windvexer:

Just an fyi - you can totally over-ward and it sucks

Putting lots of spells around you that limit energetic access to you can do some wild sh*t.

In my belief system, all our relationships are formed through energetic exchange. Our connection to our immediate environments are formed through energetic exchange. Our ability to communicate with spirits and receive their help is due to energetic exchange.

Over-warding can cause weird stuff to happen, like:

• You feel out of step with your environment
• People start ignoring you; won’t reply to your messages even though they normally would, etc
• Your psychic senses feel dull or muted
• You’re having more trouble with divination, or the same messages seem to be coming through again and again when normally you’d receive a variety of messages
• Your spells aren’t manifesting, especially spells that would bring something into your life
• You no longer get the same feelings around certain environments that you normally would (such as always feeling a certain way on a hiking trail you love, but then you kinda just feel nothing)
• You’re suddenly going nowhere in life - opportunities are passing you by
• It has suddenly become really hard for you to be able to make changes in your life which normally you’d be able to accomplish
• You get the sense that you’re in a cocoon and you can’t quite reach the world

Yes, these symptoms can happen for LOTS OF OTHER REASONS (including mental illness) and experiencing them does not automatically mean you’ve over-warded.

Here is the fun lil part: Some of these are also symptoms of hexing, leading people who have over-warded to be at risk of warding even more to try and solve the problem.

Most people aren’t at risk for this IMO. But if you’ve been doing a lot of warding and stuff doesn’t feel right, you might have taken your Nemo self out of the ocean and plopped down into an aquarium made for one.