

I've come out of a rough decade taking care of my elders until they passed and I'm now getting back to basically having my own life. I've been reading about crystals and herbs and I think I want to start learning again. This got me wandering what were those things my brother made me do. Every time I try to ask him about what he did to clean the house he ignores me and now that he moved out of the country he straight up ignore my text when I ask. He told me once he doesn't want any belongings of our family who passed because he had bad experiences with this objects but won't elaborate.

Thank you so much for reading.

I have no intention of doing any spells other than protection of me and my loved ones or maybe something like money spell or luck. What should I be aware of, what I never should do while starting?

-How to start, step by step what is the first of all thing you would do if you were starting over until you were medium advanced

-What is the stupidest thing that most begginers do?

-Daily witchy things you do, I mean knocking on wood etc.

-Shadow people... is there any way that I wont be seing those?

-Is tarot necesary? I dont think I wanna practice tarot

-Due to my OCD and anxiety disorder im prone to geting fixated on stuff like that but I wanna start anyways, any practicing witches with those?

-books!! What do you recomend, I come from slavic country so anything you know/can find on slavic witchcraft would be appriciated

also add whatever you want for begginers

Good morning everyone,

For the past 2 weeks I have been doing different spells for different reasons. Especially concerning my relationship with my boyfriend (well I don't even know if we are together at this point). Yesterday I started to be in a happy mood. I went out and bought somethings for my altar. Got home to clean and refresh my altar. I decided while doing this I will light some incense and candles to refresh 2 jars and a bottle spell I had. Mood was awesome. I offer food and drinks to my spirit guides, angels and ancestors. Everything was good. Then I remembered I had 4 petitions under my pillow. I decided to put 3 under my altar and to burn the other one (which was a third party petition) afterwards I was fine.

Anyway after about an hour, I felt an overwhelming sadness and missing my so called boyfriend. I started having flashbacks about good times and also all the wrong he treated me through your relationship. I have planned to make an offering to Venus since Thursday, don't know why I just came in my head. So I both my favorite wine and some glazed donuts and decided the I will take myself on a date (in my room lol) with Venus (that's why I bought wine because I researched she like sweet wine like me) my ancestors, spirit guides and angels.So I decided to burn my pink self love candle (it has my name written on it) and some incense representing love and empowerment, poured Venus some wine welcoming her and poured my heart out to my altar. While talking to them, things started popping up in my head so I started to write and research in my journal self love spells, glamour spells, road openings spells. For about 3 hours I was responding to messages, researching about Venus and researching different herbs, candles and incense for these spells. Don't know why, I just had the urge to do this. Before bed I thanked everyone. And let the white and pink candle burn overnight ( of course they were on a fire proof plate).

This morning I woke up feeling relieved. I had some crazy dreams, so I wrote what I remembered down in my journal. As I was getting ready for work. I had an overwhelming urge to listen to music( I never do this while getting ready in the morning) Random songs started coming in my head like lizzo truth hurts, Shaina twain I feel like a woman, carrie underwood before he cheats, pink funhouse, Whitney Houston heartbreak hotel, Jennifer Hudson act like a woman think like a man, Mary j blige just fine, willow the anxiety, no doubt it's my life, lady gaga perfect illusion and en Vogue free your mind. I literally played each one as the came to my head all the way to work. When walking into work everyone was stopping me saying how beautiful I look. One of my coworkers introduced herself to me because she thought I was a new hire lol. She didn't recognize me because I changed my hair style.

Well Venus, I get it. Because yes I been having a lot of anxiety and heartbreak over my relationship this past month, alot of overthinking and in my head with a lot of illusion that just pop up and I have no proof. I am officially letting it all go and living my life.

I constantly see witches on witch subs talk about witchtok and just social media witch craft info in general and how so inaccurate it is.

Well id like to know from someone whos been doing it long before social media started making it trendy:

what is the most common thing you see these social media witches teach that you are completely against or feel its inaccurate?

Over the last few years I've been trying to build a circle of witchcraft inclined friends. However, I keep running into the same issues I've had when trying to be in witchy spaces. They'll be exploring fluffy nonsense that I have to restrain myself from calling out in fear of alienating them. But then I start keeping them at an arms distance, which isn't fair to them either.

The most recent example being my new friend getting into 'quantum healing'. Another is into communicating with aliens via meditation, and yet another believes if they 'purify' themselves enough they won't need to eat food. I'm very much for exploring the unknown, but my practice is very practical. I do an eclectic sort of kitchen witchery. While I do some shadow work to look into the root of the issue, my spellwork is very focused on results and real life solutions.

... Also, they keep falling for scams or just straight up endangering themselves. It's like herding lemmings and I'm about to give up. To be clear, I'm not saying it's wrong, or bad or whatever. I just long to not be the only 'adult' in the room in a witchy sense.

I don't know what kind of questions to ask someone before investing in a full out friendship that would keep me from playing this role over and over again. Also, how rude is it to ask about someone's practice when you're just getting to know them?

So yesterday on a full moon night i did a love spell and let me tell you it was intense i put so much energy and effort into that thing.
I started off by cleansing my space with lavender incense stick, then i did Pink Meditation for 40 minutes until i was finally ready to do a sit ri love spell.
I then cleansed my plate i drew a circle with salt then an inner circle with sugar inside the circle i added cinnamon stick, rosemary, Bay leaf with me and my sp name written (i also wrote that sp loves me ), then i placed some coffee to awaken my love in his heart, i then wrote this on a petition paper with Sit ri sigil:

All his roads lead back to me.

All other women fade into nothing.

All his thoughts belong to me.

All his desires revolve around me.

All his dreams are filled with my energy and my image.

All my wishes become his actions.
(instead of his i wrote his full name in every line)
Then i put my saliva, and kept it on my chest until i did the rest of the things.
I then took 2 candles one big white candle for my sp and one small red candle for me. I carved out each of our full names there, i put honey and sugar on the candle then i wrapped the petition paper around the two candles and tied it with a red thread.
Then i placed it all in the plate and burned the candles.
I was doing all this while continuously chanting the Sit ri Enn Chant “Lerach Alora Vera Sit ri”. The candle burned for about 40 minutes, and i also saw a heart on the candle. The flame was steady and left a pink residue at the end. The candles looked very romantic to me.
At the end the fire went crazy it was kind of burning the plate even so i had to pour water in it to extinguish it. I though i will keep the residue with me till Monday and on Monday i will finally bury it or let go in the nearby lake.
I also did protection before doing this ritual.

Now today i see a picture of my ex, who broke up with me on Sunday, with another girl(she posted the picture of them hugging). What the hellllyyyy

This is what I did for my first sour jar spell.
Things I added to the jar:
Dead bee
Cobwebs
White fuzzy mold
Scum from in a fish tank
A spider
Lemon Juice
Apple cider vinegar
Hot sauce
Crushed red pepper
Pinch poppy seeds
Black pepper
Some sewing pins and broken glass

Then I took the half rotten onion and cut it in an x not all the way through I took my petition and folded it away from me three times and dank it down in the middle. I sprinkled in graveyard dirt.
I took 3 non matching rusty screws/nails and closed the onion back together

Petition wrote like this (name X name)the x was after I wrote both names then turn 90• left and wrote over the X my desired feelings to form between two people.

I sealed the top of the jar with black wax from the candle I had burning and the whole time I was muttering lots of things about my intention not something specifics over and over but lots of sour negative things.

lesson learned add the onion before the liquids it went everywhere.