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🌜 types of witches ✨

*disclaimer* these are notes from research i have done on the internet, and i myself am still learning. if you feel as if i have misinterpreted a certain type, or left something out, please let me know so i can further educate myself.

air witch: a witch that works with the element of air and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as air elementals, incense, and rhythmic breathing.

animal witch: a witch that works with animals, or a specific form of animal, and uses that animals energies in their practice. these witches will also work with the spiritual and physical forms of that animal and use magick based around it.

atheist witch: a witch who does not believe in any form of deity.

baby/beginner witch: a witch who is new to the practice and isn’t too knowledgable on the craft yet.

bone witch: a witch who uses bones in their practice, and can communicate with the spirits who used to own them, to allow them help in their practice.

blue witch: a witch who practices healing forms of magick such as reiki, yoga, acupuncture, energy healing, and quantum touch.

blood witch: a witch who practices blood magick and uses the energy of blood in their practice.

ceremonial witch: a witch who practices ceremonial magick and theurgy. they are focused on the ritual of the craft and draw power from performing a ceremony that is meaningful.

closet witch: a witch who is not open about their practice.

cosmic witch: a witch who uses cosmic or astrological bodies in their craft. they work with the energies of stars, the moon, the sun, and planets. they also may connect with deities associated with the stars or formulate spells based on planets, the alignment of the stars, etc.

cottage/hearth witch: a witch who focuses on the home, their families, and making the place they live comfortable and protected. they are witches who specialize in magick surrounding the home.

chaos witch: a witch who quite literally draws power from chaos. they usually perform emotional, tumultuous magick, and their spells are fueled by energy that clashes. they often perform magick with intense music, during storms, after a fight with a friend or significant other, or even when they’re just feeling a bit crazy emotionally. they also can perform powerful spells after a chaotic event in the world occurs.

coven witch: a witch who is in a group of witches, coven, or circle, and will be able to learn and practice magick with others.

color witch: a witch who uses the metaphysical meaning of colors in their magick.

dark witch: a witch who tunes into the darker side of the craft. they prefer to take things into their own hands and can be known to use older, traditional ceremonies. they also normally practice shadow work and prefer to practice at night.

death witch: a witch who practices death magick and works with the energies of death.

divination witch: a witch who practices divination such as cartomancy, rune casting, scrying, pendulum, tasseomancy, palmistry, and numerology.

desert witch: a witch who works with things from a desert such as desert sand, cacti, bushes, and spirits of the desert. they may or may not live near one.

draconian witch: a witch who works with dragons and draconic magick.

dream witch: a witch who works on and in their dreams, and may practice lucid dreaming. they may cast magick in their dreams and may also be dreamwalkers. these witches use their dreamscape as a home away from home.

eclectic witch: a witch who has an eclectic practice. this means that they will work with and learn from many different paths, practices, philosophies, traditions, and sources. they don’t have any one set religion that they must adhere to.

elemental witch: a witch who works with all of the western classical elements. these elements being fire, water, earth, air, and spirit. some elemental witches also choose not to incorporate the element of spirit.

earth witch: a witch that works with the element of earth and the energy that it possesses. they work with things such as crystals, herbs, rocks, earth elementals, the spirit of the land, and other earth-based tools.

fire witch: a witch that works with the element of fire and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as candle magick, fire elementals, bonfire rituals, and fire scrying, among other practices relating to fire.

forest witch: a witch who works with things from the forest such as the trees, the forest spirits, and forest animals. they may or may not live near one.

fae witch: a witch who works with fairies and fae magick. they love nature spirits, woodland creatures, and the fae, and they invite all of these elements into their practice.

green witch: a witch who uses nature-based things in their practice such as herbs, trees, stones, animals, and natural elements. they are very connected to the earth and draw their magick from nature and specifically from earthly elements.

garden witch: a witch who works with herbs and the earth, much like a green witch, but is focused on their garden and how they can incorporate it with their magick. this process is much like a home to a cottage witch.

gray witch: a witch who practices a neutral form of magick and uses a balance of both dark and light forms of magick.

hedge witch: a witch that uses magick that is oriented around the spiritual world. they practice things such as astral travel, astral projection, lucid dreaming, spirit work, and journeying. these witches are able to walk between worlds.

hereditary witch: a witch who gets their tradition passed down to them by their family, and they are born into the practices of witchcraft. they also usually have their family to practice with and to be there to help with development.

herbal witch: a witch that uses herbs in their practice. they will normally grow herbs and use them in many different ways in order to produce magickal effects such as burning them, turning them into tea, or sprinkling them around places.

kitchen witch: a witch who works with magick through cooking and uses the magickal properties of different foods.

