What Are Personal Concerns?
When researching rootwork spells, you may hear the phrase “personal concerns” as an ingredient in your sympathetic magic spell.
Personal concerns are items that have some intimate connection to a target or the person you are working on. Think of them as literally or figuratively adding the DNA of the person to your spell. If you are doing a spell on someone or something other than yourself, of course, working with personal concerns is going to give you a link to that person, place, or thing and make the spell work stronger!
Examples of Personal Concerns
Want to know specifically what personal concerns you can use in your magic? Here’s a list of the most common ones used in spells. They are in order of most powerful and intimate to least powerful and least intimate.
- Semen, vaginal fluid or menstrual blood
- Blood, saliva, sweat, mucous, or urine
- Feces (for negative work)
- Body hair or hair from the head
- Toenail clippings, fingernail clippings or skin scrapings
- Clothing worn by the target and not washed (the more intimate and closer to the body, the more powerful)
- Dirt from a foot print or foot track of your target
- Handwritten signature
- Something that was owned by the person
- Photograph of the person
This list is not a complete list of personal concerns that are possible to use in your spells. But it is a list of the personal concerns that are most commonly listed in spells throughout the ages. You may encounter other personal concerns such as teeth, ear wax, or something that the target touched, for example.
Another class of Personal Concern is graveyard dirt. That is dirt taken from the grave of someone and allows you to connect with the spirit of the deceased person.
A similar type of magic ingredient to personal concerns is taking something from a building or location to affect a spell on a place.
When to Use a Personal Item In Your Spell
Personal concerns are not just from other people. You can add your own personal items to mojo bags, candle spells and other spell work when you want to strengthen the ties of the benefit to yourself.
For example, if you are doing a spell to draw money and customers to your place of business, you can add a little of your own urine to a floor wash made with Abundant Prosperity Bath Crystals, or if you are carrying a Fame and Fortune Mojo Bag to draw popularity, respect and success to yourself, your career or your project, you might add fingernail clippings to ensure that work that you do with your hands draws the success.
Add someone else’s personal concerns to your spell work when you want to work on them remotely. For example, if you would like your child to succeed on a school test, you can place a piece of their hair along with your petition under a yellow Beeswax Wise Owl Candle dressed with Grand Success Oil.
You can add another person’s personal concerns with your own when you want to work on something for the both of you. For example, you can tie a strand of your hair around a strand of your lover’s hair to tie him or her to you before placing it in a honey jar spell.
These Items are An Insurance Policy
One of my teachers once said that getting a piece of hair is your relationship “insurance policy”. Get a piece of your beloved’s hair as soon as possible and hold it aside. You may have a great relationship and you may never need to use it. But if the day ever comes that you need to use it for a spell, you will have it. I have many clients who wish to do love poppets and honey jars and are only missing a personal item. Yes, you can set candles and do other sorts of spell work without personal concerns. But not having that piece of hair limits the kind of spells that you can do. Don’t let that be you!
What If I Don’t Have a Personal Concern?
When working on yourself or someone you are close to, it is easy to get a personal concern. But what if you are working on someone who is far away or estranged from you? If you can’t get one, then my recommendation is to choose a type of work where an item like this is not required.
Spell Work That Requires a Personal Concern
Examples of work that require a personal concern are honey jars and poppets or doll babies. You can most certainly try this type of work without. But traditionally they are done with a personal concern and will have the strongest possible effect with one.
Spell Work That Does Not Require a Personal Concern
Examples of work that do not require a personal concern are candle spells, incense spells, spiritual baths and working with spiritual sachet powders or spiritual oils.
These are not traditionally done with personal concerns. Though if you wish to add a one to a candle spell for example, you may.
Spell Work Where a Personal Concern is Optional
Examples of work where a personal concern is optional are floor washes, vigil candles and some mojo bags. Depending on the type of working your are doing, you may add a personal concern. But it is optional and not always necessary.
So, if you have a personal concern of your target, you have the full range of choices as to the kind of work you can do. If you do not have a item related to that person, then your best bet is to choose a type of work that doesn’t require one rather than choosing one that does and, in a sense, doing it only halfway.
If you have more questions about working with personal items, I offer magical instruction either in group workshops, in private coaching and mentoring or in my free Live Magic Q&A each week.
I also suggest checking out the books that I offer. They can teach you in depth about working magically with candles, oils and herbs.
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