There is nothing inherently stupid or childish about being positive or spiritual. It’s not at all naive. What I have learned and seen for myself is that it is often the knowledge of the great breadth of suffering in this world that drives people to spread light, not the ignoring of it. You look right into the darkness and choose to light a match.
– intrusive thoughts won’t affect your magic or draw bad things into your life because there’s no intent behind them
– your deities are smart enough to know that you don’t mean your intrusive thoughts and to therefore not act on them or be offended by them
– if you have anxiety, then anxiety when you do magic isn’t your intuition telling you that something’s wrong. It’s just a symptom of your mental illness and it doesn’t mean anything.
so I wanted to share
how my wards work (leaving out a few details for obvious reasons) since
it’s kind of the best example of how I put a spell together.
All
my protection spells are rose based. I’ve always had rose growing by
the door of everywhere I’ve ever lived so they have a strong sense of
home for me. Also thorns. I have certain roses I use.
White
quartz from the Dublin mountains for absorbing bad vibes, an old Irish
penny for luck and a pine cone to make it last through bad times.
A spoon of strong, black tea (Barry’s gold blend loose leaf if you wanna know) to give it energy.
All
the ingredients are personal to me, so if you were trying something
similar you’d have to find things that spoke to you in the same way so
the actual ingredients would differ.
I use cardboard, compostable pots instead of jars for any spell I’m going to bury.
Then I bury it on the land I’m protecting. Easy peasy.
may the bridges I burn light the way 