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Types Of Witches series: 🥄Spoonie Witches🥄

Spoonie Witches are witches who use ways of witchcraft that are friendly to their own disabilities and chronic illnesses. They practice things like low-energy spells, self care spells, and overall low-sensitive spells and practices.

 Spoonie Witch resources:

🥄 Spoonie Witchraft: What Does It Mean?

🥄 Low Spoons Witch Tip

🥄 Witchy Ideas For Those With Low Energy

🥄 Spoonie Witch Tip

🥄 One-Worded Spells

🥄 Spoonie Acts Of Witchery

🥄 Autistic Witch Tips

🥄 “Peaceful Atmosphere” Sigil

🥄 Spoonie Witch Tip

🥄 Witchy Things To Do When You’re Low On Spoons [Part 1]

🥄 Witchy Things To Do When You’re Low On Spoons [Part 2]

🥄 Spoonie Cleansing

🥄 Herbal Tea For Anxiety And Depression

🥄 Low Spoons Spells

🥄 Spoonie Self-Care Tips

🥄 Spoonie Magic Tips

🥄 Anti-Anxiety Tarot Spread

🥄 Witchcraft And Meds

🥄 Witchy Positivity Journal

🥄 Quick Magic Tips For Fatigue

🥄 Spoonie Sigils List

🥄 Spoonie Witch Reminder

🥄 Tips For Witches With Anxiety

🥄 Intrusive Thoughts Witch Tip

🥄 Meditation For The Wild-Minded Witch

🥄 Bed Magic

🥄 Healing Tea Recipes

🥄 Spoonie Devotional Tips

🥄 Charging A Stuffed Animal For Comfort

🥄 Magical Batteries

🥄 Witch Tip

Bedridden Witch Series:

🥄 Nature Edition

🥄 Worship Edition

🥄 Divination Edition

🥄 Stale Energy Edition

🥄 Elements Edition

🥄 Pastel Edition

🥄 Kitchen Edition

🥄 Winter Edition

🥄 Ocean Edition

🥄 Love Edition

🥄 Weather Edition

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Types Of Witches/Magick Masterpost

Types of Witches:

• Religious - a witch who is religious.

Some examples:

A Pagan witch, this really just refers to someone who works with/worships more than one deity. A Wiccan witch, these witches practice a common religion among witches known as Wicca. They value nature and worship a God/Goddess. They follow rules such as the three fold law “anything you do will come back to you three fold” being the general idea. A Hellenic Witch, these witches work with the deities most people would simply know from Greek myths. Such as Zeus, it is mainly focused on the twelve Olympians. • Hereditary - someone who is as the name might point out, related to witches by blood. Often this refers to someone who was born into a family of witches. • Solitary - a witch who practices alone, not in a coven.   • Eclectic - a witch who takes components from many types of witchcraft, cultures, and religions. If you are interested in this sort of practice, make sure not to take anything from closed cultures/religions. • Kitchen - a witch who works from the kitchen, inside the home. They usually use a lot of herbs & spices in their practice. They protect their home and add magick to many things done inside of it. • Hedge - these witches break the bounds, walls, or hedges of our world. An example of something they practice may be astral projection. They work with all things spiritual.   • Green -  nature is this sort of witches specialty! They appreciate animals & plants. & often incorporate these things or nature deities into their craft. • Sea - a witch that loves the sea & involves sea related things such as sea shells into their craft. • Swamp - a witch that likes swamps & involves things found in swamps in their craft. • Desert - a witch who like deserts & involves things found in deserts in their craft. Such as sand.   • Forest - a witch who likes forests & uses things found in them, perhaps wild herbs and weeds. Or certain types of wood. • Country - a witch who prefers the country, perhaps they have a ranch. Or like working in pure solitude.   • Urban - a witch who lives in the city and has to take advantage of things they find around them, maybe they’ve made an herb garden on a very small windowsill or work with a tiny little altar. • Weather - a witch who primarily works with the weather, does weather magick, and may work with deities associated with the weather.   • Dream - a witch who primarily works with dreams in their craft, perhaps dream interpretation/lucid dreaming. • Fae - a witch who primarily works with the fae/faeries. They leave them offerings and call upon them for assistance.   • Animal - a with who primarily works with animals. They love and respect all animals. • Elemental - a witch who works with the elements or perhaps one element specifically, example being a fire witch. • Cosmic/Astronomical/Space - these witches work with the stars, planets, and astrology. They draw their power and practice from space. •  Lunar - these witches work with the moon, They base their magick around moon cycles.   • Crystal - a witch who primarily works with crystals. • Nocturnal - these witches usually work at night and find solace in the darkness. They often work with deities associated with the night. • Pop culture - a witch who incorporates things from TV, movies, books ect into their craft and are inspired by them.   • Tech - a witch that primarily works with technology and incorporates it into their craft. • Sound - a witch who primarily works with sound or perhaps music & incorporates it into their craft.   • Artistic/craft - a witch who incorporates arts and/or crafts into their work. I do a lot of this myself, I make my grimoire super artsy. I draw complex sigils. I often use ribbons & glitter in spells. If you call it arts/crafts supplies, I can find a way to use it. • Energy - a witch who primarily works with energy, such as chakras, reiki healing, or aura work.  • Divination - a witch who primarily uses divination, the act of finding out someone’s current future or seeking guidance by supernatural means. Examples being, tarot cards, runes, pendulums, & the reading of tea leaves. 

