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Reacting To "Bad" Witchcraft & Occult Advice For Beginners 

Ivy The Occultist
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For fun, I decided to post anonymously on Reddit to see what the WORST advice was that people have ever received in the beginning of their occult or witchcraft practice. Topics discussed: spellwork, problematic new age spirituality perspectives, elitism within the occult community, the dichotomy of masculine and feminine energy, fairyfolk (or the fae), ritual tools, tarot cards, and more!
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00:00 Intro
01:50 No. 1
03:15 No. 2
06:12 No. 3
07:31 No. 4
08:21 No. 5
09:42 No. 6
10:50 No. 7
11:37 No. 8
13:14 No. 9
13:44 No 10
14:23 No. 11
16:05 No. 12
18:06 No. 13
18:43 No. 14
22:21 No. 15
24:10 No. 16
25:38 Outro

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@artawhirler
@artawhirler Год назад
As I always say: "The first step to being good at something is being bad at it."
@thekarret2066
@thekarret2066 Год назад
I got that message from Adventure Time, where Jake was telling Finn "Sucking at something is the first step towards being kinda good at something." I wonder if the writers got it from wherever you got your version of the saying! :o
@WitchWednesdays
@WitchWednesdays Год назад
I was watching a beauty RU-vidr once who was saying that about makeup ingredients and said ‘yeah cat pee is natural, doesn’t mean I want it on my face!’ I think of that every time someone says they only use all natural stuff because it’s safe 😂
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I love that 😂😂😂 what a perfect response!
@michaelwinkler7841
@michaelwinkler7841 Год назад
Absolutely, "high vibration vs low vibration" is another iteration of the christian good god vs bad devil spiritual bypassing
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
YES! I am so sick of toxic positivity. Also, there is literally no objective way to measure the vibrations of emotions... How can we say that high vibes make us happy (therefore are good) and low vibes make us sad (therefore are bad?) It's ridiculous, really.
@witchNwand
@witchNwand 10 месяцев назад
It's not always possible to be in control of our vibes anyway. We all have good days and bad days, and if we have a day where, for example, we lose a loved one, it's only natural to be on a low vibe. Life finds its own balance, like Yin and Yang.
@itzablackcat
@itzablackcat 5 месяцев назад
I don't want to be around predators do you?
@michaelwinkler7841
@michaelwinkler7841 5 месяцев назад
@@itzablackcat have you noticed how many predators are among „high vibration“ cults and traditional belief systems?
@michaelwinkler7841
@michaelwinkler7841 5 месяцев назад
@@itzablackcat didn‘t you notice yet how in so many „high vibration“, „love and light“ and religious communities where light vs darkness is preached, there are so many predators? If not, just expose yourself and find out. It‘s not about good vs evil, it‘s about integrating your light and your shadow.
@DemonGoat-248
@DemonGoat-248 3 месяца назад
Do not let that crystal ball SEE the light when you're not around! - Every fire fighter
@Shadowman9348
@Shadowman9348 Год назад
The worst advice I ever followed was the three fold law. It never had any sway over me. It's one of the many reasons I became a black magician, I wanted the freedom to be unbound and do things on my own terms. This was a wholesome video, very liberating!🤘🍎🐍
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I agree... The 3 fold law is never something I personally believed in. And thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
@lisanygaard2720
@lisanygaard2720 Год назад
A childhood friend came back into my life in our early 20s. I was finally out of my parents’ home (dad was a pastor) and exploring my own spiritual path. My friend was a practicing witch and gave me some really bad advice. She was into strict ritual magic - sky clad and the words and motions had to be exact. She gave me some extremely advanced books, very inappropriate for a beginner. She came and went over the years, always showing up when I was starting to gain confidence. Her arrogance and condescending attitudes (“Oh, that’s so cute that you want to be a witch.”) really knocked me back. A few years ago she did some really immoral things and I saw her true face. She is a diagnosed narcissist. Breaking ties with her was the best thing I have ever done. I feel like a weight has lifted and I am finally free after decades.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
So glad you got that person out of your life. How horrible to have such a condescending person in your life!
@luluramos2981
@luluramos2981 10 месяцев назад
My sis is like that. She's always trying to claim that I'm low vibe or negative energies are around me since I don't speak to her, lol. Good on you for cutting this friend off.
@SilverCrowTarot
@SilverCrowTarot Год назад
A man I went on 1 date with actually said he couldn't see me anymore because I purchased my first tarot deck, I let others touch my deck, I didn't wrap it in a silk cloth, and I would shuffle for the fun of shuffling instead of only using the deck for specific readings at certain times of the month. That would have been one ridged, boxed in, archaic relationship! LOL! So glad he was wise enough to know we weren't a good match. 😉
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
That would have been a ridged relationship indeed! 😂
@Chill-mm4pn
@Chill-mm4pn Год назад
Good thing you side stepped that mess.😂
@ChaosDragon809
@ChaosDragon809 Месяц назад
I have ADHD so I tend to subconsciously do some such as shuffling my tarot deck when I have them out
@heathersmith8549
@heathersmith8549 Год назад
One of the most problematic things about saying “your ancestors have to be a witch for you to be one.” is this…. I’m a bit older than you. And personally my mother and grandmother were of a generation where saying they were a witch was a HUGE insult as well as dangerous information to put out there. Yes, they might have had certain practices that aligned with things we now do in the witchcraft movement. But they would never have thought of themselves using that terminology. I just have to call bullshit on most (not all but most) people who say that. And living where I do now, in southern Appalachia, even today most people who may practice forms of herbology, seasonal ‘magic’, work with healing energies, etc, are Greatly offended to be thought of as a witch. It is why, in this area, if you wish to learn about folk magic, don’t approach someone and ask about folk ‘magic’. Ask about folk ways or folk practices. It’s the same thing. But words do matter. “My cards know their daddy” 😂 that’s brilliant! I might need to adopt that phrase.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Yes, this!!! It was so dangerous for our ancestors to consider themselves witches. Some of them were practicing witchcraft without even realizing it!
