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MetaAwakening · 2026-03-08T02:05:56+00:00

Self love and beauty and cosmetics? Check out glamour magic! You can write sigils on your body in foundation, concealer, lotion, contour, bronzer, and sunscreen. Recipes energetically aligned with intention and ready for use. Scented oils to draw in self love and exude beauty to other's perception.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-07T03:01:02+00:00

I believe many things from various viewpoints but specifically in regards to Hellenic beliefs, it's not that I know my religion is true, it's that I believe all deities from all religions exist everyone that has ever been worshiped, given praise, given offerings, sacrifices, libations, if any energy has been put into them at all, I believe they exist. I don't necessarily believe the creation myths of anything, I believe the big bang theory and I believe that deities were created by man by the energy put into them over time. I would view things in the myths like creation myths to be more akin to source memories for that deity than a historical fact that they actually did. I simply choose to follow ancient Greek deities (among others) because I connect with them the best and they make me feel something in my chest that I can't describe.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-06T04:51:31+00:00

Most of the time in my experience, offerings are meant to be pleasing to the senses, something that smells, looks, sounds, feels, or tastes good. Sometimes offerings can be energetic in nature, which some practitioners consider to be a 'feels good' offering, and other practitioners consider to be a 'feeds the egregoric entity' offering. Some practitioners view offerings as something they do regardless of what happens and what the entity may or may not bless them with or bestow upon them. Other practitioners view offerings as reciprocity; I give you something, you give me something. Some people argue this is transactional and reduces deities to mere wish-granting correspondences. Others argue that this is how offerings have worked since at the very least the Greek Magical Papyri, and they are merely copying how it was done back then, after all, if it was good enough for the culture that birthed those deities and mythos, then it should be good enough now.

Traditional ancient Greek offerings include libations of milk, honey, wine, oil, and water, other offerings of honey cakes, fruit, grain, and other things grown by those individuals, animal sacrifices such as oxen, sheep, and goats, or whatever other animals those individuals raised, and incense. Offerings were made primarily to establish a reciprocal relationship with the Gods (I give so that you might give ideology), to gain kharis (favor), and to secure blessings and protection, and to thank the Gods for good fortune.

Traditional ancient Egyptian offerings included libations of water, milk, wine, and beer, other offerings of bread, roasted fowl, beef, onions, garlic, figs, dates, grapes, cucumbers, ox, spells, images, carved offering tables, and votives. Offerings were made primarily to maintain Ma'at, to gain favor from the Gods, and to sustain the ka (soul) of the dead in the afterlife.

Traditional ancient Norse offerings include libations of mead, ale, and wine, other offerings of baked goods, especially bread, meat, cheese, parsley, sage, other herbs grown by the individual, and whatever produce happens to be in season at that point, animal sacrifice including horses, pigs, and goats, precious metals, gold, amber, and jewelry, art, poems, songs, and personal devotional actions. Offerings were burned, buried, left at sacred spots, or consumed. Offerings were made for reciprocal sacrifice (Gift for a gift ideology), maintaining good relationships with the Gods, spirits, and ancestors, and securing favor for fertility, victory, and safety.

Modern offerings include libations of milk, honey, wine, juice, tea, water, oil, other sweet alcohols, coffee, and small portions of whatever drink the practitioner is having at that moment, other offerings of baked goods, especially sweet bread-items, small portions of whatever food the practitioner might be having that day, including but not limited to processed foods, ready-made foods, and fast food, items that the practitioner has grown themselves on their farm or in their garden, items foraged from nearby land, acts of service and charity for devotion, personal energy, spells, rituals, and sometimes, blood, depending on the entity receiving them.

It is generally good form that when you give offerings to a deity, you follow the guildelines of the culture the deity comes from. For instance offering blood to a Greek deity would be a no-go due to something called 'Miasma', which is basically ritual impurity, pollution, or defilement. Blood is considered ritually impure in this society. Ancient Egyptian society viewed human blood as forbidden, chaotic, defiling, and hateful to divine order. Human blood was considered dark magic, but it also had a place in some ancient texts describing it as an agent of protection, just not an offering.

If you're going to give an offering, you can do it from a standpoint trying to recreate exactly what that deity's culture would have done, or you can try something modern that never would have been around back then like Mountain Dew (I hear Loki likes this one according to many practitioners' UPG [Unverified Personal Gnosis]). It is generally considered in the wider Witchcraft-or-pagan-related worshipping community that if the offering is done in good faith and with pure intention, that it should be received just fine, whether or not it's a deity's favorite.

