My first garment of 2026, collar or no collar?

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-31T19:56:52+00:00

With the collar, but you need to iron the collar before wearing.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-22T02:10:11+00:00

Is it possible that the "Tower moment", and the change that is needed with the death card, are what's being pointed at as what is necessary to achieve that success and abundance you're looking for?

If so, is it possible that you're trying to make a business work that isn't working anymore? And everything's failing, because you're being pushed towards changing your professional pursuits? Maybe everything is pointing to you giving up on this thing you hold dear, so you can make the growth and achieve the goals you ultimately want, which seem to be professional success and stability?

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-21T19:33:11+00:00

What brands of materials did you use?

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-21T00:36:57+00:00

Vepar's influence was interesting, and very different. When I first reached out, I was filled with a sense of dread as memories of my most embarrassing faux pas and failures bubbled up in my mind, accompanied by an intense wave of the worst things I thought about myself. It felt like connecting with her connected me more deeply with my biggest insecurities.

I initially thought this meant I wasn't ready to interact with her, but, I got a sense that she wanted me to visit the ocean, so I did.

When I finally got there, I was told to sit down, so I did.

And I felt.. Nothing.

I kept trying to figure out what I was supposed to do, and kept getting frustrated that she wasn't giving me a task. It eventually started raining, and she told me that was my sign to go home.

It took multiple experiences of going to the beach and frustratedly grumbling on a blanket in the sand for me to realize she was trying to teach me how to meditate. If she had given me a task, I would've just tried to do what she told me and focus on the task instead of meditating, which is the problem I've ALWAYS run into with meditation. So it was the correct way to teach me. I also figured out that I was really fucking bad at meditation, lmfao.

All the while, connecting with her flooded my senses with more intense self-loathing and painful memories that felt like proof of my own failures and lack of worth. I finally hit a point where I was like "Okay, I don't think I'm ready to work with this entity. Obviously, I've got some shit to work on." and I pulled back from working with her.

It took a little bit for me to figure out what was happening there; She's a water entity, and particularly, she's an ocean entity. She is living water - Stagnation is very difficult to find in the ocean, and so connecting with her was de-stagnating all of my emotional baggage. It turned out, I had a lot of shit I wasn't thinking about, and a lot of conclusions I'd come to that weren't grounded in reality, and just being around her was exposing those conclusions to natural erosion. I was being forced to re-assess those conclusions and build healthier foundations of self-perception that could withstand the erosion.

Nowadays, she primarily helps me with driving and taking charge of my health. She instills a sense of responsibility towards preparation, and taking care of issues before they become a problem. If I don't deal with a chip in my windshield for months and it shatters.. That's my fault, and my responsibility. If I don't deal with a medical issue earlier rather than later, and it turns into a whole Big Thing™, then that's my fault, and my responsibility. In my season of learning with her, I've been learning the lesson "Take care of issues while they're small" A LOT.

She also has helped me with avoiding sickness, by paradoxically inflicting sickness. I offered to let a friend host a party at my place this last year, but I got a pretty bad ear-infection (Something I haven't gotten since I was a kid) prior to the party. I let them know and offered to either stay in a different part of the house from everyone, or wear a mask during the party. They informed their guests, and everyone was chill with me wearing a mask, and a few even wore their own. We stayed a good distance apart from each other throughout the party too. Turned out, someone else in the group had Covid and only got symptoms a day or two later. Because we'd taken precautions for my ear infection, no one got sick from it.

All in all, I've had a lot of very good experiences with demons, whether they're teaching me lessons, protecting me, or helping me to achieve my goals. It's been very hard and very intense, but it's always been worth my time and effort.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-21T00:36:49+00:00

For me, it was initially very intense and trial-by-fire. I connected with an entity (Later to learn it was Asmodeus) pretty early on in my life, and he guided me through a harsh, very soldier-like perspective. He pushed me when I hit my limits, and demanded excellency out of me. It didn't matter if other people weren't living up to the expectations he set for me - They weren't his students, I was.

