Today I am thankful for self-control.
So....
Over the past couple of years, I've seen countless self-proclaimed witches who cast spells in an attempt to bind politicians.
Why?
Seriously, if you know anything about the craft, why would you bind yourself to someone that you can't stand?
Witches use binding for love.
They are used to bind themselves to other people.
This, in and of itself, is unethical. It is controlling. Imposing your will on another human being is just, plain flat out wrong.
I can imagine that love binding spells create stalkers.
I've never cast such a spell. I had a stalker; a guy would lie to his family and they followed me around for years.
It destroyed my life.
You NEVER want that.
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There are people who will claim, well......that they want to bind Donald Trump from
pinching women's asses,
taking away abortion rights,
killing Mexicans
and letting businesses cut down all the trees and smother the planet in pollution.
(I never realized how little I pay attention to the liberal rhetoric until I tried to type it out)
I think the general idea is that they claim Trump is a racist, sexist man who wants us all to gag on the emissions from big business.
I don't see him that way at all. I see him just as I see the Democrats.
He panders to people who squawk loudly and has the most money to give to his causes.
It's the nature of politics.
You have to have a certain level of narcissism to get where he is.
This is beside the point.
There are people out there who think they can cast spells binding Donald Trump from doing what they consider to be harmful.
The problem is that their idea of harmful is going to differ from another group's idea of harmful.
These people are gathering to allegedly cast spells to impose their will on Donald Trump and, most recently, Judge Kavenaugh.
There is a problem with that.
When we bind our will to another person, we join a part of our energy with them.
Why in the world would someone want to attach themselves to someone they can't stand?
I've read some of the spells. They're laughable. For the most part, they're nonsensical.
If I have more time, I'll deconstruct a few of them.
Even if they're not real,
there is a danger for the people in the group.
Getting yourself riled up to the point of rage over an idea is not cathartic at all.
It makes us angry.
It makes us prone to use our anger in unhealthy ways.
It takes away our peace of mind.
Cathartic expressions of anger do not do anything to resolve the source of our anger so it is just a waste of time.
If we believe we've bound our will to someone we hate, well, that becomes a part of us.
It's a waste of time.
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I'll put this out into the universe.
I don't curse people. I have lit two black candles for unknown people who have tried to break into my house, vandalized my property or sent me threatening messages (both of people have died before the candles burned down of undiagnosed cancer).
I've learned to pray for people.
The final time I did that to get away from my unknown stalker, I prayed that this person did not die. The candle wax burned into the face of a man who resembled my ex-husband.
He lost his job the very next day.
It turns out he was talking to the relatives who were following me around on a daily basis and was telling them lies about me (e.g. he said he told his mom that I wouldn't let him go to college to get her off his back when she was allegedly hassling him over it). His family harassed me to help him stay in control of me. It cost me jobs, leases and other opportunities. It destroyed my life on a short-term basis.
As an aside, my sister-in-law had a firearm. She menaced a neighbor with it. She didn't care about the law (if she did, she wouldn't have done that nor would she have stalked me). The game changer was when I took a CCW class. I will ALWAYS believe in the second amendment. Any politician who believes that women shouldn't protect themselves is delusional at best.
Worse are those politicians who think Red Flag laws will protect people from danger. Abusive people LIE about their victims to get them into trouble. Getting someone professionally diagnosed with a mental illness (even PTSD over their abuse) is a form of control. Getting them in trouble with the law is a form of control. Keeping a victim from protecting herself or her family will help the abuser retain control.
Let me paraphrase what one of the AG Colorado candidates said. He said something to the effect of knowing that the Red Flag laws will be abused but if it saves one person, it'll be worth it.
If it passes, it'll probably condemn at least one family of four to death or bodily injury.
Getting back to the story, my ex-husband claimed that he had no contact with his family. He also blamed the police for the GPS tracker on my vehicle. Now, I know that he was the one destroying my computers and hacking my phone.