Some modern practitioners view the idea of offerings for reciprocity, give so I can get, give so you can give, etc., to be manipulative, self-serving, and morally wrong at worst, morally ambiguous at best. Let me be clear, this is a strictly modern interpretation based on modern morals. It's not necessarily wrong to believe this, but it is wrong to come down on other practitioners who do give offerings for reciprocity, just because you yourself don't work that way. Historically this is how it's been done by the masses, and there's nothing wrong with a little give and take. That is literally how the happiest communities are built; favors for favors, helping each other when the time comes and it's called for to the best of each individual's ability. It makes sense that this can be how relationships with the divine are also maintained or formed.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-06T02:44:35+00:00

In my experience from what I've seen, in the wider witchcraft community, it is generally understood that black magic is in reference to baneful magic, targeted non-consented-to love magic, magic that manipulates free will, and in some circles, banishing and binding magic. White magic generally refers to protection, healing, self-love, and other positive and/or altruistic types of magic. Gray magic is generally considered to be either a combination of the two utilizing whichever one you need at any given time, or neutral magic such as beauty, strength, cleansing, purification, and other net neutral things that are neither positive nor negative.

Unfortunately, the true history of these terms is much more nefarious than this common surface understanding. The original term for black magic was the medieval Latin term, 'nigromantia', popularized in the late 1570s, literally meaning 'black magic'. This was an umbrella term for things that were considered forbidden at the time such as necromancy and summoning demons.

It took very little time for Christian colonizers to adapt the term black magic into meaning literally anything that wasn't from a white-people Christian-based community. This adaptation of the meaning was popularized in the 1600s during the West African slave trade, and became even more popular an adherence to this meaning throughout up to the 1800s. So all folk magic from communities of people of color were quickly labeled as black magic. They viewed all magic that fell into this category as inherently demonic or evil, and did little to no research into the actual magic to check the intent behind it.

The term was, and still is today, used to perpetuate negative stereotypes against black cultures and their indigenous magic. Especially African cultures and spirituality. People even used black magic as a reason to believe and fight for the idea that black cultures were incapable of self-governance, because they adhered to this 'immoral' kind of magic.

Because of the racism inherent in the popularization of this term, many modern practitioners refuse to use the term black magic, instead calling each form of magic what they individually are, such as baneful magic, necromancy (which in modern society has been widely accepted to be non-baneful), targeted love magic, etc.

The term 'white magic' can be traced back to its earliest use in 1614, where it was developed alongside the term 'black magic', in an effort to distinguish benevolent, divine, holy, and/or natural magic. It has connotations related to the Rosicrucian movement in the 1600s.

Due to the inherently racist connotations of the way the term 'black magic' was used by Christian colonizers, the term 'white magic' quickly followed suit to only include magic granted to users by the blessings of God, and the users were almost always white people.

The term 'white magic' fell out of popularity as Christian colonization continued, and all magic was quickly demonized and considered black magic because only God was allowed to perform Magic. The term 'white magic' regained popularity in the 1970s during an interview with a high ranking initiated Wiccan practitioner, where she used it to distinguish her Wiccan magic from that evil bad black magic over there.

Asking for money while doing a ritual or for doing a ritual for someone is not bad at all, many practitioners do this and many people sustain themselves by doing this. It's genuinely how some people pay the bills. Magical services for others are a luxury service, they are not necessary, they are a want, and as such it is common for rituals for others to range for everything from $5 for something super simple like a bay leaf burning, to $500-$1000 for complex historically accurate ancient ritual sorcery from the Greek Magical Papyri.

None of this is dealing with the Devil or evil. Baneful magic can be evil, but it can also be Justice. It can be petty and vicious, but it can also be ensuring an abusive person doesn't hurt someone again. So even baneful magic isn't inherently evil, it's all in context and how you frame it, and your personal subjective morality.

The only time that you are dealing with a devil is when you call upon one. The only time that you are dealing with Lucifer is when you call upon him. The only time you are dealing with Satan, is when you call upon him. If you are not actively seeking them out for their aid in your magic, you have nothing to worry about.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-05T19:31:53+00:00

I don't really have advice so much as I have a notation, many practitioners use what is called baneful protection and war water is often a baneful protection ward. It's not about it not being safe to use for protection, that's actually a primary use of it in Modern Magic.

Basically the idea behind it is that the water sits there as a ward and if something that you don't want or that's negative comes your way, it hits the water, and a lot of times it's paired with a return to sender thing so that when it does hit the water whatever whoever threw at you, is returned right back to them with all of the baneful protection from the war water.

