Found this photo in my Crystal Healer LA archives – I setup my Seeking Divine Knowledge 2010 painting with my Aura Quartz crystal skull along with other Quartz crystals and Selenite with sprigs of rosemary.
Look upon this image and breathe and remember – all is well. You made it through another day.
May all beings be free.
Out of curiosity, and because I’m witchy – walk me through the spell process of what the lady with the red hair – Aunt Gladys does in the movies “Weapons”
Here’s a detailed walk-through of the spellcasting and ritual process carried out by Aunt Gladys in the horror film Weapons, inspired by her witchcraft methods in the movie:
Gladys constructs a thorny, twig-like wand—a physical tool of her witchcraft.
This wand is essential for channeling her power and anchoring her spells.
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She collects possessions of her victims—locks of hair, ribbons, or other personal artifacts from children or adults.
These items serve as sympathetic links to the individuals she intends to control.
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Using the thorned wand, she draws her own blood to empower the spell.
She then wraps a personal item (such as a lock of hair) around that wand.
By activating the ritual—often paired with the tolling or ringing of a bell inscribed with occult symbols—she casts a hypnotic spell.
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The targeted victims fall into a catatonic, zombie-like state, under Gladys’s control.
These zombified victims act as extensions of her will—forming an unwitting army.
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Gladys maintains her youthful vitality by absorbing the life force of these entranced individuals, especially the children she holds captive.
She relies on this siphoned energy to sustain her life beyond natural limits.
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Alex, the only unaffected child, mimics Gladys’s ritual.
He wraps Gladys’s own hair around the wand and invokes the same magical resonance.
This reversal breaks her control—awakens the zombified children, and ultimately leads to her downfall.
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Use a thorny branch as ritual tool |
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Hair or possessions linked to victims |
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Add her own blood and wrap items |
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Use symbol-bell ringing or invocation |
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Victims enter trance, become controlled agents |
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Absorb victims’ life-force |
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Mirror ceremony to reverse magic by victim Alex |
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This ritualistic magic leans heavily on sympathetic magic—creating a mystical link by binding personal remains or items to a tool that channels power.
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In Weapons, Gladys is revealed to be a dying witch who uses these rituals not out of malevolence alone—but from existential need—to stay alive.
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Her power lies in appearing as the unassuming “Aunt Gladys,” using subtle manipulation coupled with vengeful, parasitic rituals.
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Let me know if you’d like me to help you craft a pageantry-inspired ritual in a more occult or cinematic style—just for fun, of course!
I just really love how this gif came out (it was a gif, but made it into an mp4 to make the file size smaller). I could probably create a million more versions of this, and I most definitely will.
This is a photo that I took of my Butterfly Witch painting. I setup my Aura Quartz crystal skull in front of the painting among other Quartz crystals and took the photo. I then took it into Photoshop and cut out parts of the background. I then brought it into After Effects. I can’t remember the rest of the steps from there, but I’m using the Tunnel effect that you can probably search YouTube for the After Effects tutorial.
As soon as I hit “post”, I fixed up another version that I will make into a bigass gif just like this one 😉
I hate how the iPhone 11 Pro Max doesn’t capture true color, I had to modify this in Photoshop to show the pastel quality of these Zeyar highlighters.
Drawn last night, I stayed up til 1:30am drawing and listening to music.
A part of me wishes there was a place where I could just dance. No one bothering me or making small talk. Spirit dancing, moving your body to music, releasing toxins. I recently watched this video of Irene Cara (RIP) and she literally looks like a spirit dancing in human form. Then you listen to the actual lyrics and she’s talking about immortality and being remembered. I swear everything takes on a different meaning when you’re older. Or actually, the message was always there; it was my own understanding that took years to catch up to the message.
I did go to a party in an undisclosed warehouse in DTLA more than 10 years ago and I did just that.
Well since I’m old and don’t know where to go anymore for such things, I just danced in my room in between drawing. That was enough for me.
If anything, I have learned to open my heart and give with my money.
Ironic given that the whole purpose – at least I thought it was MY purpose – was to make money with the crystal shop. And I definitely have and I’m super thankful.
What I didn’t expect was that I would be giving a lot more.
I’m learning to work with money in a way that I haven’t before. For a long time, I lived in scarcity mode meaning I always hoarded money. I always felt like I never had enough. So I was stingy with it even though I had more than enough.
Lately though, I noticed it just comes back to me naturally whenever I give it.
Ever since Covid hit I’ve been tipping witches online and / or buying their products and I am definitely seeing a benefit of doing that.
Some of these Auras are available at my crystal shop by the way, the Money Drawing Ritual Conjure Oil is from Mētztli aka The Revolutionary Mystic’s shop.
Missing my best friend Roxy every fucking day. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about her. October 20th will be a year since she transitioned. I wonder if she will visit us on Samhain.????
Personally, this is one of my favorite paintings. It’s dark & bright at the same time. This is one of those rare moments where I’m not thinking too hard about what I want to create, I just went with it.
Description: painting of a woman’s head and upper torso with her right hand raised. Her lips are red and there are four teardrops falling from her cheek. There is an eye on the palm of her hand, while her seeing eye is white. Her hair is feathered and she has devil horns. There is also a skull with wings in her hair, combined with her hoop earring. There is a candle that is lit with dripping wax next to the skull. She wears a cross necklace and there is a rose tattoo on her neck.
