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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:35 pm
((Posting this here as the magic subforum appears to be as dead as an ex-parrot. Mods, feel free to move the thread there regardless if you want, though I'm afraid that if it's moved there it will die a neglected death.))
I know we all work in a variety of magical styles; some here appear to be ceremonial, others folk; some work in well-defined traditions while others are more freestyle. I thought it'd be both fun and interesting to compare notes.
(Edit to note: I don't really recommend talking about any spells you are currently working in case someone who reads your post inadvertently alters the work with their own energy. Unless your protection is bulletproof, it's probably wiser to discuss past work only.)
So, as you're comfortable with it, I'd be interested in hearing about one of the last spells -you- did. Answer any, none, or all of the following questions as you like - they're just there to get discussion started. smile
- What was the purpose of the spell?
- Did you do any divination beforehand to determine whether it was appropriate to do spellwork?
- Did you do it in any particular style or tradition? if so, which one?
- How much experience do you have working that particular kind of spell? Have they tended to be successful for you in the past?
- Describe what you did?
- If you work in a style or tradition that looks for omens of spell success in its remains (the way wax has dripped while a candle burns, for example, or soot/fogginess/etc in glass-enclosed novena style candles; also, omens in everyday life immediately thereafter, such as doing work for a new home and then having a New Home magazine dropped off at your front door the next day) what omen(s) did you recieve? Promising/discouraging?
- Have you had results from your spell yet?
- If your spell was a disaster, what went wrong? (this can be just as educational as spells done right!)
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:03 am
- What was the purpose of the spell? To break ongoing depression - Did you do any divination beforehand to determine whether it was appropriate to do spellwork? No, because I was pretty desperate - Did you do it in any particular style or tradition? if so, which one? I usually work in the hoodoo style more or less, and this occasion was no different. - How much experience do you have working that particular kind of spell? Have they tended to be successful for you in the past? I honestly don't remember if I've ever worked a depression breaking spell before, but I'm pretty good at getting excellent results with candle magic. - Describe what you did? I picked up a reiki-charged "Joy" candle. To be honest, I had absolutely no expectations that it would work whatsoever, but the candle had good energy to it. (It goes without saying that the reiki bit isn't old-school hoodoo, but one thing about hoodoo is that it is very flexible and adaptive to the situation you're in to a pretty big degree - you use what you can get - so in a way, it does fit in with the old style.) This candle was then treated in a more traditional hoodoo manner: I carved my name into it, made a hole in its base and sealed in a couple hairs from my head - the use of 'personal concerns' is very big in hoodoo - then replaced the plug of wax I'd cut out, then dressed the whole thing in "Blessing" condition oil. This involved rubbing the oil into the candle from the base upwards - in hoodoo, that's considered drawing in. If I were doing some kind of banishing spell, the oil would have been rubbed from the top down to the base. ((A page on condition oils in hoodoo: http://www.luckymojo.com/oils.html )) A brief prayer to my guides, and the thing was lit and set to burn completely until it was out. -Omens/results: No omens were necessary, because the spell was effective immediately. It took the candle about three to four hours to burn out and at the end of that time the deepest, darkest, most immobilizing part of the depression that had weighed me down for about two months was cracked apart and gone; I estimate I was 80% better. There was quite a lot of melted wax leftover from that burn, which I saved. It's still got that same amazing healing energy, so I cut it into little bits and burn it a little at a time along with the prayer tea lights I burn almost daily.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:33 am
- What was the purpose of the spell? I've worked pretty exclusively with guides/totem animals/guardian spirits. In a reading, it came up that it was pretty much high time I began working with a nurturing figure of the divine female. I've had Kwan Yin on my altar since the dawn of forever, and thought I'd work with her as my nurturing goddess of choice. Thus this wasn't really a spell per se, but it was worked as one and the results were spell-like.
