Cat’s Rants: Confessions of an Occult Mastermind

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  • Personal Update 1/15/26

    Hey Occulties,

    I realize I sort of flew off the radar for a few months. If I’m being fair, the combination of “discount laptop,” combined with using the formatting nightmare which is wordpress and added to my regular behind the scenes crazy life (I only ever wanted a normal life, but God had other plans,) made the perfect stew for me to just…not want to deal with that which I’m not paid to deal with which most definitely is this blog. In fact, I pay to have a blog, a fact made all the more infuriating when I can’t format the SOB.

    Additionally, people came to me absolutely distraught about the blog being gone from it’s home url of 21 years (glaring at you, TypePad,) and my constant having to repeat what had happened sort of furthered my own distress at it being such a fucking mess. Thanks to a lovely combination of adult ADHD (which means my neglecting the task created a massive shame spiral every time it was brought up to me, and therefore caused even more task avoidance,) and being constantly busy to the point that I’ve not had any time off in maybe a decade (including having to work full time through some hugely traumatic events a few years ago) which means I am always a bit burnt out (someone has to keep the lights on, though, and that someone is me,) meant it just kept getting pushed back.

    When you have 40-60 other people’s personal problems to deal with (yay, active cases,) in addition to your own, it’s really easy to just say “fuck it,” when your whole life’s work is being held hostage by a hosting platform that cannot be easily or understandably formatted…because it’s only hostage and not going anywhere, and someone needs to stalk their ex on some new platform and make an excuse for doing it, and I’m going to have to deal with that now anyhow (stalking your ex is very bad for reconciliation work, kids), as I am PAID to deal with that… Or at least this was my internal chatter for some time.

    Yeah, I know. If that sounds very impractical, welcome to my brain, lol. I put everything before my own needs (my business, my friends, my family, my pets,) to the point it’s detrimental, and then avoid tasks that if I just locked myself into to doing them would greatly benefit my life, but if it’s not PAYING ME, my obligation to pay it, my obligation to feed and water it, or married to me, I’m probably going to get around to it eventually which could be months from now. I seriously have put off calling the DMV for over a year now, because the wait is too long and they can just keep saying I live at the wrong address for all I care (but which has caused minor annoyances, lol,) to give you some idea. I legitimately need to wait on hold for a bit and correct an address but I probably will ignore that task until I need to renew, haha.

    Let me be fair, here, I’m not going to tell you all the things going on in my personal life, but while it’s less tumultuous than it has been, like I said above, it hasn’t been stress-free. We even tried to get a house and that’s a lot of headache and nonsense no matter how qualified. I honestly can’t imagine being a realtor because pressuring people to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a very small window sounds absolutely batshit insane to me, but it clearly is not for those I dealt with… If you had told me someone would ask me to prove that I have a quarter of a million dollars in less than a day (I did not have this when asked for this, – I think I had a quarter of a thousand dollars in checking at that time, haha,) ever in my whole life, I would have thought you quite mad, but here we are. I do get it…really, but at the time it was a most bizarre and uncanny moment in my life. Like, girl, I’m wearing Shein and have half-inch roots right now, – do I look like my bank account is six digits?

    I did want to assure everyone that I am not dead, nor is my spouse, and we aren’t living in a cardboard box, or anything like that. I am not in a fetal ball curled in my closet, nor chronically or terminally ill. The blog can and will continue on. It will be fixed so you can navigate. I am always available through my website (OriginalNinjaCat.com) just click the contact button.

    We are now in year 22 of Cat’s Rants, and I want this to be an epic year of on topic posts…so let’s stop talking about me for the time being, and keep talking about spellcasting and the occult.

    I hope my personal update has helped as a few people apparently seriously believed me dead. 😛

    ~Cat

  • Hey, Occulties,

    I apologize for the current appearance of my blog. It looks as though I will also have to go through and manually upload all of my topics to each post, a process that may take forever. The formatting here is completely bizarre, and I speak as a woman who has designed many websites…it also follows no intuitive pattern for something like a blog. Maybe something like a very bare-bones website creator, but not a blog creator. So….it’s going to be a few more weeks til anything is fully functional, but rest-assured that the blog in it’s entirety now exists on WordPress, albeit in a very difficult (even compared to TypePad’s old format) to maneuver around format at the moment. I realize my getting frustrated and depressed by this and ignoring my blog for a few months was not at all helpful.

    But let’s wander off the repetitive topic of “Cat doesn’t work well with WordPress,” for a moment, and move on to our favorite discussion – spells.

    So, a lot of you have been coming to me with issues that I’ve explained many times on this blog, which wouldn’t be a shocker, (if one does any business long enough, all frequently asked questions are really repetitive, lol) except that the bulk of my active business at the moment is with clients I’ve worked with many times over the last two decades…so it’s not the issues in the sense of “Cat bring my ex back,” which I see a lot, – it’s more like lust for results making the case drag, or actively working against the spell’s goals with bad actions, and stuff like that.

    And so, this inspired me to post about ROADOPENING, because one thing most of us can use when we get bogged down (and if my inbox is any indication, there’s a lot of people getting stuck in a rut,) this tends to really help move our situations forward, while also alleviating some of that anxiety, feeling of being stuck, and predisposition towards working against your own spells (which is usually brought on by frustration.) And I want to add that I’ve yet to ever see roadopening bring on a bad situation, but rather it opens a lot of pathways to positive changes that we didn’t realize had become closed off. People worry this is like a “burning by the sun,” where unhelpful situations are often painfully removed from our lives so we can move forward, and in my experience (and I’ve been through a couple “burning by the sun”s, which were HUGELY UNPLEASANT, and in one case I almost freaking died and lost my entire very expensive antique book collection,) roadopening does not include any nastiness like that experience can. So do not fear, this is a much more pleasant process. 🙂

    You will need to procure very few items as well… I recommend NOT going to many corner bodegas for your Roadopener oil, because all too often, that’s going to be mass produced garbage, and as I’ve told folks for a long time, no machine can competently produce condition oils, which must be handcrafted. At this writing, you will have one hell of a time locating my recipe but I do include a recipe which allows you to make this item yourself. Please look under “occult recipes” when I finally get this nightmare fixed up and navigable.

    I also recommend a golden or yellow orange colored candle, and some red sandalwood powder. Anoint your candle by placing a few drops of oil into your palm and rubbing your candle UP (base to wick,) 7 times using your power (writing) hand, and as you do so, in your mind’s eye, see your problems dissolving away, and try to send orange energy into that candle. Everyone cracks up when I say this but yes, like jerking off the candle (but with no downstroke, haha.) Also, it’s okay if you don’t feel like you can send energy. A lot of the time just visualizing that energy going into the candle is going to give enough energy to it to get things rolling. No one expects you to be a reiki master. Now roll your candle in the red sandalwood powder. Place this on your altar over an image of yourself, – you can be creative here. If you are having a hard time at work, you could place it over business card. If you are having difficulties with housing, you might place it over an image of where you are trying to live or your current home. But if you’re just stuck in a rut and feel stuck in multiple ways, just use a picture of yourself.

    Once you have done this, light the candle, and place your hands on either side, saying “I break all obstacles to good fortune and to happiness, and all blocks to my roads are cleared away,” five times, then say “(your full name)’s roads are opened and the blessings flow in freely! As is my will, so be it!”

    Now let the candle burn out. Super easy, amirite?

    Here’s the thing…you should do this frequently. Are you really stuck? Get a box of chime candles and repeat this daily. Do it weekly with a normal sized taper to keep things pretty clear. Or do it monthly using a larger or regular sized candle just to keep things flowing smoothly. There is no bad time to do roadopening. It can only help.

    Okay, I’m going to try to fix things up and also post a personal update. 😀

    ~Cat

    Roads opened!
  • Hey Occulties,

    If you find out your spouse or partner is cheating on you, and you wish to remove the person they are cheating with as well as punish that person for their misdeeds, this spell is for you. If you ARE the other woman/man, this spell will not work for you. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t know your partner wasn’t free to give themselves to you and you fell in love, however, if you were (or your target was) 100% honestly in the dark about your partner not being single when they started seeing you/the target and never discovered you/they are the third party, it may not work on you/the target. This is for knowingly-guilty parties. This also works on the cheating partner if they are your chosen victim, with a few alterations, so long as you are the person your partner is cheating on NOT CHEATING WITH.

    It does require something not necessarily easy to obtain, but if the target has a certain personality disorder (as the type of person who knowingly sleeps with a married or not single person behind their partner’s back often do,) it is not nearly impossible to get. Bizarrely, many of this type often likes to brag or show off about being a homewrecker to the very person who’s home they are trying to (or have) wrecked, so they may even show up at your home to “inform you” all about how your beloved is theirs now – let them in and have coffee with them and try to get them to leave something behind (you cannot forcibly steal it). You need to get an article of clothing belonging to the target that is worn and unwashed. It’s impressive what you can get people to leave behind when they try to gloat about having slept with your partner (seriously, there are people like this, lol, and it’s disturbing how many clients tell me about this happening) and obviously if it’s your partner that you are punishing, they likely live with you, making this all the easier for you to sneak off with an article of worn or unwashed clothing, plus if you make up with your partner, they can get this item for you by trying to tell the “third party” they want to make up, and sneaking off with a sock or some underwear or something small. 

    Remember, punishing this person may be very well-deserved, but it only works when they KNOWINGLY tried to break up your relationship by being with your partner/cheating on you. 

    You will need:
    Dirt from a courthouse*
    Dirt from a police station
    Dirt from a prison or jail
    Dirt from 3 different crossroads
    Dirt from 3 different graves of people who died violently**
    A piece of worn, unwashed clothing from the intended victim
    A metal spoon 
    3 nails (preferably bigger than picture nails) and a hammer
    A can of any canned seafood
    A potato
    Red pepper flakes
    A plastic bag
    An item of your partner’s unwashed clothing (if they are not the target)
    A knife (If working on the third party, not working on your cheating partner)
    A bowl
    A needle and black thread
    Scissors
    Stagnant water (if you can’t find this, get water out of your toilet)
    Holy water
    Elmers glue or white glue and paintbrush (optional)
    27 pennies (or small unit change from your country)
    A chopstick or pushing tool (optional)

    Using your metal spoon, take one spoonful each from each place you must get dirt. When you go to the graveyard, enter in the manner described here in the previous spell and leave 9 pennies against the headstones of the graves you remove dirt from as payment. Place all of this dirt into a bowl and stir it together with your spoon. 

    It’s a stock image and not mine but I felt it was suitable 😬

    Fashion a doll from the item of clothing you have taken from your intended target and your black thread, folding the part which touched the target most to the INSIDE of the doll, and the part which touched them least to the OUTSIDE. For example you would want the INSIDE of the sock to be INSIDE the doll. Sometimes this item is a sweater or a scarf and it might confound a few people but fold it in half, stitch the doll, and do not cut the doll out yet, but leave an open hole at the top of the head, and then lightly paint the sweater or scarf on one side with Elmer’s, covering the whole front and to an area slightly outside your stitching, allowing to dry, and repeat on the other side with Elmer’s and allow to dry. DO NOT saturate the fabric, as you want the part that touched your target most to not be coated with this glue. This should prevent the doll from falling apart when you cut it out of the fabric. You may also paint the outside area outside of your stitches (and just outside of the stitches) if the item is a tighter knit and may “run” when cut to prevent these “runs.” If you wish to fashion a face on your doll, I recommend using a permanent marker. Some people like placing a name on the item, and if you choose to label it, place your target’s name across  the chest area of the doll. Make sure your doll can “spread it’s legs.”

    I like to envision my target as I stitch the doll, often repeating their name over and over, and telling them this doll is them over and over.

    Mix about 1/2 of the can of fish (even mini shrimp work, just old fashioned tuna, mackerel – the stinkier the better,) about half the potato which you must dice up small, and about 2 tablespoons of red pepper flakes into your dirt. For your ease you want about 1 part fish/potato/red pepper mix to 1 part of your dirt mix.

    Stuff this mixture into your doll to fill it and stitch closed. Using your scissors, trim any hanging threads. Dispose of any leftovers or threads and remove the trash from your property immediately.

    Place the doll on your altar, and baptize it with the stagnant water or toilet water, saying “I hereby baptize you (full name of target,) and that which is done to you is done to (name of target), – as is my will, so be it!” Place the doll into a plastic bag, and wrap this in your partner’s worn clothing if they are not the target. Go to any secluded spot where there are trees and where people rarely if ever wander. The more secluded and untresspassed upon, the better. Make sure you are not seen and no one is around.

