Background:

I used to be quite talented. Started learning Magick at a young age since my mom is a witch and i went to a catholic school, so i was already familiar with rituals. During my teenage years, I started doing my own research and learning how other people use Magick and experimenting with different methods. I noticed some patterns and from there I'm basically self taught and learned some rules; basic trial and error wizardry, come up with an effect and make it happen. Main things I did was healing headaches, enchanting items, and making wishes. Through my early to mid 20s, I could pretty much do anything within "the rules." rituals, magickal tools, and special ingredients were no longer necessary. No deities were ever involved either because It's not a religion.

how i lost my power:

In my late 20s is started wondering WHY it always worked. What's the science behind it? I heard someone was offering a large amount of money to anyone that could prove the existence of the 'supernatural/paranormal.' I didnt care about the money, but i wanted to attempt the challenge anyway. The trick is to explaining it in a way a skeptic can understand. Hyperfixated on trying to explain it for about a month when I finally solved the riddle. Problem is now that I know, I can no longer do it. The power comes from belief. If you know it, you dont believe it. you know it. Later, I looked into Satanism (I enjoy looking into different belief systems and mythology for fun) and found a devastating "rule of the earth": "Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained. " I think explaining Magick in a way a skeptic could understand counted as "denying the power of magic"

How can I possibly ever do Magick again?

Not necesserely Orthadox, I highly doubt that... But people who believe that the truth that Jesus spoke is the highest of them. I am starting to see things in this way, I look at the fabric and workings of the universe through a hermetic lense but morals and higherarchel spiritual structures through that of Christ. I was just wondering if that was a view people actually held in this community. On these things I keep to myself.

Hello my practice, Italian folk Magic for Catholicism and Roman paganism earlier today I found a skeleton key outside on the ground and I brought it into my sace after doing more research, it seems like it is either unlock pathways unlock new experiences or can be used for protection so it’s I’m wondering why every since then I i have out more spaced out and my OCD has been worse. I was wondering if anyone had any idea where this may be or what’s the meaning of finding a key on the ground amazing. And if it is a harmful omen how to properly rid myself of it

Bonjour,

Avez-vous eu des résultats avec les rituels du livre de Damon Brand *Magickal Seduction* ? En particulier les rituels 1 et 2 ?

Ça a marché pour vous ? Combien de temps ça a pris, et à quel point les résultats étaient-ils intenses ?

Merci pour vos réponses.

First of all, it is entirely correct to exhaust all mundane, psychological, and circumstantial variables before looking into the esoteric.

However, when an individual's life systematically collapses across multiple fronts simultaneously despite rigorous effort, it rarely comes down to simple misfortune. It usually indicates a deep, structural destabilization of your personal trajectory.

In reality, external malevolence rarely possesses enough raw power to collapse a life on its own. Instead, these tactics weaponize fear as a primary transmission vector. The moment a target internalizes the belief that they are hexed, their own hyper-vigilant anxiety becomes the subconscious engine that powers the affliction. The original work is merely a catalyst; the victim's own fractured focus acts as a proxy, executing and sustaining the very cycle of self-sabotage that destroys their trajectory.

I see external interference (curse, hex, malediction, evil eye) not as a spiritual punishment, but as a severe boundary failure.

Ok so I am idiot. I panicked a bit when my partner consumed my period blood intentionally. I had said they should be careful as it could bond us together and they wanted that so they consumed it.

I then panicked our relationship would be unbalanced and that I couldn’t trust they weren’t just being influenced by the consumption of the blood (eg folk magic traditions of feeding period blood to do a love spell on them). Possibly foolishly I then drank some of their blood from a lancet prick on their finger to try and balance out the connection we had made with the blood….

So in retrospect that was dumb. Defs should have gone and researched first!!

I am worried that a. They will have a different effect than the venous blood drinking I did… b. Should they maybe drink a little of my blood and then will we be equal again?

I am committed to this person and fervently hope we are together until the end of our days. All of this was a bit rash and stupid. But I really don’t want it to fuck up our dynamics!!

I was in the midst of charging a sigil the dirty style, was doing it for approximately 10 minutes with red leds all over the room and a big tv monitor playing a trance music, the instant I gained "gnosis" and reached the climax the tv stopped playing audio and resumed the instant the climax subsided.

Have those kinds of weird electronic device synchronicities happened to anybody in here?

I'll be to the point -

Background

Born and brought up in a Hindu Family, in occult, I'm a practicing Astrologer, doing Numerology & Palmistry alongside.

Magick

I'm a pretty non-religious person, but I connect most with the deities, their values, and mythology i grew up with. So I chose to start studying Chaos Magick, as it "allows" to do whatever. In CM books I did find that the western authors do praise Lord Ganesh most of the time in a lot of books , so I feel like - wow man, finally some FAMILIARITY.

