What to do if witchcraft suddenly gets way too intense

hippydippywitchy:

thesupremejess:

countrygirlil2015:

modern-witchcraft:

windvexer:

1. FINISH WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

► DO NOT walk away from an uncompleted ritual

► DO NOT walk away in the middle of a spell

Grab your notes and close everything down. Dismiss any spirits or entities you are working with. Close down the circle. End the ritual. Diffuse the energy of the spell and close it down. If you were enchanting an item, announce over it that it is closed and nothing more may come in or out.

Spells and rituals are little portals of power; if you leave one open without closing it, all sorts of things could get screwy and come through.

2. End any spooky/witchy atmosphere immediately.

  • Blow out all the candles.
  • Put out all the incense.
  • Turn on all the lights.
  • Turn off spooky chanting music. Turn on some happy music or better yet, a non-supernatural television show or movie you love.
  • If you were enchanting an item, immediately put it in salt.

3. Don’t destroy the items/notes you will need later.

Trust me, do not throw away the spell you wrote or the objects you were working on. If things go wrong in the future you will need these to fix the problem.

► Immediately write down exactly what happened. Write down every deviation from the spell that you did. Write down exactly what you said and saw during any visualizations. Write down exactly when things started to get freaky.

► If you were enchanting an item, keep it in a black bag filled with salt until you are ready to deal with it.

4. Cleanse.

Use an energy cannonball to purify the space you were working in. Burn rosemary and bay leaves to fumigate the area, or spritz a premade water solution if you can’t have smoke. Pay special attention to all ritual tools.

If you feel the need to, cleanse yourself by visualizing the power of the smoke enveloping you and driving away any bad vibes; or take a shower if you really feel something has gone wrong.

5. Get out of the area you were working in.

Go to another room. Leave the house if possible. Seek the company of others or turn on the television if you are alone.

6. Do mundane things for a while.

Eat a nice meal. Drink a big glass of water. Go for a jog. Do some chores. Put anything magical totally out of your head. Absolutely do not focus on how weird things just got.

7. When you are ready, return to the area you were working in.

Relax yourself and judge the energies within the room. Are things still ‘creepy’? A heavy-duty cleansing is in order. Do you feel as if someone else is there? Open a window and command it to leave – if it does not, more fumigation or a banishing is required.

Judge your ritual tools and determine if they will need additional cleansing. If you were working on an object, determine if it has been corrupted or if anything is wrong with it. If so, put it back in the salt and deal with it as soon as you can.

8. Take a break from witchcraft for a couple of days.

9. Figure out what went wrong.

Fear is never a good thing. There is a difference between embracing the darkness and being afraid.

► Fear can be caused if an entity showed up you were unprepared to deal with.

► Fear can be caused if your intuition (or perhaps a spirit ally) was warning you that what you were about to do was a really bad idea.

► Fear can be caused if you tap in to powers that overwhelm you.

You need to figure out what went wrong. It isn’t a situation where you can say “oh well” and try something else later – because you screwed up, and next time you may not get an adequate warning before things go to hell.

Very important stuff!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read this, save this, etc!! It’s VERY important!! Before coming across this post, I had this very thing happen….. I’m in the middle of casting, within my circle, & I got this OVERWHELMING feeling of fear, terror, MORE than just one feeling, & I didn’t know what to do. I froze & the only thing that I could think was….“What should I do? Do I break my circle, or cut it, or just flat out get the hell outta here?? It was VERY scary!! Then, just like the blog tells you, I wasn’t sure what to do with my spell & spell items.

I hope this doesn’t happen to a lot of Witches, but the risk is there if your casting and/or working with spirits. So plz, just be MINDFUL of WHAT you’re doing, & the ATMOSPHERE around you!! And ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP PLAN OR A “BACKDOOR” OUT!! 😊👍🏻❤️🔮

Important things!

The only thing I would add to this, is that when stuff like this happens I highly recommend you reach out to someone else in the witchcraft or spirit working community. Preferably someone you know personally, or someone you know has experience with malevolent entities. That way someone else can check it out and see if theres anything left over that you need to know about. I say this because, the thing about spirits is they are like people. You can ask them to do things, and maybe they will, but if they don’t want to it is out of your hands. This is also accurate when it comes to asking them to leave. If they don’t want to, you will have to find a way to banish them, and if you aren’t powerful enough you’re going to need back up. 

Hey there! I participated in the May 15th ritual, and unfortunately it didn’t feel like anything happened :(. But just a few days later, I’ve found myself feeling more motivated to do magic/thinking about magic more often, so I’m hoping that’s a response to the part of the ritual where I asked for a more magical world, and it’s just starting with me. :D

theprismaticdreamer:

Dude you just spoke the most important words I’ve heard today “I asked for a more magical world and it’s just starting with me”.

In order for magic to reawaken, I believe, it’ll take all of us being the doorways to those other worlds…through our thoughts, actions, and dreams in this world! A silly as it sounds, the bridge to bringing magic back is all trapped inside our imaginations first and that’s why there’s such an interest in controlling that imagination and killing it world wide-through poverty, fear, economics, racism, and acts of hatred and apathy. Because a human who is so tired and run dry can’t possibly harness enough of that imagination to manifest better tomorrows.

I’m not the first one to think this and I’m not the last but I think those better and more magical tomorrows start with us as individuals valuing our own spiritual experiences and that of others.

being a witch

amethyst-mist:

what people expect: potions and pentagrams everywhere, probably a raven as a pet, blood rituals and animal sacrifices, lots of evil laughter, worshiping the dEVIL 

reality: i found this rock and i thought it was nice so now i keep it under my pillow, also i can’t remember if i blew out that candle and i’m worried i’m gonna burn my house down