    Open the clothing of your partner and expose the doll (leave it in it’s plastic bag though – avoid getting that fish juice on your partner’s clothing,) lying this on the ground before you and stand over it holding your knife in both hands and say “(Full name of target), here you lie, in adultery, in shame, exposed in front of all Gods and all spirits and living creatures, and every spirit of the dead – both damned and blessed – all beings see your every crime, especially your wanton and willful and treacherous pursuit of (name of partner or name of target, depending on who the doll represents), in defiance of all codes of righteousness. You, the most vile creature, the most wretched and disgusting being among men, proud in your debauchery, and hated and reviled by all of society for your crimes against it. Laughed at, mocked, rejected – the odor of your sins permeates you, and all know who and what you are and avoid you and mock you. I expose you to every being living or dead, and every soul and every spirit and every demon, and every god, (name of target,) and all see you for exactly what you are and every single being turns against you or turns it’s back on you!”

    Now, if you’re going after the partner, you are going to say the same thing, but obviously not on top of your partner’s clothing. You just take the doll out and lie it on the ground outside of it’s bag, and you skip this next step.

    Taking your knife, symbolically “cut” around and under the doll (as you lift it) and continue to “cut” as you say “(Name of target,) I remove any and all bonds you have to (partner’s name) and sever all bonds between you both permanently. I call upon all gods, all spirits, all the living and all the dead to defeat you and destroy you and to dissolve and remove any bond you (target’s name) have had or destroy any claim you have had, and to prevent any future bond between you (target’s name) and (partner’s name)!” and say this for a total of 9 times. Now toss the bag containing the doll away from you (not super far, you are going to fetch it, lol) and say “Depart from the lives of (your name) and (partner’s name) and I bar you (name of target) and repel you from our lives forevermore! (Target’s name), you abomination, your actions of turned away the protection of all gods, and spirits, and beings both living and dead, and even that of your guardian angel. You are are as desolate and abandoned and without holy or earthly aid forevermore! So be it!” Take your holy water, and sprinkle this over your partner’s clothing and yourself (and be sure to sprinkle it liberally and rinse your hands,) and say “Bless our holy union, bless and strengthen the union of (your name) and (partner name), I forgive your transgressions against me, (partner’s name), my only love, and call all gods, all spirits, and our guardian angels keep us close and keep away any who would ever try to separate us, as God has joined (your name) and (partner’s) name and no man/woman shall tear us asunder. From today and all days forward, I call upon all beings who would protect us to keep us safe from (target’s name) and any and all of the villainous and soulless creatures who act like (target’s name,) seeking only to tear apart homes and families for their own selfish whims.

    Taking your hammer and nails, turn your attention now to your doll. Remove the plastic bag, and taking a nail and your hammer, turn the doll so the head is facing down and nail the left leg to a tree as you say “(Full name of target), here you hang on display, in adultery, in shame, exposed in front of all Gods and all spirits and living creatures, and every spirit of the dead – both damned and blessed – all beings see your every crime, especially your wanton and willful and treacherous pursuit of (name of partner or name of target, depending on who the doll represents), in defiance of all codes of righteousness. You, the most vile creature, the most wretched and disgusting being among men, proud in your debauchery, and hated and reviled by all of society for your crimes against it. Laughed at, mocked, rejected – the odor of your sins permeates you, and all know who and what you are and avoid you and mock you. I expose you to every being living or dead, and every soul and every spirit and every demon, and every god, (name of target,) and all see you for exactly what you are and every single being turns against you or turns it’s back on you!”  three times. Now nail the right leg to the tree, making sure the legs are spread and say “(Full name of target), here you hang on display, in adultery, in shame, exposed in front of all Gods and all spirits and living creatures, and every spirit of the dead – both damned and blessed – all beings see your every crime, especially your wanton and willful and treacherous pursuit of (name of partner or name of target, depending on who the doll represents), in defiance of all codes of righteousness. You, the most vile creature, the most wretched and disgusting being among men, proud in your debauchery, and hated and reviled by all of society for your crimes against it. Laughed at, mocked, rejected – the odor of your sins permeates you, and all know who and what you are and avoid you and mock you. I expose you to every being living or dead, and every soul and every spirit and every demon, and every god, (name of target,) and all see you for exactly what you are and every single being turns against you or turns it’s back on you!”  three times. Now nail the heart area to the tree with the third nail and say”(Full name of target), here you hang on display, in adultery, in shame, exposed in front of all Gods and all spirits and living creatures, and every spirit of the dead – both damned and blessed – all beings see your every crime, especially your wanton and willful and treacherous pursuit of (name of partner or name of target, depending on who the doll represents), in defiance of all codes of righteousness. You, the most vile creature, the most wretched and disgusting being among men, proud in your debauchery, and hated and reviled by all of society for your crimes against it. Laughed at, mocked, rejected – the odor of your sins permeates you, and all know who and what you are and avoid you and mock you. I expose you to every being living or dead, and every soul and every spirit and every demon, and every god, (name of target,) and all see you for exactly what you are and every single being turns against you or turns it’s back on you!”  three times. Now, bang the head of your hammer (gently so as not to burst the doll) against the head and crotch of the doll over and over as you say “All turn upon you, all of your roads are closed. You may only beg for money – for I remove any employment or source of income from you. You may only freeze and be exposed to the elements – for I remove all housing and protection from you. You are pursued by lawmen and sheriffs and lawyers for any crime you commit and I remove the protection of any law from you! Oh, adulterer/adulteress, here you rot on your tree, that all know you by your stink and run from you. Abandon all hope, and burn in hell forever! As is my will – so be it!” Wash your hands and hammer in the holy water. Leave the area, taking your partner’s clothing (if applicable,) and other supplies, and leaving the doll nailed to the tree and do not return. The target will suffer a very long time, and will likely feel as though bugs are under the skin if and when maggots find that fish mixture. The stench of this rotting is so revolting, people will throw up if they smell it. What’s best is it gives your target a “spiritual stench” that repels people as if they were smelling this terrible stink in person. 

    I strongly recommend blessing your home and doing a cleansing spiritual bath when you return home after doing this work. I also recommend using reconciliation magic and protection magic on yourself and your partner if you wish to reconcile with them.

    As you are calling upon more than one righteous spirit, to whom adultery is a mortal (unforgivable) sin, (as homewrecking is a pretty big deal to a lot of them) the target will find themselves with a very difficult task of removing this curse…unless you are the one who cheated on your partner or cheated with someone’s partner knowingly, in which case DO NOT cast this spell as the curse will fall upon you and/or your lover. If you have EVER cheated on your partner, you should not use this. 

    This isn’t for people you SUSPECT might be sleeping with your partner. This is very nasty, and if you are unjust whatsoever in your aims, this curse can easily turn back on you. Be very careful calling on all of these spirits unless you are sure you are just in what you request. 

    I’m sure there will be questions, so please ask!

    ~Cat

     

    *This means anywhere (preferably in front of, but around the building itself or on the grounds is just fine) of the courthouse (or police station, or prison/jail) is where you take the dirt from

    **Be sure to pay for the grave dirt. You must choose dirt from the graves of three people who died violently, such as by fire, car accident, murder, suicide, etc. Illness isn’t going to work. The bloodier and worse the end, the better. 

     

  • Graveyard Spell

    Hey Occulties,

    The following spell is generally used in matters of love, business, or of money. I know a few of you may try to use it for more nefarious reasons, and should you do so, be prepared if that goes south for you. Not all dead will help you in matters of adultery/cheating (assuming you are the one trying to be the third person or requesting a third person), revenge, or harming another. I also may not help you get yourself out of that pickle should you aggravate the dead, so don’t complain to me if you ask for something hugely awful and unethical and suddenly you got a shade following you about and causing you trouble. 

    Also, and I say this with any spell where you might hurt yourself or someone else, remember, there’s always something smarter and/or badder than yourself. If you plan to use this for nefarious reasons, the dead might not just come after you, but the person you chose to harm may do so as well. 

    You will need:
    9 coins of the same kind (preferably gold in color)*
    A hooded shirt, jacket, or large headscarf
    3 small bottles of whiskey
    3 cigars
    3 Roses
    A St Michael Archangel medal made in sterling silver
    A sterling silver neckchain

    So here is what you need to do:

    Find a cemetery, preferably an older one with tall stones, one that is not busy (that’s actually a thing,) and preferably one with around 200 dead or more at rest there. 
    Get 9 of the same coin, preferably golden in color, and have a hooded shirt or hooded jacket on, or something to cover the top of head and back of the neck area, and be wearing a silver st Michael archangel medal on a silver chain on your neck, and go to the graveyard. Dawn and dusk are the best times of you want to see a spirit (which may happen,) but midday is safest and the least scary. Don’t ever do this at night. 
    Knock three times at the cemetery gate and ask to be let in. Wait. You probably won’t hear an answer but unless you hear no or go away (it’s happened to people,) or get a very strong feeling of dread, say “thank you for having me as your guest,” and be sure your hood is on and go in. 
    Look for a grave. I find it’s best to choose one that you “feel” is going to help but any you choose will do. Knock on the headstone and whistle, then repeat again and one more time for a total of three times. Ask the person buried if they would bring you what you want. Wait, as if for an answer. Unless you hear something in the negative or get a strong feeling of dread, now tell the resident of the grave what you want, and plant three gold coins against the headstone, tell them this is payment for their help, and thank this person. 
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    Repeat this with another grave, then a third for a total of three graves. Walk out of the graveyard without looking behind you the whole way home (obviously excluding if you really need to if you’re in a car, ha ha,) saying the prayer to St Michael:
    “St Michael Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection from wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, o, Prince of the Heavenly Host, thrust into hell Satan, and all other evil spirits who wander the world, seeking the ruin and destruction of souls. Amen”
    Be sure to say it once before the gates, once while walking through, and once outside the gates. 
    As long as your request is not impossible, it should be granted shortly. 
    When it has been granted, return to the cemetery (do not wait more than 48 hours after the request has been granted, and do not waste time or make excuses – the sooner, the better), and again, be wearing a hooded shirt or jacket, or be covering your head and neck area, and be wearing your St Michael medal on a silver chain. Knock three times at the cemetery gate and ask to be let in. Again if you hear a negative answer or get a strong feeling of dread, do not go in, but if you don’t feel dread or get a negative answer, say “thank you for having me as your guest,” and go in. 
    Go to each grave you visited previously, and thank each resident for bringing you what you asked, and place a bottle of whiskey, a rose, and an unwrapped cigar on each of the graves you had visited previously. Leave without looking back while saying the St Michael prayer once before you reach the gates, once as you walk through, and once you are outside of the gates. Walk back to your home/car without looking behind you the whole way.

    As always if you have questions, please ask!

    ~Cat

    All content on this blog is copyright OriginalNinjaCat.com except where noted and may not be used or shared without express written permission. I offer a reward for catching plagiarists, so if you find one, contact me!

    *Pennies are copper in color, and being cheap and offering a 3 cent payment will not be well-received. Cheap and stingy offerings get lackluster results. 

  • Q&A: Why Isn’t my Love Spell Working?

    Hey Occulties,

    If you’re a long time reader, you know I’ve written all about this before, and I’ve answered it in QYAM as well…but it’s a common enough question I get, and the fact that I have people willing to read an article and actually really learn something VS people who expect me to dress like a goth fairy princess while rapidly trying to educate in a stupid video (because they can only learn with videos and are only entertained by great spectacle,) means…I’m totally down with educating you, dear reader, and if you’re reading this, congratulations, because being a real student of the occult means you READ A LOT! It’s basically a huge requirement, seeing as these amazing things called books and scrolls (wherein so very much you need to know lies within,) were for centuries (even thousands of years in some cases,) the best way to store information and learn, so to this day REAL OCCULTISTS READ A LOT. We read all that ancient stuff, too! That means REAL SPELLCASTERS FCKN LOVE READING. 

    And if you’re here reading, you’re on the path to learning real magic. If you’re trying to become an expert by watching TikToks, you probably aren’t even casting real spells (I haven’t looked in awhile but several months ago, I still could not locate real spellcasting on there when I looked – hint, you can’t make shit up as you go along and looking witchy doesn’t make you a witch, anymore than if I dressed up like a doctor that I’d suddenly be one.)

    So, obviously “Why isn’t my love spell working?” is going to have a different answer as it is applied with many different situations behind it. Let’s go over the most common reasons someone’s asking why is this love spell not working. 

    You haven’t given it time to work! One of the most common reasons is that people do not give enough time for the spellwork to even START working. I’ve had clients who ask me why a spell hasn’t worked yet only to have me reply that since I am starting it tomorrow as I’ve told them, it couldn’t start working yet. 😉 The reality is that it is very rare for spellwork to have immediate results. I’ve had spells I’ve done for myself begin working 2 months after I’ve cast them, and I wasn’t a beginner when I cast the spell. It’s very common to have to wait a few weeks to START to see results, and to wait even longer for full results. When we deal with love situations, often when the spellwork does start to work, this is hidden from us as our target intentionally hides that these feelings are starting to stir until they can’t take it anymore.

    FWIW, I totally understand and can relate to how hard it is feeling like your life is falling apart, and not seeing the spell immediately change things to a situation where you are more comfortable and happy. I’ve been there, too. I’ve been a total emotional wreck, seeing my loved one behaving in a very unloving manner towards me, and wanting everything to go back to how I feel it should be. It’s a terrible situation for anyone. 

