Is Your Magic Extractive?

Signs of Extractive Spirituality

• Approaching spirits, deities, planets, or plant beings only when you need something

• Casting spells solely to gain without offering thanks, tending, or relational presence

• Treating spiritual allies as utilities or energetic tools rather than beings with agency

• Summoning deities in times of crisis and forgetting them afterward

• Asking for support without asking what you might offer in return

• Neglecting to ask for consent from spirits or spaces before entering or engaging

• Assuming access to all spirits or entities without relationship or permission

• Using animal parts, herbs, or ancestral names without offerings, humility, or context (including having regard for tradition)

• Collapsing the Unseen into a service role for your will or outcomes

• Failing to acknowledge what spirits, ancestors, or the land might need or carry