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Cat has practiced and studied the occult, tarot, and spellcasting for over 35 years, and has shared her expert teachings on how to cast your own spells, including original spells and recipes on the Cat’s Rants blog since 2004. A professional tarot reader since the 1990s, she’s also an internationally-known psychic reader and tarot expert. As a published and respected occultist for over two decades, and an expert in the fields of rootwork, hoodoo, and Catholic folk magic, she continues to serve the public by teaching authentic spell casting and offering readings and services.
I know I shared this one some time ago (probably more than 15 years ago, now, so it’s buried in the archives) and I wanted to expand on the original version I’d shared so we could look at some long-term jar work that IS NOT a honey jar, and can be used in love workings like I’d discussed recently here.
This one is pretty simple to make. 🙂
The original version is basically poppyseeds, a slip of paper, a small jar like a baby food jar, and controlling oil.
And before I go into that further, let me say this…. NEVER EVER EVER BUY MACHINE MADE RITUAL OILS. The oils have to be made by hand in small batches. It is a large part of their potency and power. I absolutely love Laurie over at Anubeion Creations at this writing. She blends a few things like my Liar Liar Pants on Fire recipe (which was always f***ing awesome but she even helped me improve it!) specially and she has her own recipes that definitely will add a lot of zap to any spell. There are some places (including a few which should not be popular,) which I DO NOT recommend their recipes or products. Please contact me for an updated list of people/brands I recommend and those who I strongly recommend you avoid.
Okay, back to our topic. Basically, you write your target’s full name on a slip of paper with all edges torn not cut on one side of the paper, and on the opposite side you write the command (avoiding negatives like no, not, never, and speaking in the present tense. You fill the jar with poppyseeds, and then 10-20 drops of oil, mixing it to make almost a paste, and shove the slip of paper into the middle (I use a chopstick like one of the cheap wood ones you get for free when you order Asian food take out,) and in the original spell this was really all you had to do. Do that, then wait. The idea would get in the target’s mind. And it worked…not always fast, but it did work.
This was 15 (or probably a fair bit more) years ago I shared this, and my ADHD would never want to keep it so simple. 😉 Plus, waiting is so 2000’s. Haha.
You will need the same basic items: A small jar with a metal lid Poppyseeds (a good sized bag) A slip of paper with edges torn (not cut) off A pen (I use ballpoint for this, usually black ink)
But I’ve switched up ritual oils, and I’ve added in different colors of candle, plus I have used a hair of the head of a target with great results. You may not be able to get the hair – but the other stuff you can certainly find on the internet. You will still be putting oil into the jar to make a paste (some specific ones listed below), and if you have a hair, shove it into the paste with the command/name paper. Still write the target’s full name on one side of the paper, and on the other, write the command in using the present tense and avoiding negatives (no, not, never,) for example “(name of target,) call (name of petitioner) immediately, now, now!”
So with candles I usually burn a purple chime candle dressed in controlling oil or commanding oil on top of the jar every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday if I need them to take a particular action or act in a particular way. If I want the person to communicate the specific idea, I use a communication oil (these will be labeled with a title like “talk to me” or even “Communication,) on an orange candle and burn this on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. If I want someone to feel regretful on a love matter, I use Intranquility or Anima Sola oil on a red candle on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If I want someone to feel pangs of love and desire I will use a pink candle dressed with Come to Me oil and burned on top on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Chime candles are all you need.
Once you have achieved your goal, do not reuse this item. It is specific to the command inside. BUT, it does work very quickly when you do a candle ritual on top of the jar. When you light your candle, all you need to say is your command (so like the example above I might say “John Smith call Cat W. immediately, now, now!”) and then “As is my will, so be it!” and let the candle burn out. Remove all the wax drippings from the outside of the jar before burning another candle on top to prevent fire accidents.
This is an incredibly useful little jar working. I hope it helps some of you achieve your dreams. There will be questions, so please ask! 🙂
~Cat
PS- want to really make this kick? Instead of using a name paper, get a piece of Devil’s Shoestring root, and write the target’s name on one side and then the command on the other side. This isn’t as easy as it might sound, and you’ll need to write SMALL. BUT, the difference is noticeable! 🙂
If there is one thing that has been very unfortunate for true students of magic and the occult, it’s the rise of AI – at least at this writing. AI is neither psychic, nor a good judge of magic, does not know what makes a magic spell, and of course it has zero practice casting spells, so it really isn’t going to have any experience with what it’s discussing. It will only be entirely confounded not only by the amount of incredibly bad and wrong information out there (looking at you “I pretend I know magic on TikTok” folks,) but also by fiction (think Hollywood movies, fairy tales, and Harry Potter,) which at least at this writing it would be 100% incapable of separating from the real stuff. There already have been several terrifying news articles about people who become incredibly mentally ill and believe ChatGPT or Claude is psychic and telling them their future, only to spirial and literally need to stay in a mental hospital after a full break down when the AI admits it wasn’t really ever psychic, it just believed in you. That’s not a joke. There’s plenty of news articles about this…
There are ways to protect yourself, of course. And I’ll try to list a few.
Avoid practicing/reading ANYTHING written by AI that is on the topic of AI or the Occult or Magic – Luckily, at least at this writing, a discerning reader can actually tell the difference between something written by AI and something written by a human the vast majority of the time. If, however, you were never much of a reader, you may not so easily see the difference. It always reads very similarly…and reads a bit detached. It doesn’t have much personality, and if you’re lucky, whoever posted it admits who the true author is (AI not a human,) normally while simultaneously extolling how great the article the AI wrote is (it is often quite forgettable.) If the person writing tells you that it’s source is AI, do not use anything in that article or book. If you detect that it’s a machine writing the article by it having that AI verisimilitude, also do not use anything from that article or book. As we allow AI to progress, this may become more and more difficult to figure out what is coming from a human and what is coming from a computer brain. You may be better off using information from books and articles that predate the use of AI. At this time I’d honestly say most things should be published no later than 2021, perhaps even a year earlier. That might be a bit odd to say with this article being published in 2026, but my writing does not read like AI (again that being it doesn’t read like it yet, as it might even a few years from now.)
EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE with magic is a huge HUGE HUGE deal with getting magic to work right and in understanding how it does. I do not want to know what could happen if AI could achieve this, and I mean IF. I am not sure it could, even with a machine body.
DO NOT use AI as a “fortune telling tool.” The amount of scary stories I read about formerly mentally-healthy people who believed AI could be used this way, and who later had full mental breakdowns (and many who have yet to recover,) is not small. It should never be suggested it even be used in this manner, even just for entertainment. I used to see it as harmless when people did this (like the incredibly awful and hokey tarot reading apps of 10-15 years ago which did not work whatsoever for many reasons,) and just something stupid that muggles enjoyed, but I have read more about the real harm it has done to people in the last 1-2 years, and truly would recommend everyone avoid ever using AI in this capacity, even if just for amusement.
Openly identify blogs, articles, books, and anything recommending the use of AI in magic, and WARN others to avoid them. I’m not trying to be a luddite here. I love technology. And I’m even sure that AI can improve our lives in several ways, but as I said, it requires experience that AI can’t have to understand the topic I write on about here, years of practice, and knowledge it can’t gain without those years of practice. It’s worse to trust AI on this topic than trusting a kid who is not old enough to drink who read a single book about spellcraft once over an experienced worker who has worked with thousands of people for decades for advice and education on how to cast a spell. Since I’ve seen plenty of people mislead themselves with that kid who read a book once, I truly know several people will unwisely follow a bot, too. Do your homework, and know who you’re talking to. Help others by telling them not to use or read anything written by AI. Reviews are not anything I trust (outside of Amazon,) because they are often fake or just bizarre and exaggerated, and I know many others who feel the same way, so this might be a hard message to get out. No one is perfect all of the time, or awful all of the time, but if you believe reviews it seems like everyone is either an angel or Satan, haha. But if I can see someone has been present in the occult world for over five years, that’s a sign they are a real human. If they’ve been around longer than that, they probably have plenty of experience, too. Put your trust in real humans when learning magic, learning divination, for real spells, and for buying any spiritual service.
If you are an occult author DO NOT use AI to help you write. Write your own copy. You are not a child cheating at writing a report for school. Stop behaving like one. You are part of the problem though.
Try to attend classes and conventions run by humans – depending where you are this may be an option. While there are sure to be a number of fluff bunnies doing the teaching (people who are not real occultists) as these things attract all types, it’s still better than not learning anything real because a computer is lying to you. The human that sucks at magic still knows better than AI
I realize we’ve gone over honey jars in here before, and I apologize as it’s not really the most exciting thing to share – very common in fact, – but for my new readers and folks who are beginners, this offers a very simple way to do a type of working that is useful for reconciliation, for drawing love, and even drawing attraction from a specific person. It also ties in with my previous post, as will some subsequent posts. 🙂 This is a long term working, so if you’re looking for a quick candle spell, this isn’t likely what you wanted. BUT, this doesn’t take long to do when you perform your ritual on it every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Most of this can be sourced from simple ingredients that you probably have on hand. The first honey jar (also called sweet jars) that I ever made was literally table sugar, honey packets I took from a local coffee shop over a few visits (it took a lot of honey packets, haha,) and a wooden popsicle stick with ballpoint pen. That was over three decades ago, and I was very young, so I have made many since.
And what I’ve learned in the years since is that honey is NOT necessary. You can use any sweet syrup – corn (Karo) syrup, maple syrup, agave syrup. All of them work. Honey does have a connection to Venus though, so you might find that you prefer it for love matters.
Today, let’s go for a very easy version so everyone can use this spell – I’ve probably posted something incredibly similar, but I have been writing this blog for 22 years at this writing so it’s going to happen. 😉 Also, I know I have a few old images of honey jars I’ve made, so here is one you can see for yourself!
You will need: A glass jar with a metal lid Honey or any sweet syrup White table sugar (like what you put in your coffee) Rose petals (preferably red or pink – dried is best but fresh is fine) A scrap of paper with all edges torn (not cut) off – traditionally this is a scrap of brown paper bag but any unlined paper will do A pen with black or green ink 3 images of your target (they can all be the same image, but you will need 3 of this item) Pink chime candles Optional: a picture frame
The spell: The jar is best made on a Friday in the first quarter phase of the moon, and the preceding candle ritual is best done every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before 10am until you have the desired result. On your piece of paper write your target’s name out 9 times on one line each, for example John Smith John Smith John Smith John Smith (etc – but you write it out nine times, lol) and once you have done so, turn the paper so the names are vertical (up and down) and write (horizontal so as to make a grid pattern, your command 9 times). Make sure it is the same command each 9 times, but examples might include “sweet thoughts of (your name) you will think constantly,” or “love and desire (your name) and only (your name),” or ‘be kind to (your name), be sweet to (your name), love only (your name).” You can create your own but keep your command in the present tense and avoid using negatives (no, not, never). Now spit into the center of your paper, and place an image of your target on top of the paper. Fold once towards you, folding paper and image together, then turn and fold once towards you again (if you unfolded this paper the creases would look like a + sign, NOT like 4 lines..)
Place this into your jar. Now fill the jar about 1/3 to 1/2 full of sugar. Add in about 2 tablespoons of rosepetal. Fill to the top with honey/sweetener.* Seal the jar. Shake the jar three times while saying “Sweet, sweet thoughts of me” (or petitioner’s name) you will think constantly!” Repeat this (the shaking 3 times and saying the command) six more times for a total of 7 times.
Place the jar on top of an image, and place another image where the target is “looking” at the spell. I like to use a picture frame and generally selfies where it is mostly someone’s face aren’t hard to get these days (thanks social media!) so I place the framed picture so it’s looking at the jar.
