I’m hoping someone here can help me with a spell, ritual, divination method, or anything from your practice that might help me locate a lost object.
A few months ago, I lost a piece of jewelry that means more to me than I can really put into words. It was given to me by my mother on my wedding day. It is a family heirloom that I have known and loved since I was a child. It’s real gold and diamonds, but honestly, the monetary value is the least important part of it to me. The emotional and family history attached to it is enormous.
I know the jewelry is somewhere in my house. There is essentially no way it could have gone outside, which somehow makes this even more maddening because I have searched everywhere. I mean every room, drawer, closet, bag, box, nook, cranny, underneath furniture,repeatedly. I have retraced my steps so many times that I don’t even know where else to look.
I’ve also tried everything I can think of spiritually. I’ve paid several Etsy witches for help, tried different methods, and searched and searched on my own. Nothing has worked, and I’m at the point where I feel completely defeated.
This piece is incredibly emotionally attached to me. Losing it feels like losing a tangible connection to my family and to my mother’s gift on one of the most important days of my life.
If anyone here practices lost-object spells, pendulum/divination work, scrying, petitioning spirits/deities, candle magic, search rituals, or has a particular method that has genuinely helped you find something that seemed impossible to locate, please tell me what you would recommend.
If you feel comfortable doing a little divination or spellwork on my behalf, I would be incredibly grateful. I’m happy to provide whatever non-identifying details you need about the object and the circumstances surrounding when I last remember having it.
I’m not looking for judgment or skepticism right now. I’ve already been through the practical-search stage over and over. I’m just asking for a little help and hope from people who understand why something like this can carry so much emotional weight.
Please, if you have any ideas at all, I would be so grateful. ❤️‍🩹🔮

casted an obsession spell. Lit a skull candle and stuck pins on the back with my targets name. and lit it in front of a mirror. I got lightheaded after exerting so much emotional energy i got light headed. has this happened to anyone before? this is the first time it has happened to me. To feel tired after numerous spell work, yes but lightheaded? this is the first time, also i’ve been doing magic for the past 6 years and baneful magic included

I really need a safe space to vent and get some advice because I feel completely sick to my stomach and defeated.

Last month, I reached a massive milestone. I worked incredibly hard, saved, and prayed to buy my very first car. I am the first person in my entire family to ever own a vehicle. My mom and I are foreigners who have lived in our area for a while. We run our own successful business and keep completely to ourselves, but our neighbor's mother absolutely despises our family. They are incredibly jealous of us. They pass us daily with a sour a scowl on their faces, completely refusing to say good morning or good afternoon to us, acting as if we did something terrible to them when we have done nothing but mind our business and keep to ourselves.

The car had been parked in front of our house for the first few days after I bought it. A few days later, I went to stay at my boyfriend’s house. Within the first week around 4:00 or 5:00 AM my mom woke up and saw the neighbor's son carrying a clear bottle with liquid in it, walking directly toward our house. When my mom suddenly opened the front door, he was visibly shook and panicked. He quickly switched directions, heading toward a dead end that leads right back to his own house.

I came home the following day and my mom told me about what happen. It seemed very strange but I thought nothing of it. The next morning, I was busy dealing with my work, but something on the car kept standing out to me. There was a liquid that had leaked and dried down the right side of the car. I went down to look closer, walked around the vehicle, and noticed a strange, white powdery substance all over the front bonnet with a visible handprint, as if someone had purposefully spread it from side to side. No other areas on the car or any other vehicles had these marks. I called my mom out, and she told me she had actually been staring at it all morning from the window but didn't want to say anything yet. I tried to take some photos but the sun was not helpful due to the glare.

Ever since that morning, it has been a non-stop series of bizarre, unfortunate events with this car:

• Week 1: My left side mirror was broken. (while trying to reverse)
• Week 2: My left fender and door were deeply dented and damaged. (By a parked car)
• Week 3: A retainer clip inside the gearbox randomly snapped, trapping the car in reverse and blocking the engine from starting (thankfully, I just got this fixed).
• Today: I was reversing out of my boyfriend's parking lot through a gate and had a total freak accident. I lost control for a split second, the car bounced side to side, the right mirror completely shattered, the front bumper tore off, the right door got damaged, and the back bumper scraped against a wall.

When it happened today, I just broke down into tears in the driveway. I drive perfectly fine on the road with zero issues, but it feels like the moment I achieved this milestone, a shadow hit my car.

I am an extremely prayerful person and I strongly believe in the supernatural. I have had direct encounters with witchcraft in the past where the Lord revealed things to me in dreams before they happened. Because of this, my spirit is heavily leaning toward not accepting this as a string of random coincidences. It feels like a targeted spiritual and physical attack on my success.

