There's No Wrong Way To Be A Witch

 

 

There Is No Wrong Way to Be a Witch

 

For many women, the word witch stirs something ancient and electric in the soul — curiosity, recognition, maybe even longing. And yet, just as often, that spark is followed by hesitation.

Am I doing it right?

Do I know enough?

What if I don’t fit the image?

 

If you’ve ever felt drawn to witchcraft but afraid to take the first step, here is the truth that rarely gets said loudly enough:

 

There is no wrong way to be a witch.

 

Witchcraft is not a closed circle you must be invited into. It is not reserved for the initiated, the aesthetic, the scholarly, or the fearless. At its heart, witchcraft is simply the art of relationship — with yourself, with the earth, with intuition, with the unseen rhythms of life.

 

 

And relationships do not have one correct beginning.

 

Some witches start with books stacked high and annotated. Others begin with a single candle lit on a quiet night. Some learn herbs and roots. Others read tarot, study the moon, or speak to ancestors. Many simply start by listening — to dreams, to gut feelings, to the soft inner voice that modern life trains us to ignore.

 

All of it counts.

You do not need elaborate tools.

You do not need a perfect altar.

You do not need to know every moon phase or memorise correspondences.

Your curiosity is enough.

In fact, fear often walks hand in hand with calling. The nervousness you feel may not be a warning — it may be the threshold. Women have been taught for centuries to distrust their inner knowing, to shrink their power, to label intuition as imagination. So when that knowing begins to wake up again, it can feel unfamiliar… even intimidating.

But witchcraft is not about becoming someone else.

It is about becoming more yourself.

It might look like:

• Pulling oracle cards with your morning coffee

• Planting herbs and noticing which ones thrive under your care

• Journaling under the full moon

• Learning family folklore

• Stirring intention into soup

• Sitting in silence and calling your energy back to you

 

None of this requires perfection. Only presence.

 

There will always be voices — external or internal — saying you’re doing it “wrong.” That you’re not traditional enough, educated enough, spiritual enough, or mystical enough.

But the craft was never meant to be gatekept.

 

Historically, witches were simply women who knew things — about plants, about birth, about cycles, about energy, about survival. Their power came from attention, not performance.

 

You are allowed to explore slowly.

You are allowed to change paths.

You are allowed to keep parts private.

You are allowed to be both skeptical and believing.

 

Witchcraft is not a test you pass or fail.

 

It is a path you walk — sometimes confidently, sometimes cautiously, always uniquely.

So if you feel the pull, you don’t need permission.

Light the candle.

Buy the deck.

Plant the herb.

Read the book.

Speak the intention.

Your first step does not have to be bold — it only has to be yours.

Because there has never been one way to be a witch.

And there never will be.