Types of Magick:

• Sigil - sigils are personalized symbols. Certain witches will make custom ones for you, but you can also make your own. They can do just about anything.   • Jars - jar spells are when you take a bunch of stuff, often herbs, magick waters or sigils, and put them into a jar. These spells require a lot of personal correspondence. Most jar spells require you make them, and then forget about them. • Sachets - similar to the jar spell, you put a bunch of stuff in a sachet. The color of the sachet can correspond with what you’re trying to accomplish.   • Potions - Exactly what it sounds like, a mixture often made in a pot/cauldron, they often involve herbs & spices, plants, essential oils, ect. They can be placed on the body or ingested.  • Color - color magick is usually applied to candles, or art magick. I have a whole post about color correspondence -here-. The idea is you pick a color that you associate with what you’re trying to do. If the spell is for luck, you might pick green.

• Candle - candle magick is used just about anywhere and everywhere, it be applied to almost any spell. Since you can always light candles. The color of the candle or the scent corresponds with what you’re trying to do. As with many other types of magick. • Elemental - elemental magick is in everything. Since the usage & respect of nature is a core part of witchcraft. Moon water? Elemental magick. Usage of crystals? Elemental magick. Candle magick? Elemental magick.

• Crystal - this is something I use a lot, different crystals do different things. They can be used to amplify another spell or crystal, to bring healing, to bring abundance. To cleanse and to charge.   • Charms - charming is casting a spell on something to give it a certain property, you could charm a lipstick to make you more attractive, you could charm a jacket to make you hidden to others. Charms, like most things on this list, are versatile and all up to the caster.   • Enchanting - This is a sort of spell that puts a certain effect on something long term. • Chants - spells spoken aloud, the meaning of the chant is usually encompassed in the words. Sometimes these rhyme, or are in Latin. They can be song like. They can be long or short. & do just about anything you like. As an example check out a chant for rain I came up with -here-.

 • Divination (Example: Tarot cards)  - divination is the act of seeking guidance or information by supernatural means. • Representational - pretty self explanatory, as is the spell type below. Representational magick is using tools, ingredients, taglocks, ect to represent something in magick. Typically something you want to manifest into existence. 

• Symbolic - mostly self explanatory this is the usage of symbolism to manifest something, most magick is symbolic in some form. An example of a symbolic spell would be tying up something that represents someone to you, this could bind them. You’re not actually binding them of course, it’s symbolic.   • Anointment - Rubbing an liquid on something to give it a certain property or ability  • Glamour - a glamour is any spell that changes your outward appearance or energy. Going back to an example I used before, putting a charm on that lipstick to make you more appealing is a glamour. it changes the way you appear to others. • Banishing - any magick that gets rid of, or banishes something, usually something you dislike. • Binding - similar to banishing except instead of being rid of it you stop whatever it is, it is bound and cannot continue the undesirable behavior. • Jinx - think of how people often say “Don’t! You’ll jinx it” this sort of spell is the same. Usually this spell causes the opposite of what someone desires. It can cause relatively weak misfortune, vulnerability, or annoyance for the victim.  But is very temporary. • Hexing - normally considered a weaker form of cursing, hexing usually brings some form of misfortune to the victim. • Cursing - cursing brings some form of grand misfortune to someone, they are very powerful unlike hexes and jinxes. They are also meant to be permanent or long term, unlike hexes and jinxes. I feel the need to add not all witches will curse you, or some have certain standards about when cursing is appropriate. It varies from witch to witch.

Other things used in Magick:

These are all components of any of the types of magick mentioned above.

• Herbs & Spices   • Magick waters such as moon water • Incense   • Essential oils   • Arts & Crafts supplies Let me know if you’d like me to add anything else or if I got anything wrong. Enjoy! Have a lovely day 💖

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Specific Witch Types

Not every witch fits in this list, not every witch who fits in this list will fit in just one category. This is simply a list I found a while back about the different kinds of witches around the world. 

Lunos - A witch who is emotional and can pick up on social cues easily Magical talent - Healing. 

Nuntis - A witch who is good at explaining things and communication. Magical talent - Divination, necromancy. 

