Hi. I’m a witch.
This is not news, me being a witch. It wasn’t something I proclaimed everywhere, but it was not a secret.
As I’ve been delving deeper into my craft — for that is what being a witch is, it’s a practice, not a religion or singular belief system — I’ve had a desire for community. This is something I’ve expressed on other platforms, but I’ve decided to start recording my thoughts and growth here. Maybe in documenting my journey, it could encourage and, who knows, maybe even help others. If anything, maybe it’ll help me feel less alone on this path.
So if you’re someone who is also practicing “The Nameless Art” or walking “the Crooked Path” — or whatever other name they’ve decided to give this… Stop by and say hello. Well met.
What does being a witch mean?
Again, witchcraft is a practice, not a religion. There’s no set deities or doctrine or even dogma. It’s not chicken bones or devil worship or dancing naked in the woods — for some maybe it includes those things, but these things alone do not make a witch.
For me, it’s a purposeful connection to my faith and to the world around me. I liken spells as to physical manifestations of prayers. Growing up Quaker, ritual was not a part of my practice. Far from it actually. I’m finding a new comfort in the physicality, elemental, and tactile-ness of spell work.
There are no set gods or goddesses for being a witch. You’ll see some of the same names go around and around. You have some people who choose a pantheon and tradition, and stick only to that. There are others who pick and choose, switching things up as they please. It’s not my place to set one above another. I don’t necessarily feel a conflict between my faith and the journey it’s on and my practice as a witch. In the past, I never could dream on not identifying as a Quaker. It was truly etched in my core. Now? There are many ways I am still very much a Quaker, but I have indeed moved far away from the mainstream modern American/Western church and it’s toxic core that has taken over. My faith is just my faith, and maybe one day I’ll expand on it further. But right now, it’s not at odds with who I am as a witch. If anything, I feel more myself.
There is a freedom and power in declaring oneself a witch. Aligning yourself with the marginalized and the periphery. It’s a reclamation in many ways.