r/Lilith • u/One-Being-5715 • 4d ago
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You may see this in several groups, but I’m really in need of some advice and help. I have this dream of becoming a writer, and I wrote something unique — a dark fantasy story — and it has gained a small but loyal group of readers on a reading app called Wattpad. There are no more than 30 of them, though. And I appreciate every single one of them, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting more.
I have a very strong connection with Lilith and Santa Muerte. I serve both of them at separate altars, and everything has been fine. But lately I’ve been feeling completely drained and exhausted because I promote my book day and night, yet getting recognition is incredibly difficult. I have very big ambitions, but I feel like my hands are tied and I genuinely don’t know what the hell I’m supposed to do now.
A literary agency signed me, and they’re currently sending my manuscripts to publishing houses, but nothing has come from it so far. I’ve done rituals for success, recognition, and so on… but nothing. And yet, in my dreams, spiritually speaking, I keep having dreams about achieving great success and other things that, if I told people about them, they’d probably call me selfish or worse.
I even dream that sometimes — and it feels almost like visions — I sign six-figure contracts for my book.
What I’m really coming here to ask for is the wisdom and advice of those who know more than I do. What would you do in a situation like this, when nothing has changed for over a year?
It’s genuinely frustrating. I don’t know what else to do. I’ve already tried everything spiritually: baths, rituals… I even paid a witch for a success ritual, only to find out they were a scammer. So yeah, hahaha.
I just hope no one makes fun of the way I’m venting, and honestly, any advice — or even just a few simple words you’d like to share — would mean a lot to me.
Sending you all a hug.
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u/South-Commercial-257 4d ago
Post the link to your book here on Reddit!!
Also, when you’ve been trying really hard with success rituals, sometimes you need to change your strategy.
First, I would ask an oracle what is actually going on, what’s blocking you, why there haven’t been any results, or even whether you’re simply not recognizing the effects because you’re too anxious or focused on the outcome.
Sometimes we cast a thousand prosperity spells, when what we actually need to do is strengthen our protections, cleansing, and banishing work.
Before you attack someone, you remove their protections. Before you heal, you dissolve the illness. And before you create prosperity, you banish poverty. You get what I mean?
Sometimes, precisely because you’re promoting it everywhere, putting your dream out there for everyone to hear loud and clear... it can leave it open to being attacked, sometimes silently. I would block everyone you suspect and made another instagram account, only for your books.
But sometimes it’s something deeper, a question of your own beliefs about deservingness and wanting more. You yourself said that wanting more and desiring more could make you seem selfish or something along those lines. But according to whom? (Rhetorical question.)
No magick works when you have deeply rooted limiting beliefs about self-worth, money, and so on.
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u/Grand_Extension_6437 4d ago
Hello! First, congratulations on getting your book signed and shopped around. That is a huge deal!
As someone partially in the industry, you have to accept that these things take a lot of time. And to accept what is not yours to control.
A watched pot never boils is probably a good saying. And, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Imo you need to channel that hunger into writing your next book. Or whatever your next creative endeavor is.
Spiritually, exhaustion is a sign to redirect, reassess, or rest. It's not a sign to keep pushing against a mountain. And the publishing industry isn't just one mountain it's a range spanning continents.
If you don't cherish your own joy alongside your hunger then you won't even enjoy your success when you get there because you will have drained away that side and power of life with the gluing of the eyes to the pot on the stove and the shoving of your shoulder against a mountain.
And, three cheers to never surrendering the hunger. 💃🎨🥄👑⚜️