#fruitssofcraft

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Fruits of Your Craft

What was the most intense or effective magical experience of your life?

I did a spiral dance with about a hundred people at a festival. I’ve got to say, the power raised during that was absolutely awe-inspiring.

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 6 - What was the most intense or effective magickal experience of your life?

It would have to be when I created my alphabet of Desire, The Ravens of antimony. It was one of my most planned out rituals, and it is one of the only rituals I use blood in. There was also a full moon that night, and you could just feel the magickal energy in the air. It also took about two hours to do, and was a long spiritual experience of crafting each raven with meticulous detail, allowing them to be their own special unique servitors selves. Then for the next couple of days tending to them, and strengthening their energies, so that they would be able to help me, and my practice, and they still are called upon to do good work, and I still get some of my best results when the ravens of antimony are involved.

Information on the Ravens of antimony:

http://wolfofantimonyoccultism.tumblr.com/post/145294353856/the-ravens-of-antimony-is-an-alphabet-of-desire

http://wolfofantimonyoccultism.tumblr.com/post/157867281778/upright-and-reversed-meanings-of-the-ravens-of

- The Wolf Of Antimony

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 30 - What advice do you have for beginner witches?

The advice I would have for beginner witches is:

Take it slow you have a lot to learn, and you got a lot of time to do it. You don't have to jump in so suddenly, and learn everything.

Do not just trust a practitioner, because they are a practitioner. go, and check, and make sure the information that they give you is true, and that it works for you.

take time to learn the fundamentals of magick they will help you later in your practice.

Learn cleansing, protection, and banishing spells, or rituals as early in your practice as you can. This will keep you safe in case something goes wrong, or bad.

Do not do anything that you believe you are not ready to handle. Take time, and work up to the harder more advanced things.

Do not summon anything that you believe you cannot put back.

Respect other people's practices, and hopefully they will respect yours.

Learn from other practitioners a lot of them are willing to help you as long as you ask.

 if you send out curses make sure that you are ready for a fight you never know if that person could end up sending it back at you.

You do not need a lot of fancy things in order to do magick all you need is intent, and energy to send your desire out into the universe.

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 3 - What are your views on cursing, hexing, and binding spells? Has your view changed throughout your journey? Why or why not?

I am absolutely fine with people using curses, hexes, jinxes, and bindings, and I'm even fine with using them myself. Though I do not believe every use of these practices is morally, or ethically right, and I also believe that a lot  of people jump way too quickly to using these practices. I think of the concepts of these practices as like owning a sword. You do have a right to learn how to use it, and to learn everything about it, but it is up to you to decide when you are going to pull it out, and use it against somebody else. You must also be ready to deal with the consequences of doing so, and should always expect someone else to also be ready to draw theirs to combat you. My views on the subject have changed over the years, and I used to believe it was never a good idea to do anything with curses, hexes, or jinxes, though bindings were still okay, and were seemed by me to be a morally grey area. This was because, I believed in the threefold law, and the pop culture version of karma, but I eventually threw out  the threefold law for being wiccan dogma, and I eventually learned what karma actually was from my studies into Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. These practices can still be dangerous though, and should be done with caution, and by a knowledgeable practitioner.

- The Wolf of antimony

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 4 - What do you wish you had known as a beginner?

I wish as a beginner I would have known:

Not to trust all information from any practitioner 100% flat out without checking the information, or at least knowing why, and how in order to form a rational decision on the authenticity of that information.

That karma is not divine judgement, and that the actual form of Karma makes a lot more sense.

That magick works by intent + energy = manifestation of Desire.

That "good" and "evil" do not exist, and that everything is neutral.

The magickal laws from Authentic Thaumaturgy: The Laws of Magic,  The seven hermetic principles of the kybalion, concept of yin, and yang, and any other form of universal laws.

That you can make your own spells, and rituals. (That actually took me a long time to figure out, like where did I even think they came from.)

That you can substitute things in spells, and rituals

That meditation is going to be a very important reoccurring skill.

That witch is a gender-neutral term, and that warlock means oathbreaker.

That Satanist aren't inherently "bad".

That demons aren't inherently "bad".

That the inverted pentagram isn’t inherently "bad", and is used by a lot of different practitioners, not just Satanist

That's a three-fold law is dogmatic to some Wiccan practitioners, and is not a universal law.

That most of the sources that you are going to run into are primarily going to be wiccan in a lot of the environments.

That belief can help your magick, but it is not required for magick.

That you don't need actual candles in order to do magick.

That Christians can be witches, and practitioners of magick.

That there are easy ways to cast a circle.

That you can run low on personal spiritual energy, and experience energetic burnout.

And probably a lot more...

- The Wolf Of Antimony

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 2 - What’s the biggest error, or mistake that you feel you’ve made when working magick?

The answer for this question would be when I did not, or when I forget to center, ground, and/or protect myself. I know it sounds pretty basic, but I do feel that these practices are fundamentally important, and by forgetting, or not doing them in my magical practice at some points has affected my magick, and myself. The way that not centering, and grounding has affected my magical working is by using too much of my personal energy, which has led to energetic burnout. The way that not protecting myself has affected my magickal practice is by allowing certain energies, and certain entities to interact with me when I am not looking to interact with them, along with usually feeding me incorrect information, which would have to be thrown out later, or filed under “BS” in my brain. But, I did eventually learn how to use these practices, and I don't usually forget to use them, so I usually don't have a problem.

- The Wolf Of Antimony

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 24 - Have you ever been unsure about continuing your practice? If so, what was it like?

Times where I was unsure of continuing my practice was more at the beginning of my journey. It was back when I thought I could not trust myself on what I was experiencing, and I had no logical basis for what was actually going on. As I learned more and got more advanced into my practice, and understandings less I felt unsure of my practice.  I try to never trust completely in my practice, so that I do not become stuck in a specific way of static thinking, and become delusional. I believe a good bit of healthy philosophical skepticism will help keep me grounded, and will allow me to understand a lot more in the end.

- The Wolf Of Antimony

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Fruits of your Craft: Day 12 - Has practicing witchcraft changed your view on how the Universe works? Why or why not?

practicing witchcraft has changed my view on how  the Universe works. it has done this by allowing me to see the world from different angles and perspectives I probably wouldn't of seen, if I was not practicing. The understandings of different types of cosmologies from many different perspectives of different practitioners has contributed to this, and has allowed my worldview to change over time helping it evolved from what was simple to something a lot more complex. I don't believe I would have ever found this if it was not for witchcraft, and my study into the occult, other religions, and practices.

- The Wolf Of Antimony