Witches - spell help

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Hey, looking for some advice as in all the years of spell work I have never had this happen before.

i did a spell on the full moon, all very well intentioned, to help me save money. I lit a candle in a special place to me, set my intention, and the candle blew out quite quickly. It was near a window, so I took it to mean spell completed ie wish made.

i took the candle home and lit it again later on the lionsgate portal night to strengthen my resolve. The wax kind of dripped on to my finger and burned me a lot. I’ve never had that happen before. I looked it up and some say it’s a warning (what can it be warning me about, it’s literally just to make me save money 😂) or - very differing view - the spell needed some kind of karmic or energy payment from me, and I “paid” with the burn to add strength and resolve to the spell.

any thoughts? I’ve done this a long time and never cast bad or ill intentioned spells so I don’t know what this was about! Has someone hexed me?

blessed be x

I'm not religious in any way but I've actually enjoyed reading this thread (apart from the sneeringly unpleasant posts.) I think that life is infinitely more interesting when we are respectful and open-minded. I can certainly imagine there is benefit to OP setting intentions and focusing on her goals.... there's no harm in that.

"Magic" can have many interpretations. There is something pretty magical about stargazing on a clear night, or making my DDs laugh, or choosing to believe that my seriously ill relative will be OK in the end.

As a society we are increasingly detached from the natural world, from spirituality and from one another and it isn't making us any happier. I don't believe that the posters being rude, laughing at and belittling others for their beliefs can be truly happy people, deep down.

Choosing hope and positivity rather than cynicism and negativity can be powerful. Even if it doesn't change the destination it perhaps makes the journey more pleasant.

I don't doubt it for a minute, I often attract the best energy when I'm in a good mood, and the worst energy when I'm in a bad mood.

I've just been in Brazil and, at the suggestion of our guide, went with DH for a walk to the river to look for birds in the trees on the path to the water, behind my hotel in the Atlantic rainforest at around 4pm, which is not far off sunset (I'm an obsessive compulsive twitcher and this is a good time to see them). Missed the puma and jaguar signs. Was happily watching some monkeys when the mood changed. They suddenly started screaming. And then I heard a low growl. Saw nothing, just heard the growl, and I know it was a cat's growl. I have never had such a visceral, physical reaction in my life, and I have seen plenty of big cats in the wild, had them come right up to us on safaris and even sit on top of our vehicles. But this one was hidden in the undergrowth and it was giving a warning. The fear was indescribable, and we walked very slowly, backwards out of those trees resisting the urge to turn round and leg it. I was shaken up for the rest of the evening. DH was not, he said because the instinct to protect me and stop me legging it kicked in and he sort of took over, and that abated his fear. No woo involved, just raw instinct on both our parts.

There was toilet paper there. So the universe hasn’t totally turned against me.

But on the subject of supermarkets and godliness, yes, I reckon Waitrose is the home of fervent believers. Sainsbury’s is frequented by agnostics. Tesco is the home of frothing atheists.

Aldi and Lidl are temples of observant non-conformism.

Iceland is where dirty skanks like me buy stuff.

Your local independent Chock-a-Block-a-Bargains is where the canny witches get their shopping. 👍

Wishing the best for your ill relative 💐

@Mumsnet doesn't exist.

Not taken your posts personally and neither should you take mine personally, purely debating your view point about karma and that logically it is flawed. You can feel free to tell me what things you disagree with in regards to what I have said and that's fine
Obviously those who go around purposely trying to upset people, are arseholes. Whether they'll automatically get an automatic proportionate punishment for their wrong doing (karma) is debatable as I said many people have terrible things happen to them for no good reason and some people are vile and never seem to suffer any consequences

I'm in this country because my dad, as a child, stood in his hometown in India, near the newly created, partitioned land of Pakistan, and watched his once peaceful neighbours slaughter each other. He disavowed his own Hinduism right there and then and left India as soon as he was able. You have no idea what your religious friends might do to each other given the right (or wrong) circumstances.

The gods (pick which one or multiple) did indeed shine upon you, there must be chance for redemption yet

Dunno about that. But my family can wipe to their hearts’ content.

Which isn’t a bad outcome, I think.

I don't have time to disagree with you and try to change your beliefs honestly 😅 As I pointed out previously I was merely providing an example to pp.

@NeverDropYourMooncup Okay, I’m interested in this side of the debate.

So you're saying that when you have a belief in your personal safety in a car you aren’t scared (big cats in zoo example). Fine.

When you are trapped in a room with a shouty boss or walking along a dark alley worried about a stalker, your brain fires up its “prehistoric human” parts and you can’t control those reactions as they are hard-wired into your evolutionary make up. Fine.