@seabreeze4559
@seabreeze4559 6 месяцев назад
Meanwhile, in England if you DON'T call someone 'witchy' (not a witch, but witchy) they'll be offended. Like you're snidely implying they're not doing it right. Your ancestors do have to be a witch to have *ancestral* abilities, it's a bit of an asterisk. It doesn't stop you doing other stuff, it's like wiggling your ears, it's a bit niche. Some abilities are stronger in the blood and matrilineal. It doesn't mean others can't develop them but they can waste years getting to the starting point of other people and then technically be behind if they compare between, unwisely. A "blood witch" is someone born with powers, that's it. As in, "in the blood." Warning your kids they might have it, it's practical and descriptive of a situation. When I was growing up it was a way to explain I wasn't being haunted by demons and hadn't done anything bad, I was just seeing dead people in my sleep and they wanted my help. It makes kids less scared, with an OPTION to develop it, adults shouldn't be offended by it because it isn't a competition with others. It's competing with oneself. There's one strong note though, that if you practice a tradition you have no blood ancestry in (by marriage doesn't count) then they COULD theoretically curse you. I HAVE seen that, too. Like non-Viking blood trying Norse stuff, Americans trying Anglo-Saxon when they're not, Anglo-Saxons trying African stuff. Different traditions can be hostile to outsiders. So sticking to ancestral traditions is wise because it is remotely possible to curse yourself, depending on WHAT you're doing obviously.
@Yvonx_x
@Yvonx_x Год назад
When it comes to the Fae I live by this saying "Don't fuck with the Fae!"
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
💯😂
@jessecreegan9451
@jessecreegan9451 Год назад
When I started working with the fae I got asked " how do you do it without getting hurt " It took me a second and I thought African safari. We have all seen the documentaries when some person raises a lion and 10 years later there is this beautiful reunion with big kitty snuggles. Now no one is suggesting to go out in the wild find a pack of lions and go cuddle with them. Some cats will eat you alive, some will just be assholes and knock your plants off of the counter, and some just want to curl up under the blankets with you. Knowing which one is which is the key. If I was an exterestial teleported here from another planet how much different would my experience be if I landed in the middle of shark infested waters, the Sahara desert, south Chicago, deep in the amazon rain forest, or ivy's living room. There is a bit of a leap of faith situation that happens, and I have to be cautiously optimistic during the journey.
@LaLaLoopsyCutie
@LaLaLoopsyCutie 8 месяцев назад
high vibes in a new age sense to me feels like they’re saying you have to already be successful to deserve success. and that alone can get pretty dicey as a mindset
@Heirgloom
@Heirgloom Год назад
Early 2000’s - My cousin (and her fam) who was a few years older than me would come visit for a few weeks during the summer. One year she was just getting into goth fashion and had gotten into Wicca. I was immediately enamored by the dragon tarot deck she had, and the piles of magical books. Of course I had so many questions as a 12 year old. She proceeds to tell me that I couldn’t be a witch or Wiccan because I didn’t have the ATTITUDE. I was like “what?”, even then I kinda felt that was bs, but I was actually held back from perusing my path because of it. Instead, I’d spend hours loitering in Borders just admiring all the books in the “new age” spiritual section. I remember my cousin also told me I couldn’t buy a wand, I HAD to make it myself. But I’d fallen in love with the beautiful little wand at Borders, but of course never got it because of my cousin’s comments at the back of my mind. Lol funny thing, she fell out of it when she became a marine biologist, but started to dabble again….she now comes to me for advice 😂
@seabreeze4559
@seabreeze4559 6 месяцев назад
She probably read something online and thought it was gospel. I read something like that about wands. That your first of an item must be bound with personal energy.
@jannickestefansen4688
@jannickestefansen4688 Год назад
Yesterday I was thinking a lot about the divine feminine and divine masculine, I would really appreciate a video about that! Especially on how to know if I the energies are in balance and how to practically balance them of not 😊
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Yes, I would love to do a video like this!! Glad to see there's some interest! ☺️❤️
@balBROni
@balBROni Год назад
Any excuse to talk about Jungian philosophy I’m all for!
@altheacampbell7097
@altheacampbell7097 Год назад
Please read comments and answer them on beliefs good and bad it's very helpful
@sk.b.666
@sk.b.666 Год назад
This and it doesn’t focus on seduction, manipulation, and any other romantic terms or themes that people try to define divine feminine or masculine energies
@balBROni
@balBROni Год назад
More lofi hip hop beats with you talking (about anything) please. Literally gives me life. But in all seriousness thank you for your insight! This sort of occult “myth busters” content is needed for those who are misinformed in the age of technology
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Haha!!! Lo-fi is my favorite genre so I will gladly do that. 😂 Thanks friend! ❤️
@robinglover8554
@robinglover8554 Год назад
I couldn't agree more with your view points on this video. Firstly, I am a male witch and I have had several deities approach me since I started my craft journey last November. I am completely about balance and so female and male deities are wanting to work with me and I love it. Including Lucifer, Anpu, Persephone and Lucifer. So to say that you should only work with deities of the same sex is ridiculous; and good luck trying to tell them that. Secondly, I have studied to be a doctor and now studying to be a herbalist - both have a place in modern day therapy, so I love how you state that too. As new witch (sorry hate the term baby witch) I find it hilarious how people try to gatekeep and act sanctimonious about these things. Thanks again for you excellent videos.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I am so glad you resonate with this conversation! Yeah I agree... good luck telling deities who they can and can't work with. 😂 I also despise the term "baby witch" so I love that you call yourself a new witch! 🙏❤️
@OldManFerdiad
@OldManFerdiad Год назад
"That windowsill would be a great place for your crystal ball" sounds like an absolute read. 🤣
@artawhirler
@artawhirler Год назад
It was probably a cat who first suggested that idea.