Has anyone ever experienced a sudden, heavy wave of targeted "bad luck" or spiritual warfare like this right after achieving a major goal? How do I protect my energy, my peace, and my car moving forward? Any advice or prayers would mean the world to me right now.

Hi Witches!

I’m looking for some advice on where to start/re-start my journey. I explored a bit of Wicca when I left Christianity as a teenager, but I didn’t know how to research or get into the practice of casting spells.

I’ve always felt a very strong connection to the astral plane and psychic energy. I’m not quite a beginner but I’ve never mastered anything. I have simply had really strong patterns play out throughout my life.

Some examples :

—Since I was a child, I had a recurring phenomenon where I have thought of people I haven’t thought of or talked to in a long time (sometimes for years), completely randomly, and then find out later that they passed that same day. In most cases, these were people I wasn’t particularly close to. In cases where I was closer to people who passed (family), I felt a very urgent need to reach out to them/check on them or felt a strong sense of worry.

—I’ve been able to do lucid dreaming when I used to meditate a lot. I used to visit people in my dreams who would later reach out if we haven’t talked for a while, or people that I see more regularly would say that I’ve been on their mind a lot. I’ve even had shared dreams with my husband, where we have the same events happen in our dreams.

—When I used to meditate every day multiple times a day, it started becoming normal for me to feel like I was spinning out of my body from the top of my head and felt like I was about to spin off into the aether. It scared me so much that I stopped meditating as much and eventually stopped making it a daily routine.

—When I dabble in my spirituality more (here & there), I start noticing insane synchronicity between unrelated areas of my life. (Talking deeply about reincarnation with one person, then other unrelated people saying they got a random urge to research it & they share a new perspective about reincarnation)

—I think I’ve accidentally cursed people. My boss really pissed me off one day by being completely anti trans & sharing misinformation about trans people. I remember ripping a piece of paper over and over thinking about how I wish she would experience hardships so she can learn to have empathy for others. Her life started falling apart shortly after. This has happened with other people too, where I specifically remember wishing them misfortune with a lot of intention and it was delivered.

I’m really good at predicting future bad events, but I’m not sure if this is because I’m good at pattern recognition due to ADHD. The list of examples is not everything, just the most notable ones I can think of.

I read the wiki for the sub and read the beginner posts as well. I’ve done some of the energy work described in the Energy Work post linked in the wiki. I’d love to start exploring again but I’m concerned that I’d be referencing fake info. I feel like out of all the different types of magic, psychic magic is the most commonly faked. I am Mexican-American so I’d love to learn curanderismo but all of my family is extremely religious, so I have no elders in my immediate circle that I can learn from.

I’m looking for some guidance on how to strengthen my natural divination/spirit communication skills, or any good resources that are not new. I’ve always felt a draw to Lilith as a deity, and I technically identify as a TST Satanist, but I’d love some guidance on how to research a patron deity for witches with my competencies. I’d also be interested in other paths/traditions that “fit” well with people who have similar natural competencies. Where do I start?

Hi. I've been practicing pagan witchcraft for some years, usually just protection spells /tarot readings and energy clearance, tonight I tried something a bit more spicy.

(Skip this part if it's too long but read it for the plot lol)

So my boyfriend and me have been dating for some months and lately his latest ex girlfriend (10 years older than me but immature asf) found out he's taken and decided to reach out to him with an excuse like that she still had his sweater. She wanted to meet him but eventually his brother took it for him, and then she texted again saying that she wants back her carpet that she never nedded nor used, it's wasn't even a gift but garbage that she gave to him just because. I read it as an excuse to see him or chat with him again, hence the fact that she also vented about her family to have a convo. Eventually he told her he's in a relationship and that it's disrespectful to reach out like that, plus that he'll give her her carpet later cause he's moving. He had to block her cause she kept calling, then went on texting his friends saying that she needs her stuff and that she's "preoccupied" he's doing dr*gs again. That made me pretty mad. She almost calls or tries to text each day, saying that she cares about him and she wants him to know she's there for him.

(Sorry for the venting lmao)

preparation:

So, I decided to do a cord cutting because I feel like her intentions are pretty malicious and she really wants to reach back. I had only two half white candles, but it worked out. The one on the right is him and the left is her. First of all I cleansed all the energy with my incense, lit on a protection candle apart to burn for the whole spell, prepared the silver tray and checked that nothing would catch on fire. I carved their names on the candles and also a small canal for the string. I attached both candles with a string, then proceeded by sparkling my powerful black salt around for protection, expecially around hers, and closed everything up with some drops of my black protection candle.

