i genuinely love this idea !!!! i have always been fascinated by incorporating fictional characters or archetypes into my practice, and that honestly feels like he would be perfect for the job lol !
I had a miscarriage in my early 20s and, heartbroken, cast a spell for a healthy child. I created a little doll and put my hair in it with herbs and symbols of love, health, fertility etc. Mind you, I had zero clue wtf I was doing. Less than a year later I was giving birth to a healthy baby that was exactly what I asked for- except it was a boy and I had asked for a girl. Even crazier- while I was pregnant I painted a baby and it looked EXACTLY like him (only I had painted the child as a girl) all the same features, shape of the face & eyes…it was all spot on. Nobody can ever convince me that magic isn’t real. That magic baby will be 20 years old this year, and my heart is just as full of gratitude today as it was the day I had him!
I learned magick is real at a much later age. I was going through a difficult time in my life and was so emotional and that’s when I found the occult. It was so easy to see signs, understand messages, and slip into a meditative state. I even saw visions that turned out to be premonitions. Now that my life is stable and I am emotionally stable, I practice gratitude and mindfulness more than I practice spell crafting the way I used to … but BOY WERE THOSE SPELLS POWERFUL.
I totally agree with everything you said about spiritual psychosis and being highly emotional. I experienced a lot of spirit activity around me when I was in active addiction as well. Never saw anyone - just heard them. I think it has to do with being a vibrational match. Highly emotional and probably not taking care of yourself, you were able to reach an altered state. As long as you’re operating on their frequency, communication is possible. It’s fascinating!
Hi Ivy this is all great advice. It's true that when we're emotionally disregulated u are able to see spirits more, when I was emotionally disregulated I had so many paranormal experiences and now when I am I don't, it's because u became balanced within yourself. I think in Bardons book that is the part of it where he stresses about balancing the elements within yourself
Your first spell story made me laugh. The first time I did that, I made a truck catch on fire! I was in college and really early every day the high schooler that lived behind us had a friend pick him up for school. My bedroom window was right where my head was and lined up perfectly to their driveway where the friend would park with his really loud and horrible sounding truck. One day I was grumpy and exhausted (I think it was finals week or some other big stressful week) and the truck seemed extra loud and they were taking forever to leave. I remember saying out loud "Stupid engine just blow up already!!" About 10 minutes later I heard sirens and when I looked outside I saw them pull up at that driveway and put the fire out under the hood of the truck!! Freaked me out a little and I have been extra careful in situations like that.
the love spell is so relatable lol the freaking out at the fire, trying to put it out, diving under the covers, and also becoming obsessed with the boy afterwards.... literally hijinks my 13 year old self would get up to. made me giggle ❤
Such an excellent share. Thank you! I had a good friend that was extremely involved in her Abrahamic church and her father was a pastor, yadda, yadda. And she dipped into the occult and was, unfortunately, wide open for spirit contact. She did have a spiritual psychosis event, and later described as, "It's all fun and games until you can't turn it off." Also, as chronically ill gal myself, since age 6mos, it is a general part of life and I think those that have the illness all-the-time and understand everything we can about it, spellwork hits a little different. Definately step-back from workings when I have a huge emotional hit or am struggling with the big C, and agree totally with doing what we can to regain the energies lost. You really brought it down to the most basic understanding for others. You're a great teacher.
Ivy, I just love your channel and I love 💕 all the thought and careful attention you give to every community to which you belong. You are a very special person. I’m just coming into my understanding of myself as a witch in my 60’s and I’ve learned so much from you. I’m feeling very attracted to ancestral work; it feels like I’ve finally come full circle from when I avidly researched and recorded my genealogy in my early 20’s. For many years, I felt like I had abandoned my ancestors when life took me away from active research and I longed to resume searching out more about them. But I wanted something more than just names, dates and places; I longed to get to really know them. Now that I’ve had a little time to watch lots of different witchy videos on a huge variety of witchcraft, pagan and Celtic spirituality topics, I’m finding a deepening interest in shamanic witchcraft. As I’ve been listening to different accounts of people working with those on the other side of the veil, it’s dawning on me in slow motion that hey, HEREIN is that method for really interacting with and getting to know my ancestors! Have you read Nancy Hendrickson’s books Ancestral Tarot (in which she teaches readers how to begin communicating with their ancestors using a standard Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck) and Ancestral Grimoire (where she takes you through constructing Books of Shadows for specific ancestors)? There are several Tarot and Oracle decks that are dedicated to ancestral work such as Carrie Parris’ Relative Tarot and Beloved Dead Oracle, both of which feature photos of people who actually lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and quite a few others, depending on the specific focus of the work being done. Thank you again for the breadth and depth of the topics you cover. 🙏💖💞🥳
This was awesome. Thanks. As a person who also has an autoimmune disease, when I do spells, I am exhausted. You are so right about drawing in energy. I am going to watch your energy video again to help ground myself. Thanks, sometimes you need that reminder 😊
✨️ Wow, this was such an informative and inspirational video, and it must surely be Divine guidance that steered me back to you ! I discovered your channel several years ago and remember leaving a post in which I said something to the effect that I couldn't wait to see how your magical practice would unfold. Well, it has by leaps and bounds ! You are touching on points that are so vitally important, and occult practices can be dangerous. Most dabble, experiment, and play with terrible consequences. My practice is mainly devotional as it keeps me out of trouble, until I learn the practical do's & dont's. 😁 I've watched several "witchy" channels but you seem to be the most informative, honest and grounded. I'm sure there are other adjectives I could add because in my opinion, you are simply the Best. ❤ I can attest to what you've stated regarding physical health and spiritual health/abilities. They absolutely go hand in hand. You're also spot on regarding all of your other points so thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing what you've learned and being brave enough to take the risks ! 🙏✨️💖✨️💖✨️💖✨️
My first spell was a spell to get good grades. Instead, I failed a class for the first time in my life (two, actually), and I had to do summer school. Back then, I was on the fence about witchcraft, and I didn’t know a lot about intention. Plus, I was in a difficult program that I wasn’t emotionally prepared for back then. Glad for two things: I know more about witchcraft now, and I’m out of high school.
