“I’m rubber and you’re glue whatever you say bounces off
of me and sticks to you!”
This childhood rhyme says it all. It’s a chant that
perfectly illustrates the essence of many types of reversing magick; to reverse
back to the sender any negative energy, curses or what have you.
The number of magickal people turning to reversing magick
appears to be on the rise; or at least that how it seems to me since the sales
of my reversing magickal products have been on the rise for a couple of years
now. I suppose it’s only natural when there are economic downturns and when our
politicians seem to be so nasty….I guess it’s kind of a domino effect.
Every now and again it so happens that someone will ask
me if I think reversing magick is ethical. Then again sometimes I just have
people inform me that it’s unethical
and usually with lots of harumpfing. (Okay I know harumpfing is not a real
word, but I think you get my drift). Being the Gemini that I am, I have of
course thought about just that thing and argued with myself on both sides. As
with so many things I can usually see both sides of an argument but seeing both
sides doesn’t usually stop me from coming down on one side or the other. Since
I sell products designed to aid in reversing magick, and I sell a lot of them,
I guess it’s sort of obvious which side I came down on.
The arguments against this type of magickal work usually
come with alternatives such as grounding out negative energy into the earth,
transmuting the negative energy to positive or at least neutral energy and the
ever popular sending it out into the universe to be used towards the greater
good. For some these are good and viable alternatives but then again….. not
good for everybody or every situation. Personally I think we already send too
much negative energy into the earth so I am loath to send her any more than
absolutely necessary, I’m really too busy to be transmuting every little bit of
psychic sludge that I encounter and I have learned over the years that the “greater
good” isn’t always that good; especially for us humans.
Someone who is against this form of magick might bring up
the very real possibility that the negative energy was not sent intentionally
so to reverse it back on the sender would be just plain mean and if it was sent
intentionally sending it back makes me as culpable as the original sender. Then
the obvious retort, or at least obvious to me, would be if people are not in
control of the energy that they fling about that doesn’t mitigate their
responsibility for doing so and perhaps being beset by their own bad juju might
teach them a lesson or two. As for being as culpable as the original sender by
returning the unwanted energy; well I simply disagree. It’s not mine, I don’t
want it, take it back and stop creating such nasty stuff!
An old friend illustrated the point of intent versus
responsibility beautifully once when she was helping me teach a Wicca 101 class
which I will retell here as an example, albeit not with the same flair. If you’re
at a friend’s home and you inadvertently knocked over and broke said friend’s
favorite lamp while gesticulating expressively with your hands then is it your
responsibility to deal with the carnage? Or since you didn’t mean to break the
lamp are you absolved of any responsibility? (Be careful how you answer that
question; not only will it say a lot about you and your ethics but it’ll also
say a lot about the way you raised and it may restrict your invitations to
parties in the future.)
In my opinion intent can certainly mitigate the extent of
your responsibility but it does not negate it. Of course you’re still responsible for repairing
or replacing the lamp; if you think otherwise please don’t come to my house. So
it goes to reason that if you are flinging about negative energy willy-nilly whether
or not it’s intentional then you’re still responsible for it and if that means you
get slapped back by your own crap then you have no one to blame but yourself.
Of course reversing isn’t always the way to go; one can
use banishing or even uncrossing to rid oneself of negative energy and some
preventative psychic self-defense never hurts either. Then again if what you
are reversing is bad luck or simply a bad situation then you probably don’t
have to worry about any ethical dilemmas anyway or do you?
Ultimately it is up to each of us to find our own ethical
compass and to follow it but please........ I can do without the harumpfing!
Happy Crafting!
Raven Womack
Raven’s Flight
The Magickal Apothecary
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