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“I’m Cat, and for a long time, Cat’s Rants, the longest running occult based blog was over at TypePad – since 2004. Sadly, TypePad shuttered permanently as of September 30th 2025. Please be patient while I export 21 years of blog posts over to my new WordPress location. With a much easier url to remember and all your favorite posts all the way back to 04, Cat’s Rants should hopefully improve over its former location.” 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.

Category: Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #??

    Frequent readings injure spell energy and slow manifestation. If you must have frequent updates try to keep readings at least two weeks apart. 

  • Just Because Mercury Retrograde and Big Holidays in North America Sometimes Don’t Mix

    Hey there Occulties, So, it's come to the time where people are making problems with their beloved (yay, Mercury retrograde,) and then making some pretty non-magical mistakes in reconciling that person or in navigating their situation well. While I'm so much more about the magical fixes (yay, magic!), I am also very aware that if…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #35 – Death Clocks

    Hey there Occulties, I know I've gone over the concept of what I somewhat humorously refer to as a "death clock" in here before, but I think, judging from my inbox, it's time to go over this concept again.  My long-time readers understand that the law of attraction is not that silly bullshit in that…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #34 – Silence is Golden

    Hey Occulties, While this issue is never that far from my inbox – someone generally suggests to me that they should do this, or they do it and then ask me why things are awful, – I suppose I should say this publicly, if I've not before. NEVER WRITE ANYTHING IN TEXT OR EMAIL THAT…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #33: Going Against Nature

    Hey Occulties, First, I know I'm tardy in releasing this info – Karen C is my winner for the Amazon.com gift card. I know you have been enjoying it for like 2 weeks now, lol, but now everyone knows you have it. 🙂 So, just something quick today, and this is probably going to make…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #32 – Emotion and Spellcasting

    Hey Occulties, I was having this conversation with a few people in the last week, so I figured it might benefit my readers as well.  So when you cast a spell, – especially on another person – you are going to have the greatest amount of impact if effecting this person on an EMOTIONAL LEVEL.…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #31: The Value of Choices

    Hey Occulties, I want you to know something… Everything you have or don’t have is because of you. Right now where you are is a result of the choices you made. Maybe something that happened today was the result of a choice you made YEARS ago, and maybe another thing that happened today was from…

  • One More Reason to Avoid Using Dating Sites and Apps

    UPDATED 10/20/14 – Yeah, because this actually isn’t as unusual as this news story makes it sound. You should hear the things I get to read and hear when it comes to online dating stories. Click to read. Hey Occulties, Redhead Writing’s Erika Napoletano shares her recent bad experience with Tinder here, and it just…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #30

    Hi Occulties, Many of you ask me why it is that you didn’t think of doing x spell before y event happened…well, since that’s a questions with as many answers to it as there are people asking it, I can’t help you there. What I can help you with is the following bit of advice…and…

  • Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom #29

    While it would behoove more than one of my clients to stop lying to me that they “really really” aren’t thinking the work I’ve done down to death (add in other BS, swearing on the Bible, and more BS, which usually comes with the “I haven’t thought about it,” excuse makers’ usual diatribe,) the thing…