Hola Ivy! I'm, Cabrolina from Chile. You know, I have other theory to explain why we tend to have more spirit visitors, astral "dreams", and extrasensorial experiences in general when we are more emotional. I have had the same exact experience that you describe, and I think that it has to do more with personal sovereignty and boundaries. Let me explain: in my experience, when we are feeling too emotional is because something hard is happening in our lives. That makes us vulnerable not just in the every day life -embodied life- but also in the spirit life. When we feel vulnerable, our boundaries tend to weaken. So, until I learned to protect myself, seal myself and my home, and did (and still do) a looot of therapy to heal and learn to build personal power through healthy boundaries, I was less vulnerable to unwanted visitors in both sides. I think that, as in embodied life, in the other side there's people that feeds from our fear, anxiety and emotional pain, and if we don't have emotional and spiritual boundaries, they take advantage of us. They don't have to be psychopaths or narcisists (but they can, I have experienced them in both sides), they just can be people that doesn't know our boundaries. So yes, now that we have settled our boundaries and learned to self care, it's not that easy to get the same amount of encounters with beings from the other side -and this side-, but in that case, spiritual practice is important. The good thing is that, if now I'm transit a difficult period, I will not have undesired visitors on top of it (imagine how terrible is that for an autistic witch jaja like "leave me fuxxing alone") and, as I have tunned my seals of protection to receive just the visitors who are my spiritual team, my dead love ones, and beings that will not harm me, I can transit those periods in peace, safe, and in the company of those who care about me, in this side and in the other. And the other thing is that I still experience an increase of spiritual activity, whether it's prophetic dreams, astral travel, signs from my spiritual team in awaken life, or synchronicities, when I'm in a crossroad moment in my life. This last thing happens to you? Last thing, and this has to be with epistemology, since I started reading about feminist and latinamerican epistemologies, I have been rethinking this separation between rational and emotional thinking; this has more to be with modern (patriarchal and colonial) science in an aim to segment, and separate societies and to establish hierarchies than really try to comprehend human kind and the interconnectedness of the world. Behind the dichotomy rationality-emotionality, is a white european (christian) man culture that built a whole system to justify invation, killing, and material and spiritual dispossession (I'm in flames reading feminist theology, ecology and spiritual feminism, as you can read jaja). Okay, that's all. I love your channel, and I love how you are capable to manage to unite witches from everywhere in your pannels. Best regards! Chao!
I was so into Silver RavenWolf-- I started collecting her books as a teen. They're long gone now. That being said, I have considered getting Solitary Witch again, though I do wonder if there are better books out there for that. I still often feel disconnected from my body-- purposefully so, as I suffer from certain pains and wounds. Sleeping and meditating are sometimes difficult, though I make sure to ingest fruits and vegetables. I don't feel like it's affected my ability to spellcast, though. I still see spirits at work (I work nights at a haunted hotel), I'm still able to feel and manipulate energy. I absolutely agree that an occultist should live in the world. I risked spiritual psychosis on many levels, and it very much affected my real life. I had the opposite issue with switching deities-- I've only recently done this. I went my whole practice dedicated to Hecate. I'm still in studies for my new goddess, but I am feeling good about it!
The first spell I cast was a love spell. Girrrrl, it took me literal years to understand what I did to myself 🤣. I was 13, it was 1998. I bought the book Wicca Love Spells by Gerina Dunwich to win back my first love. I ended up being obsessed with him for 9 years. We would reconnect on and off for almost a decade and it was always this unhealthy intensity followed by a tumultuous parting. It finally ran it's course and I have zero interest, longing, attraction left for that person. I could literally feel it just lift one day. Insane. Oopsy 🤣
Another great video! I’m wondering if you have already made, or would consider making in the future, a video about working specifically with spirits of the dead? I have so much curiosity about the subject but I feel intimidated and there’s a lot of fear-mongering in the community about it that I have seen. I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject! ✨
❤❤❤I’ve NEVER heard practitioners mention the “more emotional, see more spirits” thing. It’s very important, and very relatable! When I had undiagnosed depression I could literally see angel’s, now that I’m in a neutral state, I don’t see spirits as much. Even if I do plant medicine, spirits don’t try to enter my sphere as much. Very interesting point, thanks for touching on it.