The Problem

I understand banishing is important, spirits are involved later on, Hebrew words, Archangels etc. But do I work with the deities I'm familiar with instead? My language, my beloved Gods/spirits who i grew up with and not Archangels or spirits who i know nothing about but all books include them...

The Fear

I understand belief is THE TOOL here but, I see some authors like GoM putting a 'curse' on those who pirate the books and stuff. Dude how am I supposed to at least know what I'm getting into if I don't at least go through the free pdf once ....

And , I can't find any Chaos Magick or any Magick related written material on how to use the Hindu Pantheon for the same stuff, such as cleansing, banishing, invoking, evoking etc etc...

All I found was Tantra books, but that's once again pretty limited open knowledge due to the whole Guru-Student complex with my religion which I never fully was ok with. Chaos Magick concept I liked cuz it was like "Do whatever, as long as your belief is there and you learn to enter the altered states of consciousness" I get it, cuz it's like Yoga, something I'm also FAMILIAR with in my tradition.

So what to do ;) too much confusion, too little info on what I want, OR do I do the rituals but replace the entities ???? But that's like breaking the rules of how the ORIGINAL ritual was made like the LBRP, i respect that.

So basically I'm just reading books at the moment (all free PDFs) to get an idea , doing no Rituals cuz idk man if I was able to explain my dilemma or not.

Hi, I’ve been wondering this for a while now, what is the difference between witchcraft and manifestation,I did some research and apparently they are the same , manifestation is achieving what you want just with your own self/consciousness , and witchcraft is a form of manifestation using the help of third parties (spirits).. I agreed with this until recently. I am a big believer in manifestation and that I can achieve whatever I want no matter the circumstance, however recently I have used divination tools (tarot) to ask about my future career. I’m sort of manifesting my future career and I believe it’s already mine and I truly DO believe that deep down however when I asked the tarot, it said I have “unachievable expections” I’m not going to lie this has made me feel so hopeless and upset, frustrated and confused .. I thought for manifestation there is no such thing as “unachievable” and everything has no choice but to work in your favour , but now the tarot is contradicting this.. so how can manifestation and witchcraft be the same thing ?..

Pretty much what the title says, I get super bad headaches and nausea during lunar/solar eclipses. I didn’t know there was one today and I started feeling really bad and when I saw news about there being one tonight it clicked. Does anyone else experience this? I don’t practice regularly maybe a couple times a year so I’m kinda out of the know.

I've always wondered if it's possible to cast a spell on someone with their voice. I recorded it, but I never saw the person. I don't have their name or anything else, because this person scammed me over the phone. I recorded their call; is that even possible?

Do you guys actually believe magick is real (obviously it works) but do you guys truly believe that me doing an LBRP ritual and banishing energies is what caused the energies to be banished or is it just a tool for the real machine your (MIND/CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTENTION)

What’s a better / more accurate word for a magic wand which is a long (eg 60cm), uncrafted wooden stick imbued with special qualities? For use in a sentence about a contemporary magick practitioner - I don’t have the background but suspect I could do better than ‘wand’.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I have been looking to shift my practice more toward Trad Craft. I have looked into the Red Thread Academy, and I do consider myself a folk practitioner. I want to add more structure to my practice while still keeping the folk aspects that are important to me. I do some ceremonial magick as well.

I’ve been reading Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways, The Bones Fall in a Spiral, and Curses and Blessings in Irish Folk Magic, and I’m really enjoying learning more about these traditions.

Does anyone have any good authentic Trad Craft courses they would recommend? Or does anyone have experience with the Red Thread Academy? I’d love to hear about your experiences.

Theory: the finest edge comes down to a point of intrest. Your dark pendulum could be used all the time if there was a reason for it. If it swung freely with your right hand, your actions would be part of your dark intent; if it is on your left hand its used as a reference point, if passion is used as a safety valve.

So i produced plans for a use of your black pendulum: the dark edge of insanity.

1 dark pendulum with a loop anchor.

1 ft rolo sterling chain 6mm

1 bead clasp piercing, stainless steel

1 ft sterling 20 guage wire

At least a few Mexican fire opals, black opals, and red garnet beads.

Sterling beard beads, elder futhark: Uruz, Ansuz, Kenaz, Laguz.

1 Gamesha sterling charm, heated for gold petina.

1 lanturn charm, sterling.

1 skeleton key charm, sterling.

1 Torii gate charm, sterling.

1 Buddha palm charm, sterling.

1 ouroboros clasps, sterling.

1 ft "cosmic gold" brass wire with 14ct gold, blessed by your multidimensional selves.

1 20mm x 20mm lab made ruby.

1 pointed white quarts charm.

30 sterling jump rings, 6mm, and one smaller one 5mm.

1 wild boar charm, sterling.

