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

Not really sure why some people on here are so offended by someone enjoying spellwork?! I would never be so rude to someone just because they want to set good intentions in their life with a few spells. It's good to set intentions out loud, they have more chance of happening (pending on our karmic path). Lots of people are deeply religious and they cannot all be right, but I'm not going to question something that makes someone feel happy.

What utter twaddle!

No. Don’t be silly. Rtft.

I will thanks .. unless of course, witches have cast a spell on me 🤔

Yes @Heresmycontroversialopinion stop being silly .. said by someone who believes casting spells actually works outside Harry Potter universe 😉

Crikey OP you're brave posting this in Chat! It probably doesn't mean anything much....I wouldn't worry about it.

I'd recommend a book called Becoming Rich by Genevieve Davis. It's manifestation with action.. ie if you take action, the universe will help you along. (Yes I see the eye rolls and don't care.). All her books are amazing, particularly Becoming Genevieve.

@Heresmycontroversialopinion My only experience of mice is watching Tom
and Jerry.

I would not however be surprised if it turned out that mice do not frequently outwit cats and play cruel tricks on them.

Please try to recognise that entertainment shows may exaggerate, misrepresent or entirely invent things in the name of entertainment.

Oh for goodness sake its not “wisdom passed down in simplified form” its gathering of identifiable evidence and distinguishing between clear evidence of fact and indicative evidence with a probability (eg evolutionary biology is a scientific field of study and evolutionary psychology is largely bollocks which often confuses the two).

If you and others find that a hobby/belief system gives you a social life, community and is useful to structure your ethical framework then great - use it. Core ethical values/rules in most faiths distill down the same way, just in different packages. If a candle helps you concentrate, relax or focus on addressing changes you wish to make - again fine, use it.

When you go past that and start ascribing supernatural interventions to common natural phenomena (candle drips, window draughts) and worry about them, seeking “explanations” on social media you have taken it past a social value and harmless fun into harmful superstition.

“What does it meeeeannnn” time would be better spent as “get out the spreadsheet and check the bills” or even “start cutting the coupons”.

I just looked it up and you’re right, i did enjoy it. Thank you

Please stop it’s embarrassing

Try walking straight across the path of a full size fossil reconstruction of a sabre toothed cat in a dimly lit part of a museum - see what your nervous system does for you even though your 21st century brain, social constructs, education and the eyes in your head all acknowledge that it's absolutely impossible for it to be a threat. Don't know if it's still there, but it was downstairs at the Horniman Museum.

You'll feel the instincts and biochemical responses that have kept humans alive for millennia affecting your body, not cheng qi and sha qi.

This made me laugh! My little boy dreamed that he was Harry Potter last night.

I don’t think I have said ANYWHERE that I believe casting spells “works” in the way you mean it. What I believe is that the connections between humans and the natural world are capable of being more complex and more powerful than most of us assume. And I absolutely believe that the belief itself is what is critically important - the OP’s “spell” was asking for strength to change a personal behaviour. There is no reason at all that shouldn’t “work” if she believes it.

@NeverDropYourMooncup What really?! 😂😂😂

So are you ruling out the possibility that a lifetime of social conditioning (being told that big cats with claws and big teeth are scary and will attack you) couldn’t have a part to play in this?

Honestly, I’m live and let live. I just genuinely can’t understand how anyone can believe in this stuff, truly believe that lighting a candle and what happens to it, is actually meaningful in any way. OP wants to save money - well just save, don’t light a candle about it 🤷‍♀️
❤️ to your little boy .. bet he was gutted when he woke up 🧙

In case anyone wants to see the musical equivalent of this thread

This reminds me of something my nan told me when we were chatting. My nan died in 1987, so this was a long time ago. Anyway, there was a neighbour that Nan was very good friends with. Nan's friend once said to her, "if I go before you, Annie, I'll come back as a white cat". Years later Nan's friend did pass away, and a short time after, Nan was sitting in her living room. It was a sunny day, so the front door was open, terraced house where the front door opened directly onto the street. A white cat walked in and promptly sat on a chair in the living room, looked at Nan for a bit, then walked back out again. Nan said that she had never before or since had a cat or any animal do that. I always remember that story. My nan was as honest as the day so I know she wouldn't have made it up.

Another time I had been visiting the grave of someone who means a lot to me. Afterwards I was heading for the bus station to get my bus back home. Beforehand, I'd been strolling along by the river and had left it a bit late, so I was rushing and getting a bit flustered. An elderly woman with shopping bags stopped in front of me, blocking my path, so I was like, in my head, thinking, "Get out of my way, old lady; I'm going to miss my bus!", and getting even more bothered. Just then a feather dropped down right in front of me. It made me go "Oh!" and take stock. I did catch my bus okay in the end, and made sure I timed things better in future.

I don't care if anyone pooh poohs the above, I still remember it years later.

Why not just say "Actually yes, that was a leap. I should have said that IHateWasps doesn't have any religious or spiritual beliefs."

This thread is cracking fun.

I don’t go onto witchcraft threads in Philosophy/Religion because they’re too stupid for words and, out of courtesy, because if like-minded people want to advocate burning their houses down by lighting sage or summon ‘forces’ by dancing naked by the washing line, that’s their business.

But once they jump the paddock and appear on Chat, game on.

That said, I did see a black cat on the street recently. So I did an incantation on the spot, with a small animal sacrifice, for forgiveness from bad energy. I made sure I was quite loud so the universe and Gaia could hear me.

The police later said I was upsetting the neighbour’s kids. As far as I’m concerned it’s my human right to worship but they still gave me a public order offence warning. Outrageous!

@C8H10N4O2 there’s a lack of scientific consensus regarding evolutionary biology with some arguing that humans stopped evolving in the last 10,000 years and others arguing evolution sped up 100 times in that timespan.
I find someone telling me in a 2 day course about stress in office life, that my stress is all to do with the amygdala and hormones very fascinating. And useful. But a complete answer? No.

Well, because you offered to spell it out for me… (no pun intended).

I thought I might challenge my own thought process. Perhaps not a popular concept on this thread.

Oh gosh, you're so witty, original and hilarious!

Come on, be honest. You aren't interested in challenging your thought processes.

Save money by not buying candles, lighters/matches as they are not necessities.

Lots of people may have beliefs we don’t share, however a respect that these beliefs may bring them comfort or strength should always be respected. As long as no one is trying to force their beliefs/disbeliefs on me, and not harming anyone, I don’t mind what people believe. Modern witchcraft is a nature based spirituality I believe, and most people I’ve met who are into this are lovely gentle folk with a respect for the planet and their beliefs are no more unbelievable than any other religious group.

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