Challenge Entry
I’ve loved reading everyone’s beautiful posts about their personal paths. I’m so inspired by you all!
I’ve recently been exploring the pagan traditions of my Irish/Scottish/Germanic heritage and incorporating some of those deities into my work. I’ve recently been learning about Brigid and the many ways she has been syncretized by different cultures and religions.
I incorporate many witchcraft traditions or types into my personal practice.
I certainly identify with the Green Witch. I have my own beautiful living indoor apothecary that provides me with energy, a meditative practice, and of course, herbs for correspondences!
My favorite rituals are smoke cleansing/incense, tea, and candle magick. My green witch practices help provide the materials for these spells, so that every ritual is imbued with materials that I have a spiritual and energetic bond with.
I also consider myself a learning hedge witch. I love trance/flow/altered consciousness states and exploring other realms, meditating, and communicating with spirit for guidance. I also have an uncanny sight or intuition to those physically near me, but that feels more like a parlor trick. (Hubby likes to play “what color or number am I thinking of”). It’s more of an empathetic magick than like, being able to predict a card before it’s pulled.
I identify as a non-traditional hearth/cottage/kitchen witch. Low magick is some of my favorite. Stirring intention into my recipes with my consecrated spoon and spatula, baking with correspondences, cleaning with incantations, blessing my home, etc.
Sea witch also resonates, I love the power of the lunar cycles and the power of the sea, which I’m fortunate enough to live near in the PNW.
I also do quite a bit of art witchery with my magic! I adore Amy Cesari’s coloring books and use her pages to record my BoS, and use coloring as a meditative practice or to raise energy during a ritual.
Its interesting consider the phrase “eclectic witch”, I’ve heard it many times, but I’ve always just considered my practice “witchcraft”. I borrow practices when they make my witchy sense tingle and make them my own (as long as they aren’t from a closed practice).
Woo! That feels like a very long post. Blessed be!