13 Tips for Beginner Witches || Witchcraft 101

when she said “my craft” i couldve sworn i heard “minecraft” lol

"It's good to know the reason you want to be a witch." Me: Heehee hoohoo shiny rocks go click clack!

Me: I wanna start witchcraft! Also Me: What if I try to do a protection spell and I mess up

1:37 Read everything 3:23 Keeping up with spiritual life isn't for everyone 4:18 Ask yourself what you want out of this? 4:42 Learn to spot the efficent spells from the faulty ones 6:21 Intention is important - but not everything 9:01 Do not be your main battery 9:56 Everything matters, but not everything is necessary 11:16 Get crafty 12:11 Master your fundamentals 12:25 You will always be wrong ...to somebody 13:05 As you change, so will your practice 13:16 Divination 13:55 Write everything down 14:15 Don't take yourself so seriously

Me: witches are crazy Also me: is trying to become a witch

As a witch for over 20 years my best advice is-If you're tired or sick, don't do it. As a beginner witch I often forced myself to do spells and rituals when I didn't feel well or was exhausted and I always felt worse afterwards. If you're feeling rough, put that spell off for another day or forget the full moon ritual and curl up with a book instead. Self-care is a ritual in itself.

Me wanting to get into witchcraft but having no clue what it is/where to start/what i need to learn first: I like your funny words magic mann B)

As someone who was raised as a Pentecostal Christian, I need to say that the witch community is completely different from what I was taught to believe. This community is so much more kind and helpful. The amount of understanding here is crazy. My family wouldn't even consider learning about other christian religions. I love it here! Also thank you for the video it is amazing

I’ve never laughed at a fart joke until today. Thank you Olivia

Olivia: "You should be reading and learning about things that contradict your current morals and beliefs." Me contemplating buying a book on reincarnation: "Can she . . . see me??!!!!"

As a baby witch, this really helped me! I love how you express yourself.

I've been practicing witchcraft for 30 years. I've been taught by books, groups, videos, teachers, covens and my current coven. So I just want to say from everyone and everything I have been taught from, YOU are an excellent teacher. ❤

I think begginer witches need a lot of guidance because of how hard it is to be one. There is a lot of struggle in the beggining like "coming out" and finding out who they are and what they are doing I know it's hard to stay true to yourself(sorry for the rant ) best of luck to all of you. 🌒🌕🌘 🌹💜🌑

Likewise, not claiming to be an expert - even many years in my practice is constantly evolving - but things I would tell my seventeen year old self if I could: 1. Don't be afraid of the quiet patches - there's times when the powers that be, your deities / energies / however you frame them seem to be intense as f**k, and others where you're getting nothing. They haven't deserted you, things aren't always loud and showy. Learning to hear the silence, sit with yourself, reflect is spiritual practice too. 2. You don't need the trappings - are there beautiful tools out there, hell yes. Do you need to survive on toast so you can buy them all, no. I've seen people's lovingly found driftwood stick channel more energy than a fancy-pants carved wand. Use what calls to you, not what you think you should. 3. Don't be afraid of going with your gut - much of the literature I read when first starting out was Wiccan, it was more widely available. Cunningham, De Grandis, Anderson, Eason, Farrar, Green, Beth...all solid authors. I still own books by them and and the language and passion is still something I take from them. Did my gut sit completely comfortably with the structure of Wicca...not really. I love seeing how kitchen / green / folk practices are so much easier to find resources on now, but back then I sometimes thought I was at fault for feeling like I didn't quite fit the mould. Your practice is intensely personal. Trust your gut if it tells you to keep looking, you'll find what fits. 4. Deities don't mind when you wobble - you're a work in progress! I've fallen in and out of the broom-closet so many times over the years, I've freaked out, backed off, returned to church attendance because it was "easier" for other people to accept that sort of faith (I was raised Catholic). All of which was viewed by my personal deities in the energy of what I can only describe as an exasperated but loving raised eyebrow. Its only now, not far from hitting forty, that I've finally reached openly proud and steady practice. Neither of my deities are of the easy variety and both seem to view dark night of the soul sort of wobbling as something of a rite of passage. No deity is going to slam the door in your face just because you needed to work through shit before committing. 5. Speaking of deities, it doesn't always have to be a full pantheon of the same tradition. My female deity is Celtic (Irish line) and my male deity is Norse. (Which eventually made perfect sense as it turns out that while my paternal line is of Irish origin, we descend from Dublin Viking settlers - I honestly didn't see that coming, lol). Go with what calls to you. And if that means working with general energies not specific deities, that's fine too! (Damn, that turned into a mini essay...sorry guys!)

Divination with a pendulum was actually what made me believe in witchcraft. In June my mum’s favourite cat ran off while we were on holiday and she used a rose quartz pendulum to find where he was. We had a big divination session to find out and my aunt and I went foraging for a spell. My aunt wrote my mum an incantation for Bastet and she brought Groot back ten minutes after the prayer was read.

Living in a hard core Roman catholic community, I have always been drawn to witchcraft. Nothing dark, just helping those around me... in nature, in my home or in my heart. I truly appreciate your videos!

Advice for beginning witches- look at local plants, animals, rocks and stores. Its good to know the kinda stuff you can find locally, and later on if you decide to purchase items, then youll know where you can go to find the items you search for.

Before the word “witch” scared me, now I’m openly embracing it and that’s just mind boggling to me, in the best possible way of course!

I would add "Keep in touch with nature".

Me, half way through the video: "her setting is so nice. Clean and peaceful. OMG! WE HAVE THE SAME LAMP!"