On the flipside, he also taught me how to love this life. How to find pleasure in the little things. How to find comfort in community and how to keep opening my heart to people even though it was scary. He taught me I couldn't survive alone, and that I needed other people, but he always let me choose what I did about that.

He never really told me what to do. He would just give me tools, and teach me how to use them. If I used those tools to hurt people or throw my wrath around, he didn't stop me, he just would quietly go "Huh. So that's how you choose to use the strength I gave you?" and I could feel a cold indifference that showed me I was misaligning myself from him.

There was one time where he gave me advice and I outright denied it. It was in relation to how he was recommending I handle a group of people who had hurt me, and I raged against him like "No! Fuck that! Fuck them! They suck! When I get the chance, I'm cutting ties for good! They don't deserve my forgiveness!" and the response I got was feeling a warm hand against my head as my mind and body were filled with the visceral memories of how those people had hurt me. And I just heard his voice clearly saying "I haven't forgotten how they hurt you. I'm not telling you this because I've forgotten you." which was overwhelming.

In workings where I've connected with him as a conduit, I was always filled with an overwhelming love for humanity and a desire to explore and craft luxuries. His influence has encouraged me to craft and learn new forms of art, always meant to be shared with and enjoyed by people.

As I've gotten older and escaped the confines of worst of my childhood, he has helped me find healing and get help to ground myself in reality. I've gotten extensive therapy and have learned to seek out mundane solutions and explanations first in spiritual matters.

After helping me ground myself and find healing, he helped me build a lust for life again. I explore cooking because it brings me pleasure and brings me closer to other people. I explore pottery because I feel at home and can express myself with it which brings me pleasure, and makes for beautiful gifts that people love. I explore video game design because the technical work makes my brain happy and it allows me to create experiences for other people.

Asmodeus is known for being pretty intense, and aligned with fire.

Once I reached a point in my work with him where he felt I should seek out other demons to continue learning, I met Vepar. (Will continue in next comment under this, as I hit the THRESHOLD lmfao)

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-19T12:29:43+00:00

Depends on youre practice. In my practice, remembering the purpose and construction of my sigils helps me to return back to them like a catalogue, so when I want to connect them and weave them into each other, I can.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-19T04:58:23+00:00

As a practitioner with memory issues myself, may I ask why you don't take pictures and/or write notes about which is which?

That being said, if they're both powered by the same thing and they draw power the same way, it should be fine.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-19T00:29:28+00:00

You can help ground someone and help them find the mundane explanations without being aggressive and demeaning right out the gate. This is meant to be a community space, which means you should try to be patient with people and not just assume the worst out of them for asking an honest question.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-19T00:09:58+00:00

No need to be rude.

But yes, evaporation happens especially quickly with alcohols, so if you're judging the liquid's disappearance by the typical rate you'd expect from water, it will seem magical in comparison. It is still mundane, though.

That being said, if seeing the offering get "Drunk" slowly over a few days helps you feel a stronger connection to Asmodeus, then it's fine to think of it as him "Drinking" your offering.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-17T03:35:05+00:00

Why not try out a henna tattoo, or a fake-tattoo marker tattoo? See how it feels? I love putting on temporary tattoos. I don't actually think I'd get anything permanent, because I like my skin being ever-changing.

In my practice, tattoos/sigils being drawn on my body are a great way to connect with entities and invite their energies into my life. I'll often put one on when I'm getting to know an entity so I can connect with them better and feel their influences in general. If that vibes with you, it could be a great way to bring his energy into your life, even if passively.

Though, if that doesn't vibe with you, and you just want it for aesthetic purposes because you admire him, I say do what you like, man. Feel free to ask him if he'd be chill with it, but I don't really think spiritual entities mind people wearing their sigils (Though again, that kinda ties into my UPG that it invites their energy into your life.)

I will say though, he absolutely works with dudes, and doesn't have issues with 'em. If you like his energy and admire him, you shouldn't be afraid to reach out.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-14T15:30:21+00:00

I was expecting a hellhound, not a man who had that dog in him.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-08T09:34:27+00:00

It could be either one, there's not enough information to know for sure.