@MagellanMG
@MagellanMG 9 месяцев назад
This is why I'm solitary! Gatekeeping, elitism, and victim shaming are so destructive.
@NoreaLamia
@NoreaLamia Год назад
The gender divide thing also irks me a lot, especially since some people really encourage neat gender or role divisions within personal pantheons. I'm AFAB but I find a lot of solace working with male entities, especially if they don't fit the mold of what is "masculine". The few female entities I work with regularly are the ones that people might label as "wrathful", and I also work with androgynous energies. Also, demons in my experience are actually somewhat chill as far as entities go (as long as you respect and listen to them), I actually feel more nervous about working with faery folk than I do with demons.
@REBECKASHEALTHNFITNESSHUB
@REBECKASHEALTHNFITNESSHUB 6 месяцев назад
Unfortunately everything in nature is either male or female that's it includes plants there is only two genders I'm afraid this non binary crap is false even been proven by science there is only male and female
@lisamr40
@lisamr40 Год назад
Love this kind of video. I have a few comments. I have been practicing some sort of witchcraft zsince I was about 15ish. I am now 53. I have never heard of the shadow work topic until I started looking up spells on line. Also, I have 4 kids. My 1st and 3rd have become interested in witchcraft and my other two have no desire and honestly, don't believe in it. I come from a Catholic Italian American family and I don't think anyone ever practiced "witchcraft" as we think of it in today's terms, however, I know there are quite a few "spells" my Italian grandmom used to do. I think it was more cultural vs. Religious. There is so much information available now that it's very important to do your research. Great video Ivy!!
@nancyolsen1167
@nancyolsen1167 Год назад
Thoroughly enjoyable. Please do a part 2, 3, etc. And quit worrying about offending 'some' people. The world is full of people who are offended as soon as they get out of bed in the morning so try not to sanitize your videos to appeal to everyone. Be you, speak your mind, share your experiences....those who appreciate you will continue to follow you.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
You are absolutely right - it's impossible not to offend people! There isn't a single video I have done that hasn't been offensive to someone. 😂 And thank you - I appreciate this comment more than you know!
@lisanygaard2720
@lisanygaard2720 Год назад
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind!” - Dr Seuss
@helenahelvellacrispa2764
@helenahelvellacrispa2764 Год назад
You are so wise, Ivy. I'd love to see more of your commentary on these gems of advice over tea. Thank you! 🩵
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you; that is so sweet! I certainly don't feel wise most days, but I'll take it. 😆❤️
@shadowfox9490
@shadowfox9490 Год назад
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. The unmitigated gall and boundless stupidity in these pieces of "advice" was hysterical & dangerous. The sass & comments was :chef's kiss:. 🤣
@LailokenScathach
@LailokenScathach Год назад
In one of my most recent covens (A Gardnerian) we were told not to handle anyone else's "tools" if you didn't have permission, but I think this was more about being respectful more than anything else. As for handling Tarot cards, often readers would ask the person receiving the reading to cut the deck and sometime separate into three piles. Often advice like this gets distorted and spread incorrectly or just made up - lol. Great video, it made me laugh especially the Hexing the Moon - I pictured women shaking their fist at the Moon and I starting laughing. "Damn you men on the Moon!" "Down with the Pastry-archy!!" (People from a recent live-stream on another channel might get that 2nd reference.) Thanks for the video!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Haha I'm glad you got a good laugh! And I completely agree... Things get distorted and spread incorrectly. Thank you!
@mamajusmagickalemporium2655
Yesss, part 2, please,I loved this!
@laurenhepp4681
@laurenhepp4681 Год назад
Another great video, I’d love to see a part 2 or even a part 3 in the near future.
@andromeda1515
@andromeda1515 Год назад
This is a great video idea, I really enjoyed it. I'd love to see another in the future😊
@anastatiaholden216
@anastatiaholden216 Год назад
Really enjoyed this. Hilarious but insightful too. Thank you! ❤
@EsperanzaPachecoMerino-ir6yb
I really enjoy your videos, very informative for someone that is just starting , doing a lot of reading so much information.
@GravesRWFiA
@GravesRWFiA 19 дней назад
pretty much any witchcraft advice on tik tok can be disregarded. the big one i loath is 'must be a born withc/only a witch can make a witch. I was self initiated then later joined a group and soon rose up through the ranks to be one of the leaders just because of common snese and clarity of thought.
@carynhunt5427
@carynhunt5427 Год назад
So interesting, I think correcting misconceptions is incredibly important. Please do another one. Many thanks
@teampalaceofdivine
@teampalaceofdivine 4 дня назад
"Spiritual Elitism" I've heard this one so many times! I'm glad I found this video.
@Veiledwitch
@Veiledwitch 11 месяцев назад
I love this chatty format!! We agree on so many things! I definitely would watch more videos about this topic.
