Hex the System, Not Your Ex

This post is for the witch who’s done playing nice—learn how to hex harmful systems, protect your energy, and turn your rage into powerful, intentional magic.

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Delilah Dash

4/12/20252 min read

Rage is sacred. Direct it wisely.

We’ve all been there: you’re angry, you’re hurting, you’re watching the world burn—and the urge to throw a curse like confetti is real.
But witch, before you reach for the black candle and whisper your ex’s name into the void…

Let’s aim higher.

Let’s aim louder.
Let’s aim at what actually needs to be burned down.

Witchcraft Is Political

Witchcraft has always been the magic of the marginalized, the pissed off, the ones denied power by systems built to silence them.
It’s the spell cast in secret.
The protest whispered under breath.
The flame lit on an altar when all else feels hopeless.

Hexing the system isn’t new. It’s ancestral. It’s rebellious. It’s sacred.

What Is “Hexing the System”?

It’s using your rage to:

  • Disrupt harmful power structures

  • Call out injustice and inequality

  • Spiritually support movements for change

  • Protect the vulnerable (including yourself)

This isn’t about hate—it’s about precision magic that aims to dismantle harm, not create more of it.

So… Are We Just Never Hexing People?

Let’s be honest: sometimes people are the problem.
And yes, there’s room for personal baneful magic.
But there’s a difference between:

  • Hexing a manipulative abuser
    vs.

  • Throwing energy at your barista because they got your name wrong.

Use your discernment. Protect your energy. Stay sharp.

Spells of Resistance, Not Revenge

You don’t need a protest sign to make a statement (but that helps too).
Here are ways to direct your rage:

🕯️ Candle Hex for Systems of Harm

  • Carve words like “injustice,” “oppression,” “greed” into a black candle.

  • Dress it with cayenne, wormwood, and graveyard dirt.

  • Burn it while visualizing the systems crumbling.

🧂 Salt Line of Refusal

  • Pour black salt at thresholds and windows.

  • Say: “No harm shall cross. No power shall take root here.”

📜 Petition to the Dead

  • Write the names of harmful systems (not individuals) on paper.

  • Offer them to your ancestors who fought, fled, resisted.

  • Burn, bury, or send the ashes down the drain.

Protection Is Part of the Spell

If you hex, you cleanse.
If you banish, you ward.
If you stir chaos, you anchor yourself.

Always ground. Always shield. Rage without protection is just vulnerability with fire.

Final Thoughts

Witchcraft is not always peaceful.
But it should always be intentional.

Hexing systems lets us reclaim power without feeding the cycles we’re trying to destroy.
It’s not petty.
It’s revolutionary.

So light your candle. Draw your circle.
And hex the damn patriarchy.

💣 Blessed be, and burn it down (safely), witch. 🖤