I unfortunately did have a spiritual psychosis about six months ago. We were my husband and I were just not doing well much emotional betrayal pain was happening, but it only happened once and I hope to God it never happens again. I’ve calm down considerably. I have grounded myself I have let the fair go, I am truly grateful for that and I am most grateful for my beautiful four year-old grandson. He is the reason for my true happiness my children too.❤😂😂
Growing up pagan, i put down the books long ago and started planning and focusing before projection. Nature is my guide along with basic celtic principles. And too much projection of intent is very dangerous as you lose touch with reality. Living in the middle of nowhere makes it all easier though, getting away from other people's energies and away from excessive technology really is a benefit.
Hey Ivy, great video! I’ve had similar fails 😅. Seances have been much on my mind lately. They were so in fashion during Victorian times and when I checked around, it seemed like no one was holding them anymore. So cool to know you’ve attended some. Would be super interesting if you did a video about seances! ❤
Girl ❤ this is my first time listening to you and wow. MAGESTIC knowledge thank you thank you thank you for sharing it was a true delight every single second of this video. I respect you so much and have so much admiration for your life’s work. Bravo chica 🫶🏼
Congrats! Haven't looked at you that close! Haha! That's great! Thank you for doing this tag. 😂❤ The pimple story, that's so cute! Aaawe! :/ yes! Emotional crazy can cloud the mind. True for me too. I do also have trouble and get stuck between listen to Odin, say, and listen to seasoned practioners.
OMG I literally LOL'd like for 2 min from my soul when i saw that pile of books behind you and you calling it your "vampire den". Never change Hermoine 💜 LMAO GUTTER WITCH. thats a double entendre if i ever heard one!
The trouble with the recommendation to walk away at a deity's first "no" is the assumption that gods should be treated the same way as human beings, which rather negates the idea that they are not human in the first place.
Thank you for this video. Very enlightening and very wise words. I would love to have a discussion with you. I have always knew something but I did not know what it was until this year so I am totally newbie
❤There is so much I want to share...&...so much I want to ask. Let us just say, I am an introvert that loves and wants to help. I will be sharing soon. Yet, I know from my past I am often misunderstood because I have a hard time putting words to my thoughts. I want to thank you for sharing your vulnerability...as a 53 year old woman that has been in denial and full of fear from experiences and brainwashing...it is a wonderful experience to watch someone so, "Aware", of themself.❤😊❤😊❤😊🎉
Loved this! I have a possibly stupid question. Is there a way to work failsafes into spellwork? The very first spell I ever cast back in my teens backfired majorly, and I have been gun-shy ever since. For example, I hesitate to do finance magic because I worry if I manifest money that the spell will backfire and a wealthy family member will die. Is there a way to safeguard against things like this, or is this a really stupid question?
Oh wow I'm early for once! Also, this is the reason I never did love spells, i've always hated them, because I felt it didn't make sense and you're basically trying to control someone else. Instead I'd want to increase my social skills somehow to make myself more approachable, since I struggle with speaking to people. How do you know if you're doing something wrong? Like, I always doubt myself, and sometimes fear takes over me and prevents me from doing work with spirits, so sometimes it's really hard for me to make things work.
It doesn't have to be either or... I understand we are conditioned pretty tightly to see agitation and nervous breakdowns and 'emotions' and/or 'pure raw'... but, in my understanding, it should not be the case. You can have quality emotions, that you train to open and calibrate throughout life, so you can handle the 'switch' at will. dumbing down to most primitive instincts does not make the fun play for me. I think we could try and tap into much funner territories. maybe by starting to self-gauge not only the intensity, but also the quality of emotions... cause these gonna put sth in -motion, and we'd better magnetize and attract sth which is also open and cooperative... just guessing though 😂 And. Please, anyone... do not do love spells or similar, it could affect much more people than intended. Always thought (sorry) it was a joke, but it could bring too much ado... You are so much more... without sb's boyfriend or husband
I totally agree with you about being in the right space physically for magic. But I am curious what your opinion is on the pain path? One of the eight paths to power. I feel in some situations pain can be an energy you could pull from. I have used tattoos etc. but I don’t do magick when I am sick. I also use and teach elemental energy use rather than personal energy use in most workings. I really like how you describe things. Thank you ❤
I find it weird to have people try to halt praxis or simply a connection with any deity. It is between you and said deity. It is like that meme template with the diamonds and the person is so close to getting them but gives up. If there is a chance to have a deep rooted connection with a deity or a daemon or a demon or an angel or XYZ then I would be the LAST person to say "Nooo don't do that" And it is a craft too sometimes you are going to make mistakes. How can the body be more unsusceptible to diseases? Introduce things that would make it more unsusceptible so the body can understand (in this case mistakes) so you can go "Oh, I know what happened last time that made me sneeze a lot" or "Milk is bad for me so no choccy milk for me"
Cleansing my home with sage did not go well with me and for two years it was horrible but what I just learned from you you are supposed to protect it after you smoke the home unfortunately overdid it I mean literally 1000%. I think the house should just burnt down at that point, but I did not, put a protector over it as well because I figured I’m on a microphone excuse typos I just figured sage was going to work at the on the directions it does say at the very very end. Be careful because sometimes this ritual does not work. it will do the opposite and that’s exactly what it did but eventually, I did get the negativity out, thankfully, God helped❤️❤️❤️❤️☀️☀️☀️🙏🙏🙏
Ive been on a long, mostly lonesome spiritual journey, and i had no idea about grounding, that it even existed. And i sometimes spent up to 3 days in bed when I had an intense download because i felt so unbalanced physically that I was afraid I'd fall over. I wish someone had told me earlier about grounding and how to do it. Then again, i can help others better through my experience now, so that's a blessing, too.