Equo - Power hungry witch, shows little compassion for others.  Magical talent - Energy manipulation and/or spiritual vampirism

Canis - Outspoken, cares more for offence than defence Magical talent - protection magic

Discerno - Focuses on knowledge and learning. Magical talent - Fast learner

Tesserae - more compassion for animals and plants than other humans  Magical talent - Communication with animals

Copulta - Love witch Magical talent - Love Magic

Medicus - Healing; physically, mentally, and spiritually  Magical talent - Herbology 

Cultus - Gifted in worship Magical talent - Prayer, Ceremonial magic 

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🌼🌸Types Of Witches🌸🌼

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🌼Traditional Witch🌼

A traditional witch is a witch who has a base in the history of witchcraft and the old craft that came before Wicca, so they take a more hostorical or traditional approach to the practice.

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🌸Gardenerian Witch🌸

Gardenerian witchcraft came about in the 1950s, and is a form of Wicca that has strong ties to nature, challenges societal norms, and has many rituals that are the base of the practice. Members MUST be initiated, and members cannot initiate themselves.

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🌼Alexandrian Witch🌼

A form of witchcraft founded in the 60s by Maxine Sanders (although the name comes from her husband, Alex Sanders who referred to himself as “The King Of All Witches). It has similarities to Gardenian witchcraft, but is seen as more eclectic (as it has ceremonial magick and Qabalan incorporated in it) and is less structured than Gardenian Wicca; they follow the belief of “if it works, use it.” Members must be initiated, and there are levels of advancements that can be achieved. Covens meet on new moons, full moons, and during Sabbat festivals.

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🌸Sea Witch🌸

Sea witches have strong ties to the water (more specifically the ocean) and use the water element often in practice. Sand, shells, driftwood, and other elements that come from the ocean/beach/water are also often used in practice. Many feel connected to water and ancient folklore that’s connected to water, such as folklore concerning sirens.

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🌼Correllian Witch/Nativist Traditional Witch🌼

Founded in the late 20th century by Caroline High Correll (who claimed to come from a line of hereditary witches and was a psyche, spiritual healer, and herbalist), Correllian Wicca is one of the most widespread practices in existence, although it was not recognized as Wicca until the 1990s, being more seen as eclecticism/universalism.

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🌸Kitchen Witch/Hearth Witch/Home Witch🌸

Most commonly known as Kitchen Witches, these witches create most of their magick in their home/kitchen. Many consider them to be incredibly nurturing (and thus far, not a single kitchen witch I know has proven otherwise!). When practicing, they combine their own personal/individual magickal energy with essential oils, herbs, food, and other everyday objects to create their own spells, rituals, and magick, and many love to make their home a truly sacred or special place.

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🌼Hedge Witch🌼

Hedge witches practice what is known as “hedge jumping,” which is the ability to venture out of this world and into the otherworld. They can communicate with the spiritual world and can send messages between both worlds. They practice astral projection, as well as work with herbs and Earth magick.

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🌸Dianic Witch🌸

Dianic witchcraft is the MOST feminist out of all witchcraft practices. All followers of the Cult of Diana are female, with a no male allowed policy. The worship the goddess through all three of her aspects (Maiden, Mother, and Crone), but rituals and worship may vary, although they all have feminist aspects and come from a feminist standpoint.

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🌼Elemental Witch🌼

An elemental witch studies and practices based on the four (five, of you add spirit) elements. Elemental magick is based solely on honoring each element, and some witches even have an altar dedicated to each specific element. They call upon the elements when casting spells and performing rituals, and may even have an element that they personally identify with.

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🌸Ceremonial Witch🌸

Ceremonial witches have many practices, but ceremonies and rituals are held in especially high regard and are worked into most elements of the witch’s practice, typically being worked into whatever they’re casting or trying to accomplish, along with calling upon specific beings and spiritual entities to assist them.

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🌼Green Witch/Garden Witch/Forest Witch🌼

Most commonly known as green witches, these witches are highly connected to the Earth and the energy it possesses. They may have their own garden where they grow their own herbs and practice their magick, but also study their area and practice with local plants and their own environment. They use plants and greenery in their spells/magick/cooking/around their homes so as to stay connected with Mother Earth.

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🌸Cosmic Witch/Star Witch🌸

These are contemporary witches who look to the cosmos and work with astrology and astronomy, working those elements and celestial energy into their practice and often follow the plants and stars, basing their spells and rituals on the different placements and alignments.

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🌼Hereditary Witch🌼

A hereditary witch is born into witchcraft, where where it is a part of their family and/or lineage. Magick and practice is passed down from previous generations, but a hereditary witch may choose to follow their own individual practice instead of/as well as their family’s practice. If a hereditary witch chooses to not practice witchcraft, then they will not STILL be a hereditary witch.

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🌸Secular Witch🌸

A secular witch still uses spells, oils, crystals, herbs, etc., but do not attach spirituality to it, so they do not worship a deity or higher being. This is not saying that a secular witch can’t be religious, it’s simply that their WORK is not religious; the two are entirely separate.

