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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: Weblogs

  • Wonderful Post on Sigil Magic

    I recently stumbled across this great guide to sigil magic on Rune Soup. Recommended to all.

  • Techniques For Encouraging Communication

    Hello my dearies, Dara Anzlowar has a wonderful post on methods for encouraging communication using a photo over on her blog. I highly recommend it to my readers. ~C

  • Reason #5619 Karma Zain is one of my personal heroes. ;)

    http://karmazain.livejournal.com/133176.html is both an amusing and enlightening article showing you how people trying to sell spiritual goods/services sometimes combine traditions in very off ways, or try to sell you something which is pretty likely not real. As always the wise and wonderful Miss Karma Zain explains this better than I ever will without sounding like…

  • About Leaving Ads in the Comments Section

    Hey everyone, I’ve been getting a surge of fake comments from practitioners pretending to be clients they have. These comments will never be posted or seen by anyone but myself, and you are actually banned from commenting for forever (meaning it looks like it goes through on your end but I never see a comment…

  • Yeah I wanted to write you an article….but…

    Hi Occulties, My temp post is down. It ends up I can’t escape looking in that inbox before I get here even if I try. Why? Because some stupid part of me thinks something in there will inspire me or make me not entirely doubt that humans are a race of intelligent beings. That inbox…

  • Comment Submission Guidelines Page

    Here is one of those pages which is apparently a mystery to some of my new readers. Please check it out before you leave a comment. 🙂

  • Only A Redhead Would Be Awesome Enough To Write this Article on Internet Plaigiarism

    As many of you know, I am ripped off constantly by a boatload of butt-munching internet terrorists, most of whom are too stupid to write their own copy, and have absof*ckinglutely no idea how to cast a spell…or probably what a spell even is. From the moron who copied and pasted me and then SIGNED…

  • Karma Zain’s Post Should Be Required Reading

    Hey everyone, I really think you should read this article by Karma Zain – it gives a very clear picture into how time consuming answering emails in a rootwork related job can be, and how sometimes people have ridiculous expectations simply for being ignorant of how complicated the answer to their questions are. (Those of…

  • Dealing with Negative Feelings

    Hey everyone, If you’re having a hard time dealing with your stress or negativity, this post from Tiny Buddha may be of some assistance. Enjoy! ~Cat

  • Oh Dear, It’s the Appearance of Mythical Beasts

    Hey all, While I’m LOVING all the contest entries, I’m a bit troubled with a few which seem borne of a few common mythological creatures of spellcasting….suchas: The myth of a foolproof or guaranteed spell. Anyone who swears that a spell must work and is guaranteed to do so (as in there is no way…