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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.

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  • 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…

  • 3 New Questions You’ve Asked Me

    Hi Occulties, These ones have been popular lately, so enjoy. 1. Q: I have been working on my ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend to be reconciled to me, but have met with so-so results…but I do well with other spells…any reason why this could be happening? A: My answer would be yes…and it could be one or all of…

  • Holy Mercury Retrograde!!

    Hey y’all… Enjoying the problems caused by Mercury Retrograde? …don’t know what it is, just know you’re REALLY AGGRAVATED BY ALL THINGS MERCURY-RULED LATELY? Waugh! What am I talking about? Click here to see. For the rest of you, this started on the 28th of October and is ending on the 17th on November…and its…

  • There is no Karma and Free Will is a Cruel Joke, IMHO

    Hello My Occulties, Well, its that time again. The time on Cat’s Rants where I tell all of you…to STOP writing me about karma, “free will,” “Satan,” or the Law of Three, unless you want me to tell you why I am 99% sure all of these things are fallacies (with the exception of “free…

  • Yes, Virgina, It IS Mercury Retrograde!

    NOTICE – TYPEPAD “ATE” THIS POST AFTER THEIR DATA/SERVER PROBLEMS, WHICH IT WAS ACTUALLY IN THE “RIGHT PLACE” UNTIL TODAY, AS IT IS ORIGINALLY FROM JULY 12th 2006. THE MEAT HEADS AT TYPEPAD WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE IT IS FROM JULY 14, BUT IT IS NOT THE CASE, IT IS FROM JULY 12. I APOLOGIZE…

  • Cat Rants Again about “Karma”

    Hello Occulties…. Lately I have been a bit annoyed my the ubiquitous (or even omnipresent,) Karma police…some of whom are even friends of mine… 😛 Alrighty then… Let us on with my opinion here, shall we? I don’t believe in “Karma” for several reasons, and before you gaggle up some sort of example of it,…

  • Selling Fat?

    Hello Occulties! Today I am going to teach you all a neat trick to get rid of that winter weight – SELL YOUR FAT!!! 🙂 What do I mean by this? Exactly what I said… What you do is you get a friend to purchase your weight (up to 10 lbs,) and then have them…

  • Coersion in Spellwork

    Hello Occulties… Just yesterday I came by a rather laughable site made most obviously by one of the prepressed Llewellyn-ized mages of our day…. This interesting attempt at teaching spells, made “karma” out to be some sort of theoretical “Angel of Death,” or something… Well, I felt the need to clarify. Generally, no matter what…

  • How Many Limit Their Own Success

    Hello my occulties… A few of you have been emailing me lately asking why you have not seen results on some of your spellwork… In 5 out of 6 cases, the answer has been the same f—ing thing, and it is a problem that creeps into my emailbox regularly around this time of year until…