Things are better now except that he's telling everyone that I'm making it all up. He'll usually accuse me of stalking him when I ask him to help me with the kids or recalculate child support as per our divorce decree.
Yeah....but there is one problem with his story. The City of Aurora had high priced lawyers depose me for eight hours in June of 2011. Buried in those deposition transcripts is a downtown lawyer telling me that my ex-husband was fired, in part, for taking time off of work to stalk me. Well, it was phrased more as the lawyer stating the fact that he took time off of work and then posing a question akin to "don't you think it was strange that he kept turning up where he wasn't supposed to be?"
The City Attorneys must have known what was going on. It's a shame the police wouldn't help me document it.
They also revealed some lawbreaking crap at the city that has yet to be resolved. They fined him and claimed that forcing him to pay the fine was illegal so any cash payment was considered voluntary. Despite the best attempts of the lawyers at civility, his former boss sent me a scathing email basically telling me he was fired for being fat.
You don't punish a man's wife because he's fat or stupid. IF you work for the local township and you KNOW that someone is stalking his wife, you confide in the police department. You don't steal money from HER and then run around in court claiming that she fakes heart attacks, is over educated and that makes him unmotivated and all sorts of other slanderous bullshit. IF he's an abuser and you blame her for him getting fired for crap you're making up, he's going to go home and abuse her.
The City Attorneys don't know how much those bizarre lies were thrown in my face over the next eight years. I won't always be a single mom. I won't always spend my time writing a fictional blog.
I'll have more time to take on their crap in the future.
I have met other spouses of city employees attacked in a similar manner when talking about the illegal fines.
I wonder how many spouses are beat up over that crap? I wonder how many of these assaults the police refuse to investigate?
Someday I'll figurately smack city leaders over their collective head with the knowledge that lying about strangers can put them in danger. In this case, it turned out that his boss was abused by a man who resembled my ex. She obviously hadn't worked on her stuff.
On a personal note,
I made the mistake of telling other pagans about it. This woman crashed her jeep. I dreamt of the crash. I heard she couldn't walk. I had numerous covens praying for her healing after I learned of the crash. All I had to say was....she's a single mom with two kids and her story made the rounds (without her name or occupation).
Those are my spell stories.
That is why I don't like spells. I cast those anti-stalker spells when I was very frightened, the authorities wouldn't help me and I was at a loss of what could be done.
They were cast in desperation. I will say those types of things should always be the absolutely last resort.
We always have more power in this world than in any other dimension. We should do our best to work with the tools at our disposal: talking, filing charges, getting restraining orders, taking a self-protection course and that kind of thing.
Back then, I wasn't sure who I should get the restraining order against.
The happenings could be a coincidence. When I cast these spells, my ex-husband refused to leave my home. We'd been divorced for well over a year. I lit the candles in the hopes it would cause him to admit to what he was doing or back down.
The deaths or job losses were not anticipated. The candle lighting was more of a psychological tactic.
I would say, for me, it backfired. I've spent a lot of time in mourning and regret.
At least the kids are safe.
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Yes, you can change things by going into a primal, screaming rage and lighting dark candles. What you tend to change is your own energy.
You can make yourself a wrinkled, aging, ugly scowling angry person if you wish.
There is another way.
You can fill yourself with peace and wish that for the offending party.
I literally pray for the wisdom of our politicians with white candles, frankincense and myrrh and all the trimmings.
I pray Trump sees the truth of the world around him and learns the power of discernment. If he's still in the throes of the lesson, I pray the universe (or his God) brings decent and intelligent advisors into his midst.
When I encounter a complete asshole in government, I pray he or she finds a better occupation with more money in which they cannot make laws that hurt other people.
I've seen numerous changes since changing my tune.
Yes, I do need to get myself pissed when I need to start new projects.
Yes, I have to build a website. This year I've been inspired by two Martins to be creative. Sadly, neither one of them was a guitar.
Fortunately, the universe has brought amazing people into my world willing to help.
Love ya,
S.
I'll come back and edit this in a few hours.
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