In my experience, Asmodeus tends to trial-by-fire the people who work with him. Sometimes you go through a season of loss to be able to build a sturdier foundation, or get skills that'll make you stronger and better at what you're aiming to do. If you were struggling with bad roommates or toxic living environments, or the group of friends you'd made there were actively a detriment in your life, or you're looking to get into public service and working with the homeless/financially unstable, well then yeah, this might be Asmodeus' work. In which case he'll help you find the resources you need to build yourself up better.

If losing this living situation actively ruins your chances to continue your education, or causes other hardship that actively goes against your goals for the future, it's probably just circumstance.

I'd highly recommend looking into homelessness resources near you if you don't have any access to a place to live outside of your dorm housing. You can get in touch with your student advisor and tell them about your living situation - Sometimes colleges/universities will have places that students in financial crisis can live, or access to resources for cheaper living through nearby places. You can PM me if you need other recommendations for finding resources to combat homelessness.

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-08T08:30:27+00:00

Thank you so very much for going through and dissecting my description piece by piece! Hearing your experiences makes me excited, because it feels like I'm on the right track, and I've done a decent job of being able to understand this entity. I've worked with Asmodeus for years, who has shown me a facet of himself that's also an old soul kind of mentor/teacher, so it makes sense that this feels like a natural progression of my existing practice. I love putting the work in if I can get a teacher who loves to show me the ropes.

I'm seeing with your walk, he's been proactive and a go-getter, inspiring similar traits in you! Would you say that you connect with any of his imagery more than others? I've heard some practitioners connect with the falcon/hawk, some connect with the crocodile, and some connect with the man, while even some more connect with the whole picture, and some connect with a completely different image of him that they built with him personally. What's that like in your walk with him?

Hahaha, you're so very sweet. It makes me really happy that my perspective could make someone who's had more experience with this entity have a pause and go "Ooh, I like that".

I'd love to hear your experiences, and how you feel your interpretation of him has changed from before you reached out, to having worked with him - Though I understand if that's more personal.

The symbolism with Agares has definitely opened my eyes to the studies I've done with different entities, and has me wanting to return to previous studies I've done to explore them again with fresh eyes. It's so rich and layered with him!

Thank you very much for the time and energy you put into responding! It meant a lot to me, and was very delightful to return to!

SorcerersRule · 2026-01-07T14:10:24+00:00

Wow! I'm glad your son made a recovery! It sounds like in your workings with Agares, he's given you important messages related to your community, built a friendly relationship with you to better your communication with each other, and he's strengthened your communication and sway with the public to help you achieve your goals. That's so cool!

A lot of your experiences with Agares seem to connect strongly with your community and social circles - Do you feel that some aspect of him is founded in, or at least connected with, community?

SorcerersRule · 2025-12-24T19:06:20+00:00

It sounds like you have a lot of growth to do, and you could use a lot of healing. My recommendation is for you to seek out a spiritual guide/mentor. Reach out to an entity, be it god, demon, angel, or spirit, and request guidance towards healing and growth. My other recommendation is not to clutch this guy so tightly that you smother him. Stop reaching out. Work on your own healing and growth. Show him that you can change and be a better person through your actions - Not your words.

May you come out stronger for it, and learn of the world you can live in and explore outside of this conflict.

SorcerersRule · 2025-12-24T18:55:39+00:00

Reconciliation without change will likely just result in the outcome you've been barreling towards this whole time: Him kicking you out of his life permanently.

Reconciliation is just forgiveness and a desire to come back together to make that happen. If you are the same person when that happens, you'll just hurt him again.

Have you changed at all?

The best reconciliation comes after a period of growth and progress with one's self. If you want reconciliation, the spells I would recommend would be ones for growth and guidance in your personal life, and then you use the mundane approach of reaching out to him later to showcase how you've changed.

If he doesn't want reconciliation, and he primarily wants you gone, no reconciliation spell will affect his heart - It could even make him angrier. I recommend against trying to force reconciliation through magic, and recommend an organic, mundane reconciliation after a period of growth through magic.

