Magic? Fine. Intuition? Fine. Witchcraft? ABSOLUTELY NOT.


I know that many people are kind of weary (to not say scared) of witches. But I didn’t expect someone planted firmly in the middle of woo-woo-land to feel that way.

I was talking with someone about potentially coming on her podcast, which is all about magic and intuition and past-life readings and Akashic Records, you know, nothing that seems too mainstream in my opinion, but what do I know.

She seemed lovely, thoughtful, smart, and genuinely trying to bring something meaningful into the world. And then she said something I’ve heard a thousand times:

“I don’t want to talk about witchcraft.”

Of course she doesn’t.

Witchcraft has been dragged through centuries of propaganda, demonized by Western culture, rewritten by Christianity, tangled up with fantasies about The Devil (which is especially funny, considering witches don’t even believe in The Devil). Witches have been turned into shorthand for danger, rebellion, and “don’t touch that” energy, mostly to justify persecuting women, mystics, healers, truth-tellers, and anyone who wouldn’t bow.

So yes, I understand why avoiding the word feels safer.

And also, I don’t need to talk about witchcraft to talk about magic, intuition, or spirituality.

These things belong to everyone.

You don’t have to be a witch to practice magic or trust your intuition or build a relationship with Spirit.

But historically, witches have been the ones trusted with guarding these practices, tending them, refining them, transmitting them, embodying them. Which is why avoiding witchcraft while talking about magic feels a bit like wanting to talk about going to the gym — about stretching and strength and flexibility and endurance — but refusing to say the word athlete.

Lots of us go to the gym. Lots of us stretch and get strong and stay mobile. But if you wanted someone to coach you, to really guide you, to help you transform your body, would you choose someone who works out sometimes, or someone who is an athlete themselves? Wouldn’t you rather have a coach whose whole life has been shaped by the discipline, the repetition, the embodied wisdom of an athlete, rather than someone who might be a personal trainer but maybe hasn’t done much training themselves?

I would. I want to trust someone who has the lived experience, and knows exactly what it feels like when you’re sweating like a pig and everything aches, and they can encourage you through it because they’ve done it themselves and know what transformation feels like from the inside.

It’s the same with magic.

There are many beautiful teachers who are not witches. And thank Goddess for that, because some people would never touch magic if the word "witch" was anywhere nearby, and those people deserve access to their intuition too.

But if you are seeking the deepest transformation, if you are asking the bigger questions, if you want guidance that comes from millennia of practice, lineage, survival, embodiment, and truth-telling…

You might want someone who carries that lineage openly.
Unapologetically.
With both feet planted in the soil of their own tradition.

Someone who doesn’t flinch at the word witch.

Because the reality is this:

You deserve a teacher who is not afraid of their own power, so you can stop being afraid of yours.

And you deserve a spiritual path that isn’t watered down so that you fit in.

If you want magic that works…
intuition that is precise…
and a spiritual life that truly nourishes…

Find someone who not only practices the craft, but embodies it.

This is my weekly invitation:
Don’t be scared of witches.
Be scared of spiritual teachers who are.

Open your mind.
Open your practice.
Let yourself be guided by those who have been holding the flame for lifetimes.

And remember:

Your magic is older, deeper, and closer than you think.

Courage, truth, and infinite love,


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