Cursing: When, How, And Why

Cursing: When, How, and Why

So, you want to learn more about curses? Now, I can only share my own knowledge and experience, but hopefully it helps to clarify things for you.

Let’s start with the basics

A curse is a spell specifically designed to cause harm to someone in the long term. It’s often confused for a hex, which also causes harm, but often less and with a shorter duration. A curse can cause bad luck, illness, and even death. It’s not something to be trifled with. That’s why I wanted to make this informative post.

When to use a curse

There can be various reasons for cursing someone, ranging from heartbreak to abuse and everything in between. Everyone has their own reasons to curse someone, so I can’t name them all. I can, however, name reasons why you SHOULDN’T curse someone.

When NOT to curse someone:

- When you are emotionally unstable: maybe the event just happened, and your anger/sadness wil subside. Cursing when you are not your stable self usually causes more harm than intended. How hard it may be, try to distract yourself and calm down. Then, you can make the decision whether you want to curse that person or not.

- When a hex/jinx will do the trick. Like I’ve said before, curses are powerful and not to be trifled with. If a hex or jinx can do the trick, why curse someone? A hex or jinx costs less energy and often are simpler too.

- Out of malice. You don’t like someone, even though they haven’t done anything wrong per sé. Again, a hex or jinx would be better to use in this case, or nothing at all. Just because you dislike someone, is not a reason to curse them.

- When you wish death upon someone. No matter how bad a person is, wishing death upon someone is incredibly harmful and irreversible. Whether the curse fails or works, you will notice the effects on yourself too. Also, wouldn’t it be better to just make their life harder and watch them suffer, rather than to watch them die? If what they did was unforgivable and illegal, you should get authorities involved rather than to take matters into your own hands.

How to curse someone

There are various ways to curse someone. The best way is to create your own curse. There is nothing wrong with using a pre-existing curse. However, I found that creating your own adds a dash of power to it that a premade curse doesn’t have.

You can use as many or as little ingredients as you’d like. When you use spices, my rule is: the spicier, the better for curses. Sour ingredients, like lemon juice, vinegar, or pickle juice also work well. Salt, like in supernatural series, works well for banishing.

You can also use herbs, berries and flowers. For berries, I found that the darker the berries, the better their effects in curses.

You can also use animal products, like bones, feathers, teeth, or even spit, blood, and feces. However, I haven’t used those ingredients yet so I can’t vouch for them.

I haven’t gotten a great guide on magickal curse properties of various ingredients. However, you simply have to find a suitable intent for the ingredient. For instance, you can reverse the properties of lavender by adding it in a curse. So, when you want your recipient to lose sleep, you can add lavender with the intent of losing sleep to your mixture.

The best way to curse someone is by either burying the mixture, by burning it, or a combination of the two. Try to stay as environmentally friendly though. So, if you plan on buying something, do so in an untreated cardboard box and don’t bury plastic items.

Paper is the way to go when writing down someone’s name and burning it. It can also be used to write down your intentions and burn those too. And you can put all the anger you have towards this person into the writings, now IS the time to get reared up and unleash your fury!

I prefer to add the spices to cover the name of the recipient, bind the paper with safe-to-burn rope and to burn the paper. Then, I place the ashes along with the other ingredients in a jar, and cover it with dirt. I let it sit for an hour before flushing it down the toilet. The flushing symbolizes sending the curse on its way, away from the sender. It helps to flush away the thoughts from my mind too.

Why would you curse someone?

Cursing is not something every witch feels comfortable doing. I’m often a very peaceful and non-confrontational person. However, I absolutely detest injustice. So whenever something like that happens, and the offensive party does is not on speaking terms/just throwing out hate, a curse is my way to go. Also, when someone does harm to someone or something innocent is when I get reared up. Still, I always make sure to calm down before deciding to cast a curse.

If you don’t want to use curses, that’s fine! There are plenty of other ways to go about it. For others, however, it’s a great way to seek justice.

I hope this post helped you! PLEASE be careful though and never curse someone if you’re not 100% sure. Also, make sure to ground and cleanse yourself both before and after casting a curse, otherwise, there may be some remnants left on you and you don’t want that to bite you in the butt.

