chaosjelly:

From an ask I got: “What is your experience with emoji spells? I noticed you said something about the energy construction of one a while ago… could you elaborate on this? :o”

So. In this article I’ll be talking about spells that are cast/strengthened when someone reblogs them on tumblr, the most common forms being emoji spells and sigil images.

NOTE: This is talking about the power of the spell itself before the users’/casters’ “belief energy” is added. And, this is about the majority of internet sigils/spells so obviously not all spells that are cast/charged on reblog. 

For “cast on reblog” spells such as emoji spells and sigil images, for them to have adequate power with increasing reblogs, the construction of their energy needs to be solid and able to handle the amount of “requests”. If the construction isn’t solid, it will just collapse once it starts gaining a lot of notes because it gets overwhelmed by too much energy OR too little energy.

Most emoji spells do not have sufficient energy construction to handle more than about 50 notes.

A real-life example of this would be wifi. Say, a place only has wifi for 50 people. If 300 people come in trying to get on the wifi, it crashes and either/all: 1) NOBODY gets wifi, 2) the wifi will constantly switch between people, being strong for a few seconds then going super weak for the next hour, or 3) everyone gets wifi but it’s slow as SHIT.

I have a couple theories as to why that is:

Rituals often work because the act of creating and doing the ritual builds sufficient energy pathways for the casting. The time and energy put into creating the ritual, then the following time placed into casting the ritual creates energy constructions (whether temporary or permanent on some other astral layer) which allow the energy raised from the ritual to be gathered and sent efficiently and effectively. These rituals use items which already have thousands of years of ritual symbolism to draw power from (examples: candles, incense, herbs) and/or (if you believe in animism) the spirits of those items have thousands of years of experience in casting spells.

However on the flip-side, emoji spells only take a few seconds to make, AND they use symbolism (emojis) that do not have that thousands of years of ritual history. Additonally, the majority of emojis are used rather straightforward: for example, the rabbit emoji. Do the majority of people send rabbit emojis to represent, say, good luck? No. They use it to perhaps talk about how cute rabbits are, or about their pet rabbit, etc. Thus, the historical symbolism energy isn’t as closely connected. Of course, there are a couple with symbolic exceptions such as the eggplant or the finger pointing left combined with the ok hand.

Without this time and energy used to create the spell, thousands of years of ritual history, and popular use that does not relate to the common magic symbolism at all, there is very little energy used to make a sufficient energy construction without additional effort put and/or in active energy work..

Additionally, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed to another form. Since the majority of emoji spells are written with little energy expense, they can only cast really weak spells. You get out what you put in, and if you don’t put in much, well, you aren’t gonna get much. Especially when everyone else is not putting much in but trying to get stuff out. 

“So does that mean, you’re not just ragging on emoji spells/sigils that are ‘likes charge/reblogs cast’ and you actually want to offer advice on how to potentially make emoji spells that aren’t weak as fuck and implode when they get over 50 notes?” Yes, absolutely!

How to Strengthen Cast on Reblog Spells:

Rather than “(emoji emoji emoji) for X, likes charge, reblogs cast!” or just posting the sigil, consider writing the symbolism of what each emoji/part of the sigil represents on the post.

This is part of that ritual effort I mentioned earlier. The act of writing out rituals and deciding what each and every thing means and why will add to the energy construction. Under your emojis/your sigil, add a paragraph or two explaining the symbolism and why. The energy spent writing that aids in the energetic construction of the spell.

Has anyone said why likes ‘charge’? (Reblogs casting is obvious).

Yeah, you click the little heart to add it to your likes and expend a teensy bit of energy in doing so. Spells take energy to cast, but does simply liking something really give sufficient energy for a spell?* Because energy cannot be created or destroyed, you are only getting those teensy bits of energies; no gigantic amount. People say ‘likes charge’ but how can things become collectively “charged” when everyone that uses it is simultaneously draining energy??

Additionally…When you ‘like’ something on tumblr, it gets added to a cesspool of likes which stay with you forever, until you decide to ‘unlike’ it. This could have connotations that the spell is always active until you unlike it. HOWEVER, that is the ideal and not what happens (since the spells run out of energy and simply implodes on itself).

So, since liking something takes very little energy to do and for the most part expends energy rather than charges….it’s a pretty shitty charging method.

I mean, I guess you could click the like button a billion times?? Tho. Most people only click the like button once ;Vc

*Again, refer to the NOTE at the beginning saying that this article is talking about the power of the spell prior to someone else adding their belief energy to it.

Have it run on electricity energy.

Whenever you use tumblr, you’re using electricity as that electricity is powering your phone/computer. So. Why not have those spells draw some power from electricity? Bam. Additional power source.

Have it draw energy from the energy used to scroll.

Scrolling through your dash takes energy too, though a minor amount. Have it draw energy from the small kinetic energy released as people scroll past the post.

With direct energy work, design energy channels to be able to handle a lot of attention/large influxes of energy.

The simplest way to do this is to simply fill the post with energy while holding the intent of making it able to handle large amounts of energy (likes/reblogs/whatever). Most of the energy should be concentrated at the sigil/emojis/etc. Simply sending the energy with intent will do it automatically, similarly to enchanting.

A more advanced addition to this would be to create energy channels linking the sigil/emojis/etc and the like and reblog buttons. Create the channels then widen them by continously sending energy to increase their size. Simply visualize poles/threads/rivers connecting them, then see them getting wider, larger, and stronger as you send more energy to them.

Those are some suggestions to make cast on reblog spells stronger. This article will be expanded as more methods are thought of.