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[thewoodbine-deactivated20241020]

🕯️Cord Cutting Ritual🕯️

This spell is intended to banish an unwanted person from your life by cutting your ties with them and reclaiming your own energy while also sending theirs back to them.

Put this together for a friend so I thought I’d share. It’s a take on the good ol’ cord cutting ritual with a bit of folk magic woven in for extra oomph. Do not use unless you really truly NEVER want anything to do with this person ever again.

Supplies:

 - 2 Candles of different colors (you can use two black, one black and one white, or two white) 

-  A fireproof flat surface like a plate or tray 

- A red string of some sort 

- Two pieces of paper + Pen

- OR swap the string and candles for a pair of candles with a single wick but that’s much much harder to find. 

Steps:

 1. Carve your name onto one candle and the undesired person onto the other using …anything, but a pin needle or knife if you wanna be spicy.

 2. Place the plate down flat, adhere candles (either by sitting them down or melting the bottom a bit and wax sticking them on there)

 3. Tie the red string around each candle, wrapping it a few times around the center. 

 4. On one sheet of paper write a wish for yourself, asking the energy you gave or that is being taken to come back to you. On theirs write out what energy belongs to them. List out their spiritual shit that you are leaving on their spirit curb.

 5. Sit and light each candle. Say something or play music if you feel like it but you can do this in silence. While your candle burns down to the cord, light each of your papers with your respective candle (watch your fingers) and let them burn out in the a fire safe plate/surface/whatever below.

 6. Sit and meditate with your candle until the cord has burned to a snap then when you are ready you may leave the candles to burn all the way down but maintain fire safety. 

7. This next part is VERY IMPORTANT for this particular version of the spell and what I think adds the oomph: take the ashes from the burned paper and spread them into the winds of a crossroad ( hell, throwing them out your window as you pass over an intersection will do). Then take any solid parts that remained (wax, extra string, unburnt paper), and bury them in the soil of a graveyard, including the plate/surface if you’re hardcore but the plate isn’t required if you just wash it with a charged water or give it a salt rub down.

[windvexer]

"why didn't my cord cutting work?"

Hey, so this post is 100% my own beliefs and UPG and how I define stuff. If you are new to magic, please don't mistake my definitions or theories as being universal. This is the way I work, it works for me, but that doesn't mean it will work for everyone.

I'm not going to continuously say "this is just what I believe!" throughout the entire post but please try to keep it in mind.

Cord Cuttings

Unsolved problems: The person wasn't banished; you still have recurring or intrusive thoughts about them; you still miss them or have strong emotions about them; they are still reaching out to you

My theories as to why:

If you believe in energy cords, they're an energetic representation of the relationships between all things.

Cutting a cord does not stop it from regrowing.

Cutting a cord is not banishment.

Cutting a cord does not solve mental health issues related to obsessive or compulsive thinking.

Cutting a cord does not resolve your emotional traumas.

Cord cutting is not a healing spell.

Cord cutting is not a binding that prevents someone from reaching out to you.

Cord cutting is not a ward that prevents practitioners from sending you unwanted things.

Cord cutting does something specific. It stops the energetic flow between two things, until/unless the cord is regrown.

Cord cutting is useful if someone is actively leeching off of your energy or sending you bad energies through your relationship cord.

Conceptualize a cord cutting as blocking someone's phone number so they can't keep texting you. It has put a stop to that connection. But, if this person is insistent, they can just get a new phone number. Or if you're lonely and miss them, you can get around your own block and reach back out.

But no matter how much you block someone, it's not the same thing as seeking help to recover from that relationship. Cord cuttings are not just going to rewire your mind to stop thinking about a person.

And if an unwanted relationship is ongoing and you must be in close proximity to that person, cord cuttings don't replace warding, binding, and banishing.

[warismenstrualenvy]

Painted Cottages in Poland (x)

[thefierylotus]

[creature-wizard]

Claiming that Christians stole everything from pagans sure has functionally turned out to be one way of denying or at least downplaying the existence and impact of cultural Christianity.

Folks need to stop doing that. (And understand that the whole 'Christians stole everything from pagans' thing is largely rooted in unfounded speculation and hasty assumptions, and that modern scholarship does not support it.)

[heartsnmagic]

[todaysbird]

have you ever seen anything more beautiful than this photo series of a crow with dew glistening on their feathers

(photo credit - Frank King, for Macaulay Library)

[crow-and-fern]

Also @friend-crow

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

How are you watering your garden? 🪴

[wyrd-gazer]

You don’t have to know every single thing in witchcraft.

I remember being overwhelmed when I saw how many different things there were to learn when I first started exploring witchcraft. I’ve seen others getting overwhelmed too.

