Sympathetic Magic

[ziggysinamerica]

So I just got my driver's license renewed and now I can't help think that someone could use my old license for sympathetic magic against me. I'm not paranoid about it, just a thought that popped in my head

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[catvincent]

Bear in mind the most basic law of combat magic - that any magical connection is *by definition* a two-way street - and the person who controls the flow of information along that connection wins the fight. The application of this I leave to you...

[rob_t_firefly]

If you are worried about such things, you could always do a bit of a working to seperate yourself from the object. Once you sever the energetic connections you have with the item, it's no longer a concern.

There are countless ways you can build a ritual to do this, consistent with your own beliefs and form of practice. My own practice is eclectic, light on words and heavy on meditation, so here's how I would do this. Your ritual mileage may vary. :-)

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Meditate on the lost item, picturing it as clearly as you can in your mind. What it looks like, how it feels, where you kept it, etc. Try to get as detailed an image going as you can.

Once that image is stable, picture energy connecting the object back to you. Remember yourself receiving the item, carrying it around, using it, and so on. Soon enough you'll have a good mental image going which allows you to clearly perceive the item's connection to you.

All that's left to do is simply sever that link between you and the object. You can do this entirely through intent in

[tlttlotd]

Buy a shredded designed for use with credit cards and CD-ROMs/DVDs and run your stuff through it. That's what I do.

[gleef]

Whether to protect against sympathetic magic or plain-old identity theft, you want to carefully destroy those cards.

[vulpesoccultist]

Well sympathetic magick aside, what about the modern implications of image magick

[tlttlotd]

I've used it not a few times to build connections to people at a distance.

If you gather enough information about someone it seems to work just as well as an endpoint for a connection as, say, some hair or a blood sample, because that information is reflective of aspects of the person's life. It doesn't take much more effort to jump from "someone's personal history" to that someone.

Rob T. Firefly is correct - those connections are bidirectional in nature unless you structure your working in such a way that anything passing in the opposite direction in the connection is filtered out. Remember: never leave home without your firewall.