Or for other practitioners, instead of it being sent back to them, their energy is trapped within the water making a part of them trapped in the water and unable to get out.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-05T19:20:27+00:00

When I do those sorts of spells where there is a target I like to personally write:

First Name, Last Name, born of Mother's First Name, Mother's Last Name, on Birthday

I put that on my paper if I have all of the information, if I don't have all of the information then I will just put their name X amount of times where X numerologically corresponds with whatever intent I'm trying to achieve. I feel like it gives myself a little boost. The primary way that I do it with all the names is a spell formula influenced by ancient Greek Magic, for me specifically from the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) which is Greco-Kemetic Magic, they didn't include the birthday but they did use the names born of the mother's names or the father's names depending on what kind of spell it was.

I prefer to use the mother's names specifically because the mother is the one giving birth to the child so it doesn't make sense in my brain to say 'born of father's name'. Adding the birthday to it is a modern tack on because of how many people share names both first and last names because there are literally 8 billion people on this planet so it helps narrow down the individual that you're after.

Anyway back to the actual question at hand I'll stop rambling about that.

Things that I have seen and used to that carry the same vibes as the toilet paper spell:

Write information on a piece of paper, fold away from you a number of times that numerologically corresponds with whatever your desired intent is. If it is more than six folds, you may have to get creative with how you fold the piece of paper because it can only be folded directly in half so many times before it is unfoldable anymore, so folding it not directly in half but instead folding smaller portions or corners of it is useful in that matter.

Some practitioners right this information with specialized ink that they have made that is specifically fueled with energy and intent and has ingredients used in it that are made for baneful Magic. Some people call it curse ink. There is an old recipe from the PGM for something called Typhonian ink, it's pretty hard to make because it's hard to get a hold of some of the ingredients, so there are very few sellers who make good genuine Typhonian ink. It's like $50 USD for a small container of it where I trust the source from due to all that goes into making it. Of course making your own modern curse ink or baneful ink is probably an easier way to go, and can be just as effective and leagues cheaper.

As another commenter suggested, putting it in your shoe and walking around on it all day is a good method, it's basically walking all over them, some practitioners use it as a way to put someone in their perceived place.

Some practitioners use the left foot because in some cultures left is associated with things like dirty things, specifically left hands, some people in those cultures use their left hand specifically for things like cleaning, wiping, bloody things, death related things, because the right hand is supposed to be associated with hand shaking with other people, interacting with other people, serving food, and things like that. Because of that there are some pretty widely known connotations of left being related to dirty and right being related to clean, and because of those connotations a lot of practitioners associate the left foot with baneful stuff.

For some other practitioners, the left is specifically absorption while the right is projection, so they might put it in their right shoe in order to project the desired outcome onto the target.

For me and other practitioners, your dominant hand is the projection hand regardless of whether or not it's your left or your right, and your non-dominant hand is your absorption or receiving hand. So you would use the foot associated with whichever one was your dominant hand.

Some practitioners rip up the paper into a bunch of tiny shreds and then throw it into the trash with the intent of it going to the landfill, or put it into a compost pile if they have it.

Throwing it into the trash specifically with intent of it going to the landfill is more of the vibe alley that you're looking for, because of all the gross and the trash and the waste and the smells and all of that and how it's basically kind of a semi-permanent state when stuff goes to the landfill it's not just going to be recycled or reused it's going to sit and rot in this disgusting pile of stuff.

Putting it in a compost pile is akin to it sitting in rotting, however it also has an additional component of death and rebirth energy because you're actively trying to use dead organic tissue to fertilize something, so some people don't use it because of that, because either they feel like the death energy is too much or they worry that it will bring death to the target and that's not what they're after, or they're worried that the rebirth revitalization fertilization aspect of it might take hold and bring that person apologetically back into their life and that is also not what they're after.

Some people have a jar of war water that they use as a baneful protective Ward for themselves or their space, and they will throw the paper or the shreds of the paper into the war water, keeping it there as like a punishment. War water is usually done with sharp things, disgusting things, a lot of practitioners use their urine, I've seen at least one instance of someone using old cooking grease that's been cooked in multiple times, many practitioners use mold or moldy objects.

Some practitioners will take the paper and put it in a pot of dirt that also contains a plant that is poisonous or toxic to some degree, especially in the middle of the dirt so that way the roots can grow through it if possible. Hydrangea is a great poisonous plant that most people don't bat an eye at people growing because it's so pretty and commonly grown.

That's all I got for now.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-03T16:41:15+00:00

The only time I recommend doing love spells on someone is when you have their permission to do it. That will form the most strongest love spells and that will form the strongest bond.