lunar witch: a witch who works with the energies of the moon and the moon’s cycles. they usually charge their tools in the moonlight and perform their spells based on the phase of the moon.

pop culture witch: a witch who incorporates aspects of media in their practice such as things from movies, tv shows, books, and video games. they may also work with pop culture spirits and call upon them like traditional spirits.

purple witch: a witch who practices energy work, psychic abilities, and psionics.

religious witch: a witch who holds some form of religion. these include christian witches, satanic witches, pagan witches, wiccan witches, buddhist witches, muslim witches, jewish witches, hindu witches, along with any other type of religious witch.

red witch: a witch who practices love and sex magick.

sea witch: a witch who works with things from the sea such as seawater, sea glass, beach sand, seashells, and other tools associated with the sea. they may or may not live near it.

secular witch: a witch who is not religious and does not subscribe to a religious dogma. they believe in energy and work with energetic forces in witchcraft, but they do not pray to any kinds of gods or deities. a secular witch can certainly be spiritual in his/her own time, but their craft specifically works with energy that is unnamed and doesn’t have a personality.

solar witch: a witch who works with the energies of the sun. they usually benefit from charging their tools in the sunlight, and performing their magick at sunrise or sunset.

solitary witch: a witch who practices their craft alone or without a personal group such as a coven or circle of other practitioners.

spoonie witch: a witch that practices low-energy witchcraft due to a chronic illness, mental illness, disability, etc.

swamp witch: a witch who works with things from the swamp such as swamp water, the swamp spirits, and swamp animals. they may or may not live near one.

storm/weather witch: a witch who works with the weather and its energies in order to change it, receive energy, or achieve some other outcome. they may have a preference for a specific type of storm or enjoy chaotic weather energy in general, but will definitely feel more powerful when the energy is tumultuous. they also usually charge their tools during a storm and collect storm water, snow, etc. for use in spells.

stitch witch: a witch who works with thread, yarn, or other fibers for their work.

science witch: a witch who has a higher focus on science and will use their understandings of it in their practices. these witches usually do not portray scientism, and focus on a higher connection between science and their practice.

traditional witch: a witch who practices the forms of traditional witchcraft. they do a lot of research and take a historical approach to their magickal practice.

tech witch: a witch who works with modern technology in their practice, and will integrate computers and electronics with their magick.

tea witch: a witch who uses tea in their practice in order to facilitate certain effects through the act of drinking them.

theistic witch: a witch who believes in a form of deity.

water witch: a witch who works with the element of water and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as the different kinds of water, water elementals, and water scrying, among other tools related to water.

white/light witch: a witch who practices benevolent forms of magick. they tend to gravitate towards more light deities and beings like angels.

Things you think you have to do as a witch that you don't have to do.

You have to wait an x amount of time before you can do–

No. You don’t have to wait. There is no prerequisites for being accepted into witchcraft. You wanted to be a witch and now you’re a witch. End of story. Now, I would advice you work on meditating and protection because you’re just gonna need it on your journey, but to flat out say you’re not allowed to do anything else but protection and meditation for a disclosed amount of years or whatever, that’s ridiculous. Do what feel is calling you.

You shouldn’t hex or curse because–

You shouldn’t tell people how to work their damn craft. If they want to hex or curse you let them. Hell, a few practices see cursing and hexing as major part of their ancestors history. If you don’t want to curse/hex don’t. But you don’t get to tell me or anyone else what to do like that. So try again. 

You have to do the spell in this exact–

Absolutely not. No you don’t. It is your magic. Yours! You know your limits, your strengths and what you can do. The spell will adjust. Use what you can. Do not worry about doing it down to the letter. Yes there are main components to a spell but even they can be altered to what you have. It’s about intent! INTENT! Do not think for a moment that you have to bend over backwards to a spell “correctly”. That’s just how they did it and that’s okay. Just follow the main points, I assume you know common sense, and you should be fine. 

Eliienkind

Autumn 🍂 or spring 🌼 ?

𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𓋼 low energy witchcraft activities 𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧

• Tarot apps that give you a card pull for the day or let you do readings

•Apps that give you affirmations, guided meditations, etc. so you don’t have to search much for something to follow and get overwhelmed by choice.

•Drink sun or moon water, bonus if you add healing or energetic intent into it.

•If you need to cleanse and don’t have the energy, just let some incense burn, your oil diffuser run with cleansing oils, or take advantage of my personal favourite “lazy” option and let belongings cleanse on some selenite.

•We all know this but tea/coffee magic is great for when you’re low energy, especially since you’ll likely be drinking these for comfort anyway. If you don’t drink these don’t forget you can put intent into any food or drink, these are things you’re ingesting so you’re letting that intent go into you, think of ways to take advantage of that! (Bonus again for using sun/moon/etc water for drinks!)

