Blessings Darlings!
I'm in a lot of Pagan groups on FaceBook. In some of them, I even use my real name! The groups are where I get much of the inspiration for the Pagan posts on this blog. (Stop the pearl clutching - I don't air individual's issues/private stuff - I note general trends.)
Having joined a few new-to-me groups, I'm seeing a lot of folks spending a LOT of their time on petty curses/hexes/etc. That is - cursing/hexing folks for doing little 'wrongs' to the person doing the hex. And doing hexes/curses rather than, ya know, putting up shields and wards and protecting themselves from all sorts of shit, large and small.
I admit that no one has 'stole my boyfriend' since I was 16. Wait - okay, when I was 20 a guy dropped me for another girl, but I didn't blame HER then, either. He did it. I didn't do any magic to get him back because even at that tender age I figured that I didn't want to keep a cheater. At any rate - that was 40 years ago. So I've not had to deal with those emotions and such in ages. But ... just maybe there are reasons that your relationship didn't work for both of you. Maybe you need to solve those things in your life before you CAN have a long-lasting relationship. BTW, even without any magical intervention on my part - I'm pretty sure that my ex-BF married her and they divorced some years later. So maybe he never worked on HIS part of the reasons, Fern notes smugly, looking at her 38+ years of marriage.
Yes - that line was petty. Petty CAN BE entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I'm ALL in favor of doing magic for 'petty' things - petty things that make your life better/easier. Finding parking spaces is a good example, where a shot of focused energy will save at 5 - 10 minutes of your time. Petty? Yup - it's very far from a life-or-death situation. Improves your life? Yup!
IMO, most of us got into magic for petty reasons. My first ''big" spell was a love spell, done at age 12 or 13. I was charging rings to deliver a dose of 'fuck you' a year or two before that. Petty can provide motivation to learn magic.
But petty reactionary magic - 'someone did something I didn't like and I'm butthurt and need a curse so I get get them back' - isn't either learning how magic works (it's just following a recipe, which isn't bad, but it's not 'learning magic') or putting yourself in a position where others can't magically harm you. And if you keep ending up with the same issue that you want to curse folks over - you really need to solve the issue in your life that makes you keep putting yourself IN that position.
It's way harder to solve issues in your life, and way harder to learn to do magic other than canned spells from others, than it is to do reactionary magic when you're butthurt. The pay off, of course, includes that you don't end up getting butthurt all the damn time. That might not be an appealing pay off if you want to play victim all the time, or are looking to be rescued. If you want to play those roles, that's fine - but you might consider saving it for sex play instead of as a life style choice.
Thus Spake Fern.
Showing posts with label Curses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curses. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Cursing
Blessings, Darlings!
I'm going to discuss using magic/witchcraft to curse folks. So let me say right up front that I'm currently in a trad that does not allow that (nor can I order around Goetic Demons while in this trad, dunno about making servitors and such) so I'm not currently doing curses nor have I been doing any since I started Wicca 101 with them.
That said...
Back in the day....
Heck, yeah, I did curses. And I'd do them again.
Remember, I'm up front that part of my motivation for becoming a witch had to do with power, knowledge, all that good stuff. With those things comes responsibility. One of those responsibilities, in my mind, is to use curses when appropriate.
When is Cursing Appropriate?
So far, I've done curses twice that I remember. I doubt there are any times I don't recall, because it takes a big deal for me to do one. Obviously, I wasn't cursing the morons who clearly got their drivers licenses out of a gum ball machine. I wasn't cursing folks who insulted me in AOL chat rooms.
Most folks who do stupid or irritating things curse themselves just fine. They don't need my help in that! I might include in a prayer that it happen sooner rather than later, but that's about it.
Harm to the Tribe
But when someone does harm to the Tribe, it's time for intervention. The police have their role in 'harm to tribe' interventions, and I have mine.
So the first curse I threw was targeting rapists. Not that they die, not that they suffer. But that they get caught. That they get STOPPED. Yes, dying would have done a fine job of stopping them, but that wasn't necessary for my goal. They didn't ask me to help them heal from whatever reason they chose to rape, and magically forcing them to change is forbidden in most Pagan Witch traditions, and healing without permission is equally forbidden. But the Tribe would benefit from rape stopping. So I did it.
I did not follow up local law enforcement arrest stats, let alone district attorney conviction stats, to see what, if any, measurable effects the spell had. This was WAY early in my Witchy life.
