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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

  • 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…

  • Goodness, This Again.

    Hey Occulties, I have been working on that freaking color article for eleven days and its boring my eyes right out of my pretty but enormous head (for reals, I looked like Charlie Brown or one of the Peanuts characters when I was little…as in EXACTLY LIKE,) so, I have decided to take a break…

  • You Are Sometimes Your Own Worst Enemy

    Hello Occulties, So… I snuck a few peeks into my inbox lately, and lo and behold there is indeed lots of crazy behavior… Behavior which has happened as a result of PANIC. What on earth are you panicking for? Have I not told you that is a useless behavior, and that if I wasn’t breaking…

  • To Use a Spell Kit Or to Not Use a Spell Kit?

    Hey Occulties, A lot of you have asked my opinion on spell kits, so I figured I’d give it my opinion here publicly. First and foremost, I probably have no idea of what is in your spell kit. 😉 I have never used one, and I’m not normally privy to what people put in their…

  • Success, Figural Candle Style

    Hello My Darlings, So, there have been a multitude of requests for SUCCESS spells lately. I wanted to give you all something relatively simple you can do to help succeed in your chosen area in life, so here goes. 🙂 You will need: A yellow-orange figural candle representive of the sex of the spell target…

  • A Quick Article on Cleansing You and Your Area

    Hey Occulties, Many of you have written in asking Miss Cat if I could help you with cleansing yourself after you’ve done harmful or dark spellwork. 😉 Well, certainly! First of all, you should smoke your spell area regularly to remove unwanted energies, and perhaps your whole home with a “smudge stick” or bundle of…

  • 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…

  • Possible Reasons for Spell-Failure

    Hey everyone… This one is a big concern in my inbox, so I figured I’d touch upon it. 🙂 I realize for some of you, this is review and I am sorry. This is also not a full or complete list of reasons, but hopefully it will aid some of you in your own spellcasting.…

  • Fixing the Skull Candle for the Controlling Spell

    WARNING TO PLAGURISTS – Oct 17, 2008: I recently learned this spell is being featured on someone’s site. My site clearly details you are not to copy and paste any of my work anywhere without my express permission. While these plagurists are dealing with my lawyer, I do urge you to contact me if you’ve…