Hey, soul sister! I thank you for your Magick tips 🪄 ! Hugs and Kisses 💖! A Dominicana 🇩🇴 Shaman Soul here, love! I am also a Taygetan, Pleiadian Starseed. Your tips saved me from removing a hex and curse sent to me by enemies known and unknown. I have quietly been following you for some time now.🌠
i made a mistake trying astral travel and i hate it , i would see everyone around me and tryna yell and tell them wake me up and could see ppl in the other rooms , i qas also able to see some not good spirits but it was more the frozen part that scared me haha , i stop doin any excersize with astral
Thank you so much for this video, and thank you for your experience! I do have a question for you. I tend to hyper fixate and jump from one belief system to the next out of curiosity and excitement. Im still new and exploring my magical practices and spiritual gifts. It has been a challenge because I have a lot of spiritual experiences like prophetic dreams and lucid dreaming. But I also have ptsd from drug induced psychosis that took the form of religious trauma like devil spirits, hallucinations, physical hallucinations, and reality and the spiritual world and the psychosis all blending together. My heart is drawn towards magical practices because of getting to work with my hands and touch things, smell things, write things, ect… but the racing thoughts and lack of trust have been really hard to overcome. So I guess my question other than therapy and grounding do you have any other tips or wisdom about feeling safe while practicing. Like any deities in particular that really have helped you feel safe and loved and calm when working with them? I am trying to find other locals to practice with, but so far it’s been me alone in my room for the past year and a half which has led to fear and spiritual psychosis moments.
Love spells most times are only temporary they could be for years Indeed, the two belong together, then they will live together and love together with prosperity and happiness and wellness till death to them part that’s a given and thinking that’s God too❤😂😂😂 ❤️
Hey Ivy! I have no Idea, if you will read this and please apologise grammar mistakes, but I have a important question. I practice magick now for three months. I only did the Archangel Magick Book from Damon Brand. It is really potential. My problem that I think, that IT affects me in a bad way. I feel really often since 3 weeks disconnected from my family and partner. I have a hard time connecting emotionally. Is it normal? I don't want it to last. Maybe someone can help me. And what magick can cause for Side effects. Kind regards!
lol my first spell was a love spell with a friend on a guy i liked and i always thought she ....idk highjacked the spell? cause the dude dated her for a couple days a week later (only time ive ever given someone the silent treatment for more than a few hours). dude was a fuckboy though. then like 2 years later, when i started actually trying to be a good cult sheep, someone i thought i was friends with told the leaders that i'd been doing witchcraft and i got in trouble there to add insult to injury lol.
Omgosh I love your explanation in the spiritual psychosis part! It makes so much sense. I try to explain to people being a realistic spiritualist is a difficult path bc I’m going to question everything. It has definitely changed things for me stepping into more realistic way of being. I also did a love spell as a teen 🫣 it worked waaayyyy too well. I no longer liked him because he lost his individuality and became codependent. It was terrible. Won’t do that again! It was borderline stalkerish!
Thank you Ivy, informative as always. Also wanted you to know I've made space on my bookshelf. Yours will be my very first magickal book. Now I'm hoping I'll be able to get a signed copy🫶
My first backfire was also a love spell - for one to stop being in love with me. Deffinitely a manipulative magic that backfired and made ME to fall in love with him... and be left by him soon. Bah... 🫣
Why did my mind immediately go to Gandalf for a gatekeeper spirit 😂 Every time an unwelcome spirit shows itself: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Ok but absolutely calling in Gandy next time I do a seance 😂😂
i genuinely love this idea !!!! i have always been fascinated by incorporating fictional characters or archetypes into my practice, and that honestly feels like he would be perfect for the job lol !
I had a miscarriage in my early 20s and, heartbroken, cast a spell for a healthy child. I created a little doll and put my hair in it with herbs and symbols of love, health, fertility etc. Mind you, I had zero clue wtf I was doing. Less than a year later I was giving birth to a healthy baby that was exactly what I asked for- except it was a boy and I had asked for a girl.
Even crazier- while I was pregnant I painted a baby and it looked EXACTLY like him (only I had painted the child as a girl) all the same features, shape of the face & eyes…it was all spot on. Nobody can ever convince me that magic isn’t real.
That magic baby will be 20 years old this year, and my heart is just as full of gratitude today as it was the day I had him!
I learned magick is real at a much later age. I was going through a difficult time in my life and was so emotional and that’s when I found the occult. It was so easy to see signs, understand messages, and slip into a meditative state. I even saw visions that turned out to be premonitions. Now that my life is stable and I am emotionally stable, I practice gratitude and mindfulness more than I practice spell crafting the way I used to … but BOY WERE THOSE SPELLS POWERFUL.
