Hearth Witch

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It’s often super simple in nature though, it doesn’t require elaborate spells and incantations. A lot of it is seemingly incidental and, on the surface, extraordinarily mundane. It’s when your mixing spoon is your wand, your broom is your staff (and sword), your carving knife is an athame (or boline probably). It’s an art of adaptation and making things up as you go along. It’s a natural sort of magic, rather than a formal one. But it’s no less effective for all that. I Could Never be a Hearth Witch Sea witches have a special connection to the ocean. They might practice water magic, use seawater in their rituals, bring seashells home for their altar, and pay special attention to the Moon (because it controls the tides, after all). Sex Witch Just like the name sounds, a hereditary witch is someone who inherited their powers or their practice through their family line. Think Practical Magic. Crystal Witch Whatever label I would choose, I am and have been for a long time, a Hearth Witch or Kitchen Witch or Domestic Witch. It’s something that just happened naturally – I never actually chose to infuse magic into my domesticity, it is something that I just did without thinking about it. I could deny the witch label all I wanted and still it is what I was and am. Start with a family recipe handed down to you. Research the metaphysical meanings in each of the key ingredients and see if you can translate it into your spell work. Make your bathroom a center of sacredness.

Similar to poppets, spell sachets are sachets stuffed with herbs, stones and other spell ingredients to draw a certain energy into your home or personal space. Keep a balance of elements in each room. Earth, air, fire and water are best balanced in harmony in each room. You can represent each element through the colours you use, such as warm colours for fire, light colours for air, blues for water and earth tones for earth. Represent the elements with items such as candles, incense, feathers, bowls, flowers, shells, etc. Each room will have a unique elemental requirement based on its purpose, but that is a whole other topic, so just try to have a general elemental balance. It was when I was around 24 years old, maybe 25 – I was on the Pagan Veil by this point anyway, and that was from 24 onwards – that I discovered the term “Hearth Witch” and learned what it meant. I fell in love with it right away, what a lovely label – it was the word “hearth” that really did it. It’s just a beautiful word. On a cold autumn or winter day, fire it up and toss dried protection herbs to safeguard your home’s energetic vibrations, or even consider cooking over a wood fireplace for an earthy experience that reconnects you with your ancestors. Create a magical garden. So, our housekeeping rituals become an act of service- in my case, to the Goddess in her many guises, as well as to my spiritual well-being.The Hearth Witch combines the energies of the Green Witch and Kitchen Witch guided by the magic of the home. Painting your door a deep or brilliant shade of purple serves as a symbol that magic lies behind the threshold. The cottage witch typically possesses a wide range of magical domestic skills. Crafty and resourceful, she expertly transforms scraps of fabric into spell poppets and knows her way around kitchen witchery. Firstly, I feel that the word chores can bring up really bleh feelings, so why don’t we change them to housekeeping rituals? I was resistant though, as I had trouble letting go of my spite for the witch label. But researching the label lead to me to the realisation that my Domestic Paganism was nothing more or less than Witchcraft. Sure it might also be Paganism, but it was most definitely Witchcraft no matter how I tried to avoid the word. I also realised how stupid I was being, I knew that witchcraft and Wicca were not the same thing, and the Wiccanate Witchcraft annoyed many other Pagans as well, so the grudge I was holding was just a wilful hindrance.

Essentially, Hearth Witchcraft is a daily, living mindfulness practice to transform the mundane into the magical. Many practitioners consider the ritual bath a way to reclaim their inner strength. Some even say it increases their magical potency in rituals. So the why is simple, I am a Hearth Witch because that is simply what I am. There wasn’t really any choice in the matter, just a recognition and acceptance of what already was true. I mean, it’s not a normal person who prefers to sweep the carpet with a straw broom rather than use a vacuum cleaner.While green witches tend to be experts at magical foraging, the cottage witch tends to place more emphasis on growing her own herbs and magical gardening. If you know how to sew (whether by hand or with a machine), use your skills in your magical practice. We should probably begin with this most obvious of questions – what is Hearth Witchery? I think it’s probably easy enough to guess. The hearth being, once upon a time, the centre of the home, makes Hearth Witchery the witchcraft that revolves around the home. It is very similar, and in some cases identical to, Kitchen Witchery or Domestic Witchcraft.

If this sounds like you, or a path you want to start down, consider the following ideas to enrich your practice. Put your sewing skills to use.Yep, you guessed it—this witch is all about the drama of a ceremony. They focus on ceremonial magic or “high magic,” which often involves more elaborate or specific rituals than everyday magic. Sea Witch