    But spells do not care about that you feel sad and scared and are anxious and your heart is broken, as spells do not have the capacity to empathize. So, your anxiety and need for this to change NOW NOW NOW is often your own undoing…and keep in mind, MOST relationships do not fall apart overnight even if it feels that way…and if they do explode overnight? It’s usually a hugely traumatic event that you can’t quickly heal from. Much like a broken bone takes time to heal, so do relationships. If it was slowly suffocated, it won’t heal quickly either. Think of the spell much like this….something healing like a broken bone does. Even if we want to dance, even if it means everything to us, until the bone heals, we cannot dance on that leg, and we have to be satisfied that we can dance again one day. A spell is like that – even if I want and need someone so badly right now and it feels so unfair to be deprived, I need to allow spellwork time to remedy that situation, and that may mean I will feel sad and anxious for a few weeks yet, but it means I won’t feel that way FOREVER. 

    So give it time. It will happen. And remind yourself this bad situation isn’t forever, and what you’re doing with spellwork is bringing you what you want, so you don’t have to feel like you’re doing nothing. YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING BY HAVING DONE SPELLWORK. 

    A new sweet jar getting its first candle!

    You are stalking the target or acting in a manner NOT CONDUCIVE to love or reconciliation! I shouldn’t have to say this, but stalking is a bad thing, and unfortunately with the rise of social media, it’s become way too easy…and it’s a bit addictive at times. I have gotten caught up in it before myself, becoming a downright little Sherlock much to the chagrin of my partner who had no idea how I knew who he just called (we shared a phone plan, lol) and guess what? It was bad for my relationship and my mental health. I literally had to tell my partner that I could not be trusted not to look at the call record and I had a problem and it really hurt our relationship for a few months. He’s a nice guy but he literally had to sit me down and tell me that spying on him like that was super weird and hurt him, and I had to admit to myself that it really was weird. What started out as me looking at a number on the calls list that looked familiar and reverse tracing it (it was a mutual friend so not even anything bad,) had become an obsession when he and I went through a relationship hiccup around the same time, where I was checking the call log every few minutes when he was gone, and it spiraled to honestly being that bad. I’m embarrassed to admit it but I did get to that point. I was definitely in the dog house for a little bit and needed some reconciliation work to smooth over the damage I’d done…and I didn’t spy on the phone list again, but the temptation was so strong to spy for months after. But it just goes to show you, anyone can get caught up in this sort of thing. 

    And I see it EVERY DAY, MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY at my job. Clients are snooping on insta and on LinkedIn – one person was even using AirBnB to spy. Seriously. You keep doing it because you feel like you are keeping abreast of the situation, maybe even that it gives you some sense of control, but it’s bad for your mental health (I’ve seen several people literally have mental breakdowns over things they saw on social media – and they invented a whole backstory about what was happening that wasn’t happening, only to discover they were wrong,) and it’s bad for the spellwork. It’s literally lust for results (see more about that below). 

    Now, like I said, I’ve been there before myself. That may be embarrassing to admit, but if it helps you to know you aren’t the only one and that it’s too common, I’m glad to admit – I’ve done it too! It’s not easy to force yourself to quit. But you need to. You need to stop spying and snooping on your target. They will be put off by what you’re doing if they ever discovered it, and it’s bad for you, and it’s bad for your spellwork even if you do not get discovered. Stop making excuses to yourself that you just happened to see x or y. I have heard all these excuses a million times, and no doubt if I were all addicted to stalking at this moment, I’d be saying them to myself as well.

    But we need to AVOID social media and stalking and spying while working on a love target. Failure to cease this sort of behavior will merely creep out your target, make you feel crazy, and stall your spell. 

    You half-assed your work with a spirit or saint (or have no relationship with that spirit or saint to begin with)! A few years ago, someone told me they wanted to work with Santisima Muerte, and I suggested they use a novena and gave them a link. They immediately came back to me and said “well, look, I don’t know if I can do this for 9 days, and plus it says I have to give her a candle every Tuesday for the rest of my natural life!” And I was like “Yeah, and you want to do that because there was a few Tuesdays where I couldn’t give her that and my life turned to shit for it, even though it was outside of my power to give the candles to her. Once she started getting her Tuesday candles again, I was good, though.” 

    That’s right…you work with Santa Muerte and it’s a lifetime you will work with her. I’ve heard the same with Pomba Gira. I work with many saints and spirits regularly, so this is not a problem for me, but if you just have a passing fancy with a certain someone, or if you think this is a one time working so you can get quick results, you’re very wrong. In fact, even if you give up on the person you love, if you committed yourself for life, you are expected to honor that commitment. I’ve seen people really mess up their lives when they thought it was perfectly fine to stop working with a spirit they promised a lifetime commitment to. In the best situations, the spirit just wouldn’t work with them again after they lapsed then returned asking for a new favor. In the worst situations, the spirit made their life crappy and took some revenge on them.

    Spellcasters spend our lives nurturing relationships with spirits of many kinds. That may be the Almighty, that may be a saint, that may be another kind of spirit. This is why we can get favors from them.

    If you just picked a spirit out using a google search or because you saw a fun tiktok, the likelihood of you getting any result from the spirit is quite low. I work with my spirits regularly. I give them offerings because I appreciate them and not always because I need or want something. So you are a stranger to them who has never had a relationship with them, and you want them to just fix your life for you? Rather grandiose request from a stranger, no?

    And the first words out of your mouth are nearly always a demand. Then you don’t want a long time or even a lifetime of dedication to this being because that’s inconvenient? Working with any spirit is not for you, then. Because it isn’t convenient or easy. It takes dedication, and commitment, and then you get results…amazing results, even, but it takes real commitment and work. It requires you invest a fair amount of time in as well.  

    You focused on reconciliation, but didn’t draw romantic love or physical passion back! When we want to reconcile someone, of course we want them to forgive us, and this is often imperative that they do forgive us for what we’ve done. Maybe we need to forgive them as well. So I don’t mean to say to not do reconciliation work. This is important! BUT…just because a person forgives you, it doesn’t mean they will want you back, and if the romantic love and chemistry has fizzled, you can’t expect that just forgiving your actions means that they will come back. 

    I forgive almost all of my exes. Second Mr NinjaCat maybe not, because he was and is a terrible human being (I hope you’re reading that, John,) who stole tens of thousands of dollars from me, and then would cry-laugh with these hours’ long Jesus rants that would make Jesus Christ himself want to never be called upon by someone like this. The rest of them? I can’t really think of anyone I hold anything against. 

    But I don’t want a single one of my exes back. So, as you can see, forgiveness does not equal getting back together. It’s sort of like I love a fair amount of people, and some of them I no longer speak to because they were toxic to me in some way, so I love them from a distance. They no longer have any priority in my life, but I wish them well and I remember them mostly fondly. Love doesn’t mean you carry on a relationship. 

    We need to remember that SPELLS ONLY DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. So if I want to have reconciliation with a person – that is, if I want their forgiveness, – I need to also work towards love and sexual passion if I want to be sure that remains a part of the relationship. 

    You focused on lust but didn’t draw reconciliation and/or romantic love!For some reason I can only guess at, this is a problem many MALE spellcasters seem to fall into…(ahem, boys, looking at you,) and then wonder why their love workings fizzle out so damn fast.

    So let’s look at this in relationship repair first… I have dated some pretty hot dudes, and while I’m very much invested in the one I’m married to, if I were to find myself suddenly single and alone, there’s a small number of my exes I wouldn’t mind spending a night or two with. They certainly have held up well, and we never had a problem in the boudoir. THAT SAID, I wouldn’t want to date any of my exes again. So, if my ex was trying to repair a relationship, this wouldn’t be a working solution for him because while I might spend the weekend with him, I’d be on my way and no one’s girlfriend when the weekend ended. 

    And people need to understand that sex does not equal love. You can have sex with someone and they will enjoy it and enjoy your company for the time you spend with them, and then never feel one romantic feeling. 

    So clearly, lust magic is not going to be the key that opens the door to every reconciliation. And there’s another element here…lust magic is HOT. I don’t mean it’s a sexy fun time…I mean, if you’re arguing with your target or there’s some sort of anger between you, the lust magic can actually make you both angrier. It is neither calming nor healing, and can be harmful in some reconciliations. 

    But maybe you’re using lust to bring the love of someone new. Alright, the thing is, like I said, sex and love are not the same thing. You might make someone want your body, and that might open the door to a relationship, but it might just open the door to a situationship. So, if you find the affair is only sexual and you want your hearts entwined and not just your gonads entwined, you need to start using ROMANTIC LOVE spellwork. 

    You won’t take your mind off of the situation or spellwork! I have literally been saying this for over 20 years, to the point that complete strangers have quoted my work verbatim to me without realizing I was the author. Ahem. When we do spellwork we cannot obsess about the situation that we are working on, as this causes the spell energy to stall. We can’t ruminate over the situation, can’t worry on it, can’t make ourselves all anxious or panicky. 

    This is, of course, easier said than done, especially in matters of the heart. And I understand that. I have been a mess because my love life was a mess. I have totally been there, and pulling yourself out of that puddle is not easy. You’re worried, you’re scared, your heart feels like it’s been stomped on repeatedly, and you just want everything to be OK. 

    But it’s that very mindset that will be the spell’s undoing. You need to have faith the spell will work. You need to remind yourself you are doing what you need to do. That things are coming together even if you can’t see it from where you’re at. Then try to keep the situation, the spellwork, and thoughts of the people involved out of your mind as best you can. It will improve your mental health – and speed up your spell’s manifestation.

    You “put out” too fast! While this one is usually only a problem for the ladies (as sadly sexist as that may be,) please read above where I tell you sex and love are not the same thing…and as old-fashioned as it may sound, someone who gives themselves up quickly often finds themselves in a situationship and can’t get the target to come back to them completely (or settle into a relationship.) Why should the target take on that extra responsibility if you’re playing the part of girlfriend with having never demanded he give you the actual security by making you his girlfriend? (Or boyfriend…but like I said, this tends to fall on women most.)

    Remember, if your feelings are going to be hurt if that person just wants sex from you, you should not have sex with them. Think of it like that. If this sex means something to you, you need to be sure it means something to them as well, and that might mean not giving up the goods the moment someone drops you the cue that they would like to get to know you…in a horizontal way. 😉 

    I always tell people I’m not old-fashioned because I’m not. I know women enjoy sex. I know that we want it just as badly as men do, and sometimes not even because we like the guy as much as we like the look of him. 

    BUT, you know, the reason I caught all the players I caught in my web (and I always managed to pin down the ones no one else could,) was I was smart and made those men work for me. I could have given them everything I had right from the moment they gave me that look, but I did not. And the ladies who did give in to these types without hesitation were wham, bam, thank you ma’am, and he was off to the next one. But me? I held out and I was not a tease about it, and I’ve had long relationships with the very men who most people could barely get a few months out of. I’m married to like the ultimate boss of players even now. Ask him how long it took him to get me to agree to be with him (it was 2.5 months or so of him absolutely throwing himself at me and making all sorts of promises as I recall, lol,) and the funny thing was he was in love with me by the time I agreed to be his girl and give up the goods. So he never left. 

    So there is some wisdom in holding out. I don’t mean be an ice queen. I don’t mean be a tease. But save your first date fucks for guys you don’t care if you see them again. You might even build a relationship off of that – I’m just saying, you’re not playing the long game if you give in fast. 

    And yes, this applies to when you’re doing spellwork! If you give in easily, and you never make your target work at all, if you give him all the love and sex and dedication a girlfriend would give him, and do not demand he recognize you as his girlfriend, he’s going to take advantage of that situation and when things get tough, he will excuse himself with “but you were never my girlfriend, we were just friends” – even with spellwork! And then you will come to me all sad and ask me to bring him back, and I’ll have to repeat this whole thing I just wrote about not giving up the goodies so fast. 😉

    When it comes to reconciliation, you best make sure your ex wants more than just a roll in the hay. I know it’s tempting and I know you miss that person, but until you’re sure they want more than sex, you risk being used for sex. You aren’t empowering your position by dropping your undies….the power comes from making sure you have what you want before you do. Yeah, he’s gonna try, but tell him that as tempted as you are, if he’s really your friend, he needs to understand that if you have sex with him, your feelings get involved and you will be hurt if he doesn’t want more…which means, it would ruin your friendship. You are literally telling him “if we are just friends, you don’t get sex” but in a way where you don’t sound mean about it. If he wants you in his bed so very much, and that spellwork is already telling him he needs you, he’s going to eventually agree that you can try to have a real relationship again.

    You can make fun of me and you can call me old fashioned, but I’m still pretty hot and I wasn’t always a middle-aged married lady. I swear. 

    The spells are doing their work, but don’t undo their work by having hot pants, alright? Trust me here. 