- Did you do any divination beforehand to determine whether it was appropriate to do spellwork? No. I should have. *laugh*
- Did you do it in any particular style or tradition? if so, which one? Hoodoo again, but this time a syncretic Santos/hoodoo approach: I bought a 7-day glass enclosed novena candle of one of the several Catholic versions of Mary. I would have bought a Caridad del Cobre candle if I could have found one, but I live in Hawaii - with a nearly nonexistent Latino population - and so local availability of novena saint candles is limited indeed. I am aware that there are many who are very strict that deities are absolutely non-interchangeable, but I find St. Mary's energy so like Kwan Yin that I -do- consider them interchangeable and in fact I use St. Mary blessed saint oil on my Kwan Yin statue. I have an aquaintance who I only recently found out does exactly the same thing. Ain't the world a small place. *laugh*
- How much experience do you have working that particular kind of spell? Have they tended to be successful for you in the past? I've never done a prayer-spell quite like this before.
- Describe what you did? The novena candle was prepared as usual - name carved in it, dressed in Blessing oil, and blessed (though this time no personal concerns were added directly to the candle itself, because that's a bit tricky to do with a novena candle...) I wrote a lengthy prayer/petition on parchment, dressed that in Blessing oil too, and set the candle atop it and a few of my hairs, prayed aloud extemporaneously over the whole thing, then lit the candle and allowed it to burn out completely. It only took two and a half days, which is FAST for this kind of candle. Usually speed in burning is a good sign, but... (see omens)
- what omen(s) did you recieve? Promising/discouraging? The candle was extraordinarily sooty; the whole top half was jet black. This means I've got major blockages, which don't surprise me - I've felt them present for quite some time. Too, there was about a half inch? of unburned wax at the bottom, which indicates in context of the sootiness that while the candle had difficulty, the failure wasn't total. I am encouraged to try this one again, though I think I will approach it differently this time.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:25 pm
I don't really do "spells" but for the sake of getting this thread taken off I'll detail something I've done recently. I've never really felt comfortable with a lot of ceremony in my workings. The most I'll do is light a candle or incense during meditation.
Anyway, recently I've been obsessed with developing my telekinesis to a higher degree. (I tend to focus more on personal skills and abilities rather than imploring higher powers to do things, but that's just my style.) I've been trying to determine what the mechanism behind telekinesis is and how to make it more effective on larger objects. So recently I've been trying to observe and record my mental state and inner workings while telekinesis is working like I want it to with objects that I can easily move.
I'm a believer in synchronicity, and sometimes I do have synchronistic events happen that drive me or tell me things, but for this particular thing I haven't. I will say that my dreams have been a lot more vivid lately and I think it has something to do with my probing these areas of my mind that make this work.
Have I been able to get the results I'm after yet? No, but I think I'm on my way.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:24 am
I will be -very- interested to hear more about your findings regarding telekinesis. I find I can do that kind of thing only if I absolutely positively HAVE to, as in the time around 12 years ago that I airheaded out and ran my car out of gas. >< ((In that instance, I concentrated on solidifying remaning fumes and moisture in the tank and lines for the car and feeding it to the engine; I managed to get it to the station without stalling out, though the car ran poorly. The moment I made it in front of a pump, however, my concentration broke, and the car stalled. My then-boyfriend was in the car with me when this happened, and his job in all this was to ensure all the lights were green on the way to the station as, well, there was no way the car was going to make it waiting through a stoplight. He was successful, as well. Needless to say this has never happened again as I have never allowed a car to run out again.)) If there isn't an urgent need for TK I just cannot do it at all, not even with very light objects.
You mention there are objects you can easily move. Do you feel comfortable discussing that? What objects are they? I'd be interested to know more about what you've achieved so far.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:05 pm
The objects that I can move easily are the ones that I began with. That being what's called a "psi wheel". It's basically a little pinwheel made of foil or paper. I can move both varieties of varying size and in the case of the aluminum ones, I can actually move one made of soda can grade metal.
There's a lot of controversy around psi wheels because obviously something as small as a draft can cause them to move. However, I'm confident that I'm the one moving them because they move in the direction I tell them to (Most of the time. Sometimes they get stubborn and I have to concentrate harder. I think it may be a psychological block or something but I'm not sure on that.).