Light a pink candle and let a little wax dribble on top of the metal lid, then stick the candle to the lid using these drippings. I like to charge, bless, and anoint all my candles in a love-based oil, and roll them in dried rosepetal and sugar, but if you are a beginner, just burning the candle is perfectly acceptable. As the candle burns, say “(Full name of target,) you will think sweet thoughts of (name of petitioner/your name) constantly. You love and desire only (name of petitioner) and (name of petitioner) alone! As is my will so be it!” Now allow the candle to burn out. Remove any drippings from the lid and sides when it has done so. It might look “cool” to have candle wax all over the lid, but it’s also a huge fire hazard.
You can store the jar in a closet or out of sight when not being used. Just set the altar as described every time you light a candle on the lid, which should be every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before 10am until the target’s behavior is to your satisfaction. When this is acheived, you may store the jar for later use. As long as your aim is the same, and the jar shows no signs of mold or decay, you can use this jar spell over and over.
*Settling may occur. If you have added your items, before sealing, I often like to allow a chance for all the gasses to rise to the top (it seriously takes only a few minutes!) and then I add more honey/sweetener.
Clearly, what I write about won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. A few articles may even be mildly spicy. 🌶️
But I’d been able to use Blaze ads to promote my site before…until apparently this week when 4 post promotions were rejected. The first 2, I thought…”well, that’s odd. I’m not advocating violence or hate speech, though one does suggest you go to a graveyard and leave a little whiskey and some flowers for the dead and the other does use meat-based ingredients you can find in any supermarket.” I might even have used the F word in one.
So, today I picked two very pleasant and not scary at all articles. They did not contain any spookiness factor other than one was a very pleasant little spell for attracting friends and admirers. The other suggested how to make a love spell more effective by not making your love spell target so comfortable and not giving them everything they want without being sure you were getting what you want. It could have passed for love advice ffs.
Those were rejected as well. Apparently any mere mention of folk magic practices and suggesting you employ them is bad. It’s verboten. Which is…religious discrimination. Which is illegal.
So I’m making this post to see if anyone else has been victimized by Blaze’s discriminatory policies. Please hit me up here.
I really want to see this disgusting and unethical behavior end. Maybe if enough folks have had the same experience that they are willing to share we can enforce that it never happens to anyone else again.
Today I’d like to discuss a topic which I feel is under-served when it comes to educating people in how to get love spells (and, really, any type of relationship-type magic, so even friendship and family/home spellwork,) to come together right. Because we all want a quick and easy answer, but that’s not always the best (or even sometimes the workable) option.
Let’s start by defining what I’m saying when I say Long-Term-Work or Quick-Workings as I am not defining this by the speed at which the spellwork manifests, albeit with long-term work, we are usually looking at a slower speed of manifestation. LONG-TERM-WORK is work that we will be performing on multiple days, usually for at least a week, whereas QUICK-WORKINGS are spells performed only once on a single day. LONG-TERM-WORK can also mean MULTIPLE-WORKINGS OVER MULTIPLE-DAYS AND WEEKS or even regular-workings, suchas a sweet jar that is worked on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of every week until the desired end is achieved.
BOTH kinds of workings can be effective, but often when we have a very complex situation, especially one which has accrued a lot of damage over a period of time, we can’t just assume one fast and easy spell is a magical cure-all that will erase weeks, months, even sometimes years of damage. Also, sometimes a great deal of damage is done in a very brief window, so how long the situation has been falling apart may not really determine the amount of spellwork needed. What we need to keep in mind is the complexity of the issue, and the amount of damage, with length of time the issue has existed as being a secondary thought.
Let me give an example: A couple finds out that they are expecting a child when the relationship is already on shaky ground. They do love each other, but were already in a bad place when the pregnancy was discovered – but as they have been together for 2 years already, they decide to try to work on things and to have the child together. Unfortunately the pregnancy is not an easy one, and the mother-to-be is often on edge, and unpleasant and defensive towards the father. She is often sarcastic and puts him down. In turn, he begins to feel contempt for her as he struggles to support them. When the baby is born, the stress of caring for an infant who cries every few hours sends the couple over the edge, and they break up shortly after the birth. Within a few weeks, they both regret the decision, but both remember the relationship was in a bad place before the pregnancy. If one wants to repair this situation, how would we go about that?
Okay, for starters both sides are showing contempt. This is a very toxic thing to appear in any relationship. It will eat it from the inside out. Also, while I can certainly sympathize with how stressful it is for any woman to carry a child, the mother of the child has been very cruel and unkind to her partner for months – and notice, I say in my example, she lashes out at him for her feeling ill and stressed, not because he was being a knob (which I’m sure he occasionally was,) – which that’s a lot of damage to accrue. Humans often do not recognize the weight of our own actions on others.
So there’s a lot of damage here. If I just cast a quick reconciliation spell, that’s a bit like throwing a bandage on a broken leg. It might repair some of the damage (certainly bandages would help on the surface,) but the wounds here go pretty deep. We would almost definitely need to do multiple workings, – love drawing, communication, and, yes, long-term reconciliation and healing work. See, you need to view this relationship like a living thing. This is something which has been battered and bruised and nearly killed. It needs a lot of attention if we are going to be able to help it to survive and, perhaps, even thrive in the future.
Let’s try another example: A couple have been together for about 3 months. One of them begins to feel a bit panicked – she wasn’t ready to get into a real commitment, and she just feels smothered and unready, so she tells her partner she wants to end things, that it isn’t the right time, and she doesn’t want a commitment. Her partner isn’t ready to end things. How do we save this relationship?