@afry6400
@afry6400 Год назад
Thank you so very much for covering these. It really is ridiculous some of these rumors people take so freakin' seriously. Had to add an edit. The one thing I tripped up on is the toxic masculinity thing. The masculine energy does have good energies and the feminine can have negative energies as well. Each have balances within themselves as well. Which and how much a person works with is a very personal thing. I personally have trouble working with the masculine but that has more to do with who I am personally, not that I think it's what everyone should do. I also don't think a person has to be in an absolutely and perfectly equal balance in those energies and that each individual needs to decide for themselves how to balance it out for themselves. Side note to this one, I'm not even lesbian. I just don't resonate so much with masculine energy when I do my work.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Right?? 😂 At least we get a laugh!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
On feminity and masculinity, totally agree with everything you said! I don't necessarily think we all need to be balanced in the sense of 50/50 masculine and feminine energy. More that, it's important to have a healthy balance of these energies so that one is not operating in an unhealthy excessive state. It is totally possible for someone to be 70/30 and still be in balance. I should have probably clarified that a bit better 😆
@MushroomFrog444
@MushroomFrog444 Год назад
I absolutely adore your content! So happy to have found your channel several months ago!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
@artawhirler
@artawhirler Год назад
This was a great video, Ivy! if you ever want to do another one like this, I'll watch it!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you lovely!! 🖤
@shadowfox9490
@shadowfox9490 Год назад
I really enjoy this casual carefree chit chat style format. I look forward to part 2-5 like many others here. haha
@EmilysTarotandMagick
@EmilysTarotandMagick Год назад
Omgsh sooooo many topics came up! Wow I had things pingponging around my head as I listened. I think the nuance thing is a big aspect of it, because everything is so nuanced and two seemingly opposed statements and ideas may both be true simultaneously. One of the best things I learnt to do for myself in my practice in my twenties was to understand that I am always changing and growing and I always said to myself 'I reserve the right to change my mind' 💜fab video as always Ivy. Thank you for sharing and what an amazing resource for learning from that thread in reddit! 🙏Blessings lovely Xx
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you so much, lovely! I agree, some of these are way more nuanced and deserve a longer conversation. It's always good to be able to hold opposing thoughts in your mind! ❤️
@Bjorn_Algiz
@Bjorn_Algiz Год назад
Very interesting and informative 👍
@JazmineTheSage
@JazmineTheSage Год назад
I loved this, it would be awesome if you continued doing these! I really enjoy hearing your opinions on different aspects of the occult 👌👌👌
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I'll see how upset it makes people and then continue on from there! 😂😂
@JazmineTheSage
@JazmineTheSage Год назад
@@IvyTheOccultist lmfaooo hey even Jesus upset ppl every now and then 🤣
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
@@JazmineTheSage 😂😂😂 Call me Jesus!
@nairbvel
@nairbvel 6 месяцев назад
The whole thing about not buying one's own tarot deck smacks of someone trying to make sure they had the best collection on the block... and that whole thing about "high vibe" vs. "low vibe" sounds less like gatekeeping than it sounds like, "My vibe is higher! I have the high ground!"
@Persophone73
@Persophone73 Год назад
I'm from the UK and was gifted my first deck 40 years ago...I was told the you shouldn't buy your own deck. This idea has been kicking around for a long time.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I am so glad to actually hear this from someone! You are the first person to tell me that this is a real thing. I thought for the longest time that someone in the new age crowd just randomly made this up. Thank you for the clarification! 🙏 I still think it's okay to buy our own decks, but I also acknowledge that's a personal opinion and I completely respect opposing points of view. ❤️
@DeniseSandersDeepWatersHawaii
@DeniseSandersDeepWatersHawaii 8 месяцев назад
I do not share the same beliefs as you, but they are intertwined. So happy to have found you, the way you describe things and give your opinions with grace is so awesome. Thank you Ivy ! 💗💗💗
@AerdernixLittleDragonMacDane
@AerdernixLittleDragonMacDane 8 дней назад
I don't have many bad ones from my ex mentor, but I have one thatbis not only bad but out right cruel and icky. 'If you show empathy you lack conviction'
@alineh5947
@alineh5947 Год назад
I'm all in for the video about healing the devine masculine and divine feminin energies 🙌
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
❤️❤️❤️
@katherinegallagher9081
@katherinegallagher9081 Год назад
This video is enjoyable, entertaining, and informative. 1 vote for a part 2 👍❤️
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you! ❤️❤️
@vickeydykstra2355
@vickeydykstra2355 Год назад
Thank you Ivy, I enjoy your videos. You have given us so much to think and laugh about. You are a joy!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this video!
@hartofthemoon
@hartofthemoon Год назад
I love your videos so much 💜 I often find myself having similer experiences to you. I was actually quite suprised that the deity I ended up working with was a masculine deity and I hadn't intended to do deity work at all! I connected with him in such a big way. Balance/dualism of energy is such a huge part of my practice and I honestly feel that he brought to me some apects that were missing from my life or that I needed to work on more. Everyday is a school day in spiritual practice.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I love that you said "every day is a school day" because that is so true! Love that we are having similar experiences!! 🖤🖤
@stephaniesenrud2192
@stephaniesenrud2192 Год назад
Yes! A video about divine feminine/masculine would be great one to watch.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you!! So glad to see multiple people interested in this! 🙌❤️❤️
@artawhirler
@artawhirler Год назад
So how would we even know if the moon has been hexed or not?? It's a ROCK, people.
