Cat’s Rants: Confessions of an Occult Mastermind

Hi Occulties, 

Today’s part of the lecture on misconceptions and myths is one I find most tedious and tiresome, but mostly just… I’m baffled how it even persists among the muggles, neophytes, and a portion of the masses. 🙄 Luckily, it should also be a bit more brief than my previous lectures on this.

Misconception: If someone is a bad or immoral person, if they are selfish, materialistic, or use magic for selfish gain, they will never be any good at magic, and furthermore, people who are not compassionate towards others are incapable of casting spells. 

Reality: This has absolutely nothing to do with skill or power in spellcasting and that people believe it after centuries of saying the polar opposite – that practitioners of magic are evil and immoral people by default, which is also false, – should be the first clue it’s a myth.  

For some, the journey of learning and developing the skill of using magic is, at its core, a more noble journey than it is for others. For many it does not start in a noble way. We find ourselves interested because we want a particular lover or we want money or we want fame or power or many other self serving notions, and so we seek out magic as a solution. 

This is no different than a person learning most any skill. Some people become doctors because they want to make money and others because they want to cure a certain condition that has plagued themselves or family (so to aid in preserving their bloodline,) and others to help people. Some people become lawyers to defend the wrongly accused, others for money or power. Some people build homes because they want to house the homeless, others because they enjoy the work, and others because it pays the bills. All of these people most likely found they had a bit of a knack for the field they ultimately chose to pursue so they developed the skill. It is the same for those who work spells. 

Anyone can learn to competently use magic. Not everyone will become good at it. Some will have an innate ability, and others will always struggle. At no point does anyone’s morality have any bearing on their innate skill. I’ve met a fair number of complete fucking assholes who are amazing spellcasters, and some deeply compassionate and wonderful people who’s magic was tepid at best. I’ve also met assholes with garbage magic and saintly folks who could knock your socks off. 

Some see magic itself as evil. Therefore those who use it must, in their mind, be evil. Some instead believe it is a holy force and therefore must only be wielded only by the holy. However, I’d like to say as the chaotic neutral that I am, it is neither because it is like calling rain good or evil, or fire good or evil. Neither is evil. They are desirable and good at times, and at others deadly and damaging. So we must understand that magic is also helpful as it is harmful, and good and bad and neutral. It can be used to harm and to heal and to help. 

since we do not live in a cartoon we must also understand the villain is the hero and the hero is the villain depending on perspective. 

But mostly we must also realize that sometimes we do harmful things that are done for good reasons. Killing another is wrong, but what if I kill someone who is trying to kill my family? Killing is still involved but I’ve saved lives by killing the would be killer, yes? So by that, sometimes even good people must do bad things…the lesser of two evils of you will. 

However this isn’t a discussion on morality, as much as trying to help you understand that someone can be absolutely the worst and biggest degenerate and still be a very skilled doctor or craftsman or swimmer or gardener or any number of things. Because being a piece of shit human does not make you unable to be skilled. 

The myth that someone must be saintly or must be evil to be skilled at spellcasting is merely propaganda used to keep people from using magic or to only use it on a manner these people feel is appropriate. So if someone tells you someone must have no skill if they are an unpleasant person, know you are dealing with someone who is either trying to manipulate you through fear or propaganda to only use magic as they see fit or knows so little of magic as to be incapable of educating others. 

Spellcasting – use of magic – is a skill, and the morality of how it is used does not denote ability. Period. 

~Cat

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Hi Occulties,

Lets continue on with our discussion on current misconceptions neophyte spellcasters, spell customers, and to a lesser extent, the muggle public have presently, and what the realities to these confusions are. 

Misconception: Doing spell work that takes away another’s free will is evil! People who use magic like that are evil! Or that’s what I really want maybe because if I don’t override this person’s free will, I won’t get what I want!

Reality: Evil or not, it’s technically next to impossible in most cases to actually deprive someone of their free will. 😂 Yeah, if you’re the puppet master and have taken the full autonomy of another human being, you’re badass. That’s metal. I’m impressed. Especially if you used no spirits and did the spellwork in under 2 hours. 