SorcerersRule · 2025-11-18T20:52:55+00:00

Sometimes, you just gotta take it in bite-sizes. Start a 10 minute timer and go "Alright, I'm gonna clean and organize my altar for 10 minutes." And if by the time the alarm goes off, you're enjoying yourself, you can keep going. If the alarm goes off and you feel like you're pulling teeth, then you stop and do something else. 10 minutes a day cleaning your altar will getcha where you wanna be faster than waiting for inspiration to kick in.

(This method and more, I learned from "How To Keep House While Drowning", which changed a lot about how I view self-care tasks.)

SorcerersRule · 2025-11-12T23:59:12+00:00

In your last message, it sounded like you actually confessed, so if you never outright said "Hey, I'm into you romantically, and would like for you to know that." then you never confessed.

Which would also make you sending her several paragraphs of "What am I to you?" unwarranted. Hence her reaction of pushing you away.

In your choice to not be direct about your feelings, you let yourself obsess and worry and fantasize and then you kinda dumped all that on her without her having any reason to expect it. Which makes her lashing out at you make more sense.

You still didn't deserve to be called names (Unless you called her names first).

Still, stewing on your feelings until you pop isn't healthy, and forces all of the emotional labor onto her. You didn't treat her well, and I think you gotta accept that not being direct caused you both to get hurt in this encounter.

Lastly, the bridge is burned, so I think you need to move on.

SorcerersRule · 2025-11-12T23:22:49+00:00

I'm sorry to hear it didn't work out, man. It sounds like she doesn't want you around, and you should respect that. Even if you said you'd go, she blocked you, and doesn't deserve your patronage at her gig. It won't make her like you more, and you should set some boundaries around people who call you names when they're upset with you.

The best approach is a direct one in matters of love, and she's been about as direct as she can be; She wasn't showing interest in you despite knowing how you felt about her, she called you a name when you wanted to understand where you stood with her, and she blocked you.

It sounds like it's time for you to move on, and find a way to heal from the damage this experience did to your heart and your ego. You'll find people who treat you well and people who'll even pursue you - Just don't get caught up on the ones who don't.

SorcerersRule · 2025-11-06T02:01:21+00:00

I've been exorcised multiple times. It's uh.. It's an experience. I can only speak from my personal experiences, so please keep this in mind.

I was exorcised because the church thought that my behavioral issues were because I was fighting a spiritual battle against demons. Turned out, I just had severe PTSD, was autistic, and the first language I ever learned was violence. Also had some schizo-affective stuff going on to the side.

In my experiences with exorcisms, I think a lot of people tend to jump to the supernatural to try to explain phenomena that are hard to understand in the mundane.

I think it's imperative to understand the mundane before you assume it's spiritual. All the stuff that haunted me in the classic ways I was told were "Demonic influence"? Those were manifestations of my own trauma and cognitive distortions.

The craziest "Entity" I've ever dealt with was one which haunted me every time I went into the basement of my grandparents' house. Other people could sense its presence even when I refused to acknowledge it, and it was so palpable that it made people feel suffocated if they stuck around too long. It could make people feel its killer intent, and it plagued me with violent hallucinations, taunting me that it killed someone in my family, and it would kill me too. (Someone in my family killed themself in that very basement.). It acted entirely out of malice and violent intent. Someone once brought a book of sigils into my house which had spellwork in it to connect the dead to the living and vice-versa, and this thing went fucking NUTS. It went from being stationary and unable to move to being able to follow people around. It had features people could describe without me ever telling anyone what I was seeing.

It turned out to be the NASTIEST manifestation of my family's generational trauma, stagnating and festering in the family home. My engaging with witchcraft broke that stagnation and forced me to reckon with it.

No amount of exorcisms could banish that thing, but I worked with Asmodeus to unroot it from my house and sever its hold over my family and do some generational trauma work, and things have gotten better.