@spaceanarchist1107
@spaceanarchist1107 2 месяца назад
It's a good thing it didn't actually work, because if it had it would have messed up the tides. I don't think these teenage witches would be too happy to discover they'd unintentionally caused a tsunami
@CoralTheWitch2023
@CoralTheWitch2023 Год назад
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
😂❤️❤️❤️
@AriellaRaven
@AriellaRaven Год назад
LOVE this. Also I had to leave ALL my groups on face book because it wasn't helping me. instead too much drama. Glad to watch your videos, very informative.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Seriously!!! I don't know why there's always so much drama, but it's almost every Facebook group I've been in. You're not alone there! ❤️
@shadowfox9490
@shadowfox9490 Год назад
When I was a kid, I was told that I *should* have my *first* deck passed down to me, but that it wasn't *required.* It was something about the generational energies accumulating, making the deck more powerful and more strongly bound to the bloodline user. But again, they stressed it wasn't required. This was back in the 90s. While I did get a deck passed down to me (Trad RW), the same day I also go my own deck, Dragon Tarot, that had called to me. Guess which one I used? Guess which one I STILL USE? I love that deck dearly, and it's always had my back. ALWAYS. Even when I didn't want to hear it. It was patient with me as I grew to learn how to read it, and even now, it'll slap me in the face with a very specific card when someone toxic is in my circle or inbound. And I love them for it. I was also taught back then not to touch other people's stuff in general, because it's rude, but also never touch someone's arcane items, because there might be some sort of energtic hygeine problem. Looking back, sounds like THEIR hygenie maintaince problem. Much like the commenter, my items know who their Daddy/Master/Practioner is because we're bound. I don't fear someone touching my things apart from them being disrespectful to them or potentially breaking them. Otherwise, nothing like a good cleanse to detach any strangling unwanted energy. Still, one should ask permission first. It's only polite. 💜
@LavenderHazelwood
@LavenderHazelwood Год назад
Great idea, Ivy! I think a conversation around the Divine Masculine and Feminine is a wonderful idea. I do think that both are existing uprooted in Western Culture these days which is what can make both of them grotesquely 'toxic'. I've spent a lot of time focused on my own masculine negating my more feminine qualities out of shame and only in the last few years have I been embracing my more feminine aspects. It's been an interesting road. I'd love to see what you have to say about your own experiences. xo, Aurora
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I love that you're embracing the more feminine aspects of yourself! A lot of women are shamed away from their femininity and forced into a masculine role. These conversations are so important!
@stormie9077
@stormie9077 Год назад
"You have to cast a circle everytime you do a spell/magick" I've been practicing for 7 years so it was right before the modern "witch boom" happened. I was learning very traditional and wiccan magick for my first few years, which I love, but information on the craft was harder to come by at the time so it was either traditional or some crappy spell someone pulled out of their butt to put on the internet just bc it was Halloween or something. (This is just my personal experience also while growing up in the bible belt) So the very few books I had I took to heart. I cast a circle quite literally everytime I did any sort of magick and it DRAINED ME. I always took the circle down of course but I was casting them for my tarot readings, for little spells and everyday simpler magick that honestly doesn't call for casting a circle. Just about everything I did involving magick, I felt like I had to cast one to protect me and my working. Being a really sensitive empath who didn't know the first thing about how to use those abilities it DRAINED me even more. However I did learn to cast wards for my home, charm jewelry for protection and put shields up because of it! Now I save circles for what I feel it's meant for which is ceremonial magick and/or spells outside of my home. Some things in witchcraft you learn the hard way but in the end you do learn a lot from it as well and having a personal connection to what you learned can be enlightening.
@seekingvision
@seekingvision Год назад
OMG I am so shocked by these crazy statements 😱🤯 Other than books.... I only look at pagan, occult, Witchcraft stuff on RU-vid. I don’t use other social media stuff so I think I’ve been sheltered from mad advice. Could also be due to my age (57), I was new to the craft decades ago Great video topic Ivy, absolutely opened my eyes 👀
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Aside from books, I really love RU-vid for occult information! The other platforms...not so much. You aren't missing too much at least 😂 And thank you!!
@TheJeSsMyStaH
@TheJeSsMyStaH Год назад
I feel incomplete! I need more!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
😂😂
@MonicaBodirskyShadowland
@MonicaBodirskyShadowland 4 месяца назад
Great video! I was told the same about tarot decks that you needed to be gifted a deck. I heard this in the 70's. Mercifully it has been so debunked we don't hear it much anymore!
@hb6940
@hb6940 Год назад
Great video.
@glenharlan5507
@glenharlan5507 Год назад
Your thumbnail makes you look like a teenager today! Love your content always. You are talented at making the magical accessable.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Haha!! I have been told my whole adult life that I look like I'm 12. 😂 And thank you for your kindness! ❤️
@feralfoods
@feralfoods Год назад
i never did this, but "if you stare intensely into someone's eyes, you can read their mind or curse them" -to me that's just plain rude, and may even get you into a fight! i saw the person try this in a restaurant, staring at some stranger across the room. i told them to stop, but it was too late, they complained to a waitress and she asked us if there was a problem. omg i was so embarrased!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
That is so embarrassing!!! Yeah that's a quick method to having the cops called on you 😂
@artawhirler
@artawhirler Год назад
We all have both masculine and feminine energy. (That's what the yin-yang symbol is all about.)
