Spells: A Right?

An individual watched a YouTube video in which a "Pagan" or whatever proceeded to rant about people using money spells, and determined those who are poor deserve to be so as per "Karma".

While this got my blood boiling considering my husband and I have numerous debts in which we never intended on having (no thanks to greedy lawyers), I don't see how this is karmic retribution and have a strong feeling this person has no idea what "Karma" is outside of the Wiccan bastardization of the word (meaning that it's a rubber vs. glue situation, and only about punishment).

But I digress. The point of this post is...is it our RIGHT to cast spells and do we have the RIGHT to cast what we want?

Personally I believe it is my RIGHT to cast what I want, when I want so long as I take the personal responsibility for what I do (meaning I accept the consequences of what I do).

I don't need someone telling me what I can and cannot do with my craft. I have the free will to determine what I feel is necessary to do with my craft, however unethical it may be to another. My craft holds no bearing on another, and if I deem something to be negative or against my own PERSONAL ethics, I won't do it. But because another feels the need to determine that I am in the wrong for practicing money spells (to boost my need for funds, certainly not out of greed) or that I have no "right" to do them, who is she to determine this, or what my rights are as a Witch?

I don't tell people what to do. I may speak generally when I say many people feel certain acts are unethical, but I would NEVER say to someone that they have no right to cast certain spells. I personally see love spells geared towards certain people as unethical, but people can cast them all they like; I also see spells for petty revenge unethical as well, but people are free to cast them all they like as well. They may be against my own PERSONAL ethic, but it's not me doing the casting, and it's not me who must face the consequences, so to each his own...let them cast what they will. It's not my place to police spell casters...in fact it's NO one's place. There's no such thing as a spells police, so why act as if there is?

I believe it's a person's right to cast what they wish and let their own personal ethics and feelings determine what they feel is right and wrong regarding what they do, and leave other people out of it. It reeks of fluffy when someone has to determine for others what they can and cannot do.





Ma’iingan