So is there a way to know when i didn’t banish something correctly? I evoked the High Priestess gregore and asked for help with learning/thinking critically and then i sent it on its way. so I thought. I’ve been having intense existential thoughts about life and such lately and it’s causing me distress, yet i have a sneaky suspicion it is because of this entity hanging out around me still. Is this a thing? I’ve never had an issue banishing before but now i’m concerned it won’t work for this now
Honestly, if you have to ask whether you should banish, the answer is yes. Worst case scenario, nothing needed to be banished but you made yourself safer and got some practice.
Fumigate. Tell the spirit it’s ok to leave and you’d rather it leave before you have to kick it out. Just be forceful with whatever banishing method you choose. You’re the boss. Wave an athame around. Get aggro. Scrub the ritual floors down with salt and blessed water. You can fix this. But yeah you really need to banish more often than not.
But maybe also learn to divine to make sure its not you just driving yourself neurotic overthinking it. You gotta calibrate your reality especially if like me you’re already kind of a neurotic person.
Say 51st Psalm every night for a bit. Burn frankincense while doing so. There are some baths you can take or even just scrub counter clockwise while reciting part of psalm 51:
Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
No Abrahamic belief required. Sometimes as we magic and get more sensitive, we pick up things that a good cleaning hygiene will help. My divination goes sideways and I feel really uneasy if I haven’t uncrossed in a while when doing daily work.
There are Solomonic candle magic methods of creating the second pentacle of saturn to keep your house free of unwanted spirits.