Types of people - tarot cards

The major arcana

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The fool - taking a strangers hand, mumbling in the dark, childish promises, breathtaking naievity, unnoticed potential, carefree laughter

The magician - determined work, self assured confidence, showing off party tricks in crowded rooms, unique manneurisms, self respect

The high priestess - meditation in daylight, instinctive choices, overwhelming thoughts in the middle of a crowd, nodding to yourself

The empress - staying up all night texting lovers, vases of flowers, pet bunny rabbits, crystals and lipstick on every surface

The emperor - powerful voices, structured timetables, post it note reminders, deleting pictures to forget the memories, authority

The hierophant - gentle encouragement, loving vines, lawful good energy, sensible evaluation and healthy mindsets, relieved smiles

The lovers - sneaking out the window to meet strangers, heated looks, hard choices and harder consequences, pros and cons lists

Justice - karma, minor inconveniences, the butterfly effect, regretful longing, derserving praise, unexpected gifts, self satisfaction

The hanged man - complex situations, breakdowns on the kitchen floor, cutting out toxic people, starting fresh, difficult choices

Death - endings, new year new me, pamper days, new hairstyles and shopping trips, outstretched arms and the joy of freedom

Temperance - laidback attitudes, making plans in the middle of the night, patient explanations, evolution of the mind, neutral good alignment

The devil - powerless sobbing, refusal to believe in hope, intense fear of letting go and moving on, blank stares and miserable eyes

The tower - starting again, watching flames dance, strengthening weaknesses, destructive smirks, that feeling of dread in your stomach

The star - hope of healing, herbal teas and soothing voices, blind leaps of faith into welcoming arms, deep breaths, optimism

The moon - self doubt and hidden fears, subconsious nervous habits, learning to accept your flaws and be free, self care and confidence

The sun - confidence in decisions, promotions and certificates, confident walks, optimistic outlooks, counting blessings, success

Judgement - repentance, self evaluation and acceptance of mistakes, honest vulnerability, second chances, reconnecting with old friends

The world - wise eyes and knowing stares, serenity, complete fulfilment, excitement for what’s coming next, always learning

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RECIPES I KEEP IN MY KITCHEN WITCH JOURNAL

My Original Content:

Soft Buttery Rolls

Healing Tea

Sweet Cream Buns

Baklava

Witchy Tomato Basil Soup

Birds Of Prey Inspired Spicy Avocado Breakfast Sandwich on Ciabatta Bread

Witchy Thumbprint Cookies

Magick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Imbolc Rosemary Jerk Baked Chicken

Witchy Pot Roast

Sweet Earl Grey Lavender Ice Cream with a Blackberry swirl

To heal a heartbreak cookies: Raspberry dark chocolate chunk cookies

PUERTO RICAN STYLE AVENA OATMEAL WITH A WITCHY TWIST

Other of my favorite recipes:

French Silk Pie

Rosemary, pepper, lavender skillet bread

Creamy summer vegetable soup

Salted Honey Pie 🍯

Love Thyself Brownies

Orange cake recipe

🌿Lavender Tea Infusion🌿

Fresh Apple Autumn Cake with Honey-Cinnamon Glaze

Pretzel buns

Foodie Friday: Acorn Bread!

Cold Season Soup–Vegetable Soup with White Beans, Cauliflower, and Quinoa

Moon Spell Cookies

Perfect lemon meringues

Chocolate muffins 🌙

Foodie Friday: Tiramisu!

100 year old gingerbread recipe

Strawberry juice 🍓

Witches’ Honey Bread

Warming Autumn Soup

Magickal snickerdoodles ☀️💘

Moon Cookies

Earl Grey Shortbread

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Bedroom Witch Tips

🌿Herb sachets hung above your bed (request herb sachet recipes from me if you’re interested).

🌿Hang Dry herbs upside down in your bedroom (Lavender helps for anxiety and depression… it is very calming or Mugwort for dreams. Mugwort is very invasive, you can find it growing everywhere).

🌿Herbs placed inside your pillow sheet (I place Mugwort leaves inside to active lucid dreams).

🌿Setup an Altar near your bed: add elements of earth, fire, water and air. You can also use your windowsill as an altar.

🌿Place Black Tourmaline under your bed: shields you energetically by taking the electromagnetic frequencies, and instead of absorbing them, tourmaline changes, redirects, cleanses, and purifies the energy. This is how it handles negativity, even energies of psychic attack too!

🌿Place Sigil writings or powders for protection and restful beauty sleep under your mattress.

🌿Keep a dream journal under your pillow! Dreams can help us get a glimpse into our subconscious and the more dreams you write the easier it becomes for you to remember them.

🌿Unless you are allergic, sleep with the window halfway open or cracked to let good energy move around and circulate in your room and keep skin hydrated during the night.

🌿Drink herbal tea before bed each night. (Request free herbal tea recipes from me if interested) Mugwort tea is great to have in the evening before bed to reach high levels of lucid dreaming

🌿Smoking Herbs before bed is great as well. I recommend this book for further reading: Smoke Plants Of North America by M.R. Ross. (Request free Smoke Blend recipes from me if interested). With reverence, Rosemary Milk 🌹

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