Challenge entry.
I read the title of this one and got a sinking feeling in my gut. That’s a new one.
Well, at least everyone knows this is a personal thing… And this is probably the last place I’ll get burned at a stake for it.
How do you feel about using Black/Baneful Magick in your practice?
It has its uses, I guess. I wouldn’t be against using it personally, but I haven’t had a desire to do anything on my own related to others since that freezer spell I jumbled together – Harmony's Shield: A Freezer Spell for Conflict Resolution
But if you told me that I could cast baneful magick years ago… Maybe it would have saved a few people. I don’t know. That’s the thing about the past – it’s in the past and I ain’t no time-travelling witch! If I was, I might go back and enjoy some more of the old Macca’s Create Your Taste era.
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YOU COULD MAKE YOUR BURGER HOWEVER YOU WANTED. And they were better than all the fancy overpriced burger places. RIP.
Anyway, my partner puts it well, I think. They say something like: When harm does need to be done, approach it like removing a tumour – we do not get angry at the tumour, but we acknowledge that this procedure must be done to protect others, and we do it. So, I think I would try to take that approach. But then again, I haven’t found a desire to, so it’s all just hypothetical.
How do you feel about casting Love Spells?
A bit creepy. Love is hard enough to navigate without being influenced by someone’s spell. Or my own spell on my own ass.
I guess I just think that love in all its forms, whether it’s self-love, platonic love, romantic love, and so on, is best when it’s worked on with the self/person. And that anything else is a bit of an illusion at best.
For example, with the self, I think affirmations are good – they’re the act of building a foundation for loving oneself. But if there was a potion that one could take that does that for them, without teaching them why they deserve self-love, I think that’s a bit of a monkey paw scenario.
I guess another way to explain how I see it is that I think a holistic approach is ideal. But then again, that’s my overall thing. Holistic all that $#it!
Do you feel you must ask someone’s permission before casting on/for them?
Considering I didn’t ask with the freezer spell, I’m a nope.
Jokes aside, it’s still a nope. I’ve cast a few healing spells without asking for permission. (For the record, though, I haven’t cast anything on/for anyone here. You all have to ask me. Sorry. )
Do you follow a code of ethics from a magickal or spiritual tradition?
Not that I know of. I think if I do, it’s incidental. Especially since most of my personal morals come from reading philosophy and debating things with my partner. I haven’t actually looked into something specifically magickal and tried to adopt it.
When reading into magickal/spiritual traditions with the intent to learn and adopt things, I think the first thing I threw out the window was the Threefold Law.
I can’t not hear that in my head now. I just want to throw everything out the windoOow.
And I’ve never been a believer in Karma. I think they would require me to think there’s more order in the universe than I do. Or think that using fear of personal consequences is a good motivation system. I don’t know what it is exactly, but something about how I think would have to be vastly different. I’m weird.
That being said, the things I do follow are:
- help people when it’s within my means,
- don’t harm anyone for personal gain,
- try to leave places better than they were before entering them, and
- try to be a better person than I was yesterday.
So, if the rules of the universe change tomorrow, saying that I’ll go to The Bad Place for these, I guess I’m going to The Bad Place.
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… Maybe I’ll get used to the torture. I hope so.
Anyway, that’s… All I’m going to write on the topic. I thought I would find it more difficult to write, but I didn’t. Yay?
Oh well, time for lunch. Burn me later.