posted October 25, 2012 09:00 AM            

From what I've heard, actually casting a love spell on someone specific tends to create more of an obsession that misfires badly and the person who cast the spell finds the person enchanted wasn't anything as imagined, and one said his spell worked (briefly) but it happened by the girl he cast it on suffering a tragedy so that she became emotionally vulnerable to him and once she snapped out of it she lost interest in him again. Most who report success say they don't do it again and advise anyone else against trying to use magic to make others fall in love with you.

And I haven't heard anything about trying Halloween love spells & divinations, so I can't say anything about that.

posted October 25, 2012 10:07 AM            

There is a grey area, I like to call it, when the love is already there, and things need spiced up, there is nothing wrong with sending out a bit of very POSITIVE energy to heat things up.

A very powerful witch friend of mine did a binding spell...she cant get rid of him. Even tho she is across the pond and he in America, energetically she cant get rid of him.

Lessons learned hard.

posted October 25, 2012 12:43 PM            

But that is the very first lesson of "magick" and the workings of The Universe anyway...the energy you send out, you get back..plain and simple.

I grew up with a very lovely Scorpio Christian lady who taught me The Golden Rule..

So, magick is nothing but directed energy, emotionally directed energy.

I, once, healed a dear friend's belly wound, I got very emotional about it and did my little thing and in a coupla days she was healed.

But the energy of magick is nothing to play with.

Millenia ago, folks discovered this, thus "folk magic" and the dark side discoverd it as well.

As far as love spells?

If you are attracted to someone and want he or she to love you, you just cant. What you will send out is a terribly negative energy that will backfire on you in the end.

Like my story of my friend in Ireland.

Have you seen the movie "The Craft?"

A silly, kind of example, but very symbolic.

If there is love already, like I said, there is nothing wrong with burning a rose red candle, sprinklin some rosemary and roses on it, blessing the house and the boudior....

Dont mess with another's will.

For one thing, you just cant, it wont work. A strong person can not be felled by spells, a weak person can, but in the end even if an effort to bring one's desires to onself does not work, it will still backfire.

Try, instead a general love spell. Not directed at anybody but yourself.

I had to do this recently to clear my house of a very negative presence.

Pink candles, roses, lovely scents...as much rose quartz you can find, pink ribbons,,etc...

What you really want to do it to draw "love" to you, without being specific.

IF you happen to draw others, so be it.

The Universe is way smarter, in the matters of the heart, than we!

luck and blessins!

posted October 25, 2012 03:30 PM            

The person that is to be your love, will be of their own free will and yours. A love spell would fall into grey/black magick, by the nature of imposing on another's will. At the very best you will receive an infatuated person who is not right for you anyways (and vice versa), at the far end an obssessed stalker. No one can truly change another's path, force love where it doesn't exist.

While it is true, magick in itself is will/visualization/energy directing, the intent/purpose is what brings it to be white or grey/black. Some practioners also differ in classifying magick intended for practical purposes, as low or folk magick while magick that is more ritualized to connect with the divine or spirits as high magick or ceremonial magick.

posted October 25, 2012 11:31 PM            

2nd year in college, my roommate and his girlfriend at the time (who later became my college ex two years later), well, they felt I needed some help in the love department. Now, the intention (on my part at least), was to attract love in general. No specific person in mind, though I did imagine a generic ideal of what I was looking for. (Blonde, long hair, that kind of thing, again, no one I knew or in particular).

I isolated part of the problem in retrospect, apart from attempting this in the first place: There were two components once it was done: Two small bundle of herbs/materials, one to keep in my pillow, and another to keep in a safe place, both to keep in my possession.

Something to note is: my roommate at the time didn't do any of the handling or work. His girlfriend (my future ex) did. She later on at one point asked (jokingly it seemed, and this was when we were still seeing one another) if I was sure I didn't focus on her during the casting. I was adamant I didn't focus on a specific person I knew, including her.

