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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: On Spells and Spellwork

  • You May Be Causing Your Active Spellwork Problems

    Hello occulties! It seems its time for me to repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself for the thousandth time. Maybe I’m just rephrasing so those who ARE NOT TOO LAZY TO READ THE ARCHIVES might actually catch on to what I’m saying. 😉 Hey, sometimes you just need something…

  • Making Peace for Yourself

    Hey Occulties, This is just a quick blurb today, as several of you have asked me for techniques on how to sort of “brush off” the stressors and doubts keeping you from speedy spell manifestations. Of course we all get frustrated from time to time, and this isn’t anything to be embarrassed by. I totally…

  • To Make Someone Chatty/Talkative

    Hey Occulties, As you may have guessed, this spell can be used for good or bad. If someone is naturally a shy person and doesn’t speak a lot, this will help them open up and start speaking! 😀 However, if someone is keeping a few things in (and er, most of us are,) this spell…

  • Fixing a Figural Candle

    Alrightey, ready yourselves for a photo extravaganza! Here goes: In figure one, we see everything we will need for this (oil, candle, hair/personal item from target, spare candle, lighter, optional tweezers, and a screw that is SUPPOSED TO represent a nail, except some dirtbag walked off with my 10d nails this morning..ahem.) You do not…

  • A Bit of Advice!

    Hi all, While working on a really long article about correct action and proper frame of mind during and after spellcasting, I realized…this freaking article is a giant novel and most of you need some pointers NOW. I mean, to the level of its so needed NOW it was needed NOW a loooooooong time ago.…

  • A Spell to Get Another to Contact You

    Hey my Occulties! So I racked my little Hoodoo-eriffic brain this morning, and I tried to find something for you that all of you will enjoy. This was not easy… I’ve been working on OriginalNinjaCat products (actual products to advertise this here blog…but they are SOOOOO FUNNY if you are occult minded that I keep…

  • Quick Review

    Hello Occulties, So.. We’ve discussed the basic principles of effective spellcasting or being a petitioner (Spellcasting and petitioning here, Spellcasting here,) and I’ve also gone over references and basics in several places, such as here (blessing,) here (basics,) here (stuff like name papers,) and here (the entire archive of Questions You’ve Asked Me.) I’m not…

  • How The HELL Do You Tie This Thing Anyway?

    Hey occulties, So…I’ll be honest. Sometimes you guys have a hard time understanding things because its very new to you, and you’re unsure how to do things. Well, short of me making movies (difficult with no camera with that capacity,) I honestly avoid discussing it because I’m still describing, re-explaining, and explaining for the nth…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: Little Things You Should Know

    Hi Occulties, I get a lot of questions, and several of these more complex questions I answer via the Questions You’ve Asked Me articles (check out the catagory, and you will learn A LOT!) but some of them are so quick and easy to answer, I simply reply to your questions via email or the…

  • Dressing a Seven Day Vigil Candle

    Hello Occulties, Its come up to me a lot recently that several of you are looking to lighten your costs by blessing and dressing your own vigil candles. 😀 That’s great! I like seeing people taking an interest in doing for themselves…however a lot of you are lost on HOW this is properly done, so…