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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: Questions You’ve Asked Me

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: Happy To Be Back edition

    Questions You’ve Asked Me: Happy To Be Back edition

    Hey Occulties, It’s been SOOOO long since I posted a QYAM, that I really needed to get one out. I’ve been working on a few spell posts, but this one is definitely overdue. Remember, these questions sometimes come from multiple people repeatedly (thus why they can seem repetitive as it means I need to review…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: June 2025 edition

    Hey Occulties, Let's get going with another round of Questions You've Asked Me. I'm starting with a repeat, but it's a really important repeat. ;)  Q: What are the biggest issues you witness among your clients/readers most often when using love/reconciliation magic? I did a video of this last year, but first and foremost, it…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: March 2025 edition

    Greetings everyone,' I missed you so much. After Mr NinjaCat, and spellcasting, writing is my true love. Unfortunately doing it on an old iPhone is something I definitely do not love, haha, but I've solved that problem and can type on a traditional keyboard again.  So, as tired as it may be for some readers,…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: December 2024 edition

    Hey kids, Sorry I took a break from socials and posting. I was beyond busy with work and personal stuff. I have two very ill loved ones and thought one was going to die (well he still is going to die, just not as near to it as we thought,) and working 70 hour weeks…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: July 2024 edition

    Hey Occulties, Here we go, another QYAM article! Q: Should I do cursing during a waxing or waning moon phase?  A: Either. It depends on the curse. If I’m assuming you want the curse energy to grow which would use a waxing phase, then you’d start at the first quarter waxing phase, but if you’re…

  • QYAM April 2024 edition

    Hey Occulties, Time once again for questions you’ve asked me! Q: Was the recent eclipse good for anything magically? A: Assuming it was visible to you, yes, but as I’d said to various readers and clients, our forebears didn’t use such phenomena that wasn’t visible to them (as they likely were not aware of it,)…

  • QYAM: March 2024 edition

    Hey occulties, Its time for another addition of Questions You’ve Asked Me! Q: If the moon is full, will that make the spell stronger?  A: No, probably not. In most cases someone asking this assumes that the full moon, being itself the completion of the WAXING or GROWING lunar cycle means that a full moon…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: August 2023 edition

    Q: What is a good all-purpose type working to draw in positivity? I feel l am stuck in a rut, lately! A: Roadopening is the best answer to many problems in cases such as these. I’ve shared a recipe for the oil here, and it’s a very easy formula to use. It can even be…

  • Questions You Asked Me Contest Winners

    Hey there Occulties, So this year I feel people really did not ask their best questions. Perhaps after 2 decades, I've managed to really get the best out of everyone, which I honestly hope I'm wrong in that regard. So very often, the questions in the QYAM contest were so inspiring to me and helped…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: December 2022 Edition

    Hey Occulties, Stuck at my once a week retail side hustle and since it's incredibly slow die to the storm, I had time to make you this. 🙂 Q: Can I bless and curse someone simultaneously? A: Possibly. It depends on whether one is going to contradict the other. If I curse someone to have…