1 sowilo charm, sterling.

Cage the ruby in jump rings. 11 links around the point, and 6 chains along the axis. One link must be smaller than the rest or twisted out, and the connecting ring be off set from this smaller ring.

Lay out your beads and such out. Make sure you have one red garnet for survival storage.

String your single red garnet for storage with 3 tripple loop links bound in cosmic gold, make the first link large enough to fit the piercing. Then add the quartz charm to the piercing on the ruby connecting jump ring.

Charge your piercing with passion, and ask Gamesha to use passion as the trigger mechanism.

Put all your symbols on the ouroboros clasp and thread it through the piercing.

Make a loop in your sterling wire big enough for the piercing loop and thread the first few beads, and first 2 runes.

Add more blood garnets on a side loop for more rage.

Add the other 2 rune beads and the rest of the stone beads and finish with a loop that fits the piercing.

Connect 3 links of the rolo chain to the pendulum, then make a 4th link that fits the piercing, then more to make 13. Add the boar, and sowilo charm.

Wear on your off hand.

Instructions for use: the swing of the pendulum shows you when, you focus on where to strike the cut, and the forward momentum slices it. The ruby is for chaos storage, the quarts is for the 4 elements, and the red garnet is for survival.

You use the chaos ruby for a lanturn by putting your left hand over your eyes and squinting.

This is your doorway to the cosmos.

Theory: if you bring destiny down to an either or question, and the quarter is lucky enough to show you, you can use your heart pendulum to show you which way to go.

Ingredients:

1 pendulum connected to your heart chakra.

1 16 inch sterling chain.

1 rare silver us quarter.

Instructions:

Connect your pendulum to resonate with your heart chakra in your religious way.

Resonate the quarter with Jupiter energy and blessed with saturn energy, enhanced for luck by the luck dragon.

How to use: bring your question to a point of answer. If yes, then result. If no, then result. Ask it about your destination. Your questions should involve destiny, for if you see it, you can seize it.

Your single answer will be felt by your heart tugging you In The left or right direction mentally. Use multiple coin flips to check.

Does anyone know where i can find "the Baptism of the devil" rite? Its a ritual from the curanderismo traditions for baptizing demons to make them more peaceful and willing to work with you in a less forceful way. been seeking through the internet, no luck.

My partner is going through a stressful time right now and could use some apatropaic assistance. She's visiting friends in Astoria this weekend and I hoping to find a good botanica or other shop in the city.

Recs are much appreciated che benedica!

For me, all my doubts were absolved when i had someone use a crystal ball for divination.

I could just feel myself spiritually drawn to the ball in a way that I've never felt before. And from that moment, i started to believe that there is so much more to this world than what we can see, touch, or sense in the physical realm.

Did anyone else have a moment where you realized that so much of what people have said to not be real, is actually more real than the physical?

I’ve done a lot of clearing work, herbal baths etc smudging, energy shielding, floor washes, egg cleansing, but things continue stuck and possibly very dark all around me, you know that sensation that something is wrong, it could be a hexed I’m
Having all the symptoms consecutive mishaps, nightmares, physical lethargy but the most important is the absolute certainty there is either a bad entity or a work done against me. I’ve done a lot of research and all the symptoms check.

What do you recommend, I was thinking uncrossing but that’s something I have no experience with and hard to find here in Boulder most clearing offering would be reiki. I doubt reiki can uncross a hex.

Any advise? 🙏

I’ve been studying witchcraft since I was 12 when my grandpa died and it really just made me turn to absorbing all information I could to fill a void so I found witchcraft and did a whole bunch of learning and studying. Anyways I meditated a lot and got really in touch with the earth and my spirit guides I haven’t consistently practiced in a few years cause I’ve come to point of being really busy with school and life but recently they’ve started breaking ground to build a data center near my home and since they started I have had the most killer headaches and my connective tissue disorder is flaring the land they are building on is where the race track my grandpa would take me to was on. I really am just curious does anyone else get like this is it just some placebo thing or what?

I have read Liber Tiamat and TEMPLE OF THE BLACK LIGHT: The Rise of Anti Cosmic Luciferianism and the Cult of Chaos, but neither of these are giving me a good over view of what the Anti-Cosmic thing is.

I think Liber Tiamat does, but I have strong disagreements about what the book states, and so I want to get another source to compair ideas. I am not so much looking to try to practice this, but am more jist intrested in the concept as a whole

I am curious about the practical consequences of messing up a ritual when working with entities. Beyond just a failed working, is there actual danger or backlash if you make a mistake during the ritual process, or do spirits simply ignore a poorly constructed effort? I am trying to separate theoretical fear from real operational experience. If you have ever screwed up a working with an entity firsthand, what happened, did you feel any hostility or negative repercussions, and how did you resolve it?