Because while one might heavily influence another person, when we speak of losing your free will, this is technically full possession of the body of another person, and for great lengths of time, which having studied in this field for a long time, is something that takes a fair amount of dedication from a spirit to take over full autonomy of a human for great lengths of time, so I guess it’s not impossible as much as highly improbable that most humans walking this earth, would have the dedication and will to fixate on this person after breaking them down to take full autonomy etc etc. 

Ive said this before, but using controlling spellwork is one of the hardest things to master for many and we are attempting to influence someone strongly, – not steal autonomy from the target- and even if we arguably gained autonomy for a brief moment there the expenditure of energy required to do so is usually greater than the value of the outcome, and there are much much better ways to get what you want which would not require such measures. 

Hold up, you say, what? Autonomy? Possession? 

Yeah, taking free will. See I can manipulate a target, I can influence them, – both are much easier – and yet, as a being which is autonomous and has free will, that target will react as it wants to, albeit it will react predictably in most cases and therefore do what I want or feel the way I want it to feel. Still, I never took its free will. To take it’s free will I need to take its autonomy and that is very difficult. Much harder than influencing a target. 

You see the Creator, or the universe, or nature has bestowed free will on most creatures. Not just humans – bees and crickets, gold fish and sharks, eagles and crows, cattle and bears….we all have free will. This is for our benefit in many ways, and in some ways also to our detriment, but it does not mean that we are not incredibly predictable. Just as most children will choose a candy bar over broccoli, or most animals will abandon a den that has become saturated with water to find a drier home, or a fish will stop inhabiting part of a lake which has become alkaline, or many other examples, so can we use spell work to create a situation in which the target reacts somewhat predictably to stimuli. Of course the target still has autonomy of themselves, and therefore has the will to react however they choose, but like it or not, most living beings are incredibly predictable. 

It does, however, help the practitioner greatly to understand psychology as well as the myriad rules of attraction. If you suck at seduction in your mundane life or only understand hetero male desire (and not what makes the hetero female respond,) or vice versa, if you do not understand the subtle differences of queer desire (it’s quite similar but there are a few subtle differences when working w a target who is non-binary,) or how to work with the sexual and romantic attractions of all of the lovely colors on the sexual/romantic spectrum, you won’t really excel at love and lust work. This is why there are so many incels failing at seduction magic, which is probably for the best, as they have no understanding of women or what attracts them to begin with. 

But of course, in none of these cases did I suggest someone take full autonomy of their target, merely that by understanding the normal psychological responses of a target, they could create the desired situation. 

True controlling magic (as in taking over the autonomy of the target for extended periods of time,) would be hugely difficult and strenuous. Many people would call spirits in such cases and even then, the price the spirit would request could be rather steep. 

So when you say you don’t want to affect someone else’s free will, that’s good because most practitioners do not want to do so either. The cost (energy and time wise,) surpass the value when one really does not need to. Why not just apply certain stimuli to the target which will cause the desired outcome instead, and for probably 1/100th or less the time and effort!

And, when it comes to comes to good or evil, both are subjective terms, but not wanting to use COERCIVE spellwork (that is not wanting to apply manipulative spellwork to influence your target,) I’d s choice, but it’s not something that impacts free will anymore than my wearing make up and a sexy dress as opposed to no make up and a sack cloth impacts your free will when dealing with me. 

~Cat

Hey Occulties, 

Continuing on with yesterday’s discussion, we went over success rates being faulty as people often misdefine success. Furthermore, renowned experts themselves would tell you that the most expert among us would never have a 100% or even 99% success rate. Therefore it isn’t a scam just because the client/petitioner didn’t get what they wanted or did but not how they wanted. But…there’s more to that, namely:

Misconception: If the work doesn’t manifest almost instantly, – or by a brief period of time under 4 weeks, – and in a way which has a complete absence of false negatives, it’s a scam and no one did the work or a failure as in the spell failed. 

Oh my sweet, sweet summer child, wouldn’t it be nice if all things in life including spiritual work gave you a nice exact time line with exact benchmarks and nothing scary, and also rewarded you with instant gratification like ordering off of Amazon?! It sure would!