    You were too shut down! On the other side of this, we have the person who is literally an angry cold fish type. The target comes to them all lovey and mooney and Juney, and they just…don’t know how to handle it. They shut down. They pull away.

    Now spells do exactly what you tell them to do…but this is scary for the target, too. Rejection is terrifying to most people, and so often – in reconciliation especially – the target is very cautious about approaching the petitioner, even if they are really feeling the influence of the spellwork. You need to be approachable and pleasant. If you’re cold and bitter, you’ll scare them off!

    It is working, you just have wrong expectations about how it should come together! When we cast a spell we put an order in for something specific, but we do not say how or why that thing comes to be (in fact, if you are overly controlling on how something manifests, good luck getting that spell to manifest.) Now, a fair amount of the time, it’s somewhat predictable how something will come together, but after 22 years of working for the public, and over 30 years of casting spells, I can assure you, sometimes things happen in a very….weird way. Not necessarily in a bad way, but not how you think they would have worked out so that you can get what you want. MOST people seem to be able to accept this, but some can’t. 

    All I can offer is that a spell will take the path of least resistance to manifest, unless you dictate SPECIFICALLY that it cannot manifest that way (for example, when we do money work, it’s wise to insist the money not come from a loved one passing away,) or unless you add EXTRA STEPS by insisting, for example, the target must reconcile with you by text and not in person. I don’t know why that matters, but some people are particularly stiff about this. It just delays manifestation, if the specifics are too specific it can even prevent manifestation, but if you can just relax and let the spell manifest what you want without dictating how it does so, you may be surprised by what the path of least resistance was to what you desired – and you’ll have what you want. Faster. 

    So, if the situation is changing for the better, but you thought it would happen another way, the spell IS working… My suggestion is to let go of controlling how it comes together, and enjoy the end result. 

    You give strength to your rival by fearing them and obsessing about them! I know this is crappy, but when we have a rival and we continually obsess on them, we keep them in our lives. That might be really difficult to reconcile when you have to keep an eye on this person (maybe some floozy won’t stop giving your guy the side-eye at his job, and you know she’s doing everything to get him to cheat even if he hasn’t yet, or maybe your girlfriend has that friend who keeps telling her you’re evil, and you don’t even know why they want to turn her against you!) for all the damage they are trying to do to your relationship…but eventually your attentions literally attach your rival even stronger to the whole situation. Like you just want to fling this person off the planet and onto Jupiter, and they won’t go away.

    In fact, more than one of my clients have independently come up with the very term I refer to this type of person by: “Cockroaches.” The person is literally like a cockroach infestation. Just when you think you’ve eradicated them from your life, a damn cockroach shows up again, which means the problem has totally come back. And so you treat the problem and it seems to go away…only for the damn cockroaches to come into your life again.

    When we continually work on this person magically, this can seem absolutely bizarre. Like sure, my rival’s life is an absolute piece of garbage and they don’t even live within a 6 hour drive, so why the hell are they still able to be involved with the people I know? (this specifically actually happened to a client of mine….anyone I despise sadly lives closer, ha ha.) Namely, you curse them, you move them out of the picture, and they still keep showing up!

    Your obsessive hatred of this person actually empowers them and keeps them close. In magic, the four basic tenets to success are To Know, To Dare, to Will, and To Keep Silent. It isn’t To Stalk, To Fear, To Obsess, and To Complain About Frequently. 😉 So, as much as you hate this person, you need to let it go.

    I know. I am not a fan of just letting some horrible human off the hook myself. But you are not letting them off the hook. You are putting them out of your mind as best you can to allow all that removal and cursing magic you did do its work.

    And that is exactly what you need to do. You are basically experiencing a form of lust for results which is empowering them, and keeping them attached to the situation, when you want to weaken and remove them.

    There are people who earned my enmity. I mean, they did not just earn it, they did a banner job of getting it and then ran around the block pounding their chest about how awesome they are for having me absolutely hate their guts level of earned it. And…since if you’re going to piss off a witch, then FAFO, and of course I responded as I would. In some cases, I was quite invested in seeing their downfall as fast as I possibly could. In others, it was that I sent the curse off, and just sort of moved on with my life. Guess which manifested faster? Guess which threw that person out of my life faster? Guess which fucked up someone the most? Yep, the one where I just cursed the shit out of them and moved on. And that doesn’t mean the person was always out of my life. In a few cases, they were very much still peripherally in my life as I had done nothing to send them away, only something to teach them a lesson…and then I totally shelved my anger at them and moved on…while witnessing the full scope of their life burning to cinders.

    So stop empowering your rivals and enemies, and let the spells do their work. Otherwise you’re going to have a case of “cockroaches,” and no one wants that.

    You chose a partner who was married or dating someone else, and they aren’t yours to have! Look, I don’t hold anyone who was lied to accountable for having dated a person who wasn’t free to love them back so long as they had zero knowledge of the spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend, and ended the partnership the moment they discovered the lie. You didn’t do anything wrong and that someone manipulated you to believe the union was between you and someone you thought was single is very cruel. However, if they are cheating on their spouse or partner to be with you, they will cheat on you, so you’re best to end the affair the moment that is discovered. 

    Unfortunately there are people who like sleeping with other people’s partners and those who think it’s acceptable to “steal” someone’s partner, and that never ends well. Don’t even tell me about Queen Camilla and Princess Di. It was Princess Diana who actually “stole” then Prince Charles from Camilla, and look how well Charles and Diana’s marriage worked out (it didn’t!) 

    And NO it’s not between your married/not single lover and his or her partner and not your business. If my husband told you that you could burn down my house and kill everyone inside and he’d give you some gasoline to do it, you would be held even more culpable than him in my death by the law. That’s because you’re a homewrecker, so you are quite the guilty party if you go through with breaking up someone’s relationship by trying to steal the partner away. You’re even worse than the not single person dating you, as that person might have reason to have a problem with the spouse or partner they are with….you are just destroying the life of someone who never wronged you. And why? Because you like sex? Because you think it makes you better to build your happiness on the destruction of others? 

    And it’s not just society that hates you and thinks you awful if you do this….spiritually this scars you as well, and limits your ability in spellwork. You are basically fighting the spouse/partner’s ancestors (and even possibly the cheating spouse/partner’s ancestors) who are going to try to protect their relationship and oppose your illicit one, especially if the couple shares children. Now, extra-marital children are not a new thing whatsoever, as history can attest, and making a baby with a partner that isn’t yours won’t help the situation…you will need to go to the graves of the ancestors (assuming you even know where they are, as people don’t stay in one place in our modern age,) and try to get them to take your side. You will have to explain HONESTLY (not with bizarre made up accusations,) how you are the better partner for your adulterous beloved than their original partner. It may not work, but if your adulterous/cheating beloved is truly beset by being paired with Satan or the worst possible person alive, you may succeed. I’ve heard of this working in situations where a woman is in a horribly abusive relationship, and cheating with another man who treats her well.

    I do realize that nothing is necessarily black and white, and that humans get into situations they probably should have avoided, but without having gotten to where they did realizing they were hurting anyone until it was “too late” and they’d fallen in love with a cheating partner, but the reality is….when you find out someone isn’t single, walk way. It’s the best thing for you to do for yourself. If you really feel like you can’t, then I understand why you would try but you leave them how you get them, and he or she will cheat on you too, so it’s not really going to be anything worth your while….but you still might try. So if you do try, find their ancestors, and try to work it out with them first. I’ve gone over this in past posts but you also need to NOT defame their partner, malign them, or put them down. It will only drag you down in the eyes of friends and family of the cheating partner. 

    I’m sure there will be questions – and I love questions! – so please contact me if you have any!

    ~Cat

  • Hey Occulties,

    As Neptune and Mercury are retrograde, it is no surprise that as this happens, not only do your targets act differently, well, so are my clients and readers affected and some bad behaviors are on the rise, so it falls upon me to post to you about this….

    READINGS: For starters, I've never made any secret about believing psychic readings are an overused and overly invasive diagnostic tool. For those of you who have ever had a hard credit inquiry affect your credit score, think about this as a severe credit inquiry (that doesn't exist, but if it impacted your score 10x as much as a hard inquiry,) affecting your score…except your SPELL'S STRENGTH AND SPEED is that score. 😛 Does that not make sense? Let's say you have the very common condition of an evening of heartburn. Do you schedule a full colonoscopy and endoscopy the next morning? Because if you did, that testing is pretty invasive and hard on your body for something that probably requires a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to cure. 😛 BUT this is what reading a situation is like… You are "dinging" the energy flow, pulling it, manipulating it to bring up those answers. It isn't apt to kill the spell but I think we can agree that doing this a lot and over every little thing is going to create a problem and could affect the speed of manifestation. 

    And trust and know, there's very little overhead cost to providing you a reading. You are really paying me for the severe energy drain, and enduring the unpleasantness of the task (as it is often incredibly unpleasant to experience the emotions of people in the situations I am tasked to read,) and my expertise. If I were a less moral and more financially motivated person, I might over-recommend the practice to line my pockets. 

    However, despite my saying as much, people want me to read every little thing, and if it starts to become overwhelming and takes over the very limited time I have for readings for EVERYONE daily, plus begins to show evidence of you developing lust for results, I'm going to say something to protect your spellwork. 

    ALSO, it's abusive to ask free psychic reading questions. I get paid to do my job and I hope you do, too. If you frequently attempt this, I will point it out and ask you cease doing it immediately. 

    So, since there are going to be a lot of people making themselves a little crazy or having some crazy targets for some time to come, I want to remind you to please keep your manners (so no hasty reminders or blowing me up to try to annoy me to reply faster, and please keep your inquires to EMAIL as I do not appreciate being texted at 2am any more than anyone else does, haha,) and please try to keep everyone in mind. If you had a reading 3 days ago, you probably don't need another one right now. Another client might need one far more, and with my first come first serve policy, you taking all my reading spots might start creating issues for other clients. I will gently remind you that psychic addiction is real, and may decline to read for you if I feel you are starting to suffer from it. 

    If you frequently go over your paid time (example, paying for a half hour and keeping me on the phone for 90 minutes,) you will get banned from readings. I'm sorry but this is hugely abusive. 

    If you demand same day service repeatedly, I cannot comply with this most of the time and I will point out to you that it isn't okay to persistently suggest I reorganize my day to provide a reading for you. Kindly understand that not scheduling and just asking me to do something when I'm free is something that means I might be five days before I get to it. I don't have free time. I wake up at 5am, and am often working til I go to sleep. 

    CONTACT: Please contact me on my site email. The MISSCAT one is actually just a general junk inbox, and I check it maybe once a week or sometimes even longer between checks. If you are uncertain on what that site email is, use my contact form, but if you've been FIRED FOR BAD BEHAVIOR, don't contact me at all. Were you abusive, rude, and broke rules over and over, and didn't listen to me when I said over and over that you were breaching your contract, or when I asked repeatedly for you to correct a behavior? Did that end with me telling you I won't work for you and to get lost? Well, don't contact me again. Don't use the contact forms. Go away. I have so much business that the last thing I need is a poorly behaved person who was disrespectful of me and all my other clients with their execrable behavior and I assure you that if you were fired, that's exactly who you were because it takes a lot for me to tell you to kick rocks. 

    Of course, I get one person every 18 months or so that I have to fire. Most people do not get to a point that requires that. 

    For the 99% of people I work for who would never need such a lecture, PLEASE USE EMAIL TO CONTACT ME. DO NOT EXPECT RESPONSE FROM TEXTING ME. Outside of that, my beloved 99%, you are all wonderful folks and I'm glad to attend to any problem you might present me with.

    SPELLS: A lot of people forget that I work with 40-75 active cases at any given time, and rare is it that I am down to 40 active cases. So, when you frequently blow me up with updates or needing reassurance or to just use me to vent, that becomes very time consuming, and frankly, I don't get compensated for that time after a certain point. I basically make my prices such that you might get a few hours of my time in the sense of how long it takes me to read and respond to your situation outside of my materials cost and the time spent casting your spell. If you notice the drop in cost on my site (you can get more than 2x the spellwork for the same cost as 2 single spells,) this is because the amount of support (time spent counseling and speaking to the client with active spellwork in the manifestation stage,) actually is about the same in a single spellcasting case as it is to a standard 7 day spellcasting. So, if you are always messaging me every single thought, worry, feeling, or momentary distress, you are literally taking the time of 10-20 other clients. This means I can't take on other business and you are taking up the time of other paid business which I took on before or simultaneously to taking on your case. 

    MOST OF THE TIME this is new client jitters and it passes quickly enough that I won't say anything. However, if you are frequently taking up long periods of my time and with topics I've explained over and over or just to use me as a free dumping ground for every thought you have, I will talk with you once, and if it persists and you're lucky it will be twice….keep up after that with the bad behavior and you will be fired. I have provided a very extensive terms of service and client agreement and purchasing anything from my site means you agree to be bound to that agreement. Part of this is abusive contact behaviors, and I go over this at length. Feel free to review those pages or contact me if you are concerned you've crossed the line. 