@jessecreegan9451
@jessecreegan9451 Год назад
There is ALOT to unpack from this video, but since I work with the fae I'm going to hit this one. Accepting gifts from the fae. When I started accepting gifts, I had to just jump into the deep end and trust my intuition. Understand that not all fae are the same, just like not all humans are the same. Most fae that are malevolent or evil are simply tricksters and even then some are doing it to be hurtful and some just think it's funny when you fall down a flight of stairs. Now let's say that I accepted food or a gift from Ivy here, does that mean that she owns me or is acting in a malevolent manner.....no. Now will the first fae you encounter be the worst of them....maybe. It's sort of like being on Twitter or any other social media for that matter. Until you selectively curate your list encounters can be bad. Not all gifts from the fae have ill intended meaning. From my experience, sometimes this is just how they communicate to you.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Fascinating! Thank you so much for this clarification. I clearly know nothing of the fae as this is not a path I have personally been called to. But I love hearing other perspectives and this all sounds like great advice. 🙏
@nitrofairywing1541
@nitrofairywing1541 Год назад
I learned that the fae are very vast in many different kinds of them, some want to help you, some don't, some like messing with you maybe by stealing your keys, or misplacing a wig, some like to do pranks that many people would see as harmful, hurtful, some don't wanna be seen or acknowledged and want to rain hidden. They also have different morals and showing gratitude and what certain things mean to us mean something different to them. If I had an encounter with someone of the fae I don't think I would even begin to know what it would be like, it could be positive, it could be negative, I may be scared and curious at the same time cause I'm usually like that anyway, tbh maybe I did see someone of the fae and just never knew 😂
@WhyseWytch
@WhyseWytch 8 месяцев назад
I had to burst out laughing at the idea of hexing the moon.
@Feenwerk
@Feenwerk Год назад
As I started my path in the 90s in germany there also was the suggetion that you need to be gifted a tarot deck. I might remember that this came from witches, that wanted to claim an original family tradition, so you were gifted your tarot deck from your witch mom/aunt and so on. I decided to gift it to myself... and it still works today ^^
@mmb196
@mmb196 Год назад
Ooooo the tarot deck one! I think it would be fair to say the deck might be luckier/ carry more high vibrations because of the nature in which is was acquired, but I don’t think it prevents the deck from working completely. I myself have never been gifted any of my decks and some days tarot leaves me speechless lol
@DemonGoat-248
@DemonGoat-248 3 месяца назад
Personally, with the dont touch my tools thing, i just dont like people touching my stuff. It's an Expecally important stuff.
@_quiara_
@_quiara_ Год назад
I love seeing the joy my gay male friend and his husband get from working with Freyja as their household goddess.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Yes!!!! That makes me so happy!!
@GlendaGoodWitch
@GlendaGoodWitch 10 месяцев назад
Wow! I love this content and glad that I don't read stuff on Reddit because that would be too frustrating! 🤣
@Eduardo-xy8jj
@Eduardo-xy8jj Год назад
Thank you so much dear ❤ I would love this video for the cure and balance of divine
@lukasmorrow8255
@lukasmorrow8255 Год назад
As an agender person myself, I'd like to hear your video on divine masculine and feminine! And also to add in my own, perhaps opposing, viewpoint, that energy is neither and that I find it doesn't separate into passive v. active or similar, but that it flows both ways like the ocean tides.
@LiveFromTheAbyss
@LiveFromTheAbyss Год назад
Hi vibe/low vibe sounds like the toxic positivity that just rubs me the wrong way.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
💯
@harleyraebeauty9498
@harleyraebeauty9498 Год назад
I would enjoy a part 2 or even a series. As a new witch I would like to be able to point out the BS.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I love the idea of this being a series! I'll see how many people I upset with this video first, and then figure out what to do from there. 😂 Thank you for your input! ❤️
@LearningToLiveWithM.S.
@LearningToLiveWithM.S. Год назад
Yes please do more.
@ashleyflamion9421
@ashleyflamion9421 Год назад
I think the "doubt energy" advice was well intended but poorly phrased. As an example, in my early 20s I had a roommate who had a macaw parrot. She had offered to let me hold him, but she also cautioned me that "parrots can feel your heartbeat through your feet and if they sense that you're uneasy, they'll attack". Naturally, I declined to hold her bird and interacted with him as little as possible from that point on. You know the most effective way to make me nervous? To tell me not to be nervous. I immediately think "wait, I wasn't nervous before, is there a reason to be nervous actually?" and so the spiral starts. I think that's what's going on there. The advice is trying to say "trust yourself", but the effect is to accidentally create doubt by emphasizing it.
@elizae.esteve7973
@elizae.esteve7973 Год назад
Very funny. Sensible and well informed.
@rubysdivinearts3720
@rubysdivinearts3720 6 месяцев назад
The whole race thing has me in a deep sadness. Being Latina trying to find my own way is hard because sometimes I feel out casted from the Norse mythology because I'm Spanish but wanting to learn the craft in my Heritage as well, my "people" shun me if you don't act like the "typical" Spanish person they belive you should be, this got my stuck and not wanting to learn anything, it hurts
@carlojerundroque9474
@carlojerundroque9474 Год назад
So embarrassing that I believe in some of these, it's ridiculous to think now. But somehow the universe kinda adjusted to me- when I threw the tarot deck I bought myself, a long distance friend gifted me a tarot deck for my birthday 😂
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
What a great friend!! And we've all been there, no worries 😆
@raquelborsos8315
@raquelborsos8315 6 месяцев назад
I love your videos 😊 The only part I disagree with is the shadow work part, just my opinion though, so take it with a grain of salt. I had 5 years of dealing with a traumatic situation and it was very beneficial to do shadow work to get not only my life back on track, but be able to do magick without fear. So I think the shadow work part really depends. But I get where you were going with it in terms of gatekeeping.