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I totally agree with everything you said about spiritual psychosis and being highly emotional. I experienced a lot of spirit activity around me when I was in active addiction as well. Never saw anyone - just heard them. I think it has to do with being a vibrational match. Highly emotional and probably not taking care of yourself, you were able to reach an altered state. As long as you’re operating on their frequency, communication is possible. It’s fascinating!
Hi Ivy this is all great advice. It's true that when we're emotionally disregulated u are able to see spirits more, when I was emotionally disregulated I had so many paranormal experiences and now when I am I don't, it's because u became balanced within yourself. I think in Bardons book that is the part of it where he stresses about balancing the elements within yourself
Your first spell story made me laugh. The first time I did that, I made a truck catch on fire! I was in college and really early every day the high schooler that lived behind us had a friend pick him up for school. My bedroom window was right where my head was and lined up perfectly to their driveway where the friend would park with his really loud and horrible sounding truck. One day I was grumpy and exhausted (I think it was finals week or some other big stressful week) and the truck seemed extra loud and they were taking forever to leave. I remember saying out loud "Stupid engine just blow up already!!" About 10 minutes later I heard sirens and when I looked outside I saw them pull up at that driveway and put the fire out under the hood of the truck!! Freaked me out a little and I have been extra careful in situations like that.
It's good to see that I am not the only one that has a horrendous book pile. Your place feels like a real home.
the love spell is so relatable lol the freaking out at the fire, trying to put it out, diving under the covers, and also becoming obsessed with the boy afterwards.... literally hijinks my 13 year old self would get up to. made me giggle ❤
The owie fix spell is from Teen Witch and I remembered it too lol! Good times.
Such an excellent share. Thank you! I had a good friend that was extremely involved in her Abrahamic church and her father was a pastor, yadda, yadda. And she dipped into the occult and was, unfortunately, wide open for spirit contact. She did have a spiritual psychosis event, and later described as, "It's all fun and games until you can't turn it off."
Also, as chronically ill gal myself, since age 6mos, it is a general part of life and I think those that have the illness all-the-time and understand everything we can about it, spellwork hits a little different. Definately step-back from workings when I have a huge emotional hit or am struggling with the big C, and agree totally with doing what we can to regain the energies lost. You really brought it down to the most basic understanding for others. You're a great teacher.
Ivy, I just love your channel and I love 💕 all the thought and careful attention you give to every community to which you belong. You are a very special person. I’m just coming into my understanding of myself as a witch in my 60’s and I’ve learned so much from you. I’m feeling very attracted to ancestral work; it feels like I’ve finally come full circle from when I avidly researched and recorded my genealogy in my early 20’s. For many years, I felt like I had abandoned my ancestors when life took me away from active research and I longed to resume searching out more about them. But I wanted something more than just names, dates and places; I longed to get to really know them. Now that I’ve had a little time to watch lots of different witchy videos on a huge variety of witchcraft, pagan and Celtic spirituality topics, I’m finding a deepening interest in shamanic witchcraft. As I’ve been listening to different accounts of people working with those on the other side of the veil, it’s dawning on me in slow motion that hey, HEREIN is that method for really interacting with and getting to know my ancestors! Have you read Nancy Hendrickson’s books Ancestral Tarot (in which she teaches readers how to begin communicating with their ancestors using a standard Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck) and Ancestral Grimoire (where she takes you through constructing Books of Shadows for specific ancestors)? There are several Tarot and Oracle decks that are dedicated to ancestral work such as Carrie Parris’ Relative Tarot and Beloved Dead Oracle, both of which feature photos of people who actually lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and quite a few others, depending on the specific focus of the work being done. Thank you again for the breadth and depth of the topics you cover. 🙏💖💞🥳
This was awesome. Thanks. As a person who also has an autoimmune disease, when I do spells, I am exhausted. You are so right about drawing in energy. I am going to watch your energy video again to help ground myself. Thanks, sometimes you need that reminder 😊
✨️ Wow, this was such an informative and inspirational video, and it must surely be Divine guidance that steered me back to you !
I discovered your channel several years ago and remember leaving a post in which I said something to the effect that I couldn't wait to see how your magical practice would unfold. Well, it has by leaps and bounds ! You are touching on points that are so vitally important, and occult practices can be dangerous. Most dabble, experiment, and play with terrible consequences. My practice is mainly devotional as it keeps me out of trouble, until I learn the practical do's & dont's. 😁 I've watched several "witchy" channels but you seem to be the most informative, honest and grounded. I'm sure there are other adjectives I could add because in my opinion, you are simply the Best. ❤
I can attest to what you've stated regarding physical health and spiritual health/abilities. They absolutely go hand in hand. You're also spot on regarding all of your other points so thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing what you've learned and being brave enough to take the risks ! 🙏✨️💖✨️💖✨️💖✨️
My first spell was a spell to get good grades. Instead, I failed a class for the first time in my life (two, actually), and I had to do summer school.
Back then, I was on the fence about witchcraft, and I didn’t know a lot about intention. Plus, I was in a difficult program that I wasn’t emotionally prepared for back then. Glad for two things: I know more about witchcraft now, and I’m out of high school.
