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

If you believe in magnetism then you can sort of get on board with spells

What? How can anyone not believe in magnetism?

Thinking/pretending that they can do spells is not a 'belief system'.

The true nature of reality is up for grabs, and I follow the Law of Attraction. It leaves no one out but works every time. Certain parts of it will infuriate people when first hearing about it, because there will be lots of 'buts'. But once you take responsibility for the fact that your mood and circumstances are a result of your vibration, it's a lot easier. I don't come from any lofty or privileged position in my past to say, 'oh, well look, it works for me'. I simply followed it. And I believe that we choose interesting circumstances to start out in in life to get a clear view of the field - of where we are and where we would like to go.

In defence of OP people should be more accepting of other peoples religion/belief. I understand that witchcraft is a region OP? Paganism came before Christianity and many rituals from religion come from paganism. Even maybe lighting candles? Whenever have you NOT seen a candle in a church?
OP wasn't asking for judgement of her beliefs. She was asking for advice.
Anyway OP I don't know much about this but was wondering if it's because you are asking for someone material rather than something spiritual?

@Heresmycontroversialopinion ask the person who created the meme…

Good to see that witch hunting is still alive, well and firmly female-driven… 😁

Well you posted it here in order to make a point, so what is your understanding of it?

@Heresmycontroversialopinion it’s just a meme that us witches understand… nothing to get your non witchy knickers in a twist over! 😁

Candles have melted wax. Who'd have thought 🙄

I’m not. I’m asking you to explain what it means. Clearly you can’t or don’t want to.

Totally agree with our moods raising our energy and vibration, suppose following daily gratitude rituals is a good way to do this.

When you say about us choosing how we start out in life do you mean before we’re on earth?
I only ask as I was reading a Dolores Cannon
book recently and she really delves into this and I found it so interesting - she wrote about hundreds of people saying about the place they were before life, and how we’re here to learn.

I wasn’t sure I fully believed it at first but it was definitely an interesting read and I’d like to read more of her books.

I've seen some very strange posts on Mumsnet but is this a joke?!!

Have you tried saving money by not buying so many candles?

No one is forcing you to comment. If you don't like, or are scared of the subject (I mean, the title is clearly visible 🙄) then don't click on it!

Thank you Captain Pedantic, my phone autocorrects, I have it on because I'm Dyslexic. Not that I owe you an explanation but Austin is a family members name.
Hope you feel better for pointing out the error though. 💐

You can't have been here for very long, then. It's zero surprise to me. 🤷‍♀️

Not walking under ladders is actually common sense. I walked under ladders. Not any more, without checking why the ladder is there and who is on it. Twice I’ve had stuff dropped on me from whoever is on the ladder . One was very wet , like a pan of water and whitish…not thick enough to be paint or whitewash ..right onto my head. The other was a rag. Obviously each done with malice. Nothing to do with luck, but there are a lot of twisted people out there 🤣 and watching for pavements cracks…trip hazards.
However, I’ll spill salt without chucking any over my left shoulder into someone’s eye..not even the devil…I just divorced him

I will say ‘bless you’ if someone sneezes. Not because I think it will help or that there’s anything in blessing, but because it’s tradition based on superstition and my way of acknowledging the sneezer might not be feeling their best and expressing sympathy.

But the natural world is material. I live in fairly rurally and spend plenty of time in nature. Experiencing the beauty and majesty of the natural world can certainly make you feel 'spiritual' in the sense of having a feeling of awe, but there's nothing supernatural about it. Natural, not supernatural.

It's true that ritual has always been important to humans, but you don't need to believe in anything supernatural to have rituals. That's why we tend to keep some the rituals and traditions we enjoy, long after most of us have stopped believing in the faiths and superstitions from which they originated.

There's nothing 'free-thinking' about believing in old wives' tales and religions, though I admit we have lost some of the positive aspects that came with shared belief and more embedded rituals and celebrations. I guess that's why we go so nuts about Christmas - it's the only big one left (in the UK at least).

And I love the traffic jam one…reminds me of every time I took the kids shopping, I’d fling my arms wide at the supermarket doors and say, ‘Open Sesame’
and the doors would open

And I still tell the red lights , ‘aw, c’mon. change’ and they do.

We don’t get traffic jams, but I’d definitely do that. Though maybe that’s because everyone is saying something to tell the traffic to keep moving. Hell of a thought that just sitting in the car waiting patiently would result in no one ever moving again and the road being permanently jammed.

@Heresmycontroversialopinion ok then, seeing as you demanded so nicely. Curses are most effective when you have something belonging to the victim. Hair, nails, body fluids, the earth they walk on, their photo, their signature. The more hair, the better the curse.

of course, if you practice sympathetic magic, all you need is a name, even a nickname.

Welsh witches are particularly known for curse magic, read Richard Suggett’s books where he sets out the text of the witch trials of Gwen Ferch Ellis, for example, or the stories about Olly Powell.

HTH

No ta, we like it here.. and tbh, i'm quite sure i've been posting here about my beliefs probably a lot longer than you have.. obviously i can't be sure.. but i've been on Mumsnet, posting about Paganism and Witchcraft under various names since. oooh.. about 2006? how long have you been here?

We've as much right to be here as you, there are plenty of 'normal mature individuals' who are mums (and dads) who also happen to be Pagan, and practicing witches.

As much as you, or any other poster tell us, we aren't leaving, we aren't going any where else, and we're quite happy where we are, thank you.

How about you stop sticking your oar in and telling other people where they can/can't post.

Witchcraft in and of itself isn't a religion. Some witches are Pagans, which often IS a belief based faith/religion. But not all are, same as not all Pagans are Witches, if that makes sense?

You have to remember that 'witchcrat' is simply the name given to the ritual around prayer and energy manipulation.

It's also a name thrown at a lot of Women in times gone by that were Herbalists and Wise women, midwives.. and pretty much any women the Christian/Catholic Churches didn't like and often who stuck to the old ways.

Yes I believe the same thing.

Witchcraft is a practice. There are practising witches in all religions and beliefs, even Christianity. Psalms are used in folk magic. Just don’t use the King James Bible <shudders>

I’m not woo, so I’m not defending that. Just finding it quite amusing that ‘Commonsensemom’ seems to believe in spirits and the possibility that dabbling in the occult could “ruin” her kid’s souls…while simultaneously calling it nonsense and judging others for not being “mature individuals” 😂