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🌼Solitary Witch🌼

This is any type of witch who chooses to practice alone rather than with a coven, whether it be personal preference or that they just haven’t found a coven yet. There are many legends that say a solitary witch is the reincarnation of previous witches who had been practicing for generations, and the solitary witch’s abilities/knowledge are awakened at puberty, so they do not need a coven as they already have an understanding of the craft and have less of a need for a coven.

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🌸Eclectic Witch🌸

An eclectic witch has no set religion, practice, tradition, or culture, as their practice comes from many sources and ultimately becomes their own.

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🌼Augury Witch🌼

An Augury Witch is a witch who practices direction/guidance for someone else from using ancient symbology, signs, omens, auguries, indications. An Augury Witch can consequently check whether or not the person is on the ‘proper course’ for what they are getting direction for.

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🌸Druid Witch🌸

A Druid witch has a prepared faith. Druids do not comply with any sacred text or dogma, however, they believe that another world exists that cannot usually be percepted. Many Druids engage in prayer and rites that mark critical passages in nature.

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🌼Faery Witch🌼

Similar to the Eclectic Witches, a Faery Witch also has their own practices and ceremonies that they pull from, but by observing these, a Faery Witch tends to seek out communication with the spirits of nature, so they are very connected to the Earth, nature, and animals.

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🌸Shaman🌸

A shaman can reach altered states of consciousness by carrying out certain shamanistic practices. While a shaman is in a trance state, they have access to the spirit realm can talk with and occasionally even have an effect on both benevolent and malevolent spirits.

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🌼Celtic Witch🌼

A Celtic Witch uses Celtic/Druidic pantheon combined with ritual Gardnerian, as well as closely stressing the elements, nature and the Ancient Ones.

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🌸Caledonii Witch/Hecatine Conventional Witch🌸

This denomination of the Craft is Scottish in the foundation and still preserves the specific galas of the Scots.

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🌼Pictish Witch🌼

Scottish witchcraft that attunes itself to all factors of nature, which is animal, vegetable, and mineral.

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🌸Pow-Wow Witch🌸

Pow-Wow Witches are indigenous to South vital Pennsylvania. This is a gadget, no longer a religion, based totally on 400-year-vintage Elite German magic. (I don’t know much on this one, admittedly, so if I’m wrong here, please correct me!)

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🌼Strega Witch🌼

Follows a tradition seated in Italy that began around 1353 with a lady referred to as Aradia, and is strictly an Italian witchcraft and is far less common.

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🌸Native American/Indigenous Spirituality/African/Mestizo🌸

Local beliefs are deeply rooted in the subculture. One would have to categorize the complete culture as witchcraft, and for that reason, the public views similar ideals to be wizardly.

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PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I WAS WRONG WITH ANY OF THESE! I did a very thorough amount of research and pulled from a lot of books and websites and even from a friend, but I could have slipped up somewhere and gotten something wrong, in which case I need to be corrected and will fix!! (If I had gotten all of those from only one source, I’d be citing, but I don’t even remember where I got a large majority of this information, I just kinda wrote a ton of stuff down, lol) Blessed Be! 💗💛

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Types of Cosmic Witches ✨

Cosmic - works with the energy of the cosmos and all celestial bodies within; can include planets, stars, and other deep space objects

Celestial - interchangeable with cosmic

Stellar - primarily works with stars and constellations

Astrology - primarily works with astrological phenomena

Solar - primarily works with the Sun

spells may include those having to do with self-confidence, leadership, success, and ambition 

Lunar - primarily works with the Earth’s Moon

spells may include those having to do with emotions, moods, divination, dreams, and protection

Planetary - works with one or more planets or minor planets

Mercurian - primarily works with Mercury

spells may include those having to do with communication, intellect, intelligence, learning, safe travel, and business matters

Venusian - primarily works with Venus

spells may include those having to do with love, romance, friendships, creativity, beauty, and fertility 

Martian - primarily works with Mars

spells may include those having to do with vitality, energy, passion, courage, and strength

Jovian - primarily works with Jupiter

spells may include those having to do with luck, good fortune, prosperity, mercy, humility, and charity 

Saturnian - primarily works with Saturn

spells may include those having to do with protection, revenge, justice, law, order, responsibility, and chaos

Uranian - primarily works with Uranus

spells may include those having to do with technology, weather, freedom, psychic abilities, higher thinking, and metaphysics 

Neptunian - primarily works with Neptune

spells may include those having to do with illusion, chaos, dreams, the sea/ocean, divination, inner vision, and self-sacrifice 

Plutonian - primarily works with Pluto

spells may include those having to do with death, the underworld, spirit work, transformation, change, and crisis

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Types Of Witches

This is a post on the many different types of witches. Due to the fact there are so many different types of them, I probably missed a couple, and this list isn’t complete. You do not have to be only one type of these witches, but can be a multitude of them, and you do not have to feel limited to fit in to any of these. In order for a type of witch to appear on this list someone must be identifying with it. If you are not represented here, or misrepresented here please tell me, and I will change it.