You don’t have to learn spell jars, spell candles, astrology, sigils, etc. You don’t have to learn every type of divination. If you want to, that’s great; but there’s no need to if you don’t want to.

Learn what you feel drawn to. Learn what interests you. You’ll burn yourself out if you try to learn everything at once.

[maceofpentacles]

financial stability spell jar

creds to @crxptid-teeth for giving me the idea to actually do this,, i haven’t done a spell jar in a while so my brain was not thinking of this

ingredients:

black salt + regular salt

rice

rosemary

cinnamon

bay leaves

eucalyptus leaves + essential oil

dandelion leaf

safflower

pyrite + tigers eye

taglock ((i used my own hair that i chopped off a while ago and was already planning on using for a spell))

money, i used coins but you could write $ on a piece of paper as a substitute!!

seal with orange and green candles

feel free to add/subtract/do whatever you want with your own spell jar, i was just using what i had available to me :)

[anarchist-rat-swarm]

I dunno who needs to hear it, but if you're relying on binding spells and hexes to keep yourself safe, that's fine, but a can of mace is basically just extra strength war water and a restraining order is a binding spell that happens to be legally binding as well. Similarly, ash wood is traditional for both wands and baseball bats. Rub some sage on it and hex a motherfucker's kneecaps if that's what keeps you safe.

The world sucks. Do what you gotta.

[creature-wizard]

Good uses of tarot cards: -Sorting your own personal shit out. -Creative projects. -Playing card games (if you have a playing deck). Horrible uses of tarot cards: -Spying on your ex. -Health advice. -Asking the spirits to elaborate upon actual fucking conspiracy theories.

[the-cobalt-athenaeum-deactivate]

Baneful Magic Tip: Put glitter in your spells to make it stick to your target. Have you ever successfully eradicated a glitter infestation? Neither have I. Give 'em hell.

[hiswitchcraft]

I opened up a witchcraft book recently I’ve seen praised over and over as a good starting point to find a paragraph that’s on its knees for Silver Ravenwolf and it makes me never wanna read a book again.

Pls let me return to my cave in the woods where I construct my own magical system from scratch. I am so so sick of you all.

[hiswitchcraft]

Y'all someone just replied and said they couldn't wrap their head around this book at all and then went and looked back in it and found it talking about the third eye and pineal gland 😭 Screaming and crying oh my god where are the good witchcraft books? Do I have to do everything myself???

[hiswitchcraft]

Literally every book I've ever read about this stuff that wasn't a reference book on a niche topic has had:

Racism, cultural appropriation, etc

Homophobia, transphobia, gendered correspondences, etc

New age nonsense that will either hurt you or lead you to the web of anti semitic conspiracy theories

Blatant misconceptions like that all witches are Wiccan/Pagan, harm none, are women, etc

Wiccan bullshit like that Wicca and witchcraft are the same, Wicca is an old ancient special religion, you have to follow the rule of 3, etc

Other variations of the author pushing their personal spiritual beliefs as the only way/universal to all witches/universal to all spirituality

At best it will be short and fluffy and not include things like discernment or warding. I am so so tired you guys. This is what comes to mind when you ask me for book recommendations. Ask me for research tips instead /hj. Hot take, you don't need books. I've only use non witchy ones or very specific reference books for my entire practice.

[quasi-normalcy]

[libraford]

Another day another problem posted to the pagan group that really should have been directed towards a medical professional.

[libraford]

"I started drinking medicinal teas."

What medicinal teas? Who makes them? What is in them? For what symptoms and what are the desired effects?

"And after my third cup this evening-"

Is that the recommended dosage?

"-two bags each-"

DOSAGE?????

"I felt dizzy and anxious. Is this normal with medical tea?"

DOCTOR.

SEE A DOCTOR.

[witchwhy]

For real though, medicinal herbs are MEDICINE and should be treated with the same reverence as Tylenol, ibuprofen, and perception drugs.

Dosage matters.

There can/will be side effects.

You can poison yourself if you take too much.

It can interfere with other drugs you’re taking.

Take this Shit seriously people. It’s not something to dabble in without forethought.

[marciathegenderbender-deactivat]

Hey witches, are crystals a fucking scam?

[creature-wizard]

They can be. It depends.

Crystals don't have any extraordinary amounts of power or anything. Your folk magic practitioner types got on for centuries without 'em. If somebody's insisting that you need to have crystals or that they'll give whatever you're doing some ultra mega super boost, that's a scam.

It's also a scam if they're telling you that the crystals will cure whatever ails you. Crystals definitely aren't going to cure cancer.

Like, you can work with crystals, but you can also work with pretty much anything at the end of the day. Mostly, crystals are good for aesthetic.