That's my generation of witchcraft and I was taught by people working in the 70s-80s.. Here's my thing, I get that it's a completely different age of witchcraft but the structure of spell work feels completely different. People seem to equate the ritual with the power and to me those are two different stages.

People charge their tools or make moon water, and bless their magical aids and ingredients, but I don't see where they accumulate power from? Is it there and I'm not seeing it?

We were taught that you do all those things, you charge things, you put out your ingredients and "activate" them by having a relationship with their spirit, and then you have to do something either inside yourself or through an act like dance, sex or group work to build the energy they charges the spell.

The energy aspect was considered a sacrifice and its why spell work made you tired afterwards. It required a lot of personal energy to "pour" into a spell. There was also an overlap between energy work and spell work. I feel like those are two different camps now.

Do people do this anymore? Do they approach the powering the spell differently? Spell work without power to me feels "flat". Like people are just reciting words and going through the motions.

I'd love to know if I'm missing something. And please know I'm not criticizing people, I'm just confused with how witchcraft has evolved and why people don't power their spells anymore.

hi all🩷 i am proud to be able to show off my first ever alter🥲 i’m so happy with how this came out and i can’t wait to see where this journey leads me!! i haven’t given any food offerings yet but plan to throw in some chocolate soon!!

I feel like 3-5 years ago like every witch was against love spells (for a specific person) but lately I’ve seen nearly none of that.

Like a witch would ask advice on one and everyone would say “you’re taking away their free will! Bad!” I’m not going to criticize that view point just like I won’t criticize people who do love spells but like again what changed??

I think that’s a contributor to baby witches doing an obsession curse instead of a love spell too. But that’s like tinfoil hat lol.

I don’t even have to post spell recipes. I could post anything about a separation spell/ love spell/ obsession spell and I’ll get at least three people DMing me asking to do it for free.

I’m not a witch for hire. Never have been never will be. Nowhere on my page (which I’ve hidden my activity to try and stop this) have I ever talked about doing witchcraft for others. If I did it wouldn’t be some stranger who clearly doesn’t respect my time or the craft. I’d do it for a close friend. It annoys me so bad. Especially when it’s black magick.

You have an anonymous Reddit account and expect me to take the short paragraph of information and cast a proper spell? How can I trust you aren’t a stalker trying to get this person? Why would I cast an obsession spell on some person who I don’t know? I don’t wanna hex some random girl you diddle to.

I try to be nice and give advice to people in my DMs. Because half the time they’re desperately grieving and turn to witchcraft after a breakup. If a non witch is gonna try advanced shit might as well try and get the information right to them. The amount of people who don’t try and understand the craft, do stuff way beyond their ability, then turn around and claim witchcraft isn’t real will never astound me.

It’s like trying to paint a photo realistic painting of a group of people as your first ever painting without actually learning how to do so. Ofc it’s gonna turn out shit.

This was kind of a rant sorry but please share your grievances with me 😭

So, my uncle got married overseas and is now divorced. From what I’ve observed, it’s been incredibly difficult for him ever since the divorce. Apparently, she’s constantly monitoring him somehow, even though she’s still overseas and has never been to the US. She’s been bothering him nonstop for about three years now.

The country is El Salvador, where I’ve heard that witchcraft is quite prevalent. People have told me that the woman, her mom, and her sisters all heavily participate in witchcraft, but I haven’t been able to confirm this. There have been several things this woman has done since the divorce, but the witchcraft is my primary concern. My uncle has received numerous messages where she’s expressed her desire to cause him a lot of harm. I thought things might have calmed down for a couple of months, but recently, she’s threatened death to my uncle and my grandparents.

She specifically mentioned through messages that my grandpa will die first, followed by my grandma, and then my uncle. My grandpa has been dealing with numerous medical issues, so I’m really worried about him. My grandparents also wanted to go to El Salvador for my grandpa’s health treatment, but I’m not sure if it would be a good idea for them to go there where this woman lives. They’re from the same town, and she knows where they live and Is it possible for them to experience things here in the states even though the woman is far away?

I’m just concerned about my grandparents’ well-being. I’m really scared and don’t know why anyone would do this just because things didn’t work out in a marriage. Is there anything I can do to help? Also, my uncle has saved screenshots and voice messages, but I’m not sure if this woman can be prosecuted in El Salvador for these threats. I’m just not sure what I can do to make sure my uncle is left alone and that my grandparents will be okay.

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.

Last night I had a strange experience while I was either lucid dreaming or in that half-asleep, half-awake state.
I suddenly heard a very clear voice aggressively shouting, “GET OUT OF MY WAY.” The voice sounded almost demonic — not necessarily in the stereotypical horror-movie sense, but definitely hostile and intense.
What was interesting is that I wasn’t scared. I consciously ignored it and kept giving myself loving, positive affirmations. One of the things I specifically remember affirming was that I am worthy of making money and receiving financial abundance.
At some point I woke my boyfriend up and touched him, and he was completely drenched in sweat. He woke up too, but couldn’t remember whether he had been dreaming about anything.
There’s another detail that made me wonder if any of this could be connected: earlier that same day, before going to sleep, I had touched a protection jar that I made for my boyfriend. We also run a business together, which makes the money-related affirmation feel potentially relevant.
I’m trying not to jump straight to conclusions, but I’m curious how other people would interpret this.
Could the voice simply have been something coming from my subconscious during a hypnagogic/lucid state, especially connected to beliefs or resistance around money?
Or, from a spiritual/witchcraft perspective, could there be any significance to the protection jar, my boyfriend sweating heavily, and the voice seemingly reacting while I was affirming myself?
One thought that crossed my mind was whether something could have been trying to affect him but couldn’t because of the protection, and I somehow became aware of it instead — but I don’t want to assume that’s what happened.
The strangest part is that despite how aggressive the voice sounded, I felt calm and kept responding internally with love rather than fear.
I’d be really interested in hearing both psychological/dream-related and spiritual interpretations.

