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Category: Mama Cat’s Pearls of Wisdom

  • Oh, my little nit-pickers and over-analyzers… I was INSPIRED today by someone who was the literal living breathing thinking-it-to-death definition to point this out to all of you…. Sometimes people get very hung up on the little details…so much so that they can’t see the bigger picture, but claim they are trying to by figuring…

  • Tags from worn hats or ballcaps are wonderful things to save – they are perfect for effecting the mind or thoughts of the person who’s hat you clipped the tag from. 🙂

  • Working a sweet jar on someone you live with or are dating is a great idea to help avoid Holiday-season blow ups in already-strained relationships. 🙂 If you feel like your relationship with someone is on shakey terms, or that you’re about to get in a fight, use the sweet jar before things get even…

  • Constantly asking practitioners for substitutes is sometimes a bit ridiculous. 😉 Check the spell you want to cast and if one of the ingredients seem pretty important, and you, for whatever reason, cannot get ahold of it, try picking a different spell. I can’t count the number of times someone said “What can I substitute…

  • If you’re keeping a spell journal or spell record, note the weather in your record. You may find your spells have a better effect during different types of weather. For example, I used to have a target who when I cast a spell on that person during a windy time, the spellwork would manifest 3…

  • While its good advice never to accept a gift from, or lend or give something to a person who has reason to harm you (and might use spellwork to do so,) its also a truth that if you’re looking to get your target to have contact with something you can put it in a gift…

  • If you find your charcoal disks for your incense burner are getting crumbly from damp weather there is a method to help preserve them. 🙂 I recommend putting them in a tupperware container to help protect against moisture to begin with, but if you get one of those silica-gel packets (like those packets that say…

  • If the tarot cards are sticking when you shuffle, its probably bad news on the way.

  • A lot of people come to me who want to learn to do spells, and certain people (the same type) often complain that their spells “aren’t working.” This type of person is obviously very anxious about their situation when I met them (often understandably,) which is why they claim they have had the “desperation” to…

  • Sometimes you just have to let go and enjoy the ride – stop trying to direct it all the time, and you might be surprised that you’ve ended up exactly where you wanted to be all along. ~Miss Mama Cat What happens if you steal, copy, plagiarize or in some way infringe on my copyright?…