@user-yj7dh1wf6q
@user-yj7dh1wf6q Год назад
The tarot deck thing is a thing I think that circulated around in the 70's. My dad read some tarot in college and he gifted me my first tarot deck and he mentioned that rule (and said it was bogus)
@tracylloyd3163
@tracylloyd3163 Год назад
Yes I did enjoy your post I'm new to your channel and the craft and a male witch
@dylanmagoiofthethalasso4032
I'm mid key surprised when someone says that they never heard if the "Never buy your first deck" because so many Non- readers and Witches know this. One day I was talking to my first ever therapist, she was a New Age person, and I said "I'm tired of living in this hell" and she of course said the New Age thing about positive energy, negative energy etc. I IMMEDIATELY wanted to say "Oh ok, so fighting at least 6 times a day doesn't seem hellish to you?? Being called at least 10 times during the day alone to help and not being able to truly enjoy myself, that doesn't seem hellish to you?" "Born in the craft" is TOTALLY BS!!!!! Plus the people that have that view AND having it be the bloodline of the Salem trials are ABSOLUTE bonkers because most if not most of those people were not even witches!!!! OH GODS! Hex the Moon because of cis men is technically sexist/misandrist. I think it was 2019/2020. It took me a second to understand the "If it's natural, it's safe", that's some Gwyneth Paltrow thinking right there. Some man made things I don't like to use for instance man made crystals/ heat treated Amethyst and other things it just depends. I LOVE that Daddy comment 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Sometimes (...now this might be the Aries in me) I want to fight a ghost or spirit come at me BRO!!!! I'll whop your spectral A*S 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 NO to the no medications. LOL 😂🤣😂🤣 That Crystal Ball comment. That Craigslist guy sounds..kin** 😂🤣😂🤣 Shadow work is FANTASTIC but 1) it's not a witchcraft practice 2) it's not necessary 3) You think Witches in the olden times did shadow work to become a witch???? OH MY GOD that laugh and reaction 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Ok WELL there's more misandry...in a humorous in a surpring way and in an angry way as well. Oh PLEASE do a healing the divine masc/ fem video. WOO 14 other parts!!!! LOL 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Hahaha yes to everything you said!! 😂🙌👏
@kirstencorby8465
@kirstencorby8465 Год назад
I think that "lesbian" comment is some distorted understanding of Dianic Wicca. They worship only the Goddess and only allow women. The founders of that tradition were angry lesbian separatists at first. Not that you MUST separate yourself from men, but you can choose to.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Oh I didn't even think of that. I think you might be right!
@katrinahohbein1486
@katrinahohbein1486 Год назад
I remember that tiktok craze "hex the moon" and also "hex the fae" my response to both was just y'all dumb
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
😂😂😂
@cinnamoon8593
@cinnamoon8593 Год назад
I started my practice barely a few months ago, and I know this girl who’s interested and me and my other witch friend have been totally hyping her up, but she keeps saying things that just don’t happen. Like, she said that she made moon water and the next morning she put her hand in it and it essentially swallowed her hand and “absorbed her aura” and turned purple (she says it’s purple but I don’t think she knows how to see auras yet, I definitely don’t) and then to “prove” it she handed us one of those little water/jiggly slime things. I want to help her start the journey but idk how to confront her because I don’t want to discourage her.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Oh boy... I wish I had some good advice for you but I have also not learned how to address situations like this properly. It's so frustrating to me when people exaggerate their experiences. And I don't want to say that her reality isn't a possibility, because maybe what she's saying is true (although I highly doubt it.) I think this need to exaggerate comes from a childhood wound of not being seen or heard, not feeling "special" enough, and not being able to function well in the real world. Some people are drawn to Witchcraft because they want to feel special - like they have superpowers or something. And that is almost always because of some childhood wound where they didn't feel important enough. So that's really tough! Some people are also not mentally healthy enough to step into the Witchcraft world and NOT let it consume them. If someone already lives in a fantasy world inside their head, practicing magick may not be beneficial for them at all... It may encourage their delusions.
@mmb196
@mmb196 Год назад
Where are people learning these “facts” from 🥴 Along with my own research I’m so grateful I continue to learn from the creators that I do, including you Ivy!
@edgarmartindelcampo
@edgarmartindelcampo 3 месяца назад
Yeah, I remember a few militant feminist Dianic Wiccans who ground my gears when I was new to the practice and looking for community in CA back in the 90s. ...
@AerdernixLittleDragonMacDane
@AerdernixLittleDragonMacDane 8 дней назад
Also with the tools part- you can touch my cards and other divinational tools my wand and alchemical tools, however the tools in my druidic and ūaitis work are a no touching for others, they are devotional tool and there is the idea of miasma which I have to bear in mind when working with rituals and prayer work. So don't touch my sickle knife (sica), don't touch my scepter annserpent rod and do not touch my staff (if I allow it and concent then it is a different story, cleansing is a thing)
@michaelmallal9101
@michaelmallal9101 Год назад
I'm high vibe but my wife is low vibe. I'm successful too. My great-grandparents were from Orkney, Scotland, a hotbed of wytch-craft.
@corbanekarel3692
@corbanekarel3692 3 месяца назад
The first time I heard that your first tarot deck must be gifted was on Charmed, if my memory is correct.
@the.carp.show.
@the.carp.show. Год назад
My momma used to say the best way to get your tarot decks is by getting 'em gifted. She was into her craft most around 24-25ish years ago (I'm 23). She's also Wiccan. So maybe it was a trend around 25ish years ago???
@moonsinger8408
@moonsinger8408 Год назад
I'm up for part 2, 3, 4 . . . .
