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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

  • Here’s Something to Think About

    Hey Occulites, You know what subjects I hate, and what makes me want to start throwing things at people who can’t absorb said subjects? Thinking it to death and not letting it go. For example, at least 50 times on any given week, I hear this little chestnut: “I’m not thinking it to death/not letting…

  • True Stories of the Disembodied!

    Hey Occulties, Now that I’ve assured my creepy Googler that I am always here to answer any question you may have about me (data mining and net-stalking being so passe and so stalkerish,) let’s all get down to our favorite topic… The Occult!!!! Your old friend, Cat, was thinking today about something I don’t speak…

  • Occult Spelling Lesson – not okult spulling laysun.

    Hello my dearies, I do hope everyone is enjoying the Holidays. Your old friend Cat just got her house back from the Reign of Terror (aka my two year old nephew, and his six month old brother,) and can I tell you something? There is nothing better to convince people to keep using birth control…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me, Contest Edition 2008, part II

    Hey my lovies, Sorry for the delay. Your friend Cat is having a hideous time with this new “improved” site editor here – it freezes up all of the time and I need to save and then re-open my post so I can edit it. I make a lot of typos. 😉 I never even…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me, Contest Edition 2008, part I

    Welcome to the Contest Edition of QUESTIONS YOU’VE ASKED ME. The first question is that of this year’s winner, followed by a few choice questions I received for enteries into the contest. 🙂 Without further ado: Q: You often talk about “Thinking something to death,” and yet books like The Secret, and Creative Thinking, suggest…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me, March 2008 edition

    Hello my dearest Occulties!!!! Today, I am going to do a QYAM article, in lieu of the fact that many of you asked me questions before my vay-kay, and probably, several during it (eff the inbox, I was napping!) so, here, to enlighten you all, is another edition of QUESTIONS YOU ASKED ME! Q: Why…

  • Happy Mercury Retrograde…

    Hello Occulties, And I hope you’ve been enjoying Mercury Retrograde since Oct 11 and until November 1st. Mercury is now causing all sorts of communication eff ups, making it so we should not sign contracts, and probably effecting all sorts of electronic devices like cell phones and computers. 😛 Don’t worry kids, its not going…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me – Contest Edition! Part two of two. :)

    Hi Everyone, Aw geez, this was stuck in “Drafts,” for the last week…sorry about that – d’oh! Anyhoo, since I am a bit tardy on writing this lengthy part 2 of 2 on the contest edition of Questions You’ve asked me, allow me to get into part 2 immediately. 😉 Q: What would you say…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me – Contest Edition! Part one of two. :)

    Hello Occulties, Thank you, first of all, goes out to everyone who participated in the contest! 🙂 The winner has been chosen, and though a few persons thought I would announce them by name, I will just say “Congratulations, D!” And since the person who won does know who they are….that’s all the information you…

  • Debunking Common Occult Myths

    Hey Occulties, This has long since been on my mind to write about some of the misconceptions surrounding the occult. I realize that there is no way I could even begin to cover the mass of rediculous and erronous beliefs out there, but in an attempt to clear some stuff up, I invite you to…