Witch: A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. There are no other requirements to be a witch besides the act of practicing witchcraft, because of this anyone can be a witch regardless of age, gender, sexuality, race, religion, or any other factor. Witchcraft is defined as the practice of magick primarily but not limited to the practice of thaumaturgy.

Male Witch: Are witches who happened to be males. Though this term is not necessary, because the word witch is already gender neutral.

Baby Witch / Newbie Witch / Witchling: Are witches who are new to the practice, or feel that they are not quite witches yet.

Elemental Witch: Are witches that work with all of the western classic elements. These elements being fire, water, earth, air, and spirit. Some elemental witches choose not to also incorporate the element of spirit.

Fire Witch: Are witches that work with the element of fire, and the energies that it possesses. They would work with things such as candle magick, fire elementals, bonfire rituals, and fire scrying among other things that are related to fire.

Water Witch: Are witches that work with the element of water, and the energies that it possesses. They would work with things such as different types of water, water elementals, and water scrying among other things that are related to water.

Earth Witch: Are witches that work with the element of earth, and the energies that it possesses. They would work with things such as crystal, herbs, rocks, earth elementals, the spirit of the land, and other earth-based things.

Air Witch: Are witches that work with the element of air, and the energies that it possesses. They would work with things such as air elementals, incense, and rhythmic breathing.

Crystal Witch: Are witches that use crystals in their practice. They will practice such things as crystal healing, communicating with crystal spirits, and crystal grids, among other things that has to do with crystals.

Herbal Witch: Are witches that use herbs in their practice. They will usually grow herbs, and will use these herbs in many different ways in order to produce magickal effects such as burning them, turning them into tea, or sprinkling them around places.

Tea Witch: Are witches that use tea in their practice in order to facilitate certain effects through the act of drinking certain teas.

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Types of Witches Masterpost

I’ve seen several of these passed around, but they always feel incomplete. I’ve decided to put together my own version.  I hope this is helpful.

Religious WItches - Witches who practice within a religious practice (like Wicca)

Secular Witches - Witches who practice outside of a religious practice.

Solitary Witches - Witches who practice alone

Sonicary Witches  - Witches who only exist as the concept of sound

Tweed Witches - Witches who are really into elbow patches

Sandwiches - like a good ham and cheese one would be pleasant now.

Cranberry Witches - Best served at Thanksgiving

Forest Witches - They are in the woods, right now, totally lost

Steve Witches - These are witches named Steve. They tend to collect Dreamcast games and are generally okay unless they’ve been drinking.

Sea Witches - They work with water

C Witches - scpell everytching wcith unecesscary C’s

Gray Witches - only wear the color gray.

Grey Witches - Like Gray witches, only more pretentious

Fae Witches - Witches who work with Fairies

Witches Near Fae Witches - just waiting to see if the Fae Witches weren’t careful enough when they made their deals with the Fae.

Booze Witches - Do their best witchcraft drunk, or at least that’s what they tell you when they ask you to hold their beer. This is what Steve thinks he is. He isn’t. Steve has a problem.

Kitchen Witches - People you should be friends with around thanksgiving

Garden Witches - Work with plants, stronger than they look, seriously – don’t try to fight them.  God damn it Steve, leave her alone.

Healing Witches - The people you take Steve to after he pisses off the Garden witches.

Hedge Witches - These are Witches who work with Hedges.

Did I miss anything?

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Grimoire Organization 2.0

Okok I know it is very late bUT here’s the Grimoire Organization 2.0 thing I promised!

Again, I must remind everyone that this method of organization is meant to be used in my 2018 grimoire challenge so it may not be the best method for you! However, you can still definitely make it work if you’re not participating in the challenge.

So, here we go.

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what to put in your grimoire:

Obviously, you don’t have to include all of these ideas in your grimoire: they are merely ideas, prompts and inspiration for your own research and documentation. Similarly, this list is not exhaustive and there may be other things you want to include in your grimoire.

This is in no particular order, you may wish to organise your grimoire into sections; but I personally don’t overthink the structure of my grimoire and I just make sure I have a good contents page. 

You may also want to include things such as print outs, post cards, your own drawings and sketches, paintings, and decorations. Some people add extra pages or cut outs, flaps and envelopes. what you include is up to you and dependent on what you desire from your grimoire. If you are using a notebook, I would recommend sticking an envelope on the back page so you can keep any small or lose pages in it.  