But most things in life aren’t instant, sorry to break that news to someone who was raised in an age where being bored is practically a crime and who has become acclimated to a world where most things are rewarded to you with little effort. Much like that meat sack your soul lives in hasnt rapidly adapted to the modern world (which is why so many of us are fat,) real magic has not adapted to instantly manifest for you like you’re living in a Harry Potter movie/book. This has been made even worse for legitimate practitioners who have worked decades as authors, educators, and even for-hire, to deal with a new generation who instantly becomes indignant when a spell isn’t instantly manifested. 

I have absolutely no qualms with being the most unpopular girl in the room, though, so the REALITY is: Magic uses the path of least resistance to manifest and it will take as long as it needs to take to manifest. 

Read that again.

Because what I am saying is there may be some nasty stuff ahead, even if you’d not intended it, and you might wait longer than a few weeks (and definitely probably more than a few days,) for your end result. And you may even lengthen said wait by acting against the work. People have even killed their own work, even yours truly who has cast spells longer than several of you have walked this earth (or breathed air, and before your parents even conceived you, lol,) because everyone who uses magic has been their own worst enemy at least once – if not several times. 

Now we can deflect some of this. Yesterday, when I spoke of my friend who had his home burn down, I’d he had added the stipulation that said money be received without damage to humans, animals, or property, he would have likely not have experienced the “oh shit” moment when handed the insurance check. HOWEVER, the more of these caveats or attempts to control how a thing manifests are added, the harder it becomes to manifest the spell. So if you tell me it must manifest exactly in such and such a method from point a to point b, I will te you that you are being unrealistic and probably that I can’t help. BUT when we ask for more money it is wise to stipulate we don’t want relatives to die or to receive a large insurance check. 😉

But if you think you can dictate the work down to almost having control on how it manifests (remember, you merely get the end result, not control over how and why it comes about, (though you can make A FEW exceptions to what may NOT happen,) and if you need this much control, you actually need to do more spells. For example, let’s say you want your ex back. You say: this person must fall deeply in love with me (one spell,) profess this love to others (another spell,) be incapable of orgasm except with me (another spell,) be rejected by all men/women who aren’t me (another spell,) feel all the pain they caused they caused me (another spell,) and of course return to me (and another spell.) I dare say, that’s a lot of work. Would you like your ex back and maybe gushy and full of love? Cuz I could do that with a lot less work. 😂 But, I get these ten page missives from people all of the time containing even more steps they feel need to be taken to have all they want. 

Don’t forget that after that ten page missive I’ll get: “And what’s the time frame?” As long as it takes to manifest. But let’s touch on that in a bit. 

I want you to think, what is the core of what you want? We need to simplify. Now ask yourself is there something that would completely override my desire in having this goal and how likely is that to happen? Chances are that death and disaster and loss of property are very unlikely to happen in most requests but unless you are cursing another you might add that no physical harm come to person, animal or property. But remember the more “stops” you need to make from point a to point b, the longer journey is, so stop trying to dictate how or why a thing manifests, and draw to you the core thing you want. 

If you lack adaptability, and if you see even trivial setbacks as absolute impeding doom, do not use magic at all. Because I’ve cast spells for over thirty years and experienced these seemingly negative events in my own personal work, and they are not as uncommon as one would hope. I’ve told the story before, but I was once in court (civil court, right around my divorce,) years ago and a hysterical client kept blowing up my phone so that even though it was on vibrate the judge called a recess while I’m on the stand because a client’s ex whom she’d been broken up with for months was, according to her friend, seeing other people. Keep in mind, he did come back, but she was so hysterical that someone she broke up with months before had the audacity to go in a date with another woman that she literally disrupted an entire court proceeding when I’d told her I’d be in court that day. She was someone who should never use magic. That level of hysterics was next level. And he did come back. In fact, dating other women made him realize he only had that connection with her and it was a few weeks later he came back to her. But, if you are so fragile you won’t be able to withstand trivial negative movement like that in a reconciliation case, you should not use magic…because reconciliation work is hard. It requires emotional stability, and calmness of the mind, and sometimes withstanding a few unpleasant things you will go through on the journey. 

So I think we have covered that our expectations must fall on receiving the desired END result, and that unexpected or even unpleasant things may happen during the manifestation phase, but what of time frames?