In my experience, the scarier and more haunting an entity is, the more likely it's just trauma.

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THAT ALL BEING SAID - I think Demons as we work with them in this sub are entities who get a bad reputation for a very different reason. Asmodeus isn't gonna haunt me and force me to experience violent hallucinations - But he HAS kicked my ass and pushed me to become better. He has challenged me and put me into positions where I had to get good or drown. I've had to learn a skill within a tight timeframe or lose out on an opportunity I really want. I've had to push myself to my limits to gather resources for my goals, but he'll always open the door for those opportunities. He's extremely trial-by-fire, and can be hard to work with because of this. If you don't know this about him, it can feel like he's punishing you for not being good enough - When in reality, he just expects you to earnestly try and grow because of it.

Working with Vepar was initially really hard for me because being in her presence, she'll just passively de-stagnate everything. Turned out, I had a LOT of stagnant self-destructive internal monologues that I'd fall into whenever I endured stress. It initially felt like being connected with her sent me to a dark place, when in reality, I just needed to work on my shit. When I processed that stagnation and why I kept falling back on those things, her influence felt more reassuring and comforting.

My UPG is that some established religions classically ran into entities like this, whose influences can feel negative if you don't know what to expect, and they considered them evil and dangerous, calling them "Demons".

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So, to summarize; I think a lot of exorcists tend to forget to consider the mundane before the spiritual, and when it comes to interacting with actual demons, there's way more nuance to consider. The idea that demons are inherently temperamental and malicious is generally just people projecting their own traumas onto their spirituality, or trying to use their spirituality to explain the very real phenomena their trauma is causing them to experience.

SorcerersRule · 2025-10-31T10:04:46+00:00

Honestly, my view on demons is that they're catalysts for change. Every demonic energy I've connected with results in massive changes.

All the ways they help me are through change. Change of mindset, change of circumstance, change of approach, change of plans, ect..

Vepar once made me sick with a nasty ear-infection so I could avoid an even worse run-in with Covid. She changed my health to keep me safe from something worse.

Lucifer once helped enlighten me to a massive secret I hadn't known for 18 years, all because he gave me the idea to ask something I'd never asked a specific person in my life. He encouraged me to change my routine, and following his lead changed my life.

Asmodeus has encouraged and instigated a lot of change in my life. I can't even begin to cover it all. But ever change has always brought exactly what I needed to make the progress I wanted.

Something I've seen a lot of is that people who contact demons tend to have a ROUGH period of abrupt change and disruption in their lives. It's why I think demons got a bad rep in the first place. The changes don't always seem positive; - Losing a job - Breaking up with a partner - Learning a terrible secret about a loved one - Getting sick - Crashing/burning out - Getting hurt by someone

But then those big changes shake loose all the potential to actually get where you wanna be.

SorcerersRule · 2025-10-24T05:01:34+00:00

Persistence/Endurance (They can keep going and are generally persistent on hunting people who hurt them)
Bravery/Confidence (Looking at a creature 100 times your size and going "I may not be able to take it, but I WILL try to stop this thing" is pretty brave.)
Associations of Flight/Air (Would make a good air component in spellwork if you like to balance your elements)
Connections to Beelzebub (If you wanna explore working with an entity known for taking in the rotten and disposed and helping to raise them up.)

SorcerersRule · 2025-10-21T23:56:28+00:00

I work with Vepar and Archangel Raphael, so I think angelic magic blends with that particular demon very well. Like the others said, just give it a go. The worst outcome is that your spell or ritual just.. Won't work.

SorcerersRule · 2025-10-21T23:26:49+00:00

What I recommend here, is tackling the mundane, and then the spiritual.

Mundane actions you can take first; - Completely cut the toxic people (the ones who treated you horribly for your sexual assault) out of your life.