So, here are some suggestions for things to put in your grimoire:

a contents page (this is important to organise your information for future reference)

information on any witchy festivals that you celebrate. For instance, when are they, what are their origins, how are they celebrated, their correspondences and associations

information on the moon phases. What are the moon phases, an almanac for the moon phases for the upcoming year, what associations and correspondences are associated with each moon phase, what types of magic are suited to each moon phase

colour correspondences

information on the elements. What are the elements, what are their associations and correspondences

a record of your sigils, runes and symbols. Draw them out and note their purpose

a record of the spells that you have done. What are the ingredients and methods of the spell, why did you do it, how did you do it, when did you do it, what were the results and effects, what changes would you make next time

similarly, a record of any rituals that you have done

information on witchy plants that you would like to grow

an entry for each witchy festival celebrated. How did you celebrate it, did you do any further research, are there things you would like to do to celebrate it next time

information on all the crystals that you own. What are they, what do they look like, what are their uses and associations, what have you used them for 

practical information you have researched, such as how to create sigils, charge, activate and use them. Other examples include fire safety

a directory for any herbs and plants that you use in your craft. What do they look like, in what conditions do they grow, what are their uses and correspondences, what do you use them for

a sketch or photograph of your altar or work space with labels explaining the layout

information on tarot references

information on any witchy DIYs you’ve done. What did you create, how did you create them, why did you create them, what purpose do they serve, how do they work, how did they turn out

a record of any witchy recipes you make. What is the recipe, what is the recipe good for, is it for a specific witchy festival

specific references for themes that you use a lot. For instance, items for bringing calm (crystals, plants, colours, scents…)

information on folklore, historical accounts, or anthropology that you have researched. Such as the history of witches where you live, or the folklore of a particular time period you are interested in. Examples I have include Selkies, geographical features in Western Scotland, and Scottish Fair Folk

information on divination techniques that you are interested in using, such as palmistry, pendulums and shufflemancy

recipes for things you have made such as bath soaks and tea blends. What is in them, why have you used those particular ingredients, are they effective

information on aspects of magic that are specific to you. For instance, I have information on how to conserve energy in witchcraft

research on deities, pantheons, spirits, or the fair folk that you would like to work with. What are they known as, when were they first known in the historical record, what are their origins, what folk lore is associated with them, why would you like to work with them, what or where are they associated with, what are their patronages

information on ways to create spells and types of spells. Which of these suit you and how can you make a spell creation method which is unique to you

information on magic using a specific ingredient or method. Such as spell jars, water magic, hair magic…

information on your astrological chart

traditions and superstitions that are common in your family or community

an index at the back for specific ingredients and themes. Such as where specific crystals, herbs, festivals, or moon phases have been mentioned

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A Whopping List of 160 Grimoire Prompts and Ideas

Alrighty, everybody, I’ve been working all day trying to compile this list together and it came out to be a staggering 160 prompts and ideas for your grimoire! Some of these are pretty vague and others are quite specific, but this is only to help you guys more with filling up your grimoires! So buckle up and get ready to go! 

(Btw since this post is SOOOO long it’ll be hidden :’) )

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Grimoire Ideas📖✨

   since i’m starting to work on getting my own Grimoire better organized and figuring out what i think fits best in it for me, i feel like i should log some ideas that have helped me in my journey in hopes that it could help someone else just starting out. but just remember that your Grimoire is your own and personal to you and you alone so you don’t need to put everything in if it doesn’t vibe well with you or doesn’t fit into your craft. your book should hold things that are personal to you and your craft and what you believe and you don’t need to have every bit of knowledge in your book.

✏️ an index/table of contents ✏️ a blessing ✏️ a protection sigil and/or spell to keep from wondering eyes ✏️ your personal creed or rede/the wiccan rede(if you’re wiccan) ✏️ personal goals/13 goals of a witch ✏️ personal correspondences/things personal to you ✏️ your beliefs ✏️ your daily rituals ✏️ the different types of magic ✏️ the different types of divination ✏️ any gods, goddesses, deities, or spirits you worship/follow  ✏️ information on any gods, goddesses, deities, or spirits ✏️ crystals 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ plants/tress/flowers 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ herbs 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ essential oils 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ incense 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ candles 》 meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ chakras 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ auras 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ elements(earth, fire, air, water) 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ runes 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ magical symbols 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ feathers 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences ✏️ crystal grid ✏️ pendulum board ✏️ sigils 》how to make them 》how they work 》how to charge ✏️ moon phases 》correspondences 》what they’re good 》what the mean  ✏️ moon phase calendar(preferable something that can be removed or changed easily)   ✏️ magical times 》hour 》day 》week 》month ✏️ moon water ✏️ sun water ✏️ zodiac 》correspondences 》dates 》characteristics  ✏️ mythology of your heritage/culture and/or area ✏️ mythologies of interest ✏️ mythological creatures ✏️ star chart ✏️ constellations ✏️ celestial events ✏️ planets/celestial bodies 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences 》mythology 》relation to magic ✏️ cheat sheets ✏️ tips/reminders ✏️ spirit works ✏️ basic concepts 》banishing 》binding 》cleansing 》grounding 》ect. ✏️ altars 》what they are 》what they’re used for 》what you need 》basic set up 》plans ✏️ familiars ✏️ tools in your practice ✏️ spirit work ✏️ spirits ✏️ personal/family traditions ✏️ animals 》which animals you connect with 》spiritual powers of animals ✏️ spirits guides ✏️ sabbats 》solstice 》equinox ✏️ recipes 》spells 》potions 》teas 》cleaning products 》natural remedies 》powders 》oils 》beauty 》 body scrubs 》ect. ✏️ spells 》self love 》curses 》hexes 》protection 》banishing 》ect. ✏️ tea 》meanings 》uses 》correspondences 》spells 》recipes ✏️ rituals ✏️ visuals 》drawings 》pressed flowers/herbs/plants 》photos ✏️ meditation ✏️ a secret code or alphabet  ✏️ gardening ✏️ list of words and phrases ✏️ books 》ones you reference & find helpful ✏️ experiences 》spell work 》divination 》spirit work 》banishing 》tarot readings 》ect. ✏️ spiritual diary ✏️ magical diary ✏️ dream log ✏️ spell log ✏️ anything else you want! literally! it’s your book and its always good to customize it to you! if you feel like it should be in your book, then go ahead and put it in your book because that’s what makes it special!