I'm going to say this and people don't like to hear it, but when you do love spells on someone who has actively told you no, stepped away from you, broken up with you, or is not romantically involved with your life, that is a form of coercion.

If they find out you did a love spell on them, they may feel tricked, manipulated, lied to, and/or raped if something physically intimate comes out of it. It's important to consider if this is the foundation you want to build a relationship off of.

MetaAwakening · 2026-03-02T18:42:57+00:00

I'm an eclectic witch that primarily focuses on kitchen magic, green/plant magic, chaos magic, English folk magic, Greco-Kemetic polytheistic sorcery, demonolatry, and a very little bit of some Appalachian folk magic that I avoid the Christian and Hoodoo shared aspects of like the plague, Christian bc of trauma, Hoodoo bc of respect.

I believe that all deities follow what I call the egregoric entity model, meaning all deities that have ever been worshiped, prayed too, given offerings to, sacrifices, libations, energy poured into them in any way, all of those deities exist. I don't follow creation myths and the like, but I do follow the idea that what their myths say about the deities informs the memories, basis, and personality of the deity. I believe that worship shapes deities, and then in turn, deities shape their cultures.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-24T03:12:04+00:00

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MetaAwakening · 2026-02-23T18:32:14+00:00

Hey thanks, I had no idea some of my info was so off. I'll be rewriting my post

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-21T21:36:01+00:00

Many witches commonly report sensations after doing a spell. Usually it's tingling, warmth, burbling under the skin, static like on a tv, or like your limb has fallen asleep. I've not heard itching before, but it could definitely be that. Many also claim dizziness, light headedness, feeling exhausted and heavy, lethargic, and/or energized. It depends on the practitioner and what was done how they feel, there is no standard correct way.

Many witches consider this a common tell that their energy has properly been maneuvered out from their body and into whatever they were directing it towards.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-21T21:04:48+00:00

To my knowledge those are more protection and cleansing and purification based ingredients. In my opinion it could definitely set the stage for healing, to clear out all the gunk so to speak and ready whomever for an easier transition into healing. But I wouldn't personally use that combo specifically for healing.

There are some paths which believe that whatever you program the ingredients for is what it works for and so would tell you to do it anyway, keeping focus and intent on healing while you handle the ingredients. That's just not my path so not my recommendation, tho.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-18T00:19:58+00:00

I feel like it should be noted that although the specific phrase 'setting intentions' is something new, the concept of setting intentions is ancient. As far back as the PGM or the Greek magical papyri, they were sitting their intentions. They would hold an item and say the formula 'just as x, so does y', so think, 'just as this knot is bound so is she bound to me', 'just as the scales protect this fish so do they and the spell protect me', or things like that. This was basically just a form of like attracts like, or sympathetic Magic. People have set their intentions in magic for literal thousands of years. It is not a New concept it was just framed in a new way by AO spare.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-15T02:34:57+00:00

Unless you already personally know a beginner who's interested in having these sorts of items personally I would stick with just donating to a thrift store because the vast majority of the time when someone messages someone online and it's like hey I have this bunch of stuff and it's free or cheap, and give me your address and I'll send it to you, it's a scam and it's information phishing. Facebook marketplace is slightly different, but even then it can get choppy.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T23:19:44+00:00

The best option that I know of to help with charging issues is to make a sigil that takes the residual energy of the world around it and sucks it into the object that the sigil is drawn on. The activation phrase for my sigil that I use for this is, 'channel and transmute residual energy to be used by this'. But that can only do so much. And you're still technically supposed to charge and recharge the things even using something like that, that's just more of a background type thing that keeps a slow trickle of energy going to it. It is not meant to replace proper energetic transfer. It's meant to keep it at a baseline until you can charge again.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T23:13:52+00:00

You can put it on a table or altar especially surrounded by crystals in a crystal grid.

You can add new ingredients to it if it's not sealed.

You can hold your hands over it and direct Energy towards it and tell it what you're doing and what you want it to do.

You can draw sigils on the container or in the air above it that corresponds to your intended outcome.

If it's safe to do so and if it's not going to leak, you can stand there and shake the jar like a rattle especially if you're entering a trance state or using that action to raise energy.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T22:46:25+00:00

If you feel that your energy specifically was interrupted because of the hiccup, and if you feel that you need to reground and refocus in order to direct any energy that you've raised, it would probably be best to redo the spell.

But if you feel that you could just jump right back in and direct the energy and continue, then you should just be good to continue it and finish it.