The second curse I did was in fall of 2002, at the Beltway Sniper (BS for short) here in DC. It was the day he shot the kid at the school my son had been attending the year before. Again, it was all about stopping him (or, as it turned out, them, but I didn't know that at the time and it didn't matter for the working). Me, the Sacred Weber Grill, articles on the Beltway Sniper, and well-directed fury. It's a pretty direct attack on my tribe when a kid who my son went to school with as recently as 5 months before get shot!
Result? This was the first of the attacks where the BS left a clue. The Death Card from the Waite-Rider Tarot deck, deliberately written upon and left for the police, a fact not released to the public for a few days. The BS was now contributing to being discovered.
[Yes, I also did healing spells for the wounded, and all families involved, and protection spells for the area, thanks for wondering.]
A Curse Not Done
OTOH, I did NOT do any cursing after the 9/11 attacks on the US. Why? Several reasons. At first I didn't have a good enough concept what group did the attack, later because I wasn't sure what outcome would be best to deal with the type of radicals who were behind it and what bred them. I'm still not sure if the US killing them might just make martyrs for future generations to emulate and thus increase the problem if underlying social and political factors remain the same around the world. And for CURSES, rather than general magic, prayers, etc, I think that you need an especially tight focus. Therefore, I did different magicks for that rather than going to a curse.
Where do you stand on the subject of cursing?
Frondly, Fern
I'm going to discuss using magic/witchcraft to curse folks. So let me say right up front that I'm currently in a trad that does not allow that (nor can I order around Goetic Demons while in this trad, dunno about making servitors and such) so I'm not currently doing curses nor have I been doing any since I started Wicca 101 with them.
That said...
Back in the day....
Heck, yeah, I did curses. And I'd do them again.
Remember, I'm up front that part of my motivation for becoming a witch had to do with power, knowledge, all that good stuff. With those things comes responsibility. One of those responsibilities, in my mind, is to use curses when appropriate.
When is Cursing Appropriate?
So far, I've done curses twice that I remember. I doubt there are any times I don't recall, because it takes a big deal for me to do one. Obviously, I wasn't cursing the morons who clearly got their drivers licenses out of a gum ball machine. I wasn't cursing folks who insulted me in AOL chat rooms.
Most folks who do stupid or irritating things curse themselves just fine. They don't need my help in that! I might include in a prayer that it happen sooner rather than later, but that's about it.
Harm to the Tribe
But when someone does harm to the Tribe, it's time for intervention. The police have their role in 'harm to tribe' interventions, and I have mine.
So the first curse I threw was targeting rapists. Not that they die, not that they suffer. But that they get caught. That they get STOPPED. Yes, dying would have done a fine job of stopping them, but that wasn't necessary for my goal. They didn't ask me to help them heal from whatever reason they chose to rape, and magically forcing them to change is forbidden in most Pagan Witch traditions, and healing without permission is equally forbidden. But the Tribe would benefit from rape stopping. So I did it.
I did not follow up local law enforcement arrest stats, let alone district attorney conviction stats, to see what, if any, measurable effects the spell had. This was WAY early in my Witchy life.
The second curse I did was in fall of 2002, at the Beltway Sniper (BS for short) here in DC. It was the day he shot the kid at the school my son had been attending the year before. Again, it was all about stopping him (or, as it turned out, them, but I didn't know that at the time and it didn't matter for the working). Me, the Sacred Weber Grill, articles on the Beltway Sniper, and well-directed fury. It's a pretty direct attack on my tribe when a kid who my son went to school with as recently as 5 months before get shot!
Result? This was the first of the attacks where the BS left a clue. The Death Card from the Waite-Rider Tarot deck, deliberately written upon and left for the police, a fact not released to the public for a few days. The BS was now contributing to being discovered.
[Yes, I also did healing spells for the wounded, and all families involved, and protection spells for the area, thanks for wondering.]
A Curse Not Done
OTOH, I did NOT do any cursing after the 9/11 attacks on the US. Why? Several reasons. At first I didn't have a good enough concept what group did the attack, later because I wasn't sure what outcome would be best to deal with the type of radicals who were behind it and what bred them. I'm still not sure if the US killing them might just make martyrs for future generations to emulate and thus increase the problem if underlying social and political factors remain the same around the world. And for CURSES, rather than general magic, prayers, etc, I think that you need an especially tight focus. Therefore, I did different magicks for that rather than going to a curse.
Where do you stand on the subject of cursing?
Frondly, Fern
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