This is the perfect opportunity for you to do a quick working. It’s very natural for people to panic around the end of what I term “the honeymoon phase” – when the veneer of infatuation starts to wear off, and that high of newness begins to come down, it is very normal to have more arguments or even have one of you break things off. That doesn’t make it hurt any less if someone does try to end things around this time. First and foremost, if you are the party seeking to reunite, please follow these instructions before you even cast a spell: DO NOT beg them to change their mind – you can say you don’t agree with that you should end things, but don’t make a scene if you can help yourself; DO NOT call them or text them relentlessly after they end things – try to go quiet; DO NOT ask mutual friends about them or talk to people who could and may report everything you say about them back to them. You will thank me later. 😉
In this situation, I’d recommend some obsession work, return to me work, or love work. You probably won’t require anything more than a simple working performed just once, and the ex should reach out shortly. And why? There really isn’t a lot of damage here. Most of the hurt was the hurt one of you got from being rejected. There aren’t any major arguments, – just someone getting a bit nervous of commitment. It’s very normal. While the rejection may hurt, it doesn’t mean you can’t fix this situation pretty easily….unless you panic and put a lot of damage on by acting crazy when the other person said you should end it.
DOES THIS MEAN ANY COMPLEX PROBLEM WILL NEED MULTIPLE WORKINGS? I would say the more damage there is, the more likely it is that the problem will best be fixed by multiple workings, but that doesn’t MANDATE that ALL complex problems are solved as such. Sometimes, this can even make the situation more difficult for the person working on the issue, especially if they are the petitioner (person for who the spells are cast on behalf of,) because they become even more attached and obsessed by the desired outcome, thus causing lust for results. I have worked with people who can barely manage having a single working done on their behalf without absolutely obsessing the damn work to death – and when they try getting longer term work done, they only become worse. So, in those cases, the quick working is probably better, at least in the sense that they may let the situation and obsession go faster so it might work. However, the BEST case scenario is that this type of petitioner wouldn’t know you were working on them at all (I guess making them more of a target than a petitioner,) as their anxiety and obsession is often so great that they derail any working done for them that they are knowledgeable about (and trust me, while this isn’t most petitioners, I’ve had occasion to meet a handful of people like this and this is an incredibly unhealthy level of anxiety and obsession, so probably you do not qualify as this person. I say this as I know I’ll get several people scared by saying there is a type of person that things often don’t work for, and they will be worried they are that type.) Further, many neophyte and casual spellcasters lack the dedication to continuously work the same spell. The amount of times I’ve heard someone couldn’t be bothered to do all the days in saying a novena of all things (a nine day prayer) is not small. And it is just that – they forgot, or it became “inconvenient” – and while that’s certainly not a professional worker saying those sorts of things, it’s important to be honest with yourself. If you’re only going to be able to do a working once or else you risk losing focus for the rest of the required days, a single spell worked over many days is probably not the best choice for you to try.
BUT that doesn’t impede the….less-dedicated and the beginner from doing MULTIPLE WORKINGS on the same target (or towards the same end,) because long-term work on an issue can mean using multiple one night spells on the same issue. Instead of dedicating yourself to working the same spell for, say, seven days (which really does strengthen that spell a great deal,) you could, for example, do several simple candle spells over the course of several weeks. This actually is very common for beginners to use this method, and with very good results. No one said you have to take on more than you are ready for if you haven’t come to the point in your own spellcasting journey where you are comfortable with more grandiose workings or long term workings. So, don’t think you need to wait for that single spell to manifest before you start another working on the issue. I personally find that doing a few workings on the same target often creates a faster and stronger result. So, even beginners can do long term work merely by doing several spells on the same issue without needing to know how to do more advanced work, and get a good result.
Let’s be realistic – many problems, when it comes to love, ARE NOT SIMPLE. We accrued that damage over a long time, or we made a lot of damage (and pretty bad damage,) in a short time (or even both.) So, most of the time, when we work a love issue, it’s not going to be a quick fix, but that doesn’t make it impossible.
As I often say, you need to approach this much like a medical issue. If I show up with multiple traumatic injuries to my body, you can’t just set my leg, or just stitch one of many wounds closed, then ignore all the other issues, and say I’m all fixed up, can you? You need to treat the whole person. And with love magic, we need to treat the whole problem if we can. If we leave part of it to heal or change on it’s own, that may work out for us, or it may derail results. So when we choose cheap, quick, and/or fast work and only attend to one small area, – either for budget restraints, or perhaps the hubris of the novice caster, we often don’t get the desired result…and this is why I recommend long term spellwork in many cases when it comes to love.
Certainly not all cases – because we also can overcomplicate an issue when our emotions are involved, – and sometimes you just need a little nudge to set things back on course to where you want them to be again. BUT, realistically, if it’s a very damaged, broken situation, you may need long term work.
I hope that was educational. Love spellwork coming in shortly. 🙂
It’s been SOOOO long since I posted a QYAM, that I really needed to get one out. I’ve been working on a few spell posts, but this one is definitely overdue. Remember, these questions sometimes come from multiple people repeatedly (thus why they can seem repetitive as it means I need to review the things I say all the time on here OVER AND OVER….especially since it’s hard to access the archives at this writing,) and sometimes are the product of a specific person asking insightful questions. Whichever the case, it makes for good reading. 😉 So let’s begin!
Q: Recently I began dating a guy I have known for a long time, and who had, at least by what he told me, semi-recently broken up with a girl who I have heard rumors was a witch. We never stop arguing – which it has been that way since we made it official (we got on so well when we were casual), and people are telling me they see them together out and about – is there any way I can tell if I was duped into being the side piece or if this is her using magic?