•If you need to sleep but need to communicate with a deity/guide/etc invite them to communicate to you in your dreams. Take care of yourself first and let yourself rest but sometimes there’s moments where you need to talk to them and are struggling to find the energy.

•Simplify offerings to match your energy level, whether that’s saying you can’t give anything today, or finding something easy for you like a fresh glass of water, some herbs, whatever works with your needs.

•Audio books, podcasts, and youtube videos are great for when you want to learn but don’t have the brain power to read and research much, especially when you’re in an emotional rut vs. simply taking a few days off because you burnt yourself out. You can listen to these in bed, eyes closed, get those good feelings from being productive by learning more while not pushing yourself too far.

•Sigils are perfect low energy magic, even more so if you have sigils made ahead of time! Draw an energy sigil on you, put a pain-calming sigil under your pillow, a motivating sigil on your bath products to help you get through washing your face and/or brushing your teeth. Be mindful when using sigils off the internet that you don’t always know for sure what they’re made for, and it tends to work best when it’s your own. Using symbols like runes or bindrunes are also a great option if you want to play it safe but not make your own.

•rock. just pick the rocks you want in your pockets, on your bedside table. it’s pretty, it’s nice, they’re good fidgets, i don’t have to explain to other practitioners why crystals are great (coming from someone who barely uses them in their practice)

•Baths!! Baths aren’t as easy as a lot of people treat them, it’s totally okay to not have the energy to run a bath, especially if you want to wash out the tub a bit first, not have to deal with wet hair, all that. But if you can, it’s going to ease your body so much, use teabags you already have for simple herbs in the bath, water safe crystals, epsom salts are great for your muscles.

•Do some self love journaling, which is a great balance to doing shadow work. Look up self love journal prompts and go with whatever you can come up with things to write about.

•Music/sounds for everything! Youtube and other audio platforms are full of music and sounds that already are made with intention, or you can play intentionally to cleanse, protect, calm, bring joy, etc.

•Making online altar spaces or just collecting general fun inspiration, pinterest and tumblr are great for these!

•Sit outside, lay in the sun, watch the bugs, watch the weather, stare at the moon and stars.

Pumpkin Witchcraft

Keep carved pumpkins to scare away spirits and negative energy

Make pumpkin pies for abundance

Roast pumpkin seeds and put them in your money bowl

Add pumpkin spice to your coffee for abundance

Give a pumpkin to your deity as an offering

Offer a pumpkin to your home wards

Light pumpkin scented candles for abundance

Drink pumpkin tea before bed to protect you while you sleep

30 days of shadow work challenge

hey everyone! i’ve found myself in a bit of a journalling/shadow work rut and thought i would give myself a little challenge to do for the next 30 days. i know that this is pretty common for a lot of people, so i thought i would share my challenge with you so we can keep each other accountable and do some reflective work 🤍 obviously you don’t have to do all 30 days, and this can purely be a prompt list if you need it! you can join in whenever you like 🤍

what is something you wish you could be doing right now? what’s stopping you?

if you could receive the truthful answer any question of your choice, what would you ask? why? what response would you hope for?

if you could change anything about your childhood, what would it be?

name 3 of your least favourite things about yourself. then challenge them - why do you think that way? what could you do to change?

what relationships in your life bring you joy and which ones don’t?

how could you show yourself love in your love language?

when was the last time you felt at peace?

write a letter to someone who hurt you - no matter how long ago. write everything you wish you could say to them, every emotion that comes up. burn, tear apart or flush away the letter

how would you treat yourself if you were a young child? how could you make them feel loved? see where you could incorporate that into your life

what triggers your temper most? why does it make you angry/frustrated/sad?

if you had everything you ever wanted, what would your life look like?

what emotions or feelings do you avoid? why?

what are your core values? do they align with the life you’re living right now?

what do you hate about yourself and why do you hate it? did someone tell you you should?

what negative patterns keep repeating in your life?

when you lash out, what part of you wants to be protected?

what is something you fear others knowing about you? why do you fear it?

in what ways do you consciously or unconsciously punish myself?

what is a grudge/instance that you are holding onto that no longer serves you? why are you holding on to it? how can you let it go?

what are your pet peeves? where do you think they come from?

when was the last time you felt wronged by someone?

when are you the hardest on yourself? why? can you find a way to be kinder to yourself?

how do you respond to situations that make you angry?

what are you the most proud of in your life?

in what ways are you hypocritical?

when am i my truest, most authentic self?

what advice would you give to yourself 5 years ago?

what boundaries do i need to set and reinforce in my life?

what things make you feel the most alive and present?

list 10 things you like about yourself. get specific! list more if you can 🤍

“You’ll Know It’s Working When It Feels Like Magic”