Justice magic empowers us to intervene, disrupt, and resist in a way that honors the dignity of ourselves and others, using that power for personal and collective liberation.
Change follows.
Reframe baneful magic from being harmful → to being liberated.
The Magic of Reclamation
Justice magic combines fairness, dignity, and liberation with your personal power to align actions and spirits with fairness and accountability. It reminds us that protecting the vulnerable, reclaiming our dignity, and resisting oppression are sacred acts.
You might use justice magic to:
Protect victims or marginalized groups
Shift the balance of power away from your oppressors
Influence political change, laws, or policy
Call attention to harmful systems like the patriarchy or white supremacy
Justice magic can include baneful workings—curses, hexes, bindings, jinxes—used as empowerment rather than cruelty. But it doesn't have to focus on perpetrators. Justice can also be about uplifting the vulnerable, restoring hope, and feeling safe.
The effects are often personal: When done against a person who has harmed us, like an abuser, justice magic reminds us of our boundaries, reasserts our right to safety, and strengthens our ability to resist ongoing harm.
Spells reinforce mental clarity.
Spells focus courage.
Spells anchor commitment to justice.
What are the ethics of justice magic?
There are two things to consider: cultural respect and the witchcraft tenet of "do no harm," especially when it comes to impacting another’s free will.
Cultural Respect
Much of modern justice magic draws influence from Black and Indigenous traditions, especially Hoodoo (Black American folk magic) and Voodoo/Vodou (Afro-Caribbean religions). These are closed practices, shaped in resistance to oppression, including slavery, and they continue to carry deep cultural, historical, and spiritual significance today.
Because of that, practicing justice magic respectfully means avoiding appropriation. That looks like:
Being mindful of language. For example, using terms like “justice/curse jar” instead of “sour jar,” or “poppet” instead of “voodoo doll.”
Researching the origins of your practices. Many practitioners of Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Vodou generously share with outsiders, but it’s important to get consent, pay when appropriate, and avoid copying rituals out of context.
Ethical Harm
A lot of people will tell you that the right action is to move on with your life or focus on yourself. If I may be so bold: middle finger to those folks. It’s moral superiority and often used by abusers to keep victims from standing up.
The answer isn’t as simple as “harm none.” It requires nuance and a look into your intention.
Every magical working should align with the higher self: the version of you that’s wise, autonomous, intentional, and healed—but healed doesn’t mean sanitized or passive. You’re aiming for a version of yourself that’s already gone through the necessary steps to be healed.
Sometimes that means accepting what you can’t change. Sometimes it means seeking justice.
And not all harm is the same. Calling authorities on an abuser is technically harming them, but it protects the vulnerable, and we accept that socially every day. Justice magic simply accepts it spiritually too.
“Who Am I To Judge?”
You already are the judge of your own life.
We don’t walk into a courtroom and expect a legal ruling every time someone betrays, cheats, manipulates, or violates our trust.
That doesn't mean we don't have the right to act. We don’t need a jury to decide if our boundaries deserve protection, or if a karma spell would help us heal. You don’t need permission to use your own discernment, say this isn’t okay, and act with intention to restore yourself.
Only you can truly know whether a justice spell is right for your situation. We all know, though, that real justice requires disruption, like:
Protesting, voting, whistleblowing, spreading awareness
Filing a lawsuit, or filing for divorce
Reporting an abuser
Magic to help with it all
Nothing changes until something changes. If not you, who?
How to Practice Justice Magic
This is my formula for justice spells that should help you create your own:
Reflect → Intend → Check → Ground → Act → Release
1. Reflect on the situation.
What harm am I trying to prevent, heal, or disrupt?
Who am I protecting (myself, others, or the collective)?
2. Set a clear, empowered intention.
What is my goal?
Am I seeking justice through shielding, empowerment, resistance, or healing?
3. Check in with yourself.
Does this align with my morals and the person I want to be?
How will reaching my goal help me?
4. Ground and prepare.
Center your energy, protect your space if needed.
Trust that you are allowed to take up space.
5. Act in alignment with that intention.
A freezer spell for abuse, a justice jar to anchor consequences, a courage sigil for activism, a protection spell for survivors, etc.
6. Release.
“Set and forget.” Let the spell go without obsession or fear.
Justice magic is meant to free you. Seek that.
Taking Care of Yourself in Justice Work
Injustice for me often feels like:
Anger, rage
Grief, helplessness, hopelessness
Fire, passion to fight for something different
Those emotions are intense and not something our nervous systems were built to maintain. We need breaks. That’s why activism, anger, and grief often come in waves, and why they sometimes bring apathy and avoidance too.
That’s okay.
You do not have to be angry or sad to do justice magic. You also don’t have to "clear" or "fix" your anger before you act magically.
We’re not in Star Wars
Anger isn’t the Dark Side of the Force manifest
It’s a morally neutral emotion, like any other
No one is better or worse for how much anger they feel
The important thing with any spellwork—especially justice—is not losing yourself in the process. Magic is a great outlet, but if you find yourself:
Obsessing over revenge/making another person suffer
Using magic as punishment rather than justice
Feeling unable or guilty for resting, healing, or feeling joy
Losing sight of what you’re trying to build vs what you’re trying to destroy
Spiraling into chaos, panic, or losing a sense of humanity
...you might be severing from your higher self, your ethics, and your core values, often because of a lack of proper rest and grounding.
Losing yourself means letting harm define you more than hope does. Justice magic should free you from that, not trap you in it.
Anger, grief, and fire are sacred. But it is what we build with them that defines our magic.