A: I mean, as a spellcaster, there’s always an element of FAFO (fuck around and find out) that can quickly come into play if you step on anyone who spellcast’s toes…even if you DID NOT actually and/or intentionally do so. This means, if this guy ended the relationship with her and then bolted out and immediately started one with you….then it looks like what it looks like to her. It doesn’t matter that technically he was single there. If she thinks you’re an interloper, she will act accordingly. AND the reality is he probably was seeing you and her at the same time. People are pretty gross. I’ve worked for the public for over 20 years and been alive much longer than that, and frankly, the chances are he threw her under the bus after he started seeing you…
Which brings up the next part…there’s a much stronger chance he never threw her under that bus AT ALL, as in you are the side ho. That’s no bueno. Why do I say this? He would not be in contact with or seeing his ex with enough frequency for this to get back to you otherwise (excluding child custody stuff or sorting out belongings). There are all sorts of behaviors which can clue you in to if someone is leading you on. Is he suspiciously absent from convos for long stretches of time (especially when you know he isn’t working) when he’s always on his phone when he’s with you? Does he avoid conversation about her or become defensive? Does he hide who just called or texted? These are all red flags that you may be the side piece or he has a side piece. By default, you are side piece if she came first, even if they got back together right after he “made it official” with you.
BUT, let’s say for the sake of argument, he did end things with her before taking up with you. Let’s say he totally cut it off and had every intention of doing this above the board. It’s just he forgot one thing. He was with a spellcaster, and if she wasn’t done, the likelihood of letting him go and be with someone else when he broke up with her to be with that someone else is low.
I’m going to break in here and say there’s a fair amount of dudes I’ve dated who we broke up, and I still did care very much, was sorry they felt it was not working, but they were right that it wouldn’t work, and I’m sure a few of them flatter themselves into thinking I worked on them when I did not. So it’s not a guarantee that someone will work on you if you initiate a break up, not even if they cast spells all the time. I hear this a lot at my job that an ex knows magic, and that doesn’t mean they will use it to bring a person back. Like sometimes things don’t work out, and sometimes one of you carries a torch around for awhile after it did not work out. But if it was over before you came into the picture, that isn’t a guarantee he has some crazy ex he left months ago hanging over an altar. 😉
HOWEVER, when it comes to cheating on a spellcaster, that spellcaster so often messes up one or both in the cheating party for that action. I’ve heard and read so many people who teach spellcasting or are known occultists that said oh no they would not bother with working some cheating ex – either cursing them or bringing them back – and like…stop putting on airs, and you are lying, frfr.
That said, you need to do spellwork on this man to make him tell you the truth. It is valuable to know if he’s been leading you on and seeing you both, if he never really broke things off (or broke things off for a week and went back – that still makes you the side piece unfortunately,) and if she or someone else is in the picture. Once you have a clear picture of what is going on, move forward from there.
I’d be less concerned if she is a witchy type right now, and more concerned with that. Why? If this man is lying to you and leading you on and seeing you both, he already voted himself out. That she would act to protect her relationship is valid, that she might come after you is as well, but if you exit the picture, the chances are that any work she is doing on you will dissipate. You can start the uncrossing work immediately – even before you decide if you are planning on ending things with him or if you are not planning on breaking it off, – but trust and know as long as you exist in his life, the chances of her taking her proverbial boot off of your neck are next to zero if he cheated to be with you and/or is still with her. So, do the uncrossing work, but also make him tell the truth.
THERE IS A POSITIVE HERE: I have had folks come to me with similar problems where it was really just their anxiety and no one was trying to destroy the relationship between them, nor was anyone lying to them and stepping out on them. Do that truth work, do that uncrossing work, and you may very well realize you are just being insecure, and you have some friends who like to gossip about stupid stuff. That happens a fair amount too. 😉 Uncrossing can only help, and the TRUTH sounds like what you need most here.
A reading may also help, but you specifically asked for magic. 🙂
Q: Is there a way to curse my home so anyone who lives there after me won’t stay?
A: I can’t recommend opening up a portal and leaving a demonic being in there enough. As it grows in power and strength, it will basically create such a nightmare for anyone who stays that you won’t find too many people willing to stay very long. Make sure to keep the demon anchored to the home and not capable of leaving it, so it doesn’t follow you.
Q: How do I know which way to anoint my candles? You generally say “UP” but then not always? And what if it’s not a taper or shaped so there is an “up?”
A: My rule is basically that with taper candles or even many figural candles (surely some of you recall my video some time ago on how to make a d*ck cursing candle, haha,) that you will anoint a candle UP (base to wick) to draw an outcome to you or bring a condition upon you (or the petitioner, or target, as the case may be), and DOWN (wick to base,) to remove a condition or draw it off of/away from you.
For jar (glass encased) candles, I make three holes and add the oils clockwise to grow or draw an influence to myself or my target, and counterclockwise to remove or draw away an influence.
For tea lights and similar-shaped candles, one would add the oil and stroke it clockwise to draw an influence to you (or the target) or to increase it’s power; and counterclockwise to do remove a thing, lessen it’s influence, or decrease it’s power.
Q: Do you feel anything when you cast a spell? Like can you pick up what the target/s feel or are thinking?
A: I can only speak for myself, of course, but I do have a sense of my target or targets, or my petitioner if it’s more like…say, roadopening. It’s not exactly like doing a reading or anything like that detailed. It’s a bit more like knowing how someone feels by observing how they are standing and holding themselves. It isn’t really visual in that sense, but it’s about that level of information. So, I’m not likely to hear distinct thoughts or have a super accurate reading of how these people are feeling, which I get this question a lot with love-related workings, probably because someone wants me to give them a mini read on the situation more than anything else.
Instead if they are very objectionable to the influences I’m sending, I may get some pushback, and I can feel that, but rarely is it anything where I have any distinct idea of WHY, which is what you probably want to know. For that, I need to do a reading. I might get a sense of fear, or of anger, but it isn’t distinct in the sense of me knowing exactly the reaction. Like I said, the level of information is akin to being able to tell how someone feels by seeing the expression on their face and their body language. It’s not like having a conversation with them.
It’s actually one of my least favorite questions, as all too often it’s a desperate attempt to get information best extracted during a psychic reading, and then getting mad at me for giving you an honest response (this is honestly how it goes – I do not have those very finite details when working on someone that I can get via a reading! And there’s a reason readings are so exhausting to me – because pulling out those details takes a different kind of focus and a fair amount of energy is expended which would be counterproductive if I expended that energy during spellwork just to find out if someone is still mad at you for calling them a name or forgetting their birthday, etc. rather than directing the energy to make the desired changes.)