I have trouble getting very much movement out of objects behind glass or plastic barriers. I feel this is because my mind recognizes instinctively that it is a barrier and that barriers are impervious. I think further practice will help in this area. I had something of an epiphany about it today and I think the limiting factor is focus. It has to be a relaxed focus though; a focus entirely in the mind.
I'm hoping to move up to larger objects soon, but friction is the enemy.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:55 pm
I don't really cast spells unless I can find no mundane solution. So I don't do them often.
Then again...I do simple spells when I am walking around, shields and which what. Healing...but nothing huge, you know?
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:40 pm
- What was the purpose of the spell? To help keep me motivated for the current goal I'm working toward. I was pretty discouraged at the time, and I felt I was being pulled toward my little "altar" (it's really just my coffee table with some pretty candles, gemstones and a few things I found outside), so I thought, "Well, why not?"
- Did you do any divination beforehand to determine whether it was appropriate to do spellwork? Because of the spiritual "pull" I felt, I decided that was enough to tell me that it was appropriate to do this spellwork.
- Did you do it in any particular style or tradition? if so, which one? This was closer to a guided meditation or even the beginnings of a Shamanistic journey to the OtherWorld.
- How much experience do you have working that particular kind of spell? Have they tended to be successful for you in the past? Only a little experience, but yes. They've been successful.
- Describe what you did? I began by turning off anything that might distract me while I was starting my meditation/journey. Computer speakers, cell phone, house phone ringer, etc. I put the cat in the other room (though he generally likes to sit with me when I do this kind of thing) because I knew he'd hop into my lap and startle me if I left him in the same room with me. I opened the window so that I could hear the breeze making my GIANT wind chimes toll, and the rustle of the leaves in the trees. That was a HUGE help with my journey.
I lit all the candles in my little candle arch... It has 5 votive holders, so I put in one candle color for each element, and one for Spirit at the top. My intention was to ask for assistance from the Earth to cleanse and purify my body and energy, to keep me steadfast in my endeavors and help me grow as a person.
Then I set about meditating/journeying.
- If you work in a style or tradition that looks for omens of spell success in its remains, what omen(s) did you recieve? Promising/discouraging? When I was finished, I opened my eyes to discover that the flame on the brown (earth) candle was ENORMOUS and burning brightly without flickering, despite breeze from the open window. I took that as a promising sign.
As a "thank you" to whichever deity had helped me (I wasn't asking for specifics), I added fresh lavender seeds to the wax of the white, Spirit candle and let it burn another hour or so beyond my meditation.
- Have you had results from your spell yet? Since this episode was months ago, yes. For a long while I was very motivated and kept working toward my goal like the little engine that could. Now, though, some of that's faded. I probably need to do another one of these attempts again.
- If your spell was a disaster, what went wrong? (this can be just as educational as spells done right!) Fortunately, everything worked as I had hoped.
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:23 pm
- What was the purpose of the spell? To protect my children.
- Did you do any divination beforehand to determine whether it was appropriate to do spellwork? No - divination hardly ever works for me.
- Did you do it in any particular style or tradition? if so, which one? Call it shamanism, as that's where the idea came from.
- How much experience do you have working that particular kind of spell? Have they tended to be successful for you in the past? I do it every night at bedtime, so yes I have experience, and it's all been arguably successful.
- Describe what you did? I visualized a blooming rose and fixed it on the child's closed door. Then I instructed various spirits to stand guard on the landing and the stairwell.
- If you work in a style or tradition that looks for omens of spell success in its remains, what omen(s) did you receive? Promising/discouraging? I haven't particularly noticed any yet. Well, not unless you count the red-tailed hawk in the neighborhood.
- Have you had results from your spell yet? Of course. Especially when I add a teacher for my son - some interesting people show up, and I usually notice a difference in my son's approach to things, appropriate to any given teacher, within a few days.
- If your spell was a disaster, what went wrong? (this can be just as educational as spells done right!) Every instance has been successful. Only good and helpful spirits come - and I vet them to be sure.
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