🌿 Intro Reflection: Hexing the Algorithm
Last week, I got into a fight with the Instagram algorithm. She’s like a trickster goddess — seductive, hungry, and deeply committed to feeding me videos of raccoons stealing pizza. At 3am, somewhere between “witches of TikTok” and “men crying to Phil Collins,” I realized: this isn’t a feed. It’s a spell.
The algorithm doesn’t care if it makes you enlightened or insane. It just wants you scrolling like a moth chasing neon. But here’s the good news: you can hex her. Not with malice — with intention. By putting down the phone when you realize that your feed is zombifying you. You’re not banishing her. You’re teaching her to bring you what you want: more magic, fewer raccoons (unless that’s your kink).
✨ Shadow Moral: Your attention is sacred. Spend it like a witch with a grudge and a coupon book.
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🔮 Ritual of the Week: A Spell to Hex the Algorithm
Ingredients:
Your phone (already cursed, let’s be honest)
One candle (black, purple, or whatever you’ve got in your drawer of shame)
A pen + scrap of paper
Steps:
Light the candle. Stare into the flame and imagine every doom-scroll rabbit hole you’ve fallen down burning away.
On the paper, write what you want to see more of: “shadow work memes, psychedelic wisdom, sex-positive witches.”
Hold your phone above the paper like you’re charging a crystal. Whisper:
“Show me what feeds my soul, not just my serotonin.”
Place the paper under the phone overnight. In the morning, delete one account that makes you feel like garbage.
✨ Shadow Moral: Every scroll is a spell. Swipe with intention.
🌑 Shadow Work Prompt
What am I letting into my mind every day — and how is it shaping the person I’m becoming?
Jot down what your “algorithm” (digital or otherwise) is feeding you. Then ask if that’s the banquet you actually want.
🌌 Celestial Currents
🌔 Right now the Moon is waxing gibbous — swollen, restless, almost full. It’s the phase of building, amplifying, and pushing your intentions into the world. Think of it like cosmic foreplay: the Full Moon is close, and the energy is peaking.
✨ Advice: This is a perfect week to feed what you want to grow. Water your weird projects, text that person you’ve been psychically flirting with, or charge your altar tools under the rising moonlight. Don’t wait for perfection — start the spell now, and let the Full Moon (Oct 6–7) carry it to climax.
🪞 Inside the Smoked Mirror
This is the free side of the reflection. But if you want:
Rituals too spicy for Instagram
Downloadable grimoires
Dankmor’s unfiltered trip stories
Nightsider-only transmissions
✨ Closing Wisdom(?)
“Not every curse is ancient. Some just show up in your notifications.”
🔥 In smoke & shadow,
Dankmor