alchemagick:

ei-lena:

phionesdreams:

kab-niel:

People like that are exactly why I cannot call myself a witch. ‘Witch’ no longer means ‘practitioner of witchcraft’ on this garbage site. 

‘Witch’ means “I wear pentacle jewelry and reblog pictures of plants and put on makeup With Intent™ and drink soda

With Intent™ and choose clothes colors

With Intent™

but doing anything outside my regular routine is tooooo haaaaard so I’m just gonna invent reasons why eating this candy bar is actually magick”

I’d rather call myself a magickian and have people assume I take myself too seriously than call myself a witch and have people assume I have absolutely no respect for my practice whatsoever.

K thanks literal equivalent of the old man yelling at kids he doesn’t understand to get off the sidewalk he doesn’t own.

Please tell me more about how witchcraft is an ancient monolith that has never changed or evolved and has 0 deviations in different cultures.

OP, the fact that you thought this was a good post to make is proof positive that you do actually take yourself way too seriously. 

A few things you should take into consideration (not that you probably will, but you know, on the off chance that the idea of maybe learning something new appeals to you): 

– It’s really quite silly to think that you know everything about someone’s life or magical practice based purely on their posts on social media. 

– Just because Ye Olde Wytches didn’t have blood-of-my-enemies-red lipstick or Sprite to incorporate into their spellwork doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have used the shit outta those things if they had them readily available. Just because something is a modern invention doesn’t mean it can’t be used for magical purposes. If you don’t want to do that kind of spell, good for you. No one wants to force you to do spells you don’t want to. But maybe don’t assume it can’t possibly work until and unless you’ve actually given it a serious try, and even then, remember that people are different and have different strengths and weaknesses, so what works/doesn’t work for you may not follow the same pattern for someone else (and no, going through the motions with an attitude of “lol this is stupid” doesn’t count as “a serious try”. Don’t waste your time if you can’t/won’t give it a fair shot, but at least refrain from talking out your ass like you know anything about if it does or doesn’t actually work, if you can’t/won’t give it a fair shot).

– I guarantee you can’t actually give a good explanation how “draw a particular design on a Tuesday at 5pm and then carry it as a Talisman when you want X effect” makes more sense as “serious witchcraft” on account of the difficulty of execution of the ritual than “draw a particular design on a tube of lipstick and charge it under a full moon, then wear the lipstick when you want X effect”. They’re literally the same amount difficult to do. 

– Witchcraft doesn’t have to be super hard to be serious and effective. Elitist gatekeeping is boring.

– Having An Aesthetic is in no way contradictory to Doing Witchcraft. What, are you jealous of someone’s plant photography skills or jewelry collection? Understandable, some people do have truly enviable jewelry collections, but that has no bearing on how “real” of a witch they are or aren’t. 

So like… @kab-niel​
what was the actual point of saying any of that?

As witches, we live in
such a fragile community already with all the outside hate we get from
other religions and close-minded people, we really can’t afford to be
close-minded ourselves. Instead of being butthurt that some younger
folks practice witchcraft in a different way or call certain aesthetics
witchcraft, shouldn’t it be exciting that they

aren’t rejecting the idea in the first place?

The old ways of craft aren’t for everyone, and to say that someone who wants to harness magick can’t be considered a witch simply because they enjoy a more modern take on witchcraft is….well, sad. Witchcraft isn’t a club, as a practice separate from religion there is no initiation process, nothing anyone needs to do to start other than believe and have an open mind. One of the things that makes witchcraft so beautiful is that there are no rules.

If practicing a certain way makes someone happy and helps them, who are you to bash their practice and say they can’t be real witches? You do you, but let the rest of us run around with pentacle jewelry wearing specifically chosen clothes while putting on our sigil engraved blood-of-my-enemies-red lipstick
With Intent™

in peace.

And if this is such a garbage site, no one is stopping you from leaving.