    Please keep in mind, we put in the order for the end result, not how it gets from point A to point B. So, if you need to interfere with the spellwork or demand to have a concrete map of HOW IT WILL MANIFEST rather than just keeping focus on getting the end result, you are your own worst enemy. If your ex comes back because they were at a show and heard a song important to you both and it made him/her really miss you so they texted you to open a convo to get back together, versus if they came back doing cartwheels all the way up to your door with roses for you in their mouth because they are just so crazy in love with you (and possibly also crazy, haha)…well, the point being they came back. I didn't get to dictate how or why that happened for the most part, – my spellwork was for the end result to manifest, not to tell the universe HOW to make that manifest. You pay me for the end result. It could be for a thousand reasons that they decided to come back, but you spying on them on socials or through mutual accounts, and you trying to suss out what they are doing and thinking? That's all lust for results. You can have it on any type of spell, but love spells are where the worst offenders generally always show up. So we are at point A when you contact me. We discuss the desired outcome. I put in an order for that OUTCOME. Getting fussy and stalkery and constantly demanding to know why some (generally trivial) negative event occurred before the manifestation does? I've been where you are. I've seen this many times in work for others and myself. If you lack faith and don't calm yourself the manifestation phase is hard. Real hard. Been there, done that. Seen lots of people do it. First STOP SPYING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Stay off social media even. It's irrelevant to real life. No I don't say that because I'm old. I enjoy social media, too. It's fun. BUT it is not real life and no I don't care if your generation feels like it is. If you're young enough to say that, I know exactly what you mean as there were some pretty important things to my generation when I was your age, many of which were and are just as irrelevant in the long term, so I do entirely understand. Social media is worse in a way. It's honestly been nothing but a decay on society, and I'm old enough to assure you that it's been nothing but a fucking blight (it definitely hasn't had any positive influence,) which I say even as much as I enjoy it too, so if you can't control your stalking, you get off of socials for a bit. You won't die. I promise. Now, you also need to keep your mind off the situation as much as possible. Don't try to go over the situation in your mind. Don't worry on it. Don't over think on it. When it comes to mind, you tell yourself, "I'm doing everything I can to repair this, good changes are on the way, and I don't need to worry anymore." Then try to put it out of mind. Keep doing this and eventually it gets easier. 

    Now, another thing we need to keep in mind is when we do love and/or reconciliation work on a target, we start resenting them if it takes awhile for making us put in so much effort! Well, from the target's perspective (and we must never tell them we used spellwork!) it doesn't seem like you're putting in effort. They don't know how much time or money you've invested. So, remember this before you get aggro at someone who's responding slower than you'd like.

    Lastly, I do not control the economy! If there is a hiring freeze or you aren't qualified for a better paying job and can only get jobs which don't pay enough, please do not blame myself or the spells. I will usually check this with the person requesting job or money work, but every once in awhile I get some people who play down expectations and then quickly become demanding and rude when they don't get paid a salary most of us never will be able to earn which they aren't qualified to receive within the next week.

    I ASSURE YOU, MOST PEOPLE DO NOT NEED THESE REMINDERS, IT IS THAT THOSE WHO DO NEED TO GET THESE REMINDERS FREQUENTLY. This is not one person who triggered this, but several and all of them doing the same handful of unhelpful things. Do not feel badly, as I would not single you out and blast you online…it took like three years to blast my stalker online and look how much she did before I did, lol. That should give you some idea how much bad behavior is required of someone. ;) 

    ~Cat

     

  • 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 is that people continue to engage in the toxic and abusive behaviors that chased off the person they want back in the first place. Nagging, arguing, jealousy, other behaviors borne of insecurity, being short sighted, verbally abusive, threatening them, threatening yourself, creating fake scenarios in your head and getting angry, stalking, manipulation, being controlling, not being accountable, being too clingy, not being clingy enough, lying….I mean, we all are at least a bit toxic, but if you want a relationship (any relationship!) to work, the best thing you can do is work on your own toxic behaviors and better yourself. A spell will not make someone overlook the continued bad behavior in the long run. So work on yourself while the spell works for you!

    Then there is the fact that people want overnight results. It happens, but frankly speaking to you all, it is wrong to assume that it will or that someone promising you such things is on the level. Spiritual work is a bit like medicine. Sometimes "treatment" (so improvement via the spell manifesting,) has to take weeks or even a few months. While the whining and bitching (if you do it frequently,) is chasing your worker off (there's literally 0 wrong with a spell that isn't a week old not having results yet,) it is also a huge red flag that YOU are a big reason your spell is taking so long to manifest. You have lust for results. So, not only do we almost certainly have a complex and difficult issue to tackle, one that didn't develop overnight or over a day or two, but you're slowing manifestation and blaming the wrong party. Trust me, I wish this wasn't how this worked – I've ruined and delayed my own work for myself having gotten lust for results, (annoyed a few friends like certain clients have annoyed me, too, haha,) and it blows – because if it were all the responsibility of the worker casting the spell, then my job (and by extension my peers' jobs,) would be so much easier. Instead, with certain people it feels like I have to drag them kicking and screaming to the place in life they paid me to get them. If you RELAX, and quit ruminating on the problem and stalking the target and overthinking, not only will you feel better (because you are upsetting yourself,) you will also get faster results! We just recently discussed lust for results so I'll leave it at what I said here, but know that FAST RESULTS ARE OFTEN SHORT-LIVED RESULTS…and that means you really shouldn't stress if it takes a few weeks anyhow. It's probably for your benefit!

    There's also the people who don't actually love the person they think they do. See, my mom always said you have to love someone "warts and all." She meant that you love the best parts and the worst parts and all in between. When you come to me and say "Well, I love (insert name) but s/he laughs stupid, and we don't agree on politics so I want to change that, and s/he is really into a few things I find so boring I want to chew my arm off when s/he starts talking, and also I wish s/he was smarter, and I don't really like her/his sense of humor…" etc etc – then you are telling me THAT YOU DO NOT LOVE THIS PERSON. Remember kids, NEVER SEEK TO CHANGE THE PERSON YOU ARE WITH BECAUSE YOU WILL FAIL, instead if you don't love all of them, you are just infatuated with your idea of them, and not them at all. And I get it – people get bad habits like addictions, or they are bad with money, or any number of faults that we'd all like them not to have. But you leave them how you get them, so if they cheated to be with you, they'll cheat on you religiously.  Don't like that? Don't help them cheat on their partner. You love someone but they drink too much and you hate drinking. Don't like that? Well, then you need to find someone who doesn't like alcohol like you or you need to accept that they are a drunk and love them despite that, and if you can't, then you move on. So when you come to me telling me you love someone except not large parts of their personality, then you do not love them at all. Chasing them and bringing them to you again and again with magic will help no one, and the relationship will ultimately fail. 

    Stop giving your perceived rivals headspace too. You are empowering them, keeping them in the picture, and causing yourself issues. That's easier said than done, of course, but unless this person is actively antagonizing you, or creating issues with you, then the faster you put them in your past and out of your head, the faster their influence will cycle out of the situation and into the past. 

    And lastly… NO ONE wants you drag up the past and your feelings when things are knitting back together. No one. So if you get contact with your ex, and have to immediately discuss the past or your feelings, past arguments, or the former relationship, don't be surprised when they take off pretty fast. Instead, you let the relationship start healing,  and wait until that ex brings up the past to talk to them about it. I promise you, you'll get your opportunity. 

    Q: What do I do if St Expedite doesn't come through? Do I eat the poundcake I got in my freezer and assume he hates me?

    A: Eat the poundcake if you want. Don't assume he hates you. The answer to some prayers is no. It sucks but you can always try asking another saint or another spirit for help. 

    Q: Why did you ask me what (ingredient) was for in my spell when I asked you if a spell I wrote was any good?

    A: Because it made no sense to me. I can tell you the exact reason anything exists in any spell I wrote. I know exactly what it's function is, and it has zero to do with "i saw it in another spell" being my only justification. So if you don't know why you are using bay laurel leaves, and it makes no sense for you to do so with your reported aim  for the spell in mind, and I'm reviewing this new spell you wrote with my decades of study and practice bringing up no fathomable reason for it to exist in your spell, I will ask what you meant the ingredient to do. If you don't have an answer (usually many people don't know what the ingredient does and cuffed it from another spell,) or your answer is "just because," you need to go back to the drawing board.

    That's okay! You need to start somewhere, but you asked me to critique it or help you, and if you can't give me a sensible reason for that ingredient…well, it's a bit like misusing a word or term you recently heard or read. If you don't know what it means or does, it's the very duty you enlisted me for to tell you that doesn't make sense and doesn't belong there. 

    Q: How do I remove a curse?

    A: That has a lot to do with if you are cursed, when you were cursed, what methods were used…several factors. So you are basically asking me something as vague as "what do I do if I don't feel well," with no other information. If you can tell me why you think you're cursed, what the symptoms are, who you believe cursed you (if known,) and why, as well as when you believe it started, then feel free to contact me and I can suggest something to help. 

    In the meanwhile, look for items hidden in your home, do not take any physical item from the suspected antagonist, and do not give them anything of yours. If you are not a public figure, try to keep any images of yourself blocked from the suspected antagonist on your socials. Add hyssop, rue, and salt to a hot bath, and submerge yourself, then stand up and wash DOWN (head to feet,) saying the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepard,") to wash off any active curse energies. 

    Q: How do I know if Santa Muerte will work with me?

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    A: Start by asking her! You might try prayer, meditation, or a reading! I've found if she's approached respectfully, she generally will work with you, HOWEVER if you get no feedback from her, you might wait and try asking her assistance on another issue. If you get a bad feeling, a feeling of trepidation or worry, or any seemingly negative sign, do not work with her. She is a very helpful spirit but…she can be picky sometimes, even towards aims her devotees ask her assistance on. 

    I recommend your first working be using the Santa Muerte novena. This can be found online here. Once you have done the novena, you will be responsible for offering her a candle once a week for the rest of your life (or until you don't want her help on that issue,and she can rescind her help much like Saint Expedite.)

    Keep in mind, she may not help you against another devotee of hers – and the story I heard is she is a skeleton because she immolated herself after finding out her husband was having an affair, so she can be biased against women who try to take another woman's man. 

    Q: Could I literally use anything from the body of my target as a witness sample (a link to them)? Like what about old baby teeth or a scab!? 

    A: I have questions where you're getting someone's baby teeth (or if you have access to such a thing, if your kids are alright, heh,) but yes, you can use anything. If your target was a leper and their nose fell off, and you somehow managed to grab it, you could use that, though I'd be kind of careful about touching anything which might carry pathogens. 

    There are a few historical spells that I've read that even use scrapings from the foot – like scraping off a callous. 

    Now keep in mind, each part is going to be more useful for some ends than others. For example, a used toothbrush can be used to effect communication quite well, and it's full of dead skin and spit (which is why you change your toothbrush often, because that's gross but true.) An old worn shoe from the target can be used to make them move somewhere or to draw them to come back. Notice I DID NOT say that you needed to get their tongue or a toe. 😉 If it's clothing make sure it's unwashed and that they are the only wearer of the item. Hopefully no one is sharing toothbrushes, but that, too. 

    It's easier to get a strong biological witness sample than getting most people's baby teeth (I really don't want to know, but the original asker DID say baby teeth, haha,) and you may even find you have to handle something far less icky than a discarded scab. That said, even these unique choices and…yeah, body parts and things the body sheds are all usable. HOWEVER, please make sure you legally obtain these items, and please don't physically assault anyone to get a body part of them that you are using for spellwork. Obviously, we shed baby teeth and scabs, but with this question, I feel compelled to say do not assault any target to get these items, please and thank you. 

    Q: Why do my get a job spells keep failing?! I'm qualified for the job, and have years of experience in the field I'm applying in. I should be a candidate that anyone would want!

    A: At this writing (June 2025,) the economy is sliding right into the toilet from what I can tell, which is a factor we do need to consider, and without defining the person asking's field (in which there are jobs,) so as to help everyone, we also need to consider the industry you want a job in. When I was a little girl, travel agents were a huge necessity if you wanted to travel, and now I'm not even sure that's still a thing, for example, so if you are looking for a job which is disappearing or losing relevance, you may find that you are seeking something a bit like a unicorn or other fantasy creature. My parents still remember having a guy who delivered milk to their homes (a milk man!) and I don't think that's a thing anymore either, ha ha. 

    Now, I'm going to assume that you don't want to be a milk man or travel agent, and that you wanted a job you're qualified for that is still a kind of job that has relevance today. And for the sake of argument, let's say it has pretty good availability of jobs, and no hiring freeze.