Hola Ivy! I'm, Cabrolina from Chile. You know, I have other theory to explain why we tend to have more spirit visitors, astral "dreams", and extrasensorial experiences in general when we are more emotional. I have had the same exact experience that you describe, and I think that it has to do more with personal sovereignty and boundaries. Let me explain: in my experience, when we are feeling too emotional is because something hard is happening in our lives. That makes us vulnerable not just in the every day life -embodied life- but also in the spirit life. When we feel vulnerable, our boundaries tend to weaken. So, until I learned to protect myself, seal myself and my home, and did (and still do) a looot of therapy to heal and learn to build personal power through healthy boundaries, I was less vulnerable to unwanted visitors in both sides. I think that, as in embodied life, in the other side there's people that feeds from our fear, anxiety and emotional pain, and if we don't have emotional and spiritual boundaries, they take advantage of us. They don't have to be psychopaths or narcisists (but they can, I have experienced them in both sides), they just can be people that doesn't know our boundaries. So yes, now that we have settled our boundaries and learned to self care, it's not that easy to get the same amount of encounters with beings from the other side -and this side-, but in that case, spiritual practice is important. The good thing is that, if now I'm transit a difficult period, I will not have undesired visitors on top of it (imagine how terrible is that for an autistic witch jaja like "leave me fuxxing alone") and, as I have tunned my seals of protection to receive just the visitors who are my spiritual team, my dead love ones, and beings that will not harm me, I can transit those periods in peace, safe, and in the company of those who care about me, in this side and in the other. And the other thing is that I still experience an increase of spiritual activity, whether it's prophetic dreams, astral travel, signs from my spiritual team in awaken life, or synchronicities, when I'm in a crossroad moment in my life. This last thing happens to you? Last thing, and this has to be with epistemology, since I started reading about feminist and latinamerican epistemologies, I have been rethinking this separation between rational and emotional thinking; this has more to be with modern (patriarchal and colonial) science in an aim to segment, and separate societies and to establish hierarchies than really try to comprehend human kind and the interconnectedness of the world. Behind the dichotomy rationality-emotionality, is a white european (christian) man culture that built a whole system to justify invation, killing, and material and spiritual dispossession (I'm in flames reading feminist theology, ecology and spiritual feminism, as you can read jaja). Okay, that's all. I love your channel, and I love how you are capable to manage to unite witches from everywhere in your pannels. Best regards! Chao!
I was so into Silver RavenWolf-- I started collecting her books as a teen. They're long gone now. That being said, I have considered getting Solitary Witch again, though I do wonder if there are better books out there for that.
I still often feel disconnected from my body-- purposefully so, as I suffer from certain pains and wounds. Sleeping and meditating are sometimes difficult, though I make sure to ingest fruits and vegetables. I don't feel like it's affected my ability to spellcast, though. I still see spirits at work (I work nights at a haunted hotel), I'm still able to feel and manipulate energy.
I absolutely agree that an occultist should live in the world. I risked spiritual psychosis on many levels, and it very much affected my real life.
I had the opposite issue with switching deities-- I've only recently done this. I went my whole practice dedicated to Hecate. I'm still in studies for my new goddess, but I am feeling good about it!
The first spell I cast was a love spell. Girrrrl, it took me literal years to understand what I did to myself 🤣. I was 13, it was 1998. I bought the book Wicca Love Spells by Gerina Dunwich to win back my first love. I ended up being obsessed with him for 9 years. We would reconnect on and off for almost a decade and it was always this unhealthy intensity followed by a tumultuous parting. It finally ran it's course and I have zero interest, longing, attraction left for that person. I could literally feel it just lift one day. Insane. Oopsy 🤣
Thanks for sharing:) Yes as newbies and baby witches I feel I don’t have it together.
I love and appreciate your videos so much!!
thank you - loved this. Feeling very validated by knowing that I'm not the only one who's down to interact with and all kind of Spirits :D
I give my best readings and do my most potent readings when I’m on my moon because it grounds me into my body ❤
Sooo much funn! Maybe a part two? I would love some more story time 🙏🍀
Another great video! I’m wondering if you have already made, or would consider making in the future, a video about working specifically with spirits of the dead? I have so much curiosity about the subject but I feel intimidated and there’s a lot of fear-mongering in the community about it that I have seen. I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject! ✨
Ooh I loved this twist on the tag!
I freaking love your channel. You are so authentic and interesting. Thanks for sharing.
❤❤❤I’ve NEVER heard practitioners mention the “more emotional, see more spirits” thing. It’s very important, and very relatable!
When I had undiagnosed depression I could literally see angel’s, now that I’m in a neutral state, I don’t see spirits as much. Even if I do plant medicine, spirits don’t try to enter my sphere as much. Very interesting point, thanks for touching on it.
I unfortunately did have a spiritual psychosis about six months ago. We were my husband and I were just not doing well much emotional betrayal pain was happening, but it only happened once and I hope to God it never happens again. I’ve calm down considerably. I have grounded myself I have let the fair go, I am truly grateful for that and I am most grateful for my beautiful four year-old grandson. He is the reason for my true happiness my children too.❤😂😂
yeah on the rez when they do sweats ( like a sauna) they wont let u when on ur moon ( period) but i feel its good more energy to connect
Great video. Very usefull info. Thank you for the great lessons.
Growing up pagan, i put down the books long ago and started planning and focusing before projection. Nature is my guide along with basic celtic principles. And too much projection of intent is very dangerous as you lose touch with reality. Living in the middle of nowhere makes it all easier though, getting away from other people's energies and away from excessive technology really is a benefit.