So….while I definitely appreciate genuine curiosity, any information I give you regarding what I pick up isn’t detailed like a reading, and should not be expected to be (because people will grill me and press me on that,) but yes, I do have a sense of the people I’m working on and can make loose observations while casting, definitely.
Q: What’s your favorite picture you ever took of your spellwork?
A: Currently it’s this one:
The image is from 2024, and for a pretty intense break up working.
I still really find this one impressive, – the candle is shaped like a heart, and it has what looks like something crawling out of it. You might see the “hand” on one side, but then there’s also what looks like another hand crawling out onto the jar lid. I can’t really impart too much info on the work for business reasons, but I can say that this case where one target was someone who had to be one of the more malicious and possibly sociopathic people I’ve worked on. I often wonder what exactly was crawling out of that heart to get away. Even though it’s taken on my shoddy iPhone 8, it’s still a favorite of mine. I don’t photograph everything I do, – not even close, – but in this case, it was visually stunning enough that I shot several photos.
Before I get to the working, I did want to thank 95% of the people who I worked for during quite possibly one of the most stressful moves of my life. 😛 You were all wonderful, and understanding, even when we had to do things like readings at weird non-business hours, so I’d like to thank you for meeting me part of the way, and putting up with the nearly constant disruption and bs I had every day (I was apparently urged to move in fast to take care of the utilities and not because this place was so move in ready, lol,) for about 2 weeks. It was not seamless, and I was definitely more of a stress-case than normal, but I will say, it’s made so many of my curses hit fast for those two weeks, that it was kind of worth it for that, ha ha. I would say the worst is finally behind us, so thank you. 🙂
So, if you find yourself in need of a bit of extra luck while playing games of chance (or some skill if you’re playing some card games,) the following can give you a better chance at winning. 🙂
This is an incredibly easy charm to make with a few tools!
You will need: A “buckeye” nut (in the shell) Irish moss flakes Alkanet root powder Lucky Hand Oil OR Red Fast Luck oil A drill (a Dremel style is probably easiest but anything to drill into that nut works) Wood putty Gold paint (I recommend a gold paint pen) A small purple cloth bag with a draw-string closure (the kind you get with a bottle of Crown Royal works just fine, – making an even smaller one by hand works just fine as well) A small funnel
This spell is best done on a Wednesday, during a waxing moon, in the hour of the Sun, and when Mercury IS NOT retrograde. If none of that makes any sense to you (not uncommon when you’re a beginner,) just try create this item on the Wednesday that falls AFTER the New (not full but black) Moon.
Combine about a half a teaspoon each of powdered alkanet and Irish moss flakes together in a small bowl. Alkanet is often used as a DYE, so please be careful with the powder. You will not want to get it on any fabrics. Place your power hand (generally the right hand, though about a quarter to a third of left handed people find this is the left hand,) so the palm is over the bowl, and see gold, violet, and light blue energy come through the palm and into the herb mixture, while keeping an image of yourself (or who the charm is for,) winning big. Say “Money in my pocket, money come to me,” five times while envisioning this.
Use your drill to make a small hole in the buckeye nut, on the side opposite of the whitish area. Using your funnel, pour some of your herb mixture into the hole, saying “Money in my pocket, money come to me,” five times as you do so. Now pour a few drops of your oil into the hole, again saying “Money in my pocket, money come to me,” five times.
Seal the hole, and allow the wood putty to harden. As you should not need to use much, it should not take very long to do so. Paint the buckeye gold, and once the paint is set (again, with a paint pen, this should not take long, – I keep the mental image of money flying towards me and sticking to the buckeye as I paint,) hold this item in your power hand and close to your mouth, and speak the following as if whispering to the buckeye: “Spirit of the buckeye, awake, and bring luck to me this very moment, now, now” and knock it three times lightly on any surface. Bring it close to your mouth again, and say “Spirit of the buckeye, awake, and draw money to me this very moment, now, now,” then knock this lightly three times on any surface. Once more draw the buckeye to your mouth, and say “Spirit of the buckeye, awaken now-” knock it three times on any surface, and bring back to your mouth, “and draw to me luck and money, this very moment, now, now! As is my will, so be it!” Place this in your purple bag, and anoint the bag lightly with the oil. Keep this in your purse or pocket while playing games of chance or card games, and “feed” it by adding a few drops of oil in before any outing to go play at cards or games of chance thereafter.
Special thanks to a long-time reader who asked if I’m “finally out of [my] really-depressed angry phase” because my writing was “kind of crappy.” That actually cracked me up, and I appreciate the (very-astute) criticism. I’d like to think I am…but it was a long “phase” (I was genuinely traumatized by a lot of genuinely traumatic things, living through some life-changing stuffs, and I don’t get sad I get mad,) and I am cleaning up the archives over the next few months (no short task,) so I hope to be less “crappy” in attitude, and with less “crappy” archives showing off my displeasure of living through a very crappy year or two, haha. I appreciate the candor, though. Yes, I also see that in some of my writing, and I’ll be cleaning it up, I promise. Plus, I’ve been a public figure for 22 years, and you can definitely go back to times in this blog where I’m all sunshine and happiness in the meanwhile. 😉
Moving on, today I’d like to discuss something very quickly – it’s basically about money spellwork vs gambling spellwork, and why I am not a billionaire by playing Powerball.
In fact, please do not ever trust any online spellcaster who promises lottery winnings. If the odds of winning are as bad as they are (and they are terrible) you should never ever expect a spell to make the odds favorable enough for you to risk your last bits of money on Powerball or MegaMillions or any large lottery in your state or country.
