I am a pagan sorceress. Ask me anything.

Are you into rune magick or crystal healing?

What's your favourite pagan sauce?

Omg, a fellow sorcerer(ess)!! So rare to come across another one on here, very nice to meet you!

Did you at any point work with matron or patron deities, and what would you say your most successful spell or manifestation has been??

I dabbled a bit in demonology when I was just starting out. I worked with a few entities, eventually landed on Lilitu (Lilith), but she wasn't my matron per se, my relationship with her was more as an intimate friend and a mentor. I called on her for guidance, not rulings, and I had no call to strict loyalty to her. Looking into comparative mythology and my shadow, I realised that Lilitu represented that darker side that I had repressed, a soft, alluring, yet deadly feminine force. The femme fatale, the ***** of Babylon, Pandora.

For my most successful spell, it was a hex, but I know that some don't like dealing with those things, so I won't elaborate any further. Excluding that, it was a transformation ritual, at the time, a close friend of mine wasn't in the best place mentally (anxiety and depression) and, knowing what I do, she asked me if I could do anything to help. I spoke with her first, asked her if therapy or some other alternative was an option, which it wasn't. I taught her some of the basics of shadow work, as I believed it to be a major source of her problems, and I then conducted a ritual (that I had made up) with the intent of trying to promote conscious integration. She kept up the shadow work, and over the next few months I saw (and she reported) her problems, especially her anxiety, clear up considerably. She wasn't "fixed" in any sense, but it had made it manageable for her, and caused a major inflection point.

I'd make a distinction between my most successful spells and my most successful magick more generally. Spells are the ritualistic elements, the literal ritual I conducted, whereas magick is more about the directing of those forces more generally. Manipulation, relationships, the life you live, beyond their obvious, external (exoteric) shells, they cause hidden, internal (esoteric) changes, and are magickal in nature. I don't believe in some universal revenge principle like karma, but if you're manipulating to get what you want, the (in the easiest terms to use) "negative" energy you use when manipulating, you're surrounding yourself with it and so it's likely going to leak back to you. If you hurt people, hurt people hurt people, and you very well may end up being their target. The sorcery you are doing is unwise because it can threaten to disturb your balance. Also, all it takes is a gust of wind for your house of cards to come crashing down.

Went on a bit of a tangent, but hope you enjoyed it regardless

I did indeed, thank you for the detailed response 👍🏻

For sauces, I normally use vinaigrette if I'm going to use anything, but vinaigrette doesn't feel particularly pagan. So, I'll say English mustard. That feels a bit more pagan.

What about you? Do you have a patron/matron

and what was your most powerful spell?

How does one do magic and can I get rich from it. I can't work for another 35 years

Vinaigrette is a dressing, not a sauce. I am starting to doubt your claim.

No. Like many witches and sorcerers it seems, I had a religious upbringing (not strict) and came to deeply dislike the controlling and unpleasant nature of the Christian god. I noticed the idea of worshipping it, begging for forgiveness and so on made me physically and psychologically dependent on a higher power. And as my experience of being an expression of divinity grew I could no longer reconcile sidelining my own godhood to appease another. So since my final break with organised religion at 16 I haven't worshipped anything in the true sense of the word nor do I recognise any power, mundane or divine, greater than myself because I believe and have indeed experienced moments of complete unity with everything. I therefore understand and know everything to be a manifestation of the one divinity, everything is me and I am everything. And therefore in that context it makes little sense for me to work with matrons and patrons in the traditional sense (though I am aware that many witches and other magickal folk don't work with deities in the typical supplicant-god or guided-guide relationship, some see them as friends and companions, others even as their metaphysical spouses and lovers). I have however, fleetingly called upon historical figures in my workings in order to use some of their qualities and characteristics, essentially working with their archetypes. I haven't done this very often at all though, working with embodied and disembodied human and human-inspired intelligences, that is. I resonate much more with the natural world and most of my workings involve invoking and manipulating the energies and forces of the planets, stars, skies, oceans and forests to affect events in my personal reality.


In regards to a traditional working designed to produce an external, physical result: without a doubt the time I materialised one of my mum's lost necklaces. But what I consider to be my most powerful and transformative workings are all internal, with a lot of energy being focused in the last few years on severing the chord of personal identity and spending ever more time immersed in the divine sense of No Self.

How does one do magic and can I get rich from it. I can't work for another 35 years

Actually, it can be a dressing or a sauce.

We seem to be very alike in some regards then. My working with Lilitu, with time, came to be more about archetypes and certain forces beyond, not any entities or divinities, though, I have eschewed form almost entirely. While I used to recognise the classical planetary system, I have recently begun to question it, all the correspondences I use in fact, as I'm starting to think they are restrictions of those essences. Allegories in a way. You can describe love as butterflies in your stomach but it doesn't fully capture what love is, just as describing blue as cool and deep can't give a colourblind person a glimpse at what blue is really like. I also tend to see myself (as a distinct, separate entity) as not really existing. I see myself as part of a greater whole, an infinitely lesser part, but still a part. Though, I do agree that the most powerful sorcery is generally internal. Spells or rites that cause significant change will have a significant cost tagged along with that, doing some chant or praying to some crystal can't make you win the lottery, for example.