@miramari732
@miramari732 Год назад
1. Touching my Tarot (and other stuff). Well, I have one deck which will work with anybody who will take them and other that will be butthurt for two weeks straight if anyone but me will touch them. I'll say it depends, so asking before touching someone's stuff is generally good idea :) 2.Regarding "feminine" and "masculine" magic. Difference between cultures in regards of what gender represents which aspect is so great! Western idea of masculinity and feminity is quite foreign to me, as my associacions are different (like regarding "femine" energy as quite vicious which seems to be "masculine" trait in the west). Also in my tradition there are three aspects, not two. Feminine, Masculine and Nonbinary in a sense of being neither of the two (not mixed, rather existing as it's own thing) 3. As of being born as witch - I define it as someone who was born with unlocked at least one skill at level that causes problems if one won't learn to control it at very early stage of life. So it's not positive thing, it's lack of choice. That how it's worked for me. I've got no choice - I had to learn controling my energy, using clairvoyance and clairaudience in concious way when I was about 5-6yo. Other "born" to abilities also consider it a effin' curse. And yeah, that things runs in families unfortunately :( > Other "genius" advice I've heard: - you have to be initiated in a coven to be witch/practitioner (if it's not closed practice - why?) - you have to be Wiccan to be witch (since when?) - you can't ask questions because your doubt will make it won't work (isn't witchcraft about exploring and understanding?) - only certain gender or sex can engage in witchcraft (I'm neither so what now?) - every entity out there is friendly (tell it to wraith, I'll wait in safe distance...)
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
OMG those are hilarious! So many things I want to say in return but I'm running out of time today. But I will say... I think femininity gets misconstrued in the West. What people describe to me as the "dark feminine" is really a more feminine person stepping into their masculine. I hope I can sit down and make a video about this soon to discuss all the nuances!
@bloodsweatandsteel.2749
@bloodsweatandsteel.2749 Год назад
Thank you for going to bat for men in Witchcraft. Im a cis male witch myself. The ideah that I can't work with goddess energy, as an occultist blacksmith and devote of Brigid the smith, i find this to be utterly Absurd!
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
I will absolutely support men in witchcraft and I appreciate you for being an ally too!! 🙏
@celinahuezo5518
@celinahuezo5518 5 месяцев назад
i am commenting on the high vibe and low: i feel from experience you can manifest within your limits. i am taking my self as an example. i have autism and adhd. i been practicing and studying for 16 years and i still struggle in general with the soposedly simplisist things. i struggle with processing information and applying it to my life. my only changes in life came from just getting older. we all develop at different rates and it sucks to read of such great benefits from things like reiki and in witchcraft transformation because i experience none. i do feel at peace and burts of magic but it is a very very very slow process(for me). we need a book of magic for neuro divirgent lol.
@camylleon
@camylleon Год назад
Ok, I haven't read all the comments (most I think, but not all!). I KNOW ABOUT THE TAROT THING! :D A long, long time ago (like even before me, and I'm in my 50s), tarot cards weren't publicly available. If a store had them, they were under the counter. So you had to get someone to gift them for you, get them for you, bring you to get them, tell you where you could find them, etc. Somehow that morphed over the years into you need to have someone give them to you. Needless to say, its not true anymore but somehow the rumor that became a myth that became a law is still around. *shrug*
@wildershoney2439
@wildershoney2439 Месяц назад
Its become like church except they dont whisper on Sunday and Wednesday. ☹️
@coldhaven1233
@coldhaven1233 Год назад
I'll be honest, as a male practitioner back in the mid-nineties, I felt I wouldn't be accepted by female deities. This has never been the case, and in fact has allowed me to be a better husband by coming to understand what women actually go through. I have always felt closer to the divine feminine. And I think intent has a lot to do with it. I wouldn't suggest working with the divine feminine and have ulterior motives. However, if you come to them with a sense of wonder and seeking knowledge, they won't turn you away. Not even Lilith, who I believe has every reason to dispense with men entirely.
@REBECKASHEALTHNFITNESSHUB
@REBECKASHEALTHNFITNESSHUB 6 месяцев назад
I never let anyone touch my cards or anything that is my practice i do not want there negative vibes in my decks etc
@ThatWitchesRealm
@ThatWitchesRealm Год назад
Great video🖤💫🤍
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Thank you, lovely! ❤️❤️
@1000wastedwords
@1000wastedwords Год назад
Love your channel, but Taoism was probably the OG with balancing opposing energies, including the masculine and feminine. Carl Jung is also where the idea of shadow work came from. It’s a psychological concept, but as we all know, Jung was hecka woo-woo. Love me some Jung and opposing energies. 🤗
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
Yes!! I am not super familiar with Taoism, but I do know that Carl Jung got his ideas from somewhere 😆 I mention Carl Jung in my shadow work video, but I was on a rant in this one and I didn't feel like going into the whole thing about where shadow work comes from haha. But I totally agree with everything you said! ❤️
@1000wastedwords
@1000wastedwords Год назад
@@IvyTheOccultist I love both Taoism and Jung. Taoism has this great way to view duality without so much emphasis on gender. It can be very freeing. If you get a chance to dive into it you’d probably enjoy it. Love the channel by the way.
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
@@1000wastedwords thank you!! I have Tao Te Ching sitting on top of my bookshelf right now and it's another rabbit hole I've been dying to go down. Thank you for the cosmic nudge! 🙏
@AbitheWitch
@AbitheWitch Год назад
These are all iconic 😂
@IvyTheOccultist
@IvyTheOccultist Год назад
😂😂😂
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