That said, I don’t discourage you from playing the lottery, so long as you are not causing yourself financial distress by so doing. I buy a few tickets every time the jackpot gets big enough, because I figure I’ve led a lifestyle where the odds of certain things happening to me were probably as low as the odds of winning Powerball, and yet these things did actually happen, so there’s certainly the possibility that I will one day be “cursed” (I’ve heard it can be more damaging than good for you,) with multimillions of dollars or even a billion dollars.
Pictured: When you’re “cursed” by winning the lottery! Photo credit: Pixabay on Pexels.com
But when we cast money spells, we generally are not casting GAMBLING SPELLS, and lottery (including scratch tickets,) are not going to be affected for the most part if you cast a money drawing spell.
I understand we all want EASY MONEY. And you are not without magical means to gather it…it’s just that you will want a GAMBLING SPELL, and you will want to likely play something with a little skill involved if possible to gather the greatest amount of money. If you’re planning a trip to the casino, gambling spellwork makes wins at the blackjack table a lot more likely. It may even improve your odds on things with less than awesome odds, like the slot machines.
BUT…not everyone lives near a casino, nor is everyone interested in spending time in one. Can this type of spellwork be used on lottery? Of course, but you will want to focus on scratch tickets, and even then….the jackpot prize on these tickets may remain elusive. This is why I strongly caution you against any spellcaster who claims they can get you large winnings playing the lottery – because even if you have a 1 in 4 (the most common win ratio on scratch off tickets in the USA) chance of winning, that is for winning ANY prize. I have bought a $20 scratch-off ticket and won $5! That’s not even technically a win! (I wasn’t using spellwork, it’s just a memory that still ticks me off years later, haha.)
So, how do we approach gambling spellwork for the win?
*Try to limit yourself to games of skill where possible. Games like slot machines are less likely to pay out. You want the best odds of a win if you were not using spellwork (because gambling spellwork improves your odds of winning.)
*If playing lottery, restrict yourself to scratch tickets.
*Do not expect large jackpot prizes with incredibly low odds of winning a large sum (be prepared to take home smaller prizes) – with gambling, you rarely will even triple your bet, so if you MUST play lottery, play scratch tickets and do not expect a jackpot.
*If you choose to bet on horses or sports games, gambling spellwork can be…meh. Unfortunately in those scenarios, I find that betting on the skills of others (not your own skills) has only so-so results. I would stick to playing games of skill.
Already downtrodden? Yeah, so historically, we see Hoodoo used most often for playing the “numbers game” (pick 4 and pick 3 of today, which was not a huge jackpot ever, really,) and for games like blackjack and poker. I’ve no doubt it was used also for Bingo and raffles and so forth…even craps (dice) and all sorts of other games which had an element of chance as well as often skill, but the stories I know with the most successful drawing of money in a gambling scenario are often small payout games of luck (which often disappoint as they are too often a few double or triple the cost of the ticket payouts,) or if used before someone goes to the casino they do tend to bring in a bit of money, especially with card games.
We do have professional poker players in this day and age, but 150 years ago, we had even more. Gambling was a big deal, and rootworkers of the day did make us many many gambling spells and charms which are performed and made today – but this isn’t as popular as a profession as it once was. Today, most average folks benefit from money-drawing work (not gambling work) and very rarely actually gamble.
Money drawing work is often far more satisfactory when it comes to needing money in large amounts and in a more steady and reliable manner. It may manifest as a higher paying job, a raise, your buddy paying back that debt he or she owes, etc – but DO NOT waste your time on gambling and expecting better outcomes so doing if you used money-drawing work. They are negligibly related. And do not use gambling work if you’re shooting for a one in 356 trillion chance of winning that jackpot and nothing else will do. a 75 in 356 trillion chance is upping your odds way up, while still being absolutely terrible. 😉
Alright, let’s try to get a gambling spell up for you. I think that’s enough lectures for one day, ha ha. Contact me if you need me. 🙂
~Cat
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I realize I sort of flew off the radar for a few months. If I’m being fair, the combination of “discount laptop,” combined with using the formatting nightmare which is wordpress and added to my regular behind the scenes crazy life (I only ever wanted a normal life, but God had other plans,) made the perfect stew for me to just…not want to deal with that which I’m not paid to deal with which most definitely is this blog. In fact, I pay to have a blog, a fact made all the more infuriating when I can’t format the SOB.
Additionally, people came to me absolutely distraught about the blog being gone from it’s home url of 21 years (glaring at you, TypePad,) and my constant having to repeat what had happened sort of furthered my own distress at it being such a fucking mess. Thanks to a lovely combination of adult ADHD (which means my neglecting the task created a massive shame spiral every time it was brought up to me, and therefore caused even more task avoidance,) and being constantly busy to the point that I’ve not had any time off in maybe a decade (including having to work full time through some hugely traumatic events a few years ago) which means I am always a bit burnt out (someone has to keep the lights on, though, and that someone is me,) meant it just kept getting pushed back.
When you have 40-60 other people’s personal problems to deal with (yay, active cases,) in addition to your own, it’s really easy to just say “fuck it,” when your whole life’s work is being held hostage by a hosting platform that cannot be easily or understandably formatted…because it’s only hostage and not going anywhere, and someone needs to stalk their ex on some new platform and make an excuse for doing it, and I’m going to have to deal with that now anyhow (stalking your ex is very bad for reconciliation work, kids), as I am PAID to deal with that… Or at least this was my internal chatter for some time.
Yeah, I know. If that sounds very impractical, welcome to my brain, lol. I put everything before my own needs (my business, my friends, my family, my pets,) to the point it’s detrimental, and then avoid tasks that if I just locked myself into to doing them would greatly benefit my life, but if it’s not PAYING ME, my obligation to pay it, my obligation to feed and water it, or married to me, I’m probably going to get around to it eventually which could be months from now. I seriously have put off calling the DMV for over a year now, because the wait is too long and they can just keep saying I live at the wrong address for all I care (but which has caused minor annoyances, lol,) to give you some idea. I legitimately need to wait on hold for a bit and correct an address but I probably will ignore that task until I need to renew, haha.