            ***correspondences =things such as 》elements, colors, symbolism, planets, astrology, anatomy, ect. really anything else important tied to something.

   obviously you can pick and choose whatever works best for yourself and your craft, and i don’t even have some of these in my own book but still thought they would be helpful to include for witches like me who are just starting out who need ideas of what their books can hold! i’ll probably start posting more about my grimorire and how i keep it organized as well!

   if you think i’ve missed anything feel free to add on more ideas to pass on to your fellow baby witches!

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Ideas For Your Book of Shadows

1. Make a chart for the moon phases. 

2. If you do tarot readings, you can write down what cards you drew and how accurate they are. 

3. Write down Crystal, Color, Planetary, and Herb correspondences. 

4. If you worship deities, you could write about them. 

5. Write down spells you’ve tried and how they worked. 

6. Write about the Sabbats or other holidays you celebrate. 

7. You can personalize it by decorating the inside/outside with symbols, different colors, or doodles. 

8. Draw symbols/sigils and their meanings.

9. Make your own sigils. 

10. Record how you celebrate the Sabbats or other holidays. 

11. If you practice kitchen witchery, you can write down recipes.  

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What To Put In Your Grimoire

The most important thing to know, is that you can put anything you want in your grimoire. Though, I do know there does come a time when you want to write something in your grimoire, but don’t know what. So here are just a few things that you can put in your grimoire!

Table of Contents - So you don’t have to flip through the whole book to find one thing.

About your god/goddesses

Spells - It can be your’s or somebody else’s

Crystals and what they’re used for 

13 Goals of a Witch

Moon/Rain/Sun water and what its used for

Sigils and how to make/charge them

A spell log - To keep track of what spell you have done

An offering log - To keep track of what you have offered

Rules of your craft

Witch Tips

Quotes/poems that you like

About your Zodiac sign

Full moon calendar

Pendulum board

Candle color meanings

Journal entries

Feel free to add more!

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More Creative Grimoire Prompts - Part 2

How can you incorporate technology into your craft?

Learn about a new cryptid/spirit/fantastic creature once a week and write about it.

Learn a new stone correspondences once a week and write about it.

Experiment with recipes full of correspondences and write about the results.

Charm a necklace to make to make it an amulet. Describe the amulet, the charm you gave it, and how you recharge it/how often you recharge it.

The best portrayals of witchcraft in media vs. the worst portrayals of witchcraft in the media. 

If you could create a show about witchcraft or magick, fictional or nonfictional, what would it be about.

Create a piece of art with magickal qualities that are not obvious. (Ex. hidden sigils, using a certain type of flower for its correspondence for a landscape, etc.)

Can we quantify results in witchcraft? Why or why not?

How could we incorporate the scientific method in our practice?

What is the difference between a hex and a curse?

If we lived in a fantastical society (magick and fantasy creatures are in every day life), how would it be governed? What laws would be put in place? What would the socio-economics look like?

What is your theory for why most humans are unable to see or communicate with the Fae?

Describe your dream witchy house? Where would it be located? What would be the layout? Is there a garden, yard, animals? How would magick be incorporated into it?

What do you consider the difference between a curse and a hex?

