Hi everyone,
My work has been going very well and I am grateful for all the advice on the forums and the great LM products I have used! But something has puzzled me and I wonder if anyone else had something like this happen. I did a mirror box spell at the last new moon, which just happened to coincide with my bleeding (when women are at their most powerful!). The work was buried in a graveyard, not the one I usually use but another and I was careful to arrive and leave by different routes. The spirit I used was receptive to me and I duly paid for his assistance.
Due to the nastiness of the work that had been thrown at me, I really focused my energies and drew all my emotions into the work, but made sure to come from a place of power, not vulnerability. I specifically named one doll for a person and the second I named for anyone who was negatively interfering in the specific situation at hand. I completed the box and disposed of it. Well, the bad symptoms I'd been having went poof!

but so did my best friend! She and I had a kind of a falling out though nothing was said or done. I have not heard from her in two weeks, which is odd since we live practically next door. Granted she in in her own bad space (her husband passed in January and she is having a hard time moving forward) but this is just, well, weird. I did some divination and it confirmed what I'd suspected, that the people working against me tried to get to me through her, even though neither of us is known personally to them. I will leave sleeping dogs alone for the moment

but wondered if this was one of those possible effects of the spell. Eventually I hope we can be friends again but sense that at this point in time, I need to keep my distance, for my own good. Any ideas here? I keep hearing that old saying, keep your friends close but your enemies closer...

It's a bittersweet symphony, this life...