    You know my first degree was in graphic design. This was still a booming industry until about 6 months to a year before I graduated. *sigh* When I did graduate, there were still some jobs, definitely, and I did some freelance work as a graphic designer for maybe a decade after I did graduate, but for someone who was one of the top design students in my class, it was pretty bleak and I DEFINITELY kept trying to do job spells to land a career in my chosen field. I'd get some freelance work, and it would taper off. 😛 Of course my classmates also were not getting jobs as designers, which probably was a big clue…but when I did this job work, other opportunities for skilled work (which I was skilled at,) kept popping up. It quickly became clear that the Universe had other plans for me, and those plans did not entail me becoming a famous artist who designed logos and ads.

    My point is maybe you're looking in the wrong field. Is the universe pushing you in another direction and you're so targeted on what you think you should be doing? Look for clues! If you keep getting pretty good offers or seeing opportunities pop up for other jobs you're qualified to work, then try taking that opportunity!

    Also, unfortunately ageism is a thing. Are you very young or over 50? Honestly a person at 50 has 15 more good years in them at least and is highly skilled but often passed over for someone a bit younger. If you think it is ageism, you might try road opening with your crown of success work.

    If none of that seems to apply, by all means, feel free to contact me (link in this article in another question,) and I am glad to try to figure out what the heck is going on. Maybe you're using money spell work and not job spellwork, which they are different things. 

    Alright kids, keep the questions coming. I might even do a part 2 for this month if you bring me something new and interesting!

    Thanks for reading!

    ~Cat

  • Hey everyone,

    A little over three years ago, my then fiance and I had an argument while drinking. He got heated enough that he left rather than let it escalate, and went over to a woman he had described to me as “incredibly ugly with skin like a burn victim,” but that she “clearly liked him” a few days previous to this argument, and they ended up sleeping together. He was not dishonest about what happened and I forgave him. She was incredibly unattractive (I social-media checked and had to see) and I figured if I was as unfortunate as she in the looks department, I might consider sleeping with someone else’s incredibly attractive man…I wouldn’t go through with it like she did, but I got how she was tempted, just not why she carried through.

    The next thing I know, he’s accusing me of crazy stuff like hacking his accounts and phone (I wasnt), and I keep noticing this guy I found out later was named Keith lurking around my house and staring at me (Amy’s “best friend” and reputed lover,) and things got very weird from there because she started texting me one morning me offered to steal all his money and bring it to my house….we had never spoken before and she wanted to rob my spouse for no reason. I still have the unedited text transcripts! I cant make this up…its just so stupid and insensible. Why? I can only imagine she was in her dope crazies, idk. Then told him she was with child around this time. At this point my husband (well fiance, – we got married 2ish months after this,) was being shown edited convos by her between her and I (he said they made little sense, and when he saw my side which was unedited, he was like “Holy fuck is she insane,”) where she tried to make me look bad. 

    But it gets weirder

    He and I broke up for 2.5 weeks or maybe up to 3. This is still the record so she has that feather for her cap. During this time, I would receive bizarre communications from her. Sometimes they accused me of things I never did, other times they called me fat (it should be noted, she was heavier than I was at this time, and now definitely is since I lost a nice piece of weight since ’22,) and often it was gloating on her fertility and my perceived lack thereof. I would have been 44 and she was 30. Like bragging your 14 year younger uterus works better than mine isn’t really an insult but a fact, and I guess I was supposed to be sad.  When Mr NinjaCat found out it really was her who was crazy in those few weeks, who was hacking his accounts, who was making things up, he understandably came back home eager to reconcile and after a week or two, I gave in. We reconciled. Of course he was concerned her child who wasn’t actually his was his, so we kind of had to pretend to be nice. She told him if he went back to me, he could never see the child. Hilariously we were married around this time, haha, but she didn’t know. She would call and accuse me to my husband of doing things like stalking and messaging her online when my husband was with me and I wasn’t on or near my phone (which he saw), saying it was going on at that moment. She replied to texts I sent him because she’d hacked his phone. She tried to come to my third job to harass me and got banned from the whole chain of stores for it. She was crazy. I also got pregnant around this time, and I even have transcripts of a bizarre conversation I still have where she offered to sell my pregnant ass meth (I don’t do meth,) so I finally ended her ability to talk and all our convos by saying that while she failed as a homewrecker, at least she succeeded as a gigantic fucking scumbag and blocked her. This is the last thing I ever directly said to this person.

    I suffered a miscarriage early on, and she made fun of me for it to my spouse when talking to him. So much compassion. He threw up in his mouth a lot not just a little…but we still thought that might be his kid, so we kept pretending she was a human to her (well, he did, – I didn’t speak to her anymore.) 

    When her baby was born she told my husband that he could never see her or the baby, and because of me. Mind you, I’d never wronged her and she’d tried to destroy my life for 9 months at this time. 

    She slept with my husband, and stalked us, and harassed us, probably was the cause of my miscarriage, but it’s my fault. 

    Now for all three years (it’s ongoing), she’s stalked me, but this is more than 2 years ago still. When we got the reports from DHHS (which explained a lot,) it ends up she was on cocaine, molly, methamphetamine and fentanyl throughout the pregnancy with the child we did not yet know was not my husband’s. We found out later that that baby has the wrong daddy on the birth certificate. No real surprise. He does look a bit like her “best friend,” who used to lurk around my old house and watch me (that was creepy AF.) Before this, she said anything and everything to defame my husband just in case the child she didn’t know the daddy to yet was his, and now you will notice she weirdly still brings him up a lot…even though he is in no way involved in my business or her life. 

    We figured this was 9 (more like 10.5 at this point) months of hell we went through. We could move on. She even got a protection from abuse from him when neither of us wanted anything to do with her. No one was contacting her. On it she claimed I’d moved closer to her – it was twice the distance away from her from my previous residence. I’m talked about relentlessly on the order and yet it isn’t about me, nor is it on me. I could technically contact her right now. I NEVER EVER WOULD. I am not fluent in skanky wannabe homewrecking psychopath…a problem I’ve had since before I met her, – and that much has been bad for my job as I had to turn down a few gigs for it.

    I mean, he paid dearly for that little affair. I can’t say I was still mad at him by then, – I definitely would not have been by this point. But I was the victim here (he, at the least, did do something wrong that started this campaign of crazy against mostly me and a bit him), and she just keeps victimizing me. 

    So after about a year of this crazy bitch, we figured we were good. Like, okay, we don’t want to contact this dumpster fire, and it is not his kid, and she clearly wanted to pretend she was a victim after being chased out of Portland (most of a small city hated her, ffs) for all she did, but this must be the end, right? HA! She had been harassing me through my forms for some time. She also harasses me by posting slander and libel and falsehoods on Reddit (and I suspect other sites.) For awhile last year (maybe again) the first result on Google about my business was her slander on Reddit which the mod is also legally responsible for allowing. You mouth breathers on Reddit (not all redditors but a few were true idiot mouthbreathers and believed it,) actually have seen her distinctly personal weird posts about me that tell blatant lies and call me a fat meth head pedophile. If you believed this person or engaged with them, you are as bad and a piece of shit – there’s no nice way to say it because only an imbecile or someone else with an untreated personality disorder really could believe that shit.The Reddit stuff I can trace back to maybe 3 months after she had her kid? It’s ongoing though. It may have started before, though, but initially it was only EMMY LIM, who blackmailed me for free work, and followed through with smearing my name when I fired her for trying to blackmail me. You know EMMY LIM as pomegranate. But she – AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, ORIGINALLY OF GLOUCESTER (IF I AM REMEMBERING RIGHT) WHICH IS IN MASSACHUSETTS always harassed me and called me fat and infertile. She wrongly thinks my family is rich like Kardashians, she is very obvious and I even had a lawyer subpoena reddit IP address records which they did for the case, but ultimately, I couldn’t afford their retainer, so we only got so far…but I bet I can have that sent to the sheriff because…

    Guess what I got a few days ago through my forms – MORE THAN THREE YEARS AFTER THIS SHIT STARTED. This! Fat is a playground insult. Infertile? No client or person brings up my uterus. Ever. Never in 21 years of business has anyone contacting me for business ever discussed my fertility or used it as an insult. So easily-identifiable AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS sent me this:

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    And this is one of many she’s sent. Generally calling me things she is…fat, washed up…and again, no one has ever discussed my fertility in a business setting but that’s always been her thing. I can’t recall a single client ever calling me fat in 21 years of business and she was never a client. She’s 14 years younger so her uterus works better. Oh wow, not biology? My almost spotless level of contraception and entirely spotless record in having never slept with or romantically pursued someone else’s man really isn’t anything I’m ashamed of…but I mean, she is a known drug user, and scumbag so I guess my uterus and a playground insult of I’m “fat” is the best she’s got. Haha. My spouse and I are ready to sue her and since some of the harassment is over state lines from her, we hope we may have a federal case. What she’s doing is criminal in my mind, but it may end up being a civil case. 

    Since she has a fake account on my facebook to stalk me, and posts pics of me from my FB on Reddit, I used my real account to get these from her FB and here you go…

    This woman is about 14 years my junior and 2 years ago looked like this (there is a filter, and she does have skin like a burn victim, especially on her face, unfortunately for her. This is a flattering photo.) She’s 31-32 here and even with filters looks older than I do without one. 

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    This is her in her late 20’s or maybe mid 20’s?. Still filters. She has skin like burn victim. 

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    Both of these images were sourced from her public facebook images.

    This is me around 19 (so about 28/29 years ago – filters didn’t exist). It’s even a bad pic. Drunker than your uncle Randy, soon after I’d gotten into my sorority. 

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    This is me around 21/22 and I’m drunker than your uncle Randy there, haha. Filters didn’t exist.

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    This is me around age 30 – yet again with my sorority at our 20  year (for the whole sorority) anniversary and…drunker than you guessed who for it (love you ladies lol) and filters still did not exist around 2007

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    This is me about 3 years ago. 

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    I’m clearly not fat and I obviously didn’t peak at 17 (30 years ago, I was 17). I think I looked best at around 36…but I still get plenty of compliments. 

    So I had enough. Honestly, 3 years of waiting for this woman who IS THE POSTERCHILD OF A SEVERE UNTREATED PERSONALITY DISORDER, who KNOWINGLY SLEPT WITH AN ENGAGED MAN and then FALSIFIED THAT HE WAS HER CHILD’S FATHER IN ORDER TO KEEP HIM (and failed so hilariously it’s painful), who then spent the last THREE YEARS defaming me, stalking me, sending me hate mail, and literally saying horrifying and untrue things about me and my family on Reddit and God knows where else in what public arena while I stayed silent AND for years now and decides to make YET ANOTHER easily identifiable stalking email. This relentless stalking, and libel and harassment and abuse from her when I did not wrong her, but she has wronged me over and over…. ONLY this woman has ever used infertile as an insult to me. Ever. Even my hubs saw the most recent one and was like “Only Amy ever tried to insult you with calling you infertile, so I don’t doubt it’s her, Cat.”

    I had been patient for years, so the day I received this I (finally) CALLED THE SHERIFF! 😀 Now, if she wants to keep this up, I have copies of those DHHS reports I can post, I have chat transcripts, and I’m ready for court. I’ve saved all her abuse since it started in 2022! She’s lost me a lot of money because all the online harassment and libel she posted because of her glaring mental illness and horrifying drug dependence that has also almost lost her the child has, an innocent who she abusively used every drug she could get her hands on during her pregnancy with said child, and I’m reasonably sure libel and harassment for years on top of that might just get that kid a new healthy parent via the foster system since I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO HER DIRECTLY WHATSOEVER SINCE WELL BEFORE THE KID WAS BORN. Destroying my life because she failed at stealing a man that was engaged then married to me is her sole goal. I don’t want any contact with her. She’s ugly, uneducated, a drug addict, clearly insane, has no job, and last I heard lived in a half way house or with mommy. We’ve heard both, though the source was her “friend’ who even called DHHS on her (Amy) before (hint for AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS – her nickname is the same letter as my first name that I don’t go by,), who had a falling out w my husband later and egged Ms Reynold’s on to start up again about 18 months ago. I pay my own bills, but she does not, so I guess trying to ruin my job when she doesn’t have one so far as I know, and therefore is only risking custody of her kid is the best she’s got. The sheriff said he’d have a nice chat with her, and since I have her mommy’s number, I made sure to give her mommy’s number to the sheriff too. 

    I mean, a child under 3 is very at risk, because her horribly untreated mental illness and drug addiction is really bad for parenting and she has both. She is clearly insane, and if this behavior is happening again, I presume she is also on drugs again.

    So, this is who you guys follow on reddit who says I’m a criminal (I’ve absolutely no criminal record,) I’m fat (not at all anymore, but I usta have a little bit o’ junk in the trunk, and honestly everyone loved my big butt…I only got rid of it because it was raising the blood pressure, lol, and yeah it was all in the butt really…) says I’m a drug user (I have no medical or criminal drug record, – absolutely zero, unlike her, and I definitely wouldnt fail a drug test right now – nothing illegal at all in my system) and that I’m a pedo (I don’t even like when people bring their children with them to my barbecue, and certainly have no attraction to any human under 35 anyhow…even 35 is a bit young.) If you believed any of it or any of the other horrifying awful libelous bullshit, rejoice because I actually think I’ll go after anyone agreeing with her on Reddit too. You are a party to criminal activity, after all. We were saving for a house, but my spouse and I have decided that house money should go to taking down a woman who I have lost any and all patience dealing with.

