What is real

Here’s the deal. Lot of talk has been happening lately about curses, superstitions, and such.  Often people do whatever it takes to avoid superstitions even if they claim to not be superstitious.  Superstitions,  are a credulous belief not based upon knowledge or reason.  There are a great many…  Don’t let a black cat cross your path, don’t walk under a ladder, or break a mirror, Friday 13th is” bad” day.  Even pagans have their own set of  freak outs when things occur.  A whole candle seems to go WHOOSH! into a puff of smoke when it was to burn for 3 days, The flame seems to grow or dance when one is working, working magic during a void in the moon or when Mercury goes into retrograde.  One could say that you shouldn’t tempt fate..We by nature are afraid of things we cannot explain.  Someone, somewhere had something happen by coincidence of any of those listed above, and so the urban myth grew. Personally I don’t mind working in a void, it’s great for a darker magic,and I don’t mind the retrogrades.  I just take more care with them because of others reactions.  I’ve broken mirrors on purpose, and the other things don’t bother me at all.  So why do we feel the need to attach something negative to all these happenings?  Why the need to feel cursed and attaching it to your life?  I knew someone who felt that he had been cursed by someone who was jealous of him.  Was it possible?  Sure..anything was possible, but in truth, they already had friction, so anything that happened was going to invariably attributed to the other person.  So what happens when one attributes everything ‘bad” in their life as to being cursed?  What do you do?  Find a shaman or someone to remove said “curse” or do  you look a little deeper perhaps and sit back and see what is the real truth.  I choose the latter.  Things happen sometimes just because.  Sometimes its because of something we did to cause it, other times its someone’s else’s shit that cause the ball to roll downhill.  Does that mean that there are no such things as curses…~smiles~, I know some who would disagree with that.  After all those explorers who opened the tomb of Tutankhamen all met oddly timed and surreal demises afterwards.  Was it because of said curse placed on the tomb?  Perhaps.  Do I think witches can curse?  I know some who have no problem with it if that is what is called for.  Do I think people should go around living their life thinking that everything that befalls them is because someone is projecting onto them or cursed them?  Absolutely not…to do so would almost certainly require the need to seek mental help…persecution complexes need assistance.  Yet all of us to some degree have this “fear” or belief that causes us to pause.  I myself, have a pent and jade in my car..its for protection…I believe it has merit, I placed that protection around me as I drive..so far so good.  I know people who place some sort of talisman above their door  for the same purpose..I remember the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, when Jimmy Stewart came down the stairs and touched the top of the banister for luck…People have been doing such things since way back in the day.  Does it help?   They help Peace of mind maybe..if one believes they work, they do..its the same as being cursed..it’s a mind set kind of thing.  The guy who thought he was cursed had everything fall apart because he expected it to fail.  We give it power…it is our intent that helps things along.  So the next time something happens that seems a little odd..check and see if maybe, just maybe there was something you did to cause it, ..chances are, you just might have.