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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: February 2014 edition

    Hello my Occulties! It’s time for another wonderful installment of questions you’ve asked me. Q: I broke up with so and so, and s/he was right about how I failed them. I totally want to make it up to them now, and I keep telling them that, but they won’t listen. S/He tells me to…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: 3 Quick Q&A’s Edition

    Hi Occulties, Just a super quick Q&A session: Q: I’ve heard people do not use pure essential oils, but dilute strongly with another oil to avoid skin irritation. Is this true? If so, what oil do I dilute with? A: Well, to be fair, the main concern many people “diluting” their own brand have is…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: August 16, 2013 Edition

    Hi Occulties, Another quick edition of QYAM. 😉 Q: I have heard not to do something magically if you won’t do it in the physical world, but also that sometimes it’s better to do it magically than in the physical world. Which is correct? A: Well, the simple answer is both. 😉 I do agree…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: March 27, 2013 edition

    Hi Occulties… Guess who gets lots of questions!? If you guessed me then you get a pretty gold star for effort. 😉 So let’s get this up for everyone else who’s been ever curious about the same subjects. Q: I did a reconciliation spell on my ex, and now s/he is with another guy/girl!? Did…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: February 21, 2013 Edition

    Dear Occulties, I beg my long-term-reader’s forgiveness here. Apparently several new readers are really quite incapable of going through the archives, so I am no doubt going to repeat myself on old topics. 😛 The following represents what I keep getting in my inbox and comments section (on multiple articles) for questions lately. Q: I…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me, Autumn 2011 ed

    Hey Occulties, Sorry to be so long in writing you….sometimes I’m reasonably sure I am damned to endlessly repeating myself. 😉 So, since I had a whole lot of that to do (yes I started, yes it was received, no I don’t need an update every ten minutes, etc,) I got busy and you didn’t…

  • Three Questions You’ve Asked Me

    Hey Occulties, Just 3 quick questions today! 🙂 Q: If I cursed someone almost five years ago, what do you think the liklihood is that they would reverse it back on me now? A: I would say it’s incredibly unlikely this person would REVERSE the very spell you cast on them. A long time has…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: Summer 2010 Edition

    Good afternoon my Occulties, Its time again for me to answer some questions I’ve been receiving in the newest edition of “Questions You’ve Asked Me.” So…without any further ado, let’s get to some questions! Q: Why do some jar candles/seven day candles explode? A: Presumably, if we were to just apply basic science (there are…

  • Questions You’ve Asked Me: Spring 2010 edition

    Hello my occulties! Its that time again! I felt we were due for a QYAM article, especially since I’ve been getting lots and lots and lots of questions. 🙂 So without further ado… Q: Why is Saint Martha black and holding a snake in one picture of her, then she’s olive-skinned in another picture of…

  • Instant Classic Email – Spellcasting in Outer-space

    Hey Occulties, Occaisionally I get some pretty funny email (whether or not that is the intention behind it,) so without further ado, a reader had asked me this: Q: Dear Cat, have you ever been in outerspace? I am pretty sure you haven’t, but I wondered – would spells still work if you cast them…