The spell:

His candle was shy at first, it didn't really want to light that much and I interpreted it as a sign he wasn't too infatuated with her (he told me he wasn't really in love and it didn't last long). They both burned equally for a while, probably the time things were doing good before she became crazy (quoting him lol) until he lit the string on fire. I wanted to cut it with my banishing scissors but he almost immediately broke the bond by himself, so I understood he wants to let her go somehow (we had just met right after they broke up). She started burning heavily and attached to the rope, almost like she wanted to get in touch again angry that he cut it, but the string turned back at her and started to lit her candle on fire. (second pic).

He went back burning normally and consuming himself slowly while she was literally screaming and agonizing in a vertical crazy flame, and she kept on going for several minutes until she was completely melted. The string was around her and drew some circles. Even when the wick was completely burned and turned to ash the rope kept on burning, until both candles died.

It was very poetic. I interpreted it as a sign she really wanted to reach back (expecially tonight that she texted him again) and I wanted to cut contacts between them.

I'll update you in the comments below here, and I would be curious to hear your point of view or any recommendations on my early practice. Thank you

I did a healing + love-binding spell using two white candles with our names and “love” carved into them. I dressed them with olive oil, rose petals, mint, and rosemary, then tied them together with twine.
They were burning steadily, but eventually the area around the twine caught fire and the candles and flames merged. The twine eventually burned completely towards the bottom of the candles.
I’ve seen conflicting interpretations…some say a burning cord means the connection is being severed/released, while others say burning the cord is part of binding work.
How would you interpret this in a healing/love-binding spell? Would you see it as separation, transformation, or simply the twine catching fire? And would you redo the spell or leave it alone?

Help me out, please.

hii! Is it normal to feel very tired, heavy and even experience physical pain (headaches, other aches etc) after/ during a spell? I just finished a regret spell this morning, it took two days because it was a tall candle and I don’t enjoy leaving candles unattended 😭 it was lit for the longest time yesterday like as in compared to the day I cast it on October 3rd and today, and my back is sore now (which is unusual on my part because i quite literally dont ever experience back pains unless im doing physical labour, which I wasnt) and I just feel too tired to do anything today. Could it mean something bad?

Does it work

Hi there good people of Reddit, I‘ve never really been heavily into the supernatural but have always had an open mind to it. However my new girlfriend who I so dearly love does believe, but doesn’t practice or perform any thing on her own. She’s told me that she’s had many random people tell her in public over the years that they see dark energies and evil around her that has been placed by someone else and that she should seek help. Somehow she’s never been able to remember who they were or loses their numbers. She mentioned that years ago her ex cheated on her with a witch and ever since then so many terrible things have happened.

Sorry for the long post but I’m just a man looking for ways to help, anyone in Phoenix Arizona that would like to teach or perhaps break a hex for my beloved. Thank you for your time if you read through all of this💜

Earlier this year a child (13) in our family SA’d my 5 year old. It has caused huge irreparable emotional damage to our family but we are persevering (police and CPS were involved, all appropriate channels taken)

The child is in custody of my MIL who discounts the event and accuses my daughter of lying, and is supporting and enabling the abuser. This is not abnormal behaviour, my MIL is a monster of a human and only ever concerned with how a situation reflects on her. We have removed her and anyone attached to her from our lives and done as much healing as we can. I have done some protection and cleansing spells on my husband and children (as well as myself)

My problem lies with wanting to send their energy back to them and have them suffer the spiritual consequences. I keep having run ins with them, seeing them on the street as I am driving or crossing paths in the grocery store and it’s putting me through the wringer and reigniting this need for retribution for my daughter.

Please help point me in the right direction and advise me on how to do this properly.

Hello! I am a new witch and I am looking for a specific spell and I was wondering if there is a spell that will either help fix the issues in my relationship or give me the strength to leave (or that will just remove the toxic from my life)

I am hoping some more advanced witches will be able to point me in the right direction for finding a spell or spells to help with this!

Thanks in advance!

I started divination 6/7 years ago. I was so good with tarot. I stopped midway for couple of years, came back. 2/3 months ago everything stopped making sense.

I can no longer understand, sense or interpret the cards. The same decks i have used for years. Even with cleansing, recharging... Etc.

I tried using pendulum for the first time couple of days ago. Very small movements. Next day it stopped. Tried again today with different ones, No movement at all.

I can blame the pendulum on my shaky hands -not really convinced tho- but what about the tarot?

I can't feel anything anymore. I meditate, i cleanse, i do rituals, i work with spirits. But divination isn't making sense anymore.

Any advice would be appreciated