Witchcraft & Wicca Articles
Wiccan beliefs, the Wheel of the Year, witchcraft traditions, tools, and everyday practice
8 articles
Wicca for Beginners: Beliefs, Deities and the Wheel of the Year
Wicca is a modern pagan religion founded in mid-twentieth-century England by Gerald Gardner, built around a Goddess and a God, a calendar of eight sabbats, and the ethical couplet known as the Wiccan Rede. This guide to wicca for beginners covers Gardnerian origins, core wiccan beliefs, coven and solitary practice, and the arguments Wiccans have among themselves about history and ethics.
Modern Witchcraft: Traditions, Tools and Everyday Practice
Modern witchcraft is a practice rather than a religion: a set of techniques involving herbs, candles, timing, symbol and focused intention that practitioners carry into any belief system or none. This guide covers the main types of witches, what sits on an altar, how spellwork is structured, how to keep a book of shadows, and the ethical arguments the craft is having with itself.
Sigil Magic: How to Make, Charge and Fire a Sigil
Sigil magic compresses a desire into a single abstract mark, charges that mark in an altered state, then deliberately forgets it. This guide covers the letter-elimination method, the pictorial method, the wording of the statement of intent, charging and firing, the role of forgetting in chaos magic, and whether to burn or keep the finished sigil.
Spell Jars: Ingredients, Construction and Common Types
A spell jar is a sealed vessel packed with herbs, minerals, a written petition and a wax seal, built so one intention keeps running for as long as the jar stays shut. This guide covers how to make a spell jar layer by layer, what each ingredient contributes, how protection spell jars differ from attraction jars, and what practitioners do with a finished jar.
Setting Up an Altar: Layout, Tools and Keeping It
An altar setup is a dedicated surface holding the tools and symbols a practitioner works with: a cloth, candles, a token of each of the four elements, and any deity or ancestor images. A witch altar can be a permanent table, a bookshelf, or a tin that closes. This guide covers the standard altar layout, what each altar tool represents, how the elemental quarters are arranged, and how to keep an altar discreet in a shared home.
Kitchen Witchcraft: Practice, Herbs and Everyday Magic
Kitchen witchcraft is the practice of working magic through food, drink and the upkeep of a home, with the stove standing in for the old hearth fire. This guide covers what defines the kitchen witch path, the correspondences carried by common culinary herbs, how intention is worked into cooking, and how the hearth is used as a working space.
Green Witchcraft: Plants, Seasons and Working With the Land
Green witchcraft is a plant-centered path in which a green witch grows, forages and works with the flora of one specific place rather than with imported correspondences. This guide covers the core green witch herbs, foraging ethics and law, planning a working garden, marking the seasons by phenology, and how green witchcraft differs from hedge and kitchen practice.
Hedge Witchcraft: Hedge Riding, Solitary Practice and Herbcraft
Hedge witchcraft is a solitary, land-based craft built on crossing the hedge, the boundary between the ordinary world and the Otherworld. This guide covers what the hedge means, how hedge riding works as trance travel, why the hedge witch is a solitary witch by definition, the herbs that carry the practice, the truth about flying ointment, and how to build a hedge witch practice over a first year.
