Magic Monday
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Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 12:12 pm (UTC)Trying to keep a long story short.
A person who I believe to be an energetic vampire/devouring mother type is in a relationship with a family member. I identified this pattern early on and I keep my distance and don't interfere as the family member is a consenting adult and seems to enjoy it.
Now this new person is moving closer to be with family member and has clearly started this behaviour on other members of the family. Their goal seems to definitely be to create a group of people who are dependent on them and give her their energy (and maybe money, keeping the story short though). Adults can adult themselves, and I personally draw a clear boundary in words and behaviour and don't give in but they are also targeting a mentally vulnerable elderly relative and the kicker, my minor child.
I do the daily banishing, pray, and have gotten my partner on board with giving this person no alone time with my child and almost no group time either. We will have to still see them a handful of times per year. After the most recent what I'll call, boundary violation, I got fed up and thought, I should just get some hotfoot powder and if I get raspberry jam/karma for protecting my child from them, so be it.
I went on luckymojo and looked it all up and decided that the next time this person did or said something that was inappropriate that would be the trigger and I would buy it then. I then spent about 10 minutes thinking about how to do it including visualizing the action.
1-A few hours after visualizing it, I realized this person was completely gone as a mental connection for me. Clearly for months, we've been entangled as I try to figure out how to deal and get un-entangled. I had also previously offered blessings, as in the blessing walk, and only ever gotten a chaotic response. Now when I do it, my minds eye sees them running from me. Is is possible I did a form on mental magic that scared them? All the anger I felt about this person is gone, they are are just gone in my mind. If I did do mental magic, do you think that extends to protection for my child? Did I break the connection?
2- After realizing this I searched for hotfoot in your previous MMs. There was some discussion that it actually might be a curse and somewhat evil. That is not my intention at all. I have no wish to harm this person but I do want them out of my child's life and am willing to bear the consequences of protecting my child. Was there a conclusion that hotfoot is mild or too powerful in a bad way?
3-I would accept any other advice and prayers for protecting my child from someone who wants to act as an energy vampire in their life. I banish daily, pray, am ok with anything from the ENM.
Thank you.
Psychic Vampires Anonymous
Date: 2025-06-30 03:58 pm (UTC)What signs would one look for to determine if they're being psychically vampiric and how would one go about breaking the habit?
Re: Psychic Vampires Anonymous
Date: 2025-06-30 04:29 pm (UTC)Re: Psychic Vampires Anonymous
Date: 2025-06-30 05:25 pm (UTC)I think she might also be an energy vampire but a very chaotic type. I find it fairly easy to keep her fangs off me, but does her impulse to spend time with vulnerable people like nursing home residents suggest she is energetically feeding off them?
Re: Psychic Vampires Anonymous
Date: 2025-06-30 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 04:17 pm (UTC)2) A hotfoot spell can be used as a curse, but when it's simply done to break a single connection, it's within the bounds of ethics. It's also a very good idea to accept, in advance, the karmic consequences of a magical action -- especially since you were doing it to protect another person. You should have nothing to worry about.
3) Get angelica root, mugwort leaves, and St. John's wort leaves and flowers. Put them in a small jar or bottle with a few strands of your child's hair or a few fingernail or toenail trimmings. Hide it someplace where nobody will find it. That will surround your child with protective influences.
Re: Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 04:50 pm (UTC)Thank you very much! I feel better. Yes, correct, I did not buy anything, just visualized it. FWIW, I also get a similar result when I imagine Asafoetida on something with bad vibes - it's less powerful than the Hotfoot and I tried it on this case with minor ok results in the early days but it didn't do what imagining hotfoot did. Like the Asafoetida was situational but the hotfoot hit the roots..maybe.
I will make the jar. Thank you again.
Re: Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 04:19 pm (UTC)Among the Christian saints, I find that St. Nicholas of Myra, St. Joseph the Betrothed, and of course, St. Mary the Theotokos, are three particular saints who do not mess around when it comes to matters involving children. When I call on them to protect my children, their response is swift. I am a practicing Orthodox Christian though, so take it in context.
Also, the archangels, particularly Michael and Gabriel.
I also suggest St. Agnes, particularly if your child is a girl. She’s lovely and loves children.
Re: Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 04:59 pm (UTC)Thank you! These would be good. I have been praying about it (Mary, Michael) and the fact that the hotfoot popped into my head so suddenly and forcefully I took it to be that it was a path to follow. I had banished prior to the idea so it seemed like it was coming from a safe place.
And just to be sure I put in the failsafe of not buying it until there was one more piece of actual evidence (there are others, but trying to be safe). But perhaps it worked without doing anything on the physical level.
Re: Hotfoot
Date: 2025-06-30 04:45 pm (UTC)