    To be fair, I wouldn’t want to talk to anyone who considers her human because I am skimming the surface of her many many many crimes against me – because I’m a woman who’s sole offense was my marrying my fiance she coveted – AND HE WAS MY FIANCE WHEN SHE FORCED HIS DRUNK ASS TO PUT A PAPER BAG OVER HER HEAD LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE RELATIONS WITH HER. She’s an ugly unstable garbage bag who actually allegedly overdosed her ex on purpose if what she said to others is right and couldn’t revive him so also a murderer. He was a dope fiend like her, so I’m sure it can’t be proven, and while he is definitely dead, I can’t substantiate that past what she confessed about (and she does have a loose grip on reality so it may not be true)…and she will continue to get away with that crime. I’m not perfect, but I’m not an adulterous alleged murderer on drugs like she is, to be sure. 

    Hope this was educational. Clownshoes always was a desperate, evil, conniving, revolting clown. I’m not sorry I’m better looking, better educated, less crazy, much more intelligent, have character and a personality that people like.

    And she was never a client, so she can’t review me. Why she’s allowed to or anyone is dumb enough to believe her is a mystery. Ask Reddit. She clearly was never my friend, and she clearly doesn’t know me because my parents aren’t rich like Kardashians, and frankly, calling me things like fat when I’m in better shape, ugly when I’m better looking, and accusing me of having a personality disorder or any criminal or medical record of drug use (when I am not the one stalking her for three years after failing at stealing her spouse, and she has a well known record of drug abuse, and probably a criminal record, too,) is pretty fucking creepy. 

    Hope you liked my tabloid esque true tale. Can’t make this shit up….and I’m tempted to post all the transcripts and abuse and DHHS reports but….this enough about my personal life. How did this blow up like this in the last three years? AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS who was joined by her friend, the blackmailer, EMMY LIM, who can’t tell even the same people the same false story about how I failed her, though….because she did carry through with the smearing my name when I wouldn’t give her free work. So, Emmy, you are at least a woman of your word. You’re a blackmailing lying cunt, but you are a woman of your word. 

    Normally sinking near to AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS’S level is so far beneath me that I wouldn’t do it, but the difference is nothing I’ve said here is a lie. And I don’t call her job (assuming she had one as the last one I knew she had was Longhorn Steakhouse 3 years ago who fired her for finding her shooting up dope on the job) or people she works for and tell them this…and I’d not be lying like she is if I did. 

    I built this business from the ground up and had an immaculate record for 18-19 years, and ever since my husband and I got in that fight three years ago, some nasty skank who sleeps with men who aren’t single has gone out of her way to destroy my life because she didn’t know who her baby daddy was….and she probably killed my miracle late life pregnancy off so making fun of my fertility not being anything anyone would ever say in any business setting tells me (and the sheriff) all anyone needs to know.

    Someone will always believe the wrong side, and I get that, but clearly, suffering in mostly silence was my mistake, and now I’m going to make public anything any time anyone pulls this crap again…I just didn’t think you wanted 85 or more pages of evidence on her. 

    Because we talk about the occult and spellcasting, and not about failed homewrecker and successful only at being a complete scumbag AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS. She’s a pisces, addict, degenerate, and doesn’t know who made her baby on her, so she clearly has enough problems of her own to work on that aren’t about me. Maybe she should. 

    It took a few days to post this. I promised AMY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS and EMMY LIM that if they wanted me to post the truth about them gladly would.

    ~Cat

    PS- I do mean it…if you believed anything she’s posted about me, because it doesn’t read like a client wrote it, you’re as bad as her. 18-19 years in business with hardly a single complaint, and if I’ve been in business 21 years, and she entered into my life 3 years ago, do the fucking math. Bullying me and doing this is sick

    PPS- For those saying this post will lose me business (because a few have emailed – people who have known me and seen what my being the victim of her slander, lies, and harassment has done to me, no less, and want me to be spared further damage), look, she’s lost me so much in the last 3 years that I frankly see no reason to hold back. Among my friends I’m known as an very honest person who would do anything for a friend, I’m an unfailingly loyal wife, and before all her libel and slander and harassment started over 3 years ago, I feel I had a pretty good life. For the last three years, her unprovoked relentless fictions and attacks on me have caused so much stress and damage to me, that you’re right….this is not how I normally act, – posting something of this nature, – but clearly, suffering more or less silently wasn’t working. So I thank you, and love you for your concern, but…I’m not being victimized further, and cursing an addict single mom with no job who’s life sucks anyway is only so effective – her life is already awful, so magically making things much worse for her entails things which cross moral lines I actually have as opposed to her. Time to confront the cause in the mundane, and bring her to court. 

  • Hey Occulties,

    While I'm all for people making their own spells, keep in mind many people do not understand the herbs they put into a spell. 

    Creating a spell is a bit like creating a recipe. If you do not understand very distinctly the function of every ingredient and how it works with the other ingredients, you can't create a recipe. You might be able to cobble something to your liking out of other recipes (I use reese's temptations peanut butter cookie recipe with peanut butter M&Ms instead of a reese's cup, but I could not just off the cuff tell you the baking soda or egg or butter or sugar ratio if we just decided to make up an entirely new cookie, for example,) but even cobbling things together requires some understanding of what our ingredients are. 

    And when it comes down to it, many people really don't understand herbs, or they do something incredibly stupid like use Cunningham's herbal. Quick note on that – it was basically influenced by Herman Slater, who himself wrote an incredibly wrong book of hoodoo recipes wherein he said van-van oil (basically mostly lemongrass) was made with vanilla (not at all,) among other hilariously wrong recipes – both of them are dead now (they were lovers, and unfortunately both passed away from AIDS many many many years ago,) and Cunningham's heart was in the right place, but Herman Slater is so infamous as a fraud and a piece of shit that it's surprising anyone still uses or trusts Cunningham's Herbal, especially given the source of a lot of his info (the late Mr Slater.) 

    So if you have that piece of shit, throw it out. 

    Or when someone said quassia ashes could be used as a replacement for lover's hair, this is also exceedingly wrong and not a use for quassia wood. At least I can't even understand how that's possible or suggestible as I know what quassia is often used for and it is nothing to do with hair or love, really. 

    I mean, all of this is in books, and you're trying to learn, and now you're pissed because there's bullshit abounding everywhere, right? Well, I think I can help.

    See, every herb is best learned by getting to know it. I know, that sounds so terribly dull, doesn't it? But, honestly, it's not as dull or as hard to do as you might think…but you're right to think it isn't overnight. These lists that tell you x is a love herb, or y is for cursing are generally not telling you enough. Like…I only use patchouli for cursing (I dropped a whole bottle of patchouli oil in a drawer of clothes many years ago and can't bear the smell now,) but yet you see this in "love" and wealth spells too? Is this a miracle herb? Hardly. Patchouli excites lower urges and brings power to lust, wrath, and greed. So, technically, you might want someone to lust after you as part of a love spell, but if you only use patchouli and no other herb, it's not really going to be helpful. We might want to remember it used to be used to stop corpses from stinking before we improved on our embalming techniques, so it's probably not an herb we should associate with lasting romantic love, but many books describe it as a love herb, when the best it might produce is a roll in the hay. And it likes to feed off the other herbs you combine it with… Lemongrass is a bit like that at times, too. It's like it amplifies all the other herbs it's paired with but can be a bit…meh on it's own. Balm of Gilead pods are for healing, especially emotionally healing, so used for reconciliation, but, again, should be paired with a love herb. And yet, a well meaning person might see all 3 of these herbs listed as love herbs (Lemongrass and Patchouli are more lust herbs, but someone won't tell the reader that,) and combine all three in the hopes that their partner will make things official. I'm not really sure what that would do (the idea of mixing all three kind of gives me a headache,) but I assume it would actually create something like a weird argument about something your partner has been holding in followed by some make up sex. It would not manifest your partner making things official.

    How do you learn that stuff? Years of experience helps (ha!) but what also helps is starting small, and using what you have on hand. I don't know how many beginners go out and buy herbs that they don't need (I certainly did as a beginner,) and then wonder what they are going to do with four ounces of this or that. I ended up using all that stuff (because look at my job) eventually, but I know many people are not going to go as far down the path of spells as to become an expert, author, and practitioner for hire. I get there are a lot of folks who like to pretend they are a witch on TikTok (I recently received a fucking hilarious screen shot where an adolescent female pretended she was a high degree Mason, which would have fuckall to do with magic, and also be impossible given her age, and the fact that most masons are male, very hard for her to find a lodge,) but the thing about that is….

    Being an expert spellcaster requires a lot of time, practice, study, more practice, more study, even more study, practice, and study some more before you can actually be expert enough to be teaching others. I had 15 years of experience before I was writing this blog. I didn't just get a septum piercing, and go to Hot Topic, and figure I looked freaky enough to pretend to be a witch.

    And, I hate to break it to you, but the likelihood of you being any sort of magic expert when you're under 25, is very low. I say that as the "expert" among my adolescent friends who as an adolescent myself legit was still a bit fucking clueless when I was 22 on more than a few things. And I've been studying this shit intensely since around puberty (most of your parents were probably going thru puberty when I was to give you some idea,) so I assure you, if you weren't learning magic at your momma's knee, and your parents were not mega witchy, there's absofuckinglutely no way you're an expert at 21. Nor is your expert an expert at that age if you are learning from someone who only has the wrinkles they were born with and can't legally rent a car. I was a wunderkind, so I know. I caught plenty of shit for being "too young" at 27 when I started writing this blog. 

    But let me get off of my tangent. So, here's what I recommend. If you want to create your own spells, you need to know exactly why all of those ingredients are in the spell. If you want to use a particular herb, and you selected it from a vague list, feel free to contact me and ask me what the herb does. I get a lot of these requests and as long as you don't give me a list of 20 ingredients, I'm happy to help free of charge. For example, if you ask me what poppyseed is for – it is to make someone more calm and suggestible. While it can be used for confusion workings (which is why we see it in some curses,) it also works quite well to calm a reluctant ex and make them more apt to accept reconciliation work. It is NOT a cursing herb, despite being in some curse spells. Licorice root (for controlling,) is also in some darker workings but is not a curse herb. 

    And while I'm totally down with helping you, I want you to do yourself a favor and try to keep only 10-20 herbs on hand (not everything you ever saw once in an occult store, and you were sooooo curious,) so that you can LEARN THROUGH PRACTICE how these work with each other (or don't.) All of these herbs have personalities. And like I said, its like cooking…you might discover garlic one day when you are cooking and add it to everything savory (it is good for that,) then take a risk and add it to something sweet (which often makes a dish wholly unpalatable,) and learn that wasn't your best choice. Well, working with an herb magically can bring the same results.

    I can't sit here and provide an exhaustive list of all herbs and objects you might use (and books exist that attempt to do just that, so I won't bother,) but I'm glad to help (within reason,) for free.

    ~Cat

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  • Hey Occulties,

    I originally wrote this for a client a few weeks ago, but it was pretty well written, so I edited it a bit to make it for everyone.

    I think the problem with "manifestation techniques," is that they are often so very wrong if one understand's the law of attraction well, and some of this can be that manifestation techniques often are paired with positive-thinking/affirmations type psychology made popular in the 1970's and even 1980's, which, while I'm certain it is helpful to some people's mental health, is not at all helpful when it comes to the law of attraction, which is basically like physics for magic and manifesting (I'd argue it is more complex than a single law but it all falls under the banner of law of attraction as a general term, so let's stick with it). So, sometimes people say something that being as I understand the law of attraction quite well would sound a bit like this "If I shove your house really hard, it will shove me back really hard, and I'll fall down, and charge your house with assault! It's physics!"

    Sigh. 

    Of course we know there is an equal and opposite reaction to our actions, so now I suppose that person really misunderstood physics, because the equal and opposite reaction does not mean the wall shoves you back. If you don't believe me, go punch a brick wall and tell me if it punched you back. Drop a pebble into a bucket of water and let me know if it bounces out and hits you in the hand you dropped it from.

    So, many manifesting books are really bad because they don't really understand the law of attraction, and they also seem to really try to mutate it to something that might half work at times too…but shows the person doesn't understand the law of attraction (or just think it answers to them…which no, even the best of us must work with the law of attraction to have it benefit us.) But they contain some psychology, and this can be very helpful for some people who really might improve their state of mind if they just had some optimism and hope injected into their lives (the mildly depressed? idk, I'm sure some group was helped.)