Wow! Great video! I really enjoyed this one. Thank you, Ivy!!!
Hey Ivy, great video! I’ve had similar fails 😅. Seances have been much on my mind lately. They were so in fashion during Victorian times and when I checked around, it seemed like no one was holding them anymore. So cool to know you’ve attended some. Would be super interesting if you did a video about seances! ❤
Girl ❤ this is my first time listening to you and wow. MAGESTIC knowledge thank you thank you thank you for sharing it was a true delight every single second of this video. I respect you so much and have so much admiration for your life’s work. Bravo chica 🫶🏼
Congrats! Haven't looked at you that close! Haha! That's great! Thank you for doing this tag. 😂❤ The pimple story, that's so cute! Aaawe! :/ yes! Emotional crazy can cloud the mind. True for me too. I do also have trouble and get stuck between listen to Odin, say, and listen to seasoned practioners.
OMG I literally LOL'd like for 2 min from my soul when i saw that pile of books behind you and you calling it your "vampire den". Never change Hermoine 💜
LMAO GUTTER WITCH. thats a double entendre if i ever heard one!
The trouble with the recommendation to walk away at a deity's first "no" is the assumption that gods should be treated the same way as human beings, which rather negates the idea that they are not human in the first place.
Thank you for sharing!
How interesting that we are in sync together with words🌈🌈🌈🌈
this video i just what i needed thank you ivy literally saved me - freshers week at uk university lmao
PS-Your earrings are rockin'! :)
I have the same mug and earrings 😊 Greeting from Slovakia 🦋
Thank you for this video. Very enlightening and very wise words. I would love to have a discussion with you. I have always knew something but I did not know what it was until this year so I am totally newbie
❤There is so much I want to share...&...so much I want to ask. Let us just say, I am an introvert that loves and wants to help. I will be sharing soon. Yet, I know from my past I am often misunderstood because I have a hard time putting words to my thoughts. I want to thank you for sharing your vulnerability...as a 53 year old woman that has been in denial and full of fear from experiences and brainwashing...it is a wonderful experience to watch someone so, "Aware", of themself.❤😊❤😊❤😊🎉
Loved this! I have a possibly stupid question. Is there a way to work failsafes into spellwork? The very first spell I ever cast back in my teens backfired majorly, and I have been gun-shy ever since. For example, I hesitate to do finance magic because I worry if I manifest money that the spell will backfire and a wealthy family member will die. Is there a way to safeguard against things like this, or is this a really stupid question?
Oh wow I'm early for once!
Also, this is the reason I never did love spells, i've always hated them, because I felt it didn't make sense and you're basically trying to control someone else. Instead I'd want to increase my social skills somehow to make myself more approachable, since I struggle with speaking to people.
How do you know if you're doing something wrong? Like, I always doubt myself, and sometimes fear takes over me and prevents me from doing work with spirits, so sometimes it's really hard for me to make things work.
I love your vampire den! 🧛♀️
❤❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉 love it. Thanks
It doesn't have to be either or... I understand we are conditioned pretty tightly to see agitation and nervous breakdowns and 'emotions' and/or 'pure raw'... but, in my understanding, it should not be the case. You can have quality emotions, that you train to open and calibrate throughout life, so you can handle the 'switch' at will. dumbing down to most primitive instincts does not make the fun play for me. I think we could try and tap into much funner territories. maybe by starting to self-gauge not only the intensity, but also the quality of emotions... cause these gonna put sth in -motion, and we'd better magnetize and attract sth which is also open and cooperative... just guessing though 😂
And. Please, anyone... do not do love spells or similar, it could affect much more people than intended. Always thought (sorry) it was a joke, but it could bring too much ado... You are so much more... without sb's boyfriend or husband
I totally agree with you about being in the right space physically for magic. But I am curious what your opinion is on the pain path? One of the eight paths to power. I feel in some situations pain can be an energy you could pull from. I have used tattoos etc. but I don’t do magick when I am sick. I also use and teach elemental energy use rather than personal energy use in most workings. I really like how you describe things. Thank you ❤
I find it weird to have people try to halt praxis or simply a connection with any deity. It is between you and said deity. It is like that meme template with the diamonds and the person is so close to getting them but gives up. If there is a chance to have a deep rooted connection with a deity or a daemon or a demon or an angel or XYZ then I would be the LAST person to say "Nooo don't do that"
And it is a craft too sometimes you are going to make mistakes. How can the body be more unsusceptible to diseases? Introduce things that would make it more unsusceptible so the body can understand (in this case mistakes) so you can go "Oh, I know what happened last time that made me sneeze a lot" or "Milk is bad for me so no choccy milk for me"
My apologies for turning the likes from 666 to 667, amazing video!
