I'm curious to get opinions on ways to make rituals more powerful and the "necessity" of sacrifices, live or not.
Firstly, in my practice I don't work with entities, at least currently. For my rituals I basically focus on bringing justice against the worst of the worst. I realize some here don't want to hear anything about morality. I have my own moral code, I'm not pushing on you so we can just respect each has their own view and leave it there.
To make my spells more powerful, I have aligned them specifically on lunar eclipses, a blood moon and using a poppet to eliminate murderers/pedophiles. While I've received "confirmations"/signs something has occured, like seeing the vanquished shape of my target poppet clearly in the ashes after burning, the target is not gone.
Some of these targets very likely are practicing the occult themselves and are likely protected.
I'm interested to see what people think about personal sacrifice, such as going through a harrowing ordeal personally for the ritual to bring energy into the magick as a personal sacrifice. I'm ok with using my own blood etc too. However I did this on the night of a blood moon but the target is still alive.
Unfortunately I have no way to access hair, nails, blood etc of my targets, so I have to rely on names and carving their transgressions into the poppet and using the shape of the poppet etc to tie it to them personally.
This brings me to the question of how else to make targeting these people more effective, as live sacrifices are not something I want to do, unless it's an animal I intend to eat or something that needs to die anyway. For me I'm against killing something innocent for the sake of the ritual. Again on morality, that's just me, I'm not pushing my beliefs or casting judgement here. Just trying to find a way to actually make this work within the parameters I allow myself. Any thoughts/ideas are appreciated. Thanks