Change Your Life With Spells
Powerful spells for lasting change: What are spells helpful for, and what types of spells can achieve that?
Practical, folk magic is often about making life smoother, more fluid, and less unnecessarily difficult. What feels stuck in your life? The solution might not be in pushing harder, but in weaving the right kind of spell.
If you’re desiring to learn how to cast spells, I’m an experienced consultant sorceress and 4x presenter at Salem Witch Fest. My online witchcraft spellcasting series, Crafting The Arcane, which discusses in-depth, practical magical workings, covers a wide range of protection spells to activist magic.
Shifting Mindset (As An Entire Spell Category)
Sometimes, thought patterns stem from morphic fields and ancestral hindering patterns, malefic thought forms tied to geography, or other forms of obstructive spirits. Incense rituals with Mugwort, Hyssop, Rosemary, or other cleansing herbs, incantations calling on protective spirits, and other practices can help dissolve mental knots and restore clarity. As thoughts can relate to hauntings, spirit influenced obsessions, and even possessions, spells that can change mindset is an extensive spell category.
Spells to Smooth or Accelerate Bureaucratic and Legal Processes
Magical workings can cut through red tape. Whether it’s securing visas, resolving disputes, or expediting slow-moving paperwork, spellwork using Mercury-aligned herbs like Vervain, Dill, and Slippery Elm can remove unseen obstacles. Ritual offerings to spirits of order and negotiation can also turn a “pending” into a “processed.”
Magical Workings for Avoiding Unnecessary Conflict
Not every hill is worth dying on. Certain charms and rituals can make you less noticeable to gossipers, aggressors, and those who drain your energy. Blending oils with Agrimony or Solomon’s Seal and anointing pulse points can deflect negativity without engaging in it. (We’re also exploring Invisibility Spells as a way to work with protective spirits in the spellcasting series, Crafting The Arcane).
Spells for Easing Travel and Movement Through the World
Whether it’s catching flights on time, avoiding roadblocks, or staying out of harm’s way, spellwork can influence the path ahead. Sigils drawn on luggage, charms made with Comfrey and Rowan, and offerings to road-opening spirits (not just the ones commonly talked about) ensure smoother journeys.
Negotiating with the Land Spirits to Harmonize the Home
Instead of cleansing over and over, some homes need deeper energetic repair. Working with liminal spirits of place, feeding the land beneath your home, and using lustral water made from local botanicals can assist in spirit negotiations and resolve recurring disruptions and uneasy atmospheres.
Balancing Workplace Dynamics
Rather than domination spells (which can create blowback, or at times unethical), subtle influence can shift team dynamics. Coffee-ground sigils, wearing colour-coded layers for subconscious messaging, and placing an enchanted object in a shared workspace are just a few possibilities that can smooth tensions without the witchcraft being noticeable.
Reducing the Weight of Unseen Obligations
More often than not, exhaustion isn’t just from overwork—it’s from old energetic debts, inherited expectations, and lingering agreements we didn’t realize we made. Magickal work for dreams, name-clearing / contract releasing rituals, and offerings to spirits who mediate fate can lessen these invisible burdens.
And there are many, many more practical spell applications.
Following the spirits,
Mimi XO
Spirit medium and occultist