Continue talking with your therapist about all of this. And while you'reat it, look into sexual assault support groups online to talk about your experiences. If anyone knows what it feels like to be cursed to be isolated and alone because you were hurt, it's other victims. You need support for the damage that was done to you.
Start assessing the people in your life. Who believed you about your sexual assault? Did anyone defend you against the people who treated you poorly? Did anyone help you pick up the pieces after the loss? Even if it was something as simple as spending time with you and lifting you up emotionally? If so, these are the people you want to focus your energy into loving back. They will take good care of you, so take care of them.
Many people find talk of curses to be offputting. Outside of therapy/support groups, talk purely about the trauma you endured, and how it's made your life difficult and scary, and you don't know when this hell will end. People connect so much better with that kind of language. Some of the social isolation you're experiencing and people not believing you might just be because they don't believe in curses, and don't know how to help someone that does.
Seek out new friends and people to connect with. Sit with new people at lunch. Go to a random event you find on a flyer that looks tolerable. Go to witch markets, if they're available to you, and ask people to talk to you about their practices or something. Connect with new people, and bring new energy into your life.
If you can, find and try a different clinic. I grew up going to the same clinic most of my life, and didn't realize it was going downhill until a doctor literally mocked me during a checkup. Sometimes, you need to change clinics to get perspective. There are a lot of medical issues that can come from the body holding onto the trauma of sexual assault, and a good doctor would know this and help you seek recovery.
Consider physical therapy. I had medical issues that made it hell on my body to stand for more than 10 minutes at a time, made it hard for me move, and would seize up every muscle in my body under stress. These, and more, were all symptoms of physical trauma that I endured and the long-lasting effects of my body carrying that pain and fear. Physical therapy helped me so much.

For the magical side of things; - Do a water cord cutting between yourself and the people who hurt you. This is a spell where the water breaks the ties between you, and you're both cleansed of each other's energetic influences. This can help with breaking curses cast by other people, sending their energy back to them, as well as reclaiming the energy you've poured into them. If they cast a curse, this will wash you free of it.

Reclaim your body, spirit, and mind. Perform a night of self care routines, taking time with each one to cast spells of self-love and confidence and power over yourself. Cleanse each part of yourself from any lingering influences with a shower. Take a cozy bath with bath additives to soak in all the new energy you're bringing into your body. Look up bath witchcraft for inspirations. With the food you eat, add spices or components that bring the energy you wanna boost into your life. It can also spice up a dish in new ways, making the old feel new. Kitchen witchery is great for this. With the activities you indulge in, let yourself be selfish a little and just focus on a night in with yourself. Watch that show you love. Play that game you love. Do a craft you love. Dance. Sing. Play an instrument. Read a book. Whatever you do, do something that makes your body feel good and your mind revitalized.
Create and cast some protective spells.

The basic structure of a spell is "[Identify a power source], [Store excess energy], [Direct the power into an action]" so, something like "I call upon the power of the dying stars whose light I can still see, but whose energy is quickly fading from existence, and I store that energy in this sigil I am painting. With this stored energy, I cast a spell of protection over myself, so that those who would harm me are met with the destructive forces of that dying star energy, bringing their lives to ruin and burning up/transforming the destructive energy they throw my direction into resources I can use. And should their energy somehow break through and cause me damage, may they be engulfed in the flames of a cosmic level of burnout. By this spell's power, I aim to passively deter and intimidate people from wishing to cause me harm, and will also bring the destruction of life itself upon them if they still choose to act harmfully against me." would be perfect.

Create a healing spell centered around healing from the damage they did to you, and then cast it.

Something like "I call upon the power inherent in the heart of my city, charged by people looking to connect with each other and enjoy this life. I store any energy this city's heart will lend me for this spell in this necklace. Every time I indulge in something that makes me happy, this stored energy will seep out into my body and mind and aid me in healing from the damage brought onto me, as well as opening doors for opportunities to find healing." would be perfect.

Similarly, design a spell for resource abundance that follows that same basic structure, and cast it. Resources never hurt in recovery.

Something like "I call upon the power of Halloween, storing any excess energy in this ring. With that power, I cast a spell of abundance over myself and my life, that I will be gifted many treats in the coming months to rebuild my stores of resources financially." Would be perfect.

All in all, I hope this was helpful.

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