”When will this start working?” is, in fact, a sign you are dealing with someone who has zero understanding of magic. It starts to work immediately, and that you don’t understand that fully manifested is well past the point of when it STARTS working is very telling. Because, remember, as we discussed, that magic is taking the path of least resistance BUT changing someone’s mind or altering the course already set isn’t like flipping a switch. Changes start with much smaller shifts to the currents than we can fathom, and then build to the desired outcome. A fair number of spells manifest in four weeks or less…maybe even 60-65% – and even more will have manifested in 6-8 weeks. Yes there are some that take longer. This isn’t implicative of failure inasmuch as it is implicative of the amount of changes required to create the end result. The number of spells that manifest fully over night are not a large percentile. 

And anyone who assumes a fail by date is a good idea is drawing failure and no manifestation by creating that date. You literally manifested something not happening by that date – because you sent out the message to the universe that you wanted to fail on that date (or else that’s my understanding, and the amount of people who have come to me a few days after they “reported” to be that all had failed as it didn’t happen by [specific time frame they chose,] isn’t small.)

So how can you try to be more realistic in when you start to notice the spell working? Will you notice the spell working? Again we run into another wall… overthinker-types hate this – maybe, but you might be projecting something as relating to your spell and just have confirmation bias. 

I need one of these here 😬

Yep, unfortunately, if we are very attached to our situations we are working on, we aren’t really great at avoiding projecting our hopes and fears onto the events we see vs objectively observing the situation. Think if it a bit like intense hypochondria except here it’s magic working or not working and not sickness. And even experts do this from time to time with their own work. 

Do now you’re probably like “Let me get this shit straight- I can’t dictate how or why something manifests without impeding or even slowing manifestation, so I want to have as little as possible input on how or why a thing happens (just accepting that I put in the order to have it so it will come) so I get the end result, which the result will probably come in less than say six weeks but could take longer!? And during that time, shit I might totally be scared of happening might happen, and I can’t trust that anything that seems like positive movement or negative movement is even movement!?” 🤨

Yeah kinda. 😬

See, as you become more acclimated to using magIc,it’s easier to tell what is signs of the work manifesting but when you’re anxious and freaked out as a lot of people are by their situations when they are first using spell work there’s a fair chance you are going to project false negatives or positives. It’s best for the novice spellcaster or the petitioner paying a for hire spellcaster to remain calm and try to keep their mind in the present rather than future or past. And keep in mind, much of the time you will see results in 28 days or less, (probably about half the time or more,) so when someone offers you a ballpark figure for when you should start seeing results, be cautious if they say in a week because those are the people preying on anxious desperate souls (and not real spellcasters) more often than not…but all magic is working from the moment you’re done casting. Let it do it’s work, don’t expect visible results overnight and realize the path from point a (the spell is cast) to point b (it manifests), may contain some unexpected twists and turns along the way, – and just be patient. What you want is coming to you and acting like a cracked out squirrel if it doesn’t happen in a few days will just make it take even longer. But what you want is coming and if you want it so much, waiting a few weeks isn’t long to wait at all. 

~Cat

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Hey everyone,

I realize I’d been neglecting my blog as I’ve been dealing with my Instagram more due to the influx of the spectacle over substance people who, if it’s not something you can contain in a 90 second clip, they dont want it.🙄 Sadly, that’s too many people these days but it is what it is.

This will be presented as a series and these are in no particular order of importance. 

Today let’s discuss one of these misconceptions which will come up again and again in the series, as it is pretty common. 

MISCONCEPTION: An effective spellcaster or a real spellcaster has close to a 100% success rate* and will get you exactly what you want** or else they are a scam.

Reality: To understand spells, we must first understand that the goals we wish to achieve are the end point, not what was between doing the working (beginning point) and not yet having what was desired to having it. For example a rather well-known occultist friend of mine did a working for a relatively specific amount of money. I do not know the amount but for argument’s sake, let’s say it was $111,111.00. Within days, his home burned down, and the insurance company gave him a check for this amount of money. Certainly, he never wanted his home or possessions lost, but as magic takes the path of least resistance and he had not specified no loss of property, this was the most expedient manner in which to bring the money to him, therefore this is the manifestation of his work. The working, therefore, was a success. 

