Warning: This post is not for everyone.
It’s for the folks whose hearts are breaking as they go through the daily motions, who are trying to stay sane in a world that increasingly normalizes the unhinged.
It’s for experienced practitioners and neophytes, brujas and rootworkers, woo-curious Christians, secular witches and anyone who has never lit a candle in anger but is absolutely ready to start.
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On the other hand, if you believe magick is just wishful thinking, this won’t be your jam. If you’re here to remind me about the Rule of Three, my tradition says justice isn’t harm. If you’re opposed to the Craft and have come to scream about it in the comments, you will be blocked.
I can’t write.
The muse has left the building, the well has run dry.
Most of the creators I know are in the same boat.
Those who aren’t tell me staying away from the news is the trick. To be clear: I would never be able to look myself in the mirror again if I didn’t fight right now for the people who don’t have the privilege of looking away.
There’s a reason Dante, the foremost expert on hell, claimed that the lowest level of it is reserved for “those who can do good, but choose to do nothing.”
I spend three+ hours a day (my demon phone alleges) on Substack, looking for good news—that he’s plunging in the polls, that another of his sycophants has bitten the dust, that lower court judges are not just shutting him down, they’re ripping him so many new assholes, he’ll need FEMA to declare the region a disaster area.
At the same time, I keep seeing posts about how marches aren’t doing anything, so why bother?
It’s such bullshit.
Protests are electrifying. I spend the first 30 minutes of every protest fighting the urge to sob. The zeitgeist makes us feel so helpless; protests remind us that there are more of us than them. More folks who care about the well-being of strangers than there are supervillains who get cruelty boners from watching everything burn.
🩷🧡💚💙💜 The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation awarded the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul its 2026 Profile in Courage Award for marching in subzero temperatures, forming human chains around schools, alerting neighbors, blowing whistles and safely escorting families afraid to leave their homes.
Don’t tell me these actions don’t matter.
Whatever you take away from this post, please keep marching, boycotting, donating and calling your—admittedly useless—Congresspeople. But if you’re exhausted and inspiration-less and sick of watching everybody get away with literal murder, I think it’s time for some coordinated justice magick.
Some Weapons of Mass Resistance.
A Historical Precedent
Witchcraft is the original tool of people who have nothing left to lose.
In the summer of 1940, Gerald Gardner gathered his coven and directed their combined will at Hitler’s brain: you cannot cross the sea. They weren’t the first. According to Gardner’s own account, British witches had worked similar rituals against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and against Napoleon in 1805.
Then in 1941, a group of Americans inspired by occultist William Seabrook convened a hex party in a Maryland cabin to put a curse on Hitler. The ritual ended with Hitler’s effigy buried in the pine woods.
Despite the invasion barges being ready, Hitler never tried to take Britain. Four years later, he was dead in a bunker.
Why Collective, and Why Now
Here’s what I know about magick: it works like any other form of energy. More of it, applied to the same goal, accelerates the outcome.
This is what Weapons of Mass Resistance is: a compendium of spiritual action, justice magick and tactical warfare for every tradition—because every voice, every candle flame, every intention added to these workings amplifies the whole.
It will grow into a master calendar of timed collective workings, mapped to astrological and seasonal timing for maximum impact. It will include options for practitioners across every tradition—and for people who don’t have a tradition yet but are done waiting to find one before they act. Contributed spells, contributed timings, contributed prayers. A living document.
If you miss a ritual date because life happens—and it does—you’ll find another one here. Or you can add your energy retroactively to what the rest of us have already cast. It all goes into the same cosmic cauldron. It all counts.
The more of us who show up, the more powerful the working becomes.
Do This First
Not everyone who reads this lights candles or casts circles, and that’s fine. This series will have something for each of you. But we start here, today, with the simplest thing I can offer: words.
Psalm 94 has been used in Hoodoo and rootwork traditions for generations as a send-away prayer—one of the most effective tools in the folk magic arsenal for driving enemies from your path and calling down divine justice on those who abuse their power. If you’re Christian, you already know it. If you’re not, consider it a direct petition to whatever force in the universe you believe is keeping score. If you believe in nothing, read it as a protest chant. It works either way.
You don’t need anything except these words and the intention behind them.
Psalm 94 (King James Version)
¹ O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
³ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
⁴ How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
⁵ They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
⁷ Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
¹⁰ He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
¹¹ The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷ Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
²⁰ Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
²² But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
²³ And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
For maximum effect, recite this with fervor during the waning moon—the two weeks between the full moon and the new moon,1 when banishing energy is strongest. At night, if you can. But if the moon is waxing and you’re angry right now, say it anyway. State your intention plainly before you begin—tell God or the universe exactly what you’re asking for and why. Close with Amen, or whatever word of sealing your tradition uses. Then let it go.
Resources:
Hoodoo Justice Magic: Spells for Power, Protection and Righteous Vindication, Miss Aida (affiliate link)
Rituals of Resistance, Roxanne Tart
Want in?
If you have a working to contribute—a spell, a prayer, a timed ritual, a practice from your own tradition—please share. Drop it in the comments below, and I will add it to the guide. The more of us who bring something to the table, the more powerful this becomes. That’s the entire point.