    And look, I know people who swear by manifestation techniques, and that's fine. I respect you feel that way, but I do not share in that with you and not least of all because I haven't seen any good examples of it having worked, and I can see many reasons it would not work. Maybe you're some grand-master manifester, and I'm just that weird hoodoo lady who sees it another way…but I did not come to my opinion without a lot of magic experience and reading, and study, and practice, so…

    Without my forcing anyone to have to take a bong rip to understand what I am about to say, I'll try to make this as simple as I can….but it may be a little bit weird, so please bear with me. First, you need to realize that POSITIVE is the wrong word when we talk about attracting a thing. When we think of things which are positive, we think of things which are generally pleasant, good, or enjoyable. NEGATIVE is equally wrong, as we tend to think of negative as being scary, unpleasant, evil, that makes us angry, or sick. In magic, and by extension manifesting, that a thing is pleasant or unpleasant may really have fuckall to do with bringing it to you, or into being, OR removing it from your life etc. So instead you must concern yourself with "attracting" and "repulsing" and "stagnating" and "keeping stable." 

    This is why some people have a hard time cursing for example. They try to bring a curse into being when the moon is waning because they think they want NEGATIVE ENERGY. While it can work that it can take from the target, (it really depends on the structure of the spell,) if you're using lunar correspondences, you may actually want to use the first quarter (which is waxing,) to GROW that curse. Just because it's for something dark, that doesn't mean you want NEGATIVE energy. 

    Again – remove the words negative and positive, as you will conflate them with "bad" and "good," when what you need to keep in mind is replacing "positive" with attracting/growing or "negative" with repulsing/removing

    And here is where it gets very weird:

    When you think of your journey through life, it's almost as if you should see this as a giant river. I'm not even sure we can see across it, because it's quite large. As three dimensional creatures, we can perceive time, but only in a straight line, so the river's motion forwards is our motion forward through time. On this river you can see things you want and people you wish to stay with who want your company too, and all things are flowing down this river. Sometimes we see something ahead of us and we seek to bring this to us, so we use attracting energy. Other times we see something we do not want, and we must push this away with repulsing energy. 

    You know, it's a bit like the very old original Super Mario games where you must go forward and miss all the obstacles and get all the coins or lives or whatever. If you aren't as decrepit as me, you may not get that reference, haha.

    However what many people miss is that fear is actually a very potent attraction energy. No one wishes to be afraid. It is very unpleasant. And yet, fear attracts what we fear. As we float down our figurative river of life, we glimpse things we fear, and many of us get scared and drive those things right to us.

    What's more, and perhaps on a slightly different tangent, but that which we fear, we give power to, – so if we worry about a rival for someone's affections, our fear that the rival may win our intended's heart actually gives that rival more power to do so. 

    But I don't see any of those manifesting books saying that you should be terrified of things most of us want like a loving partner, and a secure income, and a safe home, and financial security. Well, that wouldn't get reader's and supporters if they did. No one would enjoy the very unpleasant outcome of drawing things into your life that you're legitimately terrified of, even if those things were in reality beneficial. Instead they suggest something so wrong…

    Planning the path for your desired manifestation.

    And don't ask me why, but we as humans believe we are smarter than anything, and we've enjoyed being pretty fucking smart (maybe too smart for many organism's liking,) for some time now, but we sure as hell are terrible at finding the path of least resistance for something to manifest by theorizing exactly how it will go. In fact, it's at least 9 times out of 10 that we don't even find the 10,000th easiest way for the thing we want to manifest to actually manifest. 

    In our minds, we think we are really just plotting out likely events. But on our river of energy, we are pushing away key events that could bring our desired outcome much faster by imagining events that won't happen exactly as we have them in our mind. Now, to make this even worse, we may be attracting the desired outcome, whilst also repelling it which can lessen the benefit it has. Think of these fantasy events as creating a sort of forcefield or buffer. If we'd properly done a spell and then released it and thought as little of the people involved or desired outcome as possible, while taking on the idea what was requested is already ours (think a bit like ordering off of Amazon – you paid for it, and it just needs to arrive, so once you did pay, you already thought of it as yours…very similar,) we would have what we wanted. The person who has to plot this course forgets that every event they plot now has to happen to make the spell work – at least that's actually what you're (unintentionally or intentionally) attempting to manifest. That means every imagined and likely unnecessary, and even possibly impossible step that they drew out in their minds. What ends up happening is energy keeps being drained out trying to create an unnecessary (or even unlikely or impossible,) event that isnt even relevant to desired end outcome happening and until those events happen as planned, you actually repel the ultimate outcome to some degree. 

    I talk a lot about "dream girl," the girl who I worked for when I first started out who came to me asking to return an ex. I did my thing, but at least 2-3 times a week she'd go on about was he dreaming about her. I said that I didn't know. Anyhow, he returned to her, and a day or two after he was reported as back to being her boyfriend, I get an angry nonsensical email about how I failed and my spell was crap because even though he got back together with her (him getting back together with her romantically being what she'd requested,) he had not dreamed about her and she knew because she asked. He'd said he didn't really remember his dreams, but he didn't think so, no. Well, I told her she paid me to bring him back, and if he didn't remember his dreams, he'd never go back to her based on dreams….but she stubbornly swore that because he'd not dreamed about her, I'd failed. 

    It was actually that she had a very failing theory about why he would come back to her. 

    Now imagine you are in her shoes and want your ex back. I'm sure you think you know why they aren't coming around, and most of the time you only have a little bit right about what you suspect. It doesn't help that you, quite necessarily for your own survival, think like YOU think, which doesn't mean you think like your ex. The person who reasons how you reason is you…many of us will have dissimilar patterns of reasoning to yours. It is why we are all our own different people. And to add insult to injury, if you're calculating everything (very common in a love-magic situation,) and trying to glean little clues if it's going your way or not (common and very bad for manifestation), your little busy thoughts all over that active spell are scattering it's energy…. A-type personalities often don't do well in magic as they want to know if every trivial thing "is something" so they can plot ahead just a bit to what they should expect next. 

    Look, I'm not telling you everything is a blind leap of faith…it's more like relax and learn to cross a proverbial bridge when you come to it, and roll with the punches. If something seems bad (and sometimes it will,) learn to let it go. I'll have people give themselves full scale meltdowns about a "distant partner" who "must be with someone else" or "losing interest," only for the client to find out the person's schedule at their job suddenly went haywire when 2 people quit (for example,) and so they were overtired and overtaxed for a few weeks for it (and didn't want to burden my client with their complaints.) What's truly scary there is trying to prevent this person from upending their own work because they are so sure this behavior is entirely about them or about something disastrous for them before the partner tells them what's happening themselves. If you've ever tried to talk someone off a ledge because someone didn't answer their text fast enough or because someone wasn't flirty immediately (for reasons having fuck and all to do with the person complaining on it,) I don't recommend experiencing it. I can only liken it to a more coherent toddler who's angry and having a full scale meltdown over that they can't go out in the snow because it's summer.

    But you see, when we need to plot and plan, we get very angry when things do not exactly follow our plan. And life doesn't fucking care about your plan. Magic only does insofar as you want to run out the energy you put in by seeing if it can manifest your way (and it generally won't,) then trying to go back to the path of least resistance. AND YOU by making this treasure map have lessened it's energy by sending it down multiple wrong pathways with your plotting and theorizing. 

    And it comes back to the Turkey Sandwich Theory I have explained before. Let's say we both want a turkey sandwich with cheese, mayo, lettuce, tomato, and onion. We stop at a restaurant that looks to sell sandwiches and I order just that "Turkey sandwich with cheese, mayo, lettuce, tomato, and onion," and you order at another table or with another server something like this "I would freshly sliced turkey, but it must come from a male turkey who was locally raised and processed and allowed to free range, and sliced today, and you have to have cooked the turkey yourself. Also I only want romaine lettuce, and tomatoes which were grown within a mile of the restaurant. You must make your own mayo every morning before the sun rises, – and I will not ingest it if it is a day old – and the onion cannot be presliced. You must slice it yourself right before placing it on the sandwich. Also I need rye bread which is baked today, and the cheese must be lorraine swiss which has been imported from the Lorraine region. I will not take regular swiss." So, I get my sandwich very quickly. You may not get one at all. You had too many instructions and too many obstacles, when really, if you'd ordered the same thing as me, you'd be eating pretty happily. 

    People who have to know the exact route of manifestation and dictate it, – that's what they get…a lot longer of a manifestation phase, and maybe nothing at all. And for the same reason above – you wanted a turkey sandwich (whatever you spellcast for) but instead you had to get in the way and make some pretty exhaustive and exacting requests and now no restaurant will fill your order as it stands because it's too complicated (you had to dictate the how and why a thing would manifest so now it won't manifest.) 

    So, that begs the question as to why manifesting books often contain instructions like a treasure map to what you want if they are really about getting that through manifestation. That some people do OK if they can make little goals for themselves to reach a larger goal is very much true, – focusing on steps makes a formidable task become doable… problem being, you need to focus on each step and if your spellwork is focused on a bigger goal, you now need to make the end goal of that spell the only step. It's like some of you are trying to walk up a set of steps you removed since your end goal when you cast the spell or had it cast was a goal much farther than your planned steps to get there. 

    That's unintentionally confusing but think of it like "dream girl" wanted her ex back. This is the only step I made. Bring ex back to this person. He returned. She would have had me make him dream of her (he didn't remember his dreams,) which I may have succeeded at but it still would never have been the catalyst for them getting together. However if she NEEDED that step (clearly she felt she did,) she should have had me cast a spell to make him dream of her, plus also the spell where I successfully brought him back. That's 2 spells though. So, most of us would just remove the unnecessary step (dreams) and be happy with having the partner back. 

    This is sometimes easier explained by something that REQUIRES OBVIOUS STEPS BE TAKEN. If you don't have a high school degree, doing a spell to become a surgeon will be pointless. You will need to do work to obtain the necessary degrees (and attend all the classes, and graduate,) because magic can't create a degree you never earn. In fact, if you don't have a medical degree (or a high school degree,) the only way i know for you to get a medical degree overnight is to have a forger create a fake one for you. 

    But when it comes to romance, if you're trying to get your ex back, him or her making contact for the first time isn't the end goal, – it may be positive progress if it happens, but they may never break the ice that way. You might run into them somewhere instead of getting a text. You might never talk out your deep feelings…maybe you left them as your emergency contact and went to the ER unconscious and they realized you mean the world to them…or maybe they do text to ask you if you can tell them the name of the Chinese food place you always order from and end up talking things out. Either way…you didn't put in an order for that part. You put an order into the universe for your ex to get back. So the contact part? I don't know, and I don't recommend trying to figure it out. I just trust they will make contact and things generally will move forwards from there. But that contact? That's not really a step because we often don't order that step. 

    And the more we fuss and fume and social media stalk and worry and fantasize…well, the more we jam our progress on getting what we want. Focusing bitter feelings because you think so and so moved on pushes off the outcome. Fixating on that someone followed or liked or heart reacted on someone else's social media? Not only are you literally the picture of an obsessed stalker (so not sexy,) you are the poster child for lust for results. 

    I go over fail dates (if I don't get x by y date, the spell failed merely manifests failure on that day,) enough that I won't go into it right now… Because if I could just get people to cast a spell and clear their mind of it, I wouldn't keep having this conversation. Manifesting techniques don't work. They don't apply the right type of energy or emotion to drawing things to you. The best I can describe it is you need to accept that you already have what you requested, it just isn't here yet, and then let that "not here yet" part go. It's like ordering something through the mail. If you have to anxiously check it's progress the whole way, though, unlike the mail, you're going to delay it. AND that's assuming you take the mindset what you want is yours. That's easier said than done. It isn't how you'll feel when you first have it. That's manifesting something more transitive. It's more like…well, how do you feel when you've calmed down and accepted you're with the person you want. 

    Let's say I give you a brand new car in some model you've always wanted all for free. The day I give it to you, you're going to be beyond stoked. Even a week or so later, you're probably going to be like "FUCK YA MOTHAFUCKAZZZ!" What about six months later? At this point, you no doubt are happy with your car, but you aren't ecstatic like you were, right? That's where you want to put your mindset at when spellcasting. The part where you've gotten past the excitement. 

    And manifesting techniques and magic books often don't explain that.

    So…to sum it up, because it's me running on tangents all over, what have we learned?

    That we are bad with knowing how or why a thing will manifest, and that trying to sleuth and theorize how it will actually harms our spell's energy and impedes manifestation (even if just using manifestation techniques,) 

    That we tend to repulse and push things off by engaging in fantasizing and theorizing

    That spying on our targets and frequently ruminating on the situation and people involved actually delays manifestation or kills our spells altogether in some situations

    That we need to send out what we want and not dictate how we get it

    That the universe gives no fucks about our plans and that our plans and preconceived ideas on how something will happen are often wrong

    And that we need to take the mindset what we have asked for is already ours, it just has not arrived yet. 

    Hopefully this was sensible enough for everyone to understand. 🙂

    ~Cat