Cleansing my home with sage did not go well with me and for two years it was horrible but what I just learned from you you are supposed to protect it after you smoke the home unfortunately overdid it I mean literally 1000%. I think the house should just burnt down at that point, but I did not, put a protector over it as well because I figured I’m on a microphone excuse typos I just figured sage was going to work at the on the directions it does say at the very very end. Be careful because sometimes this ritual does not work. it will do the opposite and that’s exactly what it did but eventually, I did get the negativity out, thankfully, God helped❤️❤️❤️❤️☀️☀️☀️🙏🙏🙏
Ive been on a long, mostly lonesome spiritual journey, and i had no idea about grounding, that it even existed. And i sometimes spent up to 3 days in bed when I had an intense download because i felt so unbalanced physically that I was afraid I'd fall over. I wish someone had told me earlier about grounding and how to do it. Then again, i can help others better through my experience now, so that's a blessing, too.
I think my love spell backfired too after watching this lol 😂❤
You have such wonderful and high quality content. Thank you for being such a great resource!
Hey, soul sister! I thank you for your Magick tips 🪄 ! Hugs and Kisses 💖! A Dominicana 🇩🇴 Shaman Soul here, love! I am also a Taygetan, Pleiadian Starseed. Your tips saved me from removing a hex and curse sent to me by enemies known and unknown. I have quietly been following you for some time now.🌠
I too am in the medical field. I’m a vampire. I am a phlebotomist.
I am an artist as well😊
The mystic swims in the same waters the psychotic drowns in 🙏🏾
i made a mistake trying astral travel and i hate it , i would see everyone around me and tryna yell and tell them wake me up and could see ppl in the other rooms , i qas also able to see some not good spirits but it was more the frozen part that scared me haha , i stop doin any excersize with astral
I love your story time 💗🌺🧜♀️💐 more please 🍁🍂🧹😍
Thank you so much for this video, and thank you for your experience! I do have a question for you. I tend to hyper fixate and jump from one belief system to the next out of curiosity and excitement. Im still new and exploring my magical practices and spiritual gifts. It has been a challenge because I have a lot of spiritual experiences like prophetic dreams and lucid dreaming. But I also have ptsd from drug induced psychosis that took the form of religious trauma like devil spirits, hallucinations, physical hallucinations, and reality and the spiritual world and the psychosis all blending together.
My heart is drawn towards magical practices because of getting to work with my hands and touch things, smell things, write things, ect… but the racing thoughts and lack of trust have been really hard to overcome.
So I guess my question other than therapy and grounding do you have any other tips or wisdom about feeling safe while practicing. Like any deities in particular that really have helped you feel safe and loved and calm when working with them? I am trying to find other locals to practice with, but so far it’s been me alone in my room for the past year and a half which has led to fear and spiritual psychosis moments.
I had a teen request fang composite buildups recently and I was totally excited to do it but then… Her mom said no. 😢
So how do you shut off the rational mind when it becomes much stronger than the emotional mind?
fasting pssss i feel light head if i dont get breakfast before 12 lmao
Do you do hexes and curses in your practice? Who does do these in their practice?
Can I ask what your books are behind you? ❤
My fail was a candle exploding and I had to pick up and hold and carry hot melting flaming wax to the shower and put it out
Love spells most times are only temporary they could be for years
Indeed, the two belong together, then they will live together and love together with prosperity and happiness and wellness till death to them part that’s a given and thinking that’s God too❤😂😂😂 ❤️
Hey Ivy! I have no Idea, if you will read this and please apologise grammar mistakes, but I have a important question. I practice magick now for three months. I only did the Archangel Magick Book from Damon Brand. It is really potential.
My problem that I think, that IT affects me in a bad way. I feel really often since 3 weeks disconnected from my family and partner. I have a hard time connecting emotionally.
Is it normal? I don't want it to last. Maybe someone can help me. And what magick can cause for Side effects.
Kind regards!
Enki😊
How do we know if we have a hex or a curse on us?
Thoughts on Blue Lotus tea? ☕
Never tried it! Let me know how it is ☺️
None of my spells are working for months. I don't know why, they just don't work.
I did one love spell in my time... Or rather anti love
The person ended up ghosting the chat for some months 😅
You referred to your autoimmune disease. Is there any spirit , god . Ritual etc that can magically cure serious or permanent physical illness?
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lol my first spell was a love spell with a friend on a guy i liked and i always thought she ....idk highjacked the spell? cause the dude dated her for a couple days a week later (only time ive ever given someone the silent treatment for more than a few hours). dude was a fuckboy though. then like 2 years later, when i started actually trying to be a good cult sheep, someone i thought i was friends with told the leaders that i'd been doing witchcraft and i got in trouble there to add insult to injury lol.
Omgosh I love your explanation in the spiritual psychosis part! It makes so much sense. I try to explain to people being a realistic spiritualist is a difficult path bc I’m going to question everything. It has definitely changed things for me stepping into more realistic way of being.
I also did a love spell as a teen 🫣 it worked waaayyyy too well. I no longer liked him because he lost his individuality and became codependent. It was terrible. Won’t do that again! It was borderline stalkerish!
OMG that sounds horrible! I've heard sooooo many stories of love spells working TOO well and then they develop a stalker for life. Yikes!
@@IvyTheOccultist It’s almost like a young and dumb initiation into the occult 😂
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Thank you Ivy, informative as always. Also wanted you to know I've made space on my bookshelf. Yours will be my very first magickal book. Now I'm hoping I'll be able to get a signed copy🫶
My first backfire was also a love spell - for one to stop being in love with me. Deffinitely a manipulative magic that backfired and made ME to fall in love with him... and be left by him soon. Bah... 🫣