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Category: Questions You’ve Asked Me

  • Hey there Occulties, Time for a Questions You’ve Asked Me article. Hope it’s not too repetitive for my long time readers! 🙂 Q: How often should I cast spells on my situation? A: This one has come up before, but I get this a lot, so my advice is as follows… If you’re casting for…

  • Hey there occulties, It’s time for the contest edition of Questions You’ve Asked me! 🙂 Grand Prize Winner (PS) Q: You frequently have said that a personal concern could not be reused and I was wondering why this was the case? I’ve seen on ‘certain message boards’ of people claiming they have laminated personal concerns…

  • Hey there my Occulties+, Welcome to another exciting day at Cat’s Rants. Today, being relatively uninspired (well, I should say being stuck in a house with 2 people who emulate Mary Typhoid when sick – like coughing on their hand and putting it into a bag of chips and drinking right out of the container…

  • Hey Occulties+, This just swam into my inbox. I thought it was a good question, so I’m putting it here. I’ve paraphrased and changed names to protect the querent. Thank you for letting me use this, person who asked said question. 😉 Q: About 7 years ago, I broke up with a man who I…

  • Hey occulties! You knew this was coming. Perhaps you knew because I’m uncreative, and I tend to enjoy these types of posts, or perhaps you know it was coming because you reading right now personally asked me so many questions last week in an email (that I’ve not replied to,) that you KNEW I’d have…

  • Hey there, occulties, Just a quickie today. Q: Can you tell me which is a better “sign” – the candle burning slow, or the candle burning fast? A: To be fair, some people read a slow burn as a good sign, and by slow, I mean uber super slow. I do not take it as…

  • Hey there, Occulties, Time to answer another round of questions which have been plaguing my inbox. 😉 Hope this is educational for some of you. Q: What, in your opinion, is the single best skill to start working on for a new magician/rootworker/spellcaster? A: I answer this question probably every few years, and while some…

  • Hi Occulties, The above question floated into my emailbox this past week, and since I suspect some of you are curious, I’ll just publicly answer this to the best of my ability. Please keep in mind, the human mind and human emotions are as complex and varied as can be. I can’t list all of…

  • Hi Occulties! I know, I know, why am I doing this again? Because I have to. Please feel free to laugh, to shudder, or to go “Wait, I didn’t realize this!” 😉 Enjoy…because I’m sure I just offended some people. I wish I was sorry about that. Q: Where do you buy sulfur? I have…

  • Hey occulties, Time again, for a Questions You’ve Asked Me article. 😀 Q: I have found a dead bird in front of my house. I think I’m cursed. I also had a spider crawl on me, so I must be cursed, right? A: I often get mails about an unfortunate dead bird (who probably ran…