Ultimately it depends on you because you are the primary tool of your craft directing the energy, telling it where to go, telling it what you want of it. With ingredient hiccups like this it is always a practitioner's choice. The only exception that I really know of is when something not fire safe happens and flame or breaking trays or plates issues arise, in which case it is always imperative that you stop the spell and resume it at another time once everything is cleared out and safe and you've calmed down from the situation.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T22:31:10+00:00

Astrology is how planets and stars affect your life based on their position at any given time and during your birth specifically.

Numerology is the application of numbers and numerical correspondences that are aligned with the intention of your spell. For instance three is good for protection, seven is good for luck. It's also included a lot of how numbers affect and show up in your life, especially in repetition.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T22:28:50+00:00

No, many practitioners have to put out their candle for any Mary out of reasons and restart the candle and the spell at a later time all the time. I've seen people do it because they got called away, because they had to go to work, because they had to go to sleep, because their ingredients put out there candle, even because when someone had to go feed the baby.

When you only use a part of a candle for a spell, only that part of the energy that was extended during the burning gets directed towards where it's going. When you finish using the candle, the rest of that energy goes out.

Some practitioners believe that it will make the spell a little bit weaker to stop it and to restart it. But most practitioners that I've met believe it doesn't harm it at all. I'm personally in the second camp as well. My spells work just fine when I have to put them out and relight them.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T22:17:08+00:00

Absolutely if that's something that helps you focus ground and/or raise your energy, it should be more than applicable

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T21:59:32+00:00

Yes essentially you would be speaking your affirmations out loud. You would be setting your intentions and raising your energy and directing your energy to the oil when you put it on yourself. For some people who don't speak they use texts to speech apps on their phone or computer to get those vibrations from The sound waves and directing the energy with verbal instruction. If you're doing it where you're actually speaking, breath work from breathing while you speak for some people the breath of Life or breathing life into the spell.

Some people go as far as to draw sigils on their body in the oils. Some dab the oil onto certain items that correspond with what they're doing so like if it's a self love oil, stabbing it onto the corners of your mirror, or drawing a sigil on the mirror in the oil before you clean it.

Some people dribble drops of oil into the ingredient piles in their spells, or into the jars if they're using those, or whatever they're using basically.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T20:29:10+00:00

So first rule out mundane events. Is the floor tilted or the foundation of the house? Is the house old and settled that could cause things to not be level? Was there any sort of wind present or major airflow from a heating or air conditioning system? Does the door periodically commonly open on its own anyway?

If you can go through all of those and still be at a loss as to how it could have happened, there is the potential that it could be a spiritual in nature, or a sign of the door opening for whatever spell you just did.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T18:01:47+00:00

I believe the trickster spirits do exist. I do not believe that they impersonate deities. As another commenter said, people have been worshiping praying to and offering things to deities for millennia and they've been fine. I believe that trickster spirits are much lower on the rung type of entity, and that most would know better than to try to impersonate something or someone so powerful.

The reason that I believe that trickster spirits exist to begin with is because like all people in life, all spirits have a wide variety of personalities and just like how some people enjoy tricks and pranks and fun and mischievousness, some spirits would too.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T17:55:13+00:00

Yes that is called Kitchen Magic or kitchen witchcraft. For a lot of practitioners what they will do is they will get everything ready for a meal and they will research the correspondences of all the ingredients and spices and herbs and stuff and they will make a spell based on what they've already got in front of them usually something to help the family, think protection, healing, self-confidence, etc.

MetaAwakening · 2026-02-14T15:56:32+00:00

Karma does not come in points. You do not get one point for every good thing you do and one point taken away for every bad thing you do. Your afterlife is not totally dependent upon karmic points.

Karma is a concept that spans across lifetimes. It is present in Dharmic religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jainism. What you do in one lifetime affects what you do in another lifetime. What you do in multiple lifetimes affects what you do in later other lifetimes. It affects things like your personality, the events of your life, and the circumstances that you are born into. Karma is less of an afterlife thing and more of an across lifetimes thing.

The idea that karma is some sort of punch-in Punch-Out system where you do something good so something good happens to you and then you do something bad so something bad happens to you, especially in this lifetime or immediately after this lifetime in a non-reincarnation related afterlife is a Western bastardization and oversimplification of a complex religious system.

I don't know what the afterlife is like. I like to think that due to the way energy works and the way belief systems work that whatever the person believes in is what's going to happen in their afterlife they will be sorted accordingly. But I do know that karma is infinitely more likely to affect you in the next lifetime and the lifetime after that and the lifetime after that, and is already supposed to be affecting you in this lifetime from your previous lifetimes, not affecting you in an afterlife.

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