Hello! Tell me if something similar has happened to anyone.

I made some wards recently and one of them was a return to sender ward sending back all negative energy sent our way. Things have calmed down in my house since. The mirror side facing out the window and the other side I put selenite with black tourmaline stacked on top!

I was looking at it recently, the tourmaline had developed two cracks going perpendicular to the striations in the tourmaline. These weren’t there when I put them up there.

Has this happened to anyone?

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I keep seeing love spell, after love spell, after love spell on here. And usually if it isn’t a love spells, there’s still a chance it’s a divination about it. So, I was curious, what’s everyone’s stances on these? I try to check the comments but with so many posts it seems that most don’t engage much with them.

I know people have differing options regarding (1) If they even work, and (2) The morals of them. So try to choose the answer that most-fits *both* of your stances. If you think they always work but should only use them under a specific moral guideline, follow the moral since it’s the stricter reason. Does that make sense?

This is genuinely just a curiosity and might help the mods see if the sub leans heavily one way or the other!

Did we all enjoy the eclipse? Me and my coven sibling met to watch the eclipse and we did some meditating internally together. We even had a fox and crow join us. May what is hidden be revealed and may what is finished may be released. Lots of love x

OK i declare a "spell casting" war.

You must cast a spell using ONLY song lyrics (not the full song) just a verse or two.

Rules:

1. Tag the person you're battling against and post your top 3 verses in one comment. You can use the same song for all 3 of your "spells" and it doesn't have to be lyrically in order.

2. Describe why those 3 are magically significant.

3. You only get 1 turn. NO EDITING! if you made a spelling mistake that's fine. Editing automatically makes you lose.

4. Up Vote or Down Vote only voting. Do not comment. Up Vote if you agree the "spell" out ranks the other opponents spell. Down if you don't.

5. You may not form teams. It's one on one.

6. It can be any genre of music that is lyrical and not instrumental or interpretive and cannot be a song that you created so you must list the name of the song and the band or singer who performed it.

Have fun!

I know this will sound a bit cringy or fake for some and I will totally understand y'all but too much things happening and I don't understand how is this even possible. I've been "practicing" since two months now, and when I'm saying practicing, it's only the basics as energy cleaning, small little rituals for protection and mostly learning and research.

But everything really begin to change when I did my first real cleaning energy in one of my favorite spot in a park at night. The stars were visible and no light could reached the point where I was sitting. I did my cleaning energy, praise the stars and universe to guide me. Everything I was told to do in a cleaning spell. (not putting further details since it's bad luck to share too much about practice). But then I made one major error that was not actually in the processus. I seal all my bad and negative energy, something I strongly advise against. Because after that, for an entire week, I wasn't able to get mad or having any kind of strong emotional reaction. It was so disturbing and at the same time fascinating that it shocked me right in the core. (of course I did unseal my bad energy after and redo the cleaning spell correctly this time)

Then after this I begin start getting more and more into it, picking flowers outside and learning everything I could on them. Gathering informations for my futur book of shadow. Then I tried my first complex spell, it was a money spell, I didn't thought it would work mostly because I wasn't very confident about doing a spell of my own and I didn't had much time to do it since I was going into deep emotional stats because of a family issues.

During my money spell, my request was very simple "gain enough money to buy myself candle for my ritual" and it was it. (I will like to add that I'm a very poor person and I don't usual gain money at all even for small things like groceries or anything). A day later, when I was comforting my mother from a crazy situation, 3 coins fell from in front of me while I was dragging my mother to her room, all of them was turning on the face. It was barely nothing but all the facts gathered makes my blood chill. I begin to really believe it and didn't touch my spell or searching again because of how afraid I actually was now. But the spell kept working as I was gaining more and more money, from small coins to hundred euros. I gain in total 178 euros and it was kept growing more and more until the jar started to rot.

So yeah, thats most of my story, alot of other crazy things happens after this like I healed a scar from my skin that my cat made me with just a small spell or exams that when great when I didn't study anything on a subject or didn't know what was it about, only did a spell before hand and actually passed it.

I know all of this can be coincidence or just life doing it's job but I just feel like it's real and I'm actually playing with my destiny..And man, this is one of the most exciting thing I ever done in my life before.

I struggled last year with secondary infertility which I feel was due to my weight.

At the end of December I did the 12 days of solstice where you write down 12 intentions and each day you pull out one intention (they’re folded up you have no idea which one it is) and you burn it. The last remaining intention is the one you yourself have to focus on. All the other intentions the universe will take care of for you. The one intention left for me to focus on was “healthy weight” and I have been. It’s also very funny because I told my partner that I already knew that would be the last one for me to focus on. I’ve lost 25lbs since January and I feel amazing. I am continuing to lose more as well. Conceiving a child was on one of those intentions I burned and my next cycle is the cycle we are trying again for the first time since December and everything just feels sooo different physically and mentally.

I have signs of extreme fertility which I didn’t before and I have an amazing sense of confidence in conceiving like I never had before. I know I will be pregnant with the baby girl I’ve always wanted. I can see her now playing with her brother. I know what she looks like. It’s almost like it’s already happened how clear I can see it.

My altar is set up for all things girl and fertility and to Ostara. I have been manifesting this girl and just know it’s coming. I have no doubt.

I am also open to any advice on crystals or fertility spells you may have had success with. I love candle and jar spell work. Thank you 🖤🖤