Let me be fair, here, I’m not going to tell you all the things going on in my personal life, but while it’s less tumultuous than it has been, like I said above, it hasn’t been stress-free. We even tried to get a house and that’s a lot of headache and nonsense no matter how qualified. I honestly can’t imagine being a realtor because pressuring people to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a very small window sounds absolutely batshit insane to me, but it clearly is not for those I dealt with… If you had told me someone would ask me to prove that I have a quarter of a million dollars in less than a day (I did not have this when asked for this, – I think I had a quarter of a thousand dollars in checking at that time, haha,) ever in my whole life, I would have thought you quite mad, but here we are. I do get it…really, but at the time it was a most bizarre and uncanny moment in my life. Like, girl, I’m wearing Shein and have half-inch roots right now, – do I look like my bank account is six digits?
I did want to assure everyone that I am not dead, nor is my spouse, and we aren’t living in a cardboard box, or anything like that. I am not in a fetal ball curled in my closet, nor chronically or terminally ill. The blog can and will continue on. It will be fixed so you can navigate. I am always available through my website (OriginalNinjaCat.com) just click the contact button.
We are now in year 22 of Cat’s Rants, and I want this to be an epic year of on topic posts…so let’s stop talking about me for the time being, and keep talking about spellcasting and the occult.
I hope my personal update has helped as a few people apparently seriously believed me dead. 😛
I apologize for the current appearance of my blog. It looks as though I will also have to go through and manually upload all of my topics to each post, a process that may take forever. The formatting here is completely bizarre, and I speak as a woman who has designed many websites…it also follows no intuitive pattern for something like a blog. Maybe something like a very bare-bones website creator, but not a blog creator. So….it’s going to be a few more weeks til anything is fully functional, but rest-assured that the blog in it’s entirety now exists on WordPress, albeit in a very difficult (even compared to TypePad’s old format) to maneuver around format at the moment. I realize my getting frustrated and depressed by this and ignoring my blog for a few months was not at all helpful.
But let’s wander off the repetitive topic of “Cat doesn’t work well with WordPress,” for a moment, and move on to our favorite discussion – spells.
So, a lot of you have been coming to me with issues that I’ve explained many times on this blog, which wouldn’t be a shocker, (if one does any business long enough, all frequently asked questions are really repetitive, lol) except that the bulk of my active business at the moment is with clients I’ve worked with many times over the last two decades…so it’s not the issues in the sense of “Cat bring my ex back,” which I see a lot, – it’s more like lust for results making the case drag, or actively working against the spell’s goals with bad actions, and stuff like that.
And so, this inspired me to post about ROADOPENING, because one thing most of us can use when we get bogged down (and if my inbox is any indication, there’s a lot of people getting stuck in a rut,) this tends to really help move our situations forward, while also alleviating some of that anxiety, feeling of being stuck, and predisposition towards working against your own spells (which is usually brought on by frustration.) And I want to add that I’ve yet to ever see roadopening bring on a bad situation, but rather it opens a lot of pathways to positive changes that we didn’t realize had become closed off. People worry this is like a “burning by the sun,” where unhelpful situations are often painfully removed from our lives so we can move forward, and in my experience (and I’ve been through a couple “burning by the sun”s, which were HUGELY UNPLEASANT, and in one case I almost freaking died and lost my entire very expensive antique book collection,) roadopening does not include any nastiness like that experience can. So do not fear, this is a much more pleasant process. 🙂
You will need to procure very few items as well… I recommend NOT going to many corner bodegas for your Roadopener oil, because all too often, that’s going to be mass produced garbage, and as I’ve told folks for a long time, no machine can competently produce condition oils, which must be handcrafted. At this writing, you will have one hell of a time locating my recipe but I do include a recipe which allows you to make this item yourself. Please look under “occult recipes” when I finally get this nightmare fixed up and navigable.
I also recommend a golden or yellow orange colored candle, and some red sandalwood powder. Anoint your candle by placing a few drops of oil into your palm and rubbing your candle UP (base to wick,) 7 times using your power (writing) hand, and as you do so, in your mind’s eye, see your problems dissolving away, and try to send orange energy into that candle. Everyone cracks up when I say this but yes, like jerking off the candle (but with no downstroke, haha.) Also, it’s okay if you don’t feel like you can send energy. A lot of the time just visualizing that energy going into the candle is going to give enough energy to it to get things rolling. No one expects you to be a reiki master. Now roll your candle in the red sandalwood powder. Place this on your altar over an image of yourself, – you can be creative here. If you are having a hard time at work, you could place it over business card. If you are having difficulties with housing, you might place it over an image of where you are trying to live or your current home. But if you’re just stuck in a rut and feel stuck in multiple ways, just use a picture of yourself.
Once you have done this, light the candle, and place your hands on either side, saying “I break all obstacles to good fortune and to happiness, and all blocks to my roads are cleared away,” five times, then say “(your full name)’s roads are opened and the blessings flow in freely! As is my will, so be it!”
Now let the candle burn out. Super easy, amirite?
Here’s the thing…you should do this frequently. Are you really stuck? Get a box of chime candles and repeat this daily. Do it weekly with a normal sized taper to keep things pretty clear. Or do it monthly using a larger or regular sized candle just to keep things flowing smoothly. There is no bad time to do roadopening. It can only help.
Okay, I’m going to try to fix things up and also post a personal update. 😀
Why do I say this? He would not be in contact with or seeing his ex with enough frequency for this to get back to you otherwise (excluding child custody stuff or sorting out belongings). There are all sorts of behaviors which can clue you in to if someone is leading you on. Is he suspiciously absent from convos for long stretches of time (especially when you know he isn’t working) when he’s always on his phone when he’s with you? Does he avoid conversation about her or become defensive? Does he hide who just called or texted? These are all red flags that you may be the side piece or he has a side piece. By default, you are side piece if she came first, even if they got back together right after he “made it official” with you.
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