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starlight-witches:

therootedcottage:

NEVER preform a spell if: 

-You are sick

-You are angry

-You are depressed* 

-You are vengeful**

-You are obsessed with someone

IF YOU PREFORM WHILE:

Sick:Your spell won’t work. PERIOD. You’re weak, your body is weak, your concentration is weak. Especially when you’re trying to recite a spell with a spasming cough and leaking eyes. S’not gonna work kay? 

Angry: When you do spells with anger there is often a backlash–at YOU. Plus, after you’ve calmed down from your fiery rage you generally feel pretty bad about the things you’ve said to others. Now imagine if you did a SPELL and now you can’t take it back and it hurts someone you didn’t mean to. Plus, I mean, backlash. Breath. Don’t do a spell when angry

Depressed: Like sickness when your energy is low and you’re thoughts are low your spell isn’t going to get more than 2 feet past your body. Spells (contrary to fluffy readings) take a LARGE amount of your energy–and if not yours, then pulling from others and condensing it and raising it and focusing it. Can you do that when you can’t even get out of bed? No. Take care of yourself. Worry about spells later. 

Vengeful: Like anger, doing a spell when you feel like getting back someone because they hurt your feelings isn’t the best use of your energy. Often spells done in revenge come back years later to you…with devastating consequences. I’ve personally seen it happen to a fellow witch. They suffered for YEARS. So uh, think about that. 

Obsession: You love *insert love interest* but they never look at you! SO unfair! You love them so much, why don’t they notice you!? Don’t do a spell to make someone love. I won’t say the spell won’t work. It WILL. But when an obsessive person casts the spell, the person in turn becomes obsessive and, in some cases, dangerously so. BE MINDFUL OF FREEWILL. An old coven member of mine did that and they didn’t have love for the next 6 years from ONE. SPELL. So use an attraction spell, but not a “make them love me” spell on the person you’re obsessing over. 

*THERE ARE SPELLS YOU CAN DO FOR DEPRESSION TO HELP LIFT DEPRESSION FROM YOU (but again, take medical help too, okay?). These spells are to draw positive energy into you to make it easier to get OUT of depression–it doesn’t banish it. 

**THERE ARE SPELLS IN CERTAIN TRADITIONS that encourage and allow for revenge. I’m not saying be a white witch of the purest pure, but I AM saying that when you do dark things, dark things find you and it’s not pretty. Especially if you don’t know how to protect your self and minimize the things that will come back to you. 

As someone who’s sick 24/7 and will be for the rest of their life, this post is shit.

As someone who’s got multiple mental illnesses that cause depression, this post is shit.

As someone who curses their abusers, this post is shit (anger and being vengeful fuels the curses and makes them more effective).

This is some ableist bullshit and no one should feel like they need to believe in any of what’s been said above. Fair enough if you believe that for yourself personally, but do not ever push it onto other people.

Witchcraft helps us on our bad days. It’s helped us want to take care of ourselves. It helps us eat food because we can use it for magic. We’ve stayed more hydrated because we can drink teas that have healing correspondences. We can do very basic, mundane seeming things and they make us feel better. Our hygiene is better because we can do bath and shower magic. We feel more at peace with our abuse because we can curse our abusers, it helps us move forward towards healing and we’ve made significant progress.

We literally hate this post. This post is the kind of awful shit that leaves many chronically and mentally ill witches feeling like they aren’t a real witch, it makes them feel like they can never ever do any magic because they’re not well.

STOP TAKING GOOD THINGS AWAY FROM DISABLED AND SICK PEOPLE! STOP SILENCING ABUSE VICTIMS. STOP BEING AWFUL AND TELLING PEOPLE WHEN THEY CAN’T DO THINGS!!

This sort of thing is NO ONE’S call except for the person doing the magic. So please, kindly stop spreading this terrible post and any that are like it.