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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: Occult

  • The “Spiritual Body” (sometimes called the “Etheric Body”)

    Hello my dear occulties, Today I'd like to discuss a topic which has come up frequently in the last few weeks betwixt myself and many different people (many of which have no contact with each other, so I take this as a sign discuss this with my dearest readers.) Now, let's start with stating the…

  • “Why are you picking a stupid fight you can’t win?” and “Why can’t you stop bringing up old shit!?” = Mars Retrograde at it’s finest

    Hey Occulties, You would never have had to show me a chart to tell me it's Mars retrograde because as the title would tell you, the weaker-minded and more easily-influenced, the intellect-deprived, and the drama-lovin' stalkers are all out en masse picking fights they can't win or stirring up old ones they never settled. It's…

  • Myth VS Reality

    Hey Occulties, Today, I'd like to discuss "wrong ideas" people get in their heads about spellwork, the occult, etc., which this is not really going to be a finite list or near to it, but definitely some of the things I currently see all too often. So in no numbered order, here are some myths…

  • Q&A: What sort of magical stuff goes on with Halloween?

    Hey occulties, Since I get this virtually every year, today I'm going to discuss the "magical provenance of Halloween." Let me smoosh this into a generic question (I've had SOOOO MANY of the same question for this every year, that I may as well,) and get discussing the topic. Q: Is Halloween/Samhain like a super…

  • That Explains a Few Things….

    So, a lot of friends who are self-employed and run small businesses have been complaining of crappy returns, while other (and sometimes the same) friends are complaining of having old secrets and old promises starting to haunt them. Well, both Saturn and Jupiter are in shadow and waiting to retrograde, and shadow periods are weirdly…

  • All Hail Saleos!

    Hey there, Occulties, Since I’ve definitely signed myself up for more work than I ever should have with 13 more posts (well, 12 after this,) all having to go up on or before December 31 (all while working 14 hour days, because I just am a glutton for punishment,) I had a few days to…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: End of 2014 Edition

    Hey occulties! You knew this was coming. Perhaps you knew because I’m uncreative, and I tend to enjoy these types of posts, or perhaps you know it was coming because you reading right now personally asked me so many questions last week in an email (that I’ve not replied to,) that you KNEW I’d have…

  • Solomonic Pentacles for Sale – Rufus Opus’ Head for Red

    *****THIS POST HAS MOVED DUE TO AN UNAUTHORIZED LINKING – Original date 12/15/13 – if you’re using my links, please be sure you have my permission. If you don’t have my permission to use my links, I will continue to change them until you get permission or get that you won’t be getting permission. 😉…

  • “Faking It until you Make It” vs Being a Moron

    Hi Occulties, As some of you might know, in many cases, I’m all for “faking it until you make it,” to some degree. All of us our beginners at some point, and many of us will be book-taught or classroom-taught on some subject with our first moment of real-life application of said knowledge happening after…

  • Scrying for Beginners

    Hello my lovelies, So first off…my search into the free domain did not illicit the image I want. Perhaps this is thanks to Mercury and its less-than-masterful position in the sky, or maybe I’m just not as good as chasing down images as I used to be. 😉 That being said, after a bit of…