Why you should never cast a spell you found on the internet

Search for a love spell and you will find thousands of them. Candle rituals, jar spells, moon water, a string of words to repeat three times before bed. Most of it is bullshit. The part that is not bullshit is worse, because it can connect to something, and you have no idea what you agreed to when it did.

Spells floating around the internet threaten two things you should guard more carefully than any outcome you want from them: your sovereignty and your safety.

Every spell belongs to a system

Every spell has an author. Somebody wrote the steps, chose the words and decided what happens when they are said. Usually that person did not invent any of it. They inherited the rules from a teacher, a book or a tradition, and those came from someone further back.

When you follow a spell a stranger set, you are willingly entering their system. You submit to the ruleset they defined, or the one they inherited, along with every condition built into it. Most people who copy a ritual from a forum treat it like a recipe. It is closer to a contract, and you are signing it without reading a word.

You cannot see the consequences

Without training, you cannot tell what a spell costs, who else it binds or what it opens. The page never lists that. The person who posted it may not know either, since they probably copied it from somewhere themselves.

Most internet spells fail, and that is the lucky outcome. The dangerous ones are the ones that work, because then you have handed part of yourself to a system you did not build and cannot read, and you did it by choice.

Love spells, money spells and the rest

It makes no difference what the spell is for. Love spells, money spells, spells to bring someone back, spells for protection: each one runs on somebody's rules. The more you want the result, the less likely you are to ask what those rules are, which is exactly when you should.

Why we call our work a consultation

This is why Orpheus & Theseus calls its work a consultation, even though a consultation with us offers a great deal more than advice.

We can genuinely help you get the girl, the job or the opportunity. What we will never do is hand you some half-baked witchy bullshit spell, because we have no intention of locking you into a system.

Real spells come from you

A real spell comes from you: who you are and what your path is. Nobody can download that from a website. It has to be read from you, and reading it is the work of a consultation.

And any path can be altered. Where you are headed now does not have to be where you end up. If you want to change it, start with an inquiry and leave the stranger's candle ritual where you found it.