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📖Ideas For Your/Grimoire/BoS Masterpost 📖

These could also just be topics to research. • Table of contents  • A protective sigil/blessing  • Tips/reminders  • A personal page, how you became a witch, special abilities, your birth chart, your path, your beliefs/morals & goals  • A personal section for spell/ritual logs or dream entries, journal stuff, ect this could also be a separate smaller notepad/book  • History of witches/magick  • Types of witches/magick (I have a post about it -here-) •  Tools used in magick  •  Closed cultures/practices!  • Witchy vocabulary  • Witchy symbols/alphabets  • Altars  • Cleansing, charging, & grounding (I have a post about cleansing -here-) • How to cast a circle/close it! • How to cast spells • How to write your own spells (see my post about this -here-) • Pagan based religions (Wicca, Hellenism, Ect) • Deities of interest  • Wheel of the year (Even if you don’t wanna celebrate it’s still nice to be aware) • Time magick • Color magick (I also have a post about this -here-)  • Moon phases • Moon water (see my post about it -here-) - & really all types of magick water • Sigils (& how to make them!) • Crystals (uses, correspondences, cleansing/charging, grids, ect) • Essential oil correspondences  • Herb correspondences  • Incense correspondences  • Tea correspondences  • Dreams (interpretation, lucid dreaming, ect) • Auras  • Astrology (You can find my post about it -here-) • Divination (Examples: tarot cards, runes, pendulums, tea leaves) - You could also have sections for each of these, tarot spreads, a pendulum board, how to do these things in depth, ect • Numerology • Palmistry • Meditation  • Familiars  • Elements (earth, fire, air, water, uses ect) • Spirits (spirit experiences, how to stay safe, ect) I’ll probably add more stuff. Enjoy! Have a lovely day 💖

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The Magick of the Months ✨

Hello, sweet ones - ♡ Depending on your personal preferences and unique path, *any* time of the year is great for practicing Magick, especially when you feel strongly drawn towards doing so! As such, please do take this post with a grain (or pinch!) of salt. ☺️ It is simply a list which I hope inspires those who are privy to or interested in incorporating certain elements + energies into their craft; specifically in regards to the times of the year. Now, then… ♡ Here are the twelve calendar months, and which vibrancies + practices each one has always seemed to pull me towards (based on their respective seasons, celebrations, elemental correspondences, etc.) I hope these ideas inspire you to carry out your own little rituals and divination tactics in more ways than one! Happy Magick Making! 🕯✨

• January: Acknowleding your deepest inner needs, and getting in better touch with the root of your spirituality. Welcoming one’s individuality through the process of self-discovery and instinctual magick (seeking out your path’s purpose, etc.)

• February: Focusing on matters of the heart, and unfolding what it means to be a guiding light for others whilst also showing sympathy to yourself. Cleansing, renewal, and youthful energies. Preparation and patience as the spirit begins to re-emerge.

• March: Noticing the ‘little things,’ demonstrating more appreciation towards the things you have, connecting to both the Earth and yourself through deeper breathing. Centering, stabilizing, inner reflection. Plant magick, second chances, and tension-releasing stretches.

• April: Believing in your passions and ideas well enough to really spark them to life; working on realligning your chakras. Reevaluation, deep introspection, and unblocking disregarded potential. Dream magick + manifestation.

• May: Remaining consistent in the reaching of one’s current desires, striving towards them with logic and realism. Harmonizing one’s 'inner fire’ with grounding. Relationship and sexual studies. Paying special attention to communicatory matters, and doing so with an emphasis on unity and understanding.

• June: Trying not to dwell upon nostalgic images too consistently (namely, those which evoke much sadness or disconnect.) Soul-searching and spiritual enlightenment through cleansing spells + the organization of both your personal plans and your physical spaces.

• July: Embracing vibrancy, creating fresh memories, and expressing support in relation to unification + social issues. Emotional understanding through water-based magick; living in the moment.

• August: Maintaining a keen focus on your blessings. Fire and harvest magick, gratitude journaling, and pendulum-based divination. Self-sacrifice, tarot spreads, the acknowledgement of balance, and future planning.

• September: Winding down your energies and taking the time to ’re-set.’ The “Spring Cleaning” of Summer’s fading days, making way for seasonal transitions. Mental grounding, beautifying + harmonizing your altar space, and slowing your roll.

• October: Opening untouched doors with a fresh wave of inspiration + embracing that jolt of electric energy taking over the air. Creativity, curiosity, spirit connections, protective practices, and harnessing your psychic abilities.

• November: Delving into new projects with a fresh perception and a powerful sense of self. Passion, transformation, and preparation. Working heavily with one’s respective familiar, favoured deities, and/or spiritual guides.

• December: Celebrating the year’s accomplishments whilst preparing for a clean slate. Building spiritual strength, and believing in the possibilities which may be held within the forthcoming days. Gearing up your soul and fine-tuning your psychic senses, all in preparation to do what ~you~ really want to do.

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🌟About Me🌟

This is my intro page into my book of shadows, detailing all of the things I enjoy practicing as a witch! I love how it came out so far, I will be adding gold details to the border constellations, and possibly coloring all of the little doodles on the page!

I can’t wait to fill this up more!