I can accept all of that.

But why wouldn’t my dh be afraid of being stalked or a shouty boss or seeing a life-sized sabre tooth in a dimly-lit museum? He is definitely not afraid of stuff like this.

I guess he would be afraid of a real threat - someone waving a loaded gun in his face and threatening to kill him.

Why do we have different perceptions of threats? (Genuine question, looking to learn).

Not really sure why some people on here are so offended by someone enjoying spellwork?

She didn't enjoy it when she got burnt by the candle wax

Unless you’re a tree, pretty bad outcome for the trees with all you people recklessly wiping your bums.

You could switch to bamboo or a reusable cloth wipe? Perhaps not stocked in Iceland.

Yer @DenizenOfAisleOfShame go get your family reusable arse wipes before you get struck down from above. Karma is gonna come for you any minute and Iceland for not stocking the reusable arse wipes 😂

But can I strengthen resolve and determination in myself mentally by lighting a candle and focusing on the task. Of course. Those things work all the time. It’s simply goal setting.
I’m not woo, but I can see how rituals can function as a psychological trick for some people, in the ways you’ve mentioned, for things like strengthening resolve or focusing your mind.

Unfortunately, this isn’t what happens for many people with woo beliefs. I’ve known people who put a lot of faith in “the universe” and the idea that their ‘vibrations’ somehow influenced events in the future. Worked great while everything was going well for them; they thought their positive energy meant they were doing something right and the universe was going to deliver everything they’d ever wanted. But when something went wrong in their life, they blamed themselves, believing their thoughts had caused a completely random event. They were resistant to taking action or being assertive when it was necessary, because this could cause “bad energy” which would bring further negativity into their life…so they didn’t take steps to improve things for themselves. They started associating certain ‘signs’ (like numbers) with bad events and, once they’d focused on them, noticed them more often than they would have otherwise…so they were almost constantly on edge.

the burn was significant to me because i do believe in bad energy and people not wanting you to have things.
If you believe that there’s the possibility of something negative happening because some wax dripped - especially as you’ve said you could have chosen to believe that this was a positive sign - I don’t think this is something that’s helping you.

Burning Sage to purify is a Native American practice. Would you walk up to a Native American and tell them they're mentally ill?

We all have free choice with what to do with our time and lives, and I feel quite sorry for those who are using their time to be so hateful to strangers on the internet who aren't harming anyone and just practicing their beliefs.

@Heresmycontroversialopinion I am truly so sorry, that’s is a terrible thing to have happened in your family history.

I do get your point, but I return to my previous point that people will do bad things in spite of as well as because of their faith. People do bad things. It doesn’t follow rules of logic or fairness.

Goodness, I’ve never thought to look.

I suspect not though. Next to the toilet paper was a shelf of 2-for-1 wines and the other side was - very reasonably priced - ketchup and other popular sauces. Bamboo products I didn’t see.

Re-useable cloth wipes wouldn’t be a goer my household. I’d be ostracised. And I’d have to clean them. So that’s a no from me.

@Juniperberry55 well, as pp said karma isn’t an instantaneous punishment.

Ask your grandkids how they feel about trees when the whole world is burned up by global warming.

@DenizenOfAisleOfShame well that’s why I don’t shop in Iceland. What kind of lunatic puts ketchup next to bog roll? It’s illogical.

Frankly I’m disappointed in you. I thought you liked things to be entirely neat and logical and yet here you are, putting up with this retail nonsense without batting an eyelid.

Climate change i do believe in and think we need to come up with ways to live more environmentally friendly, that I'm not opposing but reusable clothes to wipe your backside is not the direction I would go. More trees being planted to replaced ones used, ban on plastic wrap covering toilet rolls, absolutely. I'm also fine with bamboo items, in fact have very nice bamboo socks.many options to try tackle climate change that I'd be more than happy with
I don't have children let alone grand children to ask I'm afraid, technically that's very carbon footprint saving choice by me

So people who have terrible things happen to them, is that karma for a previous life? Should we have no sympathy for people to ho go through bad times because it's probably just karma anyway? Some of these beliefs sound okay on the surface but also have damaging sides to them

I wish everyone would quit trying to make the OP think she is mentally unwell.

@Juniperberry55 I know almost nothing about karma, other than as a popular belief.
I would have to defer to people who really believe in it. I have friends who believe that souls are “recycled” and you re-enter your next life as a “lesser” organism, if you live a bad life.

What's considered a lesser organism to a human?
Do they need to be a good organism to come back again as a better organism?

I wonder how good a person I need to be to come back as a pampered house cat though, that would be lovely, nap, eat , chin rubs, nap 😂