Curse Your Heart to Heal it is a hands-on workshop that reimagines ancient curse tablets as tools for emotional healing, self-regulation, and restoration. Drawing on Greek and Roman defixiones, participants will learn how binding magic traditionally worked, and how those same techniques can be ethically adapted for working with your own heart, habits, and emotional attachments. Attendees will actively create a symbolic binding object while learning when, why, and how such bindings can be safely created and deconstructed when they are no longer necessary.The workshop begins with historical context, examining curse tablets (also called katadesmoi or defixiones) in their cultural context and how they were used as instruments of harm, but also as a magical means for protection, justice, and control. By understanding how curse tablets were constructed, empowered, and deployed, participants will gain insights into why physical acts like inscribing, folding, and piercing carry psychological and magical weight.Workshop attendees will then engage in a guided, hands-on process using prepared materials to create a symbolic binding focused on self-directed healing. This work is framed explicitly around consent, self-care, and personal agency, addressing situations where emotions, attachments, or internal patterns persist beyond their usefulness. Emphasis is placed on working with your highest good in mind.Attention is also given to deconstruction and release. The workshop concludes by discussing when bindings are no longer needed, how to safely dismantle magical objects, and why undoing magical work is as important as creating it.This workshop is suitable for practitioners of all experience levels and offers attendees both a tangible ritual object and a deeper understanding of binding magic as a compassionate, responsible healing practice. All materials will be supplied.
Take aways: Practical ideas about how binding objects like curse tablets can be used as an ethical way to heal difficult attachments and eliminate unwanted habits.
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