Q+A from the curses and entities chapter of Magick As F*ck.

Because it’s relaunching in May 2026, and there’s some gold that’s wrong to hoard. Also, this is just 9 questions from that chapter’s Q+A.

Not an entity or demon - just me if I’m forced to be awake before 11am.

Q1: What's the difference between a curse and a casting?

Answer: A curse is a very methodical, structured, typically ritual-based casting designed to cause harm. When a ritual or formal process is not involved, it could simply be an unconscious witch who's angry at you and very potent about what they're feeling.

E.G., “I am obsessing over how much I don't like that person, I hope awful things happen to them," with genuine, deep emotional charge.

Technically it may operate similarly to a curse because they're sending a package of energy structured to harm you, aka meet your deepest fear and amplify it. But a curse has more deliberate structure and intent behind it and the momentum experienced on the other side of one is shockingly fast.

Q2: Is drinking alcohol giving entities permission to enter?

Answer: If you drink alcohol in an unconscious state where your intention is “I want to numb myself," the universe responds with “Ok, I'm going to help you numb yourself."

Sometimes that involves entities because some entities want to help numb you by feeding off you in a way that distracts from feelings you don't want to feel.

Sometimes the spell you cast without boundaries gets cast for you. This is why conscious intention matters even with substances. Again - the most powerful magician within you is your subconscious.

Q3: What's the line between protection and paranoia in this work?

Answer: If the paranoia is rooted in fear, the protection will likely have a kink in it, unless it’s a pretty special thing cast with deity work done by an ordained spirit worker (I’m talking rare stuff like Voodoo, Hoodoo work).

Otherwise, if rooted in empowerment, this is all about developing your own style, like learning martial arts. The more you evolve, the more your magic increases. I may have been overprotective when I was new because I was learning how it all worked.

Later I became more confident because I had experiences where I could shoo spirits away easily. Find your balance through experience - start careful, build confidence through success.

Q4: Why do some magicK workers AND HEALER keep attracting people with entities and difficult spiritual situations?

Answer: This could be several things: You might be getting initiated into deeper work - check if your guides are telling you what to do. You might have a subconscious negative belief / aka a hex saying, “If I'm going to be in this space, I have to deal with this shit." That belief itself opens the door to exactly what you fear. Or you might need better energetic hygiene and boundaries.

I told one student: “You don't have to do this work. It might come in front of you and you might get a clear knowing 'OK, this one's for you, you're going to learn as you do it, this is your initiation.' But you might also get 'pass this to someone else.' Learn your intuitive feelings so you can feel safer to trust that guidance."

Q5: Can you use A PERSON’S physical materials like hair for BENEFICIAL magic, not just harmful magic?

Answer: Yes. I have used my own finger nails and sexual fluid in a few rituals around my own healing, or for seeding specific things.

Again - tie the ingredient to an energy to make it suitable. And if you charge your own sexual fluids during sex (solo or otherwise), that can be utilized as well to build creative energy intentionally.

Q6: What's the practical difference between melting down a candle versus letting it burn normally?

Answer: I have seen artificially melting down finished candles that contain harmful energy as a clean-up or recycling process - using one of those melting devices you see in, “Live Laugh Love” style homes.

As one example, if someone leaves a nasty curse candle in your car, you don't want to light and complete their magic. You want to change the energy in that candle or even destroy the physical candle.

You're taking something solid that was cast with harmful intent, using flame to break it down into liquid form while saying “I'm breaking you down into nothing, returning you to your original form of wax." Then you bury the liquid wax for Earth to transform into fertilizer, or pour it into a vessel which collects all the recycled melted wax and charge it with new energy as a larger ‘alchemy’ project.

Q7: What do I do when my partner keeps blowing out my candles because they're afraid of fire?

Answer: First, check energetically - did you invest too much personal desire into that magick that you're being protected from manifesting?

Sometimes when candles get blown out, there's subconscious pollution in the work and the outer fractal of reality is reacting.

If it's just fire fear, ask directly: “I know you worry about candles burning in the house. If I put it in a bowl of water, where can you allow it to burn out?" You could also get a glass case with ventilation holes and put the candle and water bowl inside. Or work with shorter candles while you're in the house.

Q8: How do I know if chronic pain I feel during readings is mine or theirs?

Answer: Ask out loud: “Is this mine?" Big breath in, big breath out, empty your mind.

You'll get yes, no, or ambiguous.

If ambiguous, ask specifically: “Is it a resonance in me reacting to their emotion?”, “Is [this] part of it mine?”, “Is [that] part theirs?" Break it down to binary micro-questions.

This is normal resonance that happens to every working psychic. There's always a match between you and clients that brings you together - you're just usually further along in transforming that frequency. When you work with a client or partner to transform something, you actually transform something in yourself too.

Q9: Why are whippets (and ketamine) so spiritually dangerous?

Answer: I’ve not used them personally and never will. A good friend died from using them, and one of the messiest cases of possession I saw used them to make art, but was very much inhabited and influenced by a spirit form.

When combined with recreational ketamine, especially in people who are natural channels, it has been my observation - not a hard fact - that it cracks the crown chakra open far beyond the person’s natural energetic capacity. When they return to ‘sober’, that capacity doesn’t seem to rubber band back.

Think of it like having a super serum that lets you lift twice your weight, but doesn’t adapt the muscles for it. If you went in the gym post-serum wearing off and confidently tried to lift that weight, you might injure yourself.

I saw a guy who became symbiotic with a being from "another dimension" through this combination.

One of my teachers extracted it, but he kept calling it right back because he attributed his artistic abilities to this entity. I also extracted it and saw it come right back. His identity became dependent on it.

Eventually he had a psychotic break claiming to be "the alpha and omega." Simply - anything that is seen as protective to the person will be hard to give up. Exorcisms should not be forced on someone unless it’s a medical emergency.

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