Learn From My Mistakes! Occult Rituals Gone Wrong: Seances, Love Spells & More #FailTales

In this video, I discuss some things I have learned along my witchcraft, occult, and spiritual journey!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:43 My Early Years, Love Spells
08:31 Psychosis, Mind/Body/Spirit Connection
21:58 Thoth
24:55 Seances

[thepeonyreign]

Why did my mind immediately go to Gandalf for a gatekeeper spirit 😂 Every time an unwelcome spirit shows itself: YOU SHALL NOT PASS

[bebecollins]

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!

[Paulina_Chin]

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.

[christinemorrissey]

I too am in the medical field. I’m a vampire. I am a phlebotomist.
I am an artist as well😊

[Rose-epcf]

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 ❤

[kylaallen]

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.

[positiveenergywithcrystals]

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.

[musicmary]

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

[kllorji]

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.

[yourimaginaryenemy]

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!

[mysticjason]

The owie fix spell is from Teen Witch and I remembered it too lol! Good times.

[ButterflyHummingbird]

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. 🙏💖💞🥳

[brujismo.eclectico]

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!

[juanitamayes]

I fully agree with your thoughts about being emotionally overwhelmed and Spirits .... During my Spiritual Awakening in my late 20s, I never got a break from them.

[breese]

I'm really glad you discussed how spirits come in highly emotional states, I had a situation some years ago, and I was a emotional whirlwind and spirits and deities had ready access to me, but now I have to actually work to connect. I was sad about it for a time honestly, it created this feeling of being abandoned, like they were suddenly less interested in me. Altered states and shut down reasoning makes sense

[lex]

Ok, you talking about being able to see spirits much easier when in emotionally unstable states really hit home. I’ve never struggled with hallucinations, but during a really dark period in my life, when I was just beginning to leave Mormonism and explore the occult, I could feel/see spirits very vividly. I didn’t understand what was happening at the time, but I ended up accidentally astral walking and letting something into my home that took months to get rid of. The experience scared the shit out of me and I both shut myself off from spirit work and my life progressed to a better headspace. But later on, when I was struggling years later, I again started seeing spirits out of the corner of my eye/ feeling them around. I’m in a much healthier headspace nowadays and consciously attempting spirit work/ communication for the first time.

[balBROni]

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!

[mammasdragons]

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 😊

[WhyseWytch]

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!

[AlexK]

✨️ 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 ! 🙏✨️💖✨️💖✨️💖✨️