Thing is, I accidentally washed the pillowcase the one part was in without taking it out, destroying it. She cut the whole thing off soon after and we went back to being just friends (well, for a couple few at least, with some, um, action a couple months later... after that semester though, she no longer willingly spoke with me). She was also completely unaware that it had been washed to pieces.

Years later, after the split and graduation and everything, I'm going through some things from college and found the other component. By this point I had established contact with my higher self and guides, and they were like "um... what's this?!". The vibe I got from them: Destroy it with fire.

A few years later, my final contact with her was quite incendiary, but whatever spell may have been on either of us was broken long before.

Come to think of it, she's the only one I've ever, um, "been with."

Thank goodness I didn't do anything like this with my next ex. That aftermath a week later was just... catastrophic and still sets a tone with me, (not to mention in retrospect I had actually dodged a major bullet). But that didn't involve any spells or psychic/energy work at all.

posted October 26, 2012 12:30 AM            

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Do love spells work?

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Do advertisements?

You bet your ass they do

Ask any physicist, everything around you is pure energy - aka Magick

posted October 26, 2012 12:44 AM            

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Originally posted by Lei_Kuei:
Do advertisements?

You bet your ass they do

Ask any physicist, everything around you is pure energy - aka Magick

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posted October 26, 2012 05:36 AM            

What if they are aware but don't believe in "magic and stuff"?

Surely, the less the person who is the target of the spell is aware of it or even cares, the less the 'effect' it is likely to have on them?

posted October 26, 2012 05:49 AM            

First thought was: if you mean casting a spell in hopes of attracting the right partner to you (a spell for/on yourself), it seems okay, but I would not try to cast a spell on another in hopes of influencing another for any reason. It's just plain wrong.

Would you like it if someone did that to you? Especially if it was someone you knew, but were not interested in romantically? First of all, i don't think it would work and second, like the others said, might backfire on you in some way.

It's probably best to do some creative visualization and/or prayers with the intention of attracting a true love to you, whomever that may be.

posted October 27, 2012 02:03 AM            

I think the way a love spell works in that it brings thoughts of you to the other. A few are also cast to bring the person to dream of you, much like an obsession as he/she will not know why these thoughts/feelings arise.

It is hard to pinpoint exactly how the spell will manifest, as the caster is manipulating energy to release his/her intent, which is then sent out and can spiral in different directions. There are many variables to consider, both person's state of mind and other external conditions. Timing and how much visualization/energy was raised during casting.

Great point, some people are harder to influence w magick due to their high levels of defense/protection and shielding methods. In a very strong person, the thoughts may come of the caster but he/she will probably just shrug them off.

If either decides not to act on the thoughts/feelings, I still think some sort of effect will be in place as the energy released will go somewhere (just not where it was first intended). It's always a possibility the caster will have a change of heart, but reversal spells tend to be much more complex and challenging which is why it is best to think very clearly before initiating a spell that falls into grey areas.

Personally, I don't see anything manipulating about general love drawing spells (not person specific). To me, love drawing or releasing personal block spells go along w other attraction methods (make up, hair cuts, dressing up). I feel a good way to start w general love spells is to clear one's inner blocks, to make room for love. After all you must love yourself first to be open for new love

posted October 29, 2012 09:48 AM            

I don't practice gray or black, but have studied it as well. I think one is not truly in the light, without being aware of the shadow side (within ourselves and the world). My grandmother was an Indigineous healer, and the old ways have always called to me.

I don't follow the Wiccan law of three, as consider myself more in line with the craft as magick/art rather than the religious sect formed by Gerald Gardner. I do however feel our actions as carried into the world, bear consequences with or without magick. Long as I'm not manipulating free will, all is good

posted November 07, 2012 05:43 PM            

I did a love spell once but the nature of the spell was more like a prayer/manifestation which included only good energy and was completely *without* any type of manipulation over the other person's feelings.

I would say, more accurately, that it was an energetic love letter to the person and it did work. Really I was speaking to the person's higher self and inviting him back if he so chose and it was done with much love and pure intent (and some ritual, which is really just an element of the externalization of manifestation, at least to me).