You read that correctly. 

Another story I have is of a woman who came to me wanting her ex back. He had just begun seeing another woman. I did the work and he came back, and as they lied together talking in a post-coital chat celebrating their reunification and returned relationship, the ex/again-boyfriend says, “I feel so bad about how much us getting back together will hurt (new flame) when I tell her tomorrow morning. It’s just awful of me to have done this to her. She really is a great girl.” Incensed that her rival would be complimented she threw him out, then proceeded to tell me my spells don’t work. Well that’s funny. He came back, he’s ending the relationship with rival, you said you wished her no ill so presumably ending it nicely, but your ego is hurt that he has guilt over how their relationship ended (not my problem, my work gave you all you wanted,) and my work was an astounding success. You got to the end point (reaching the desired goal,) and that this person has some scruples bothers you isn’t spell failure. 

Both of these are examples of highly successful spells. Unfortunately, both petitioners would have preferred they manifested differently, despite getting exactly what they wanted. And I can think of numerous examples of this type. Why is that? Because we put the order in, and magic tales the path of least resistance. The more caveats added, the harder it is to create manifestation. 

BUT being too vague might also lead to getting what you asked for which isn’t really what you want.

This is why sometimes a novice caster will find they’ve reconciled with an ex, but only to become really good friends. 🙄 Or, they leaned too much on the sexual based spells and now they have a friend w benefits who isn’t much of a friend and doesn’t want to get back together. 

Keep in mind, your idea on how something should manifest is often highly improbable. It may seem perfectly probable to any rational person who has all the knowledge you yourself have on the situation. For example, I might want a particular job at a particular company, not realizing that they only listed it as this was a law that they must do so in that state even though they ONLY hire within the company (meaning they promote within their ranks,) and only hire someone to this listed job level after they have worked for the company at least five years in lower r el positions, always starting at lowest level (example store clerk.) Imagine applying for an upper level corporate position, and being offered the position of store clerk. This would be the beginning of your spell manifesting and many would say NO WAY. But the spell is successful, you’re just refusing the path to your goal. Or maybe a man desires a woman he knows sexually, so he does spellwork towards the goal of her being willing to give herself to him in any way he desires sexually, and being as she is very devout and will have sex with her husband, she pleads with him to marry her. The man, only wanting a fling, is mortified and doesn’t understand why his magic “isn’t working,” when in reality, the way to his desires  manifesting is by the woman marrying him wherein she will give him all he wants of her sexually. 

This is why I interview prospective clients, – because I must know if their desires are realistic or if I’d be like to hit one of these barriers where I will be blamed when in reality, the spell is manifesting just not in any way the petitioner had hoped. 

There’s also what I term “self-made delusions” we all operate with at any given time. I might think someone would be a perfect partner, only to realize they are treacherous, unfaithful, and cruel to their romantic partners, then blame the spell for “not working” because it brought me the person I named to me, made them mine (which was the spell being successful,) only to have discovered I made a jerk love me, and just because a jerk loves you, it won’t make them not a jerk. In fact, it often makes them an even bigger jerk. A prime example of this was when I’d set out with some goals for a target of mine own many years ago and as I recall they were that I wanted him to say he loved me and mean it, that our mutual friends (we have several,) know he loved me and we were an item, for them to envy our love, and for reasons I can’t recall I wanted to see him cry just once. I believe I also wanted him to finally be able to commit, without ever saying commit to me. 😂 What resulted was he admitted he loved me very much and even told people as much, and many of our mutual friends remember us as a tumultuous on again off again couple, so obviously they feel we were an item at some point, and when one of his close relatives was ill, he broke down and cried in front of me about it. Of course, he could never commit. He even broke up with me to sleep with one of my friends which I found out a decade after the fact. I don’t hate either of them (she had no idea of what was going on between him and me,) and I laughed my ass off about it years later when she told me. And so many people absolutely envied him because I was so devoted to him that when we finally broke things off for the last time, and he was so mad at me for moving on and he started talking crap people told him to shut up because I “never” love anyone like that, (I was notorious for being difficult to gain my devotion and wasn’t known for falling ass over elbow in love with anyone like I was with him,) and that he never deserved me. That they would have killed to trade places with him. Then after he recovered a bit, he finally found a girl he’d commit to, realizing he’d thrown away love. So losing me taught him to commit. This is me literally getting everything I’d wanted and not at a how I wanted it. 😂

So the work was…sadly…successful. 

