If you feel drawn to the skies above and enjoy the science-y complexities of the working of the universe, you could be a cosmic witch. These magickal workers are all about nature, healing, and nurturing. They draw their power, tools, and rituals from the earth and the great outdoors and use plant, flower, and herbal preparations as a primary source of spell ingredients and ritual content. Green witches respect nature above all else although many other types of witches work with nature too!
If you feel drawn to the natural world, have a gift for healing and soothing, and enjoy gardening and tending to plants and herbs, you could be a green witch. A hedge witch is very similar to a green witch but is not as solely focused on nature.
Hedge witches develop their own kind of magic, focusing primarily on creating healing remedies and often working with the elements, nature, crafts, and herbalism.
Everything is kept simple and basic, and all rituals are non-fussy and minimalist. If you are drawn to solitude and wish to craft your own brand of witchcraft, unique to you, then you might be a hedge witch! They will use curses and hexes when the situation calls for it, when many witches will not go there—witchcraft typically follows an ethic of working for the highest good. They will often call on the unseen spirit presences to help them.
A little bit of this and a little bit of that! Eclectic witches tend to cherry-pick whatever practices, rituals, beliefs, or ideas feel natural and good to them in the moment. After all, witchcraft is a very personal and unique pursuit. Many baby witches begin as eclectic witches, but many stay that way too! Baby witches—a term you might have seen frequently used on WitchTok—are simply beginner witches.
You gotta go your own way! United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend. Attention: Paris! Helen A. Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan.
Wicca, an alternative minority religion whose adherents, regardless of gender, call themselves witches, began in the U. Wicca and Witchcraft are part of the larger contemporary pagan movement, which includes druids and heathens among others.
All these spiritual paths, as pagans refer to them, base their practices on pre-Christian religions and cultures. Ever since Wicca arrived in the United States in the s, it has been growing — sometimes by leaps and bounds, and other times more slowly. It is estimated that there could be around 1. As I am aware from my own research of more than 30 years, however, not all witches consider themselves Wiccans. Based on my most recent survey data , approximately , Americans are Wiccans.
The increasing numbers that have been witnessed in surveys and the growth of groups, such as those on TikTok, suggest that the religion is continuing to grow. The religion differentiates itself from more mainstream religions, such as Christianity, by celebrating a Goddess as well as a God. In addition, Wicca lacks a formal institutional structure such as a church and puts more emphasis on ritual and direct spiritual experience than belief.
Adherents refer to themselves as practitioners , not believers. A yearly cycle of rituals, known as sabbats, celebrate the beginning and height of each of the four seasons of the Northern Hemisphere. Each ritual encourages participants to celebrate the changes the seasons bring to nature and to reflect on how those changes are mirrored in their own lives.
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