How Can a Clear Witchcraft Definition and a Deeper Witchcraft Meaning Lead to Better Results?
I’d like to offer a different, and more embodied definition of witchcraft:
Witchcraft and spirit work are not just wands, herbs, moonlight, and psychic sensing. They’re not limited to the confines of altars, spell surfaces, mirrors, and cauldrons. Witchcraft and spiritwork can, and I will argue, should, be approached with anything and anywhere.
Witchcraft and spirit work are ways to engage with the Seen and Unseen, where responsibility, respect, consent, and agency are approached with both intent and impact in mind. They’re about observing truths that simply are, and resisting falsehoods that have been forced into so called “truths”.
MAGICK WORDS
In my animist practice, and extended in my witches’ coven, Homing Coven, words not only REFER to energy that course through all things (living beings, colours, planetary bodies, money - which are very much all conscious and alive)), words ARE energy. Work with the words directly as living beings, which are both the bridge to and the literal Unseen, where words and the silence of space between them, are part of the spells we can cast.
WHY CREATIVITY THRIVES IN MYSTERY
Magickal work and creativity begins during the dark, watery phase of the Winter, or if not the calendar Winter, certainly under the shade of a personal Yin season. Too often, we give credit to the fruits that glimmer under the direct sun of Yang, as if our work appears out of ‘nowhere’ (have you ever wondered how our culture is addicted to the myth of ‘overnight success’?
THE BENEFITS OF A WITCH’S COVEN
Witchcraft is not seen as a “possession”, rather, a shared experience, where each member expresses the whole, belonging with humans, more-than-humans, both the living and the beyond. Spells are often more powerful when performed because it draws on and nourishes the energy of all involved. Let’s not overlook that Pluto is in Aquarius (where groups / collective are emphasized).