But if I was a knob who did not understand spellwork, I’d complain it had not worked as yes sure I got all those things I’d specifically requested, but I had visions of us being a power couple, and not basically being in love with someone terrified of love like he was, who would get a case of the vapors every time he felt like it was getting too serious. The best part? I still love him very much, and my understanding is he still loves me very much too, but we are both happy with our current partners and I can say totally truthfully that I’m quite happy for him, with no resentment. Love, – real love, – means it stays with you forever and while I’ve no intentions of trying again (which I believe is mutual,) to paraphrase Michael Nesmith, I have no tears to cry for him, and my only thoughts of him are kind. 

Plus, my work did work… just my ideas of what we should be did not suit the reality of our compatibility and temperaments at that time in our lives. 

So while we sometimes think of a working as not successful, it is, just not how we would have wanted. 

However there also exists the possibility in all spiritual work that we will not get what we want. Sometimes this is because we are being cheap or lazy. People use money spellwork to get money, then get incensed that burning a birthday candle dressed in money lol didn’t net them thousands of dollars. 😂 If I go to Shein for a dress to wear regularly at work, and you ho to the Chanel store for the same reason, 2 years from now, if we wear the dress every other week for two years, who is more like to have a dress in good condition? Yes, the person who bought Chanel. In fact, if you spent even $75 on a new dress as opposed to $14 like I did, you probably will have a dress in much better condition than I do, and I love Shein, at this writing, they are fun and I enjoy lots of their items, but if I’m being fair, I do not purchase from there with the idea I’m getting the same quality as designer clothing. Yet people invest no energy or money into their spell work and expect it to work as well as it would if they had. 

And we neglect to admit we work against our own spells, don’t we? Even me! I’ve cast love spells only to argue with my target and tell him off! I’ve done money spells meaning to pay my bills then, went out with friends with some of my money, only to come up short at bill time! The spell worked but I worked against it! 

Plus spells can’t make someone gay or straight, they won’t always override obstacles of great magnitude (if you didn’t get your high school degree you won’t be a heart surgeon with one spell,) and if we do not understand how they work (for example gambling spells up your percentage of success which really doesn’t help much with Mega Millions or Powerball with such foul odds,) and as i will go over it it another post, sometimes we slow down our own manifestation or lessen its impact.

But lastly this is NOT a job wherein you are guaranteed any result because you are paying for skill and knowledge and not at all for the outcome. Much like when you get medical help, you could still not be cured. Or you hire a lawyer and even with a slam dunk case, you might lose. There’s always going to be a chance of failure, no matter how good the person you hired is as their job. If you call that a scam, then I guess every single person who did their job to the best of their ability but didn’t get the result you desired – be that because you had very unrealistic ideals of what you could expect or because you hit an unforeseen obstacle, or you didn’t follow instructions, or you acted against that work, or just you got to be in the 5% of people where what you want isn’t yours to have despite all the efforts made on your behalf by yourself and others to bring to you what you wanted – just must be a scam. 🙄 You would be wrong to think this, probably lack the ability to be responsible for your own actions, lack self-awareness and possibly have a personality disorder to think like this, but rest assured, if you do, you don’t understand how spells work and have no business casting or purchasing them, so you would be wise to do neither, and that will help prevent this misconception from spreading further.

I think more spells are a success than people believe but I’ll be fair with you, and say even keeping a the above in mind, the most successful spellcasters EVER are going to fail probably 5-10% of the time. Draja Mickaharic had once claimed it was possibly even a larger percentage, and many occultists I know say it’s closer to 15% of the time. 

~Cat

*The idea of a success rate in this example meaning every single spell working exactly as the petitioner not the spellcaster intended, or better, in a time frame the petitioner decides is exactly x amount of time, being the benchmark most people use for successful work. 

**as discussed above, these people often get exactly what they want, they just don’t like how getting it came to be, or have underlying complaints that didn’t exactly mirror their expectations. 

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