Secular Witch

This blog is for 18+, thank you. This is not a pagan blog. I am a non-pagan. she/her (cis) Extremely Opinionated. Ask me things. "basically Spells Georg"

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[asksecularwitch]

The infamous I want peach cobbler in a week spell. Usually its for pie and usually it’s not put into practice. But I felt a need.

[kittokatsu]

i want the directions to this spell

it sound slike it would come in handy

[asksecularwitch]

I’ve been WAITING»>

1. ) Candle [white] from 30 pack candles from walmart (cause they were cheap). You can use whatever candle you got. 

2. ) Sharpie (but you can use a needle to push into the wax/carve into the wax, water, whatever you feel comfortable burning).

3. ) Wrote on the top of the candle first:

“I want peach cobbler.”

4. ) Around candle:

“This will happen in one week.”

5. ) On an ordinary piece of computer paper I wrote:

“I will get a piece of peach cobbler in seven days.”

3 times.

6. ) Folded that paper. 

7. )Stuck under candle

8.) Lit candle.

8.a) accidentally laughed out my candle (blew it out with my breath) and had to relight it.

[douglasiana]

This is beautiful. XD

[asksecularwitch]

*breathes life into this post*

[upthewitchypunx]

*reactivates peach cobblah spell*

[asksecularwitch]

*looks around*

Yeah, we need a little cobblah cute chaos in the world right now.

*nodding*

[grapnel]

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

[starlit-dreams]

So I can do witchcraft with these, right?

[upthewitchypunx]

Yes, and have a very protected GI tract.

[thememedaddy]

[ahfolart-deactivated20250127]

Megan Thee Fury

[creekfiend]

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

[prairiebeetle]

your practice needs to be something you enjoy doing. it needs to be fun. a sense of obligation (to yourself, to your gods, whatever) might get you through it for a while but ultimately, it needs to be fulfilling, engaging, and worthwhile on its own, as an activity, for you to stick with it long-term. regardless of the form it takes, it should be as much for your own (emotional/spiritual/physical) well-being as it is for any gods, spirits, or other beings you choose to honour. perhaps not every individual prayer, invocation, or ceremony will feel enjoyable in the moment, that's perfectly normal, but neither should it feel like drudgery or compulsion.

taken as a whole, your practice should be something that nourishes and sustains you, that you can commit to for its own sake. I would even say that (in my experience), intentional & meaningful engagement with ritualized behaviour - the performance itself, whatever that looks like for you - is beneficial without even knowing whether it 'works' or is 'real'. belief and doubt can be entirely secondary when the action of practising brings a sense of accomplishment, purpose, mental fortitude, confidence, emotional regulation, and so on. and maybe those are the divine blessings we've sought and asked for; maybe it's an indication that our methods are working, or the gods are responding. perhaps it's just a mundane side benefit of spiritual life, a psychological phenomenon influenced by our physical, cognitive, social, or environmental realities.

I think those can all be viable positions, but it's immaterial to the larger point: if you're not getting any relief or pleasure from what you do, if your craft feels like a burden or an inconvenience, you probably need to take a break, figure out what's not working and why, and make some changes. make it your own, and make it serve you, because you're the one who has to put it in all the effort.

[free-my-mindd]

[wyrm-boy]

[paperbackpictures]

The Color of Her Panties by Piers Anthony Illus by Darell K. Sweet published 1992. Read more here. Scanned photo from collection.

[traegorn]

Every time I think to myself "Maybe I should try reading Xanth" I'm reminded of why I don't want to read Xanth.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

Source

[ms-demeanor]

I have pretty good strength, mobility, and flexibility but I can't do yoga because I have esophageal issues that mean stomach acid doesn't stay in my stomach when I'm bent over and touching the ground - this is the only video I've ever seen that shows modifications that would allow me to perform these movements.

[slewfootwitch]

Please do not ask me about magic involving planets. Ask @space-queen or ask @windvexer. Don't ask me. I have never done a working involving a planetary power, planetary timing, nothing. I actually couldn't even fully explain to you what those things entailed. I am not a magical Jack-of-all-trades, okay? I am peddling in a couple of very specific trades and always have been; and I am not the type to Google something in an attempt to answer a question like that. Please ask someone who knows.

[windvexer]

If you ask me I might just tag @space-queen anyway :P

[berkeleygirl3]

[asksecularwitch]

Ideally I say, okay this spell gives you 25 dollars and we roll with it.

But then we gotta think about the complexities of what ethical arrangements people have around 25 dollars and where it came from. Is it safe to say if you get a paycheck every week, that, that is a success? Is it if someone bought you your drink from the Gas station? Is it if someone gave you a discount that saved 25 dollars? What if you found 30 dollars on the side of the road? It's really weird to think about this from that perspective of measuring success in spellwork, and it's a struggle that all spell casters have I think.

The "what happened" after a spell was cast and measuring if it's a success.

[asksecularwitch]

And yeah I could use that same tired ass example of Cooking. If everyone get the same recipe for a cake then everyone should have a cake at the end of it.

-stares directly into the camera- And notice I specifically used BAKING where people are like "the science though!!"

-camera zooms in- that's why right

-mega zoom into eyes- that's why... nailed it always had perfect cakes no matter which contestant was doing it.

Now we could also talk about the lulz of the show (time, education, etc). But the point is the same in my mind. You want random people together, all baking a cake, some cakes fail just for mysterious reasons. Like turning on the oven too early or too late. Or the oven isn't temp'd correctly.

But this example is so tired and I tire of giving it. It's not how I view spellwork.

But I know someone is going to be saying this somewhere. And I tire of it.

[asksecularwitch]

Also, I hope it doesn't come off as harsh - the Welcome to the First Person account.

I genuinely encourage people to do spellwork all the time. I also experiment with different kinds of spells. It's why my perspective tends to be a little more loosey goosey about what defines a spell. Is matches and a mirror and a chant and a stone a spell? Yeah. Yeah it is. But not to everyone.

But honestly, the only way we can really get good results about how spells are is if we talk about them. The blogging about spells in general, the thinking about types of spells, and the doing them. I totally appreciate the desire for a 'hard science' approach (I say that with some level of eye roll) - but for things where we are studying people and studying how people do things, why don't we lean on the "soft" science methodology.

Every single one of my blog posts on spellwork is a first person account. Every one that I reblog on someone else's is a third person or second person account where I am showing you things I saw from other people. And all of that matters.

Now I do recommend that people when starting spells do, luck, money, or protection spells.

But that's not always how people first come to spellwork. They come to it by way of finding "something" that is ailing them and look for spellwork to solve it.

So, that's why I say find a random one. Just know if it don't work - it could be hundreds of reasons including the spell sucks! One of which is some spells just hang around because they never can complete because the original conditions casted for have just disappeared. I have this one spell that's been following me for almost 14 years. :) I see it's touches every so often while it tries to solve for the casting I did. That's my personal account.

But if you think I'm lying for the clout - then it doesn't matter what I said in my personal account for how long a spell lasts, or what it's defined as, or how I got to it in the first place.

That's why I said Welcome to the First Person account. Do the spell, tell us how it went.

Join us liars. Maybe we will get somewhere with trying to make it study-able together.