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Every time I see the question "How do I start witchcraft?" on the internet, I answer with another: which one? Because there are a lot of witchcrafts around and there are a lot of paths you can walk in this craft.

So when you want to start, you feel pulled, you feel called to start in witchcraft, first of all, you don't go asking "how do I start in witchcraft?" because that doesn't make sense. And here's why!

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"How do I start witchcraft?" is the wrong question

We have a lot of paths you can walk. We have chaos magic, green witches, people who work with deities. We have Nordic, we have Druidism.

So when you want to start in witchcraft, you have to ask yourself: which one? Where are you going to go? Do you want to work with deities? Do you want to worship only nature? Do you want to do both? Or you don't want to follow rules? Are you committing to a path?

Finding your own practical magic through exploration

Probably when you Google something, you're going to fall into a blog about Wicca, because they kind of are the biggest, the louder people on the path. But maybe Wicca is not for you. That was not for me. 

When I just started, I fell into Wicca because that was the information that was around, easier to find. I walked the path for about a year and I was like: "That's not it. It's not sticking with me."

And after that, I was just jumping around paths to see: "Oh, I like this one. I don't like this one. Oh, I like working with these deities specifically. Oh, these deities claimed me specifically. Oh, I like this practice, but I don't want to be in this exact path."

I started working with deities from day one and I was actually claimed by a path. But before I committed to the path, I decided to just explore, be curious, and find by myself what exactly was going to stick with me and what exactly I was going to put into my daily life.

And that's how I came up with the practical magic and the everyday magic that I do today. After walking all these paths and following all the rules that are written everywhere from other practitioners, I was like: "Okay, I can walk my own path."

Red flags in the witchcraft community: beware of unspoken laws

When you Google or you find information from other people like me or other witches around the internet, you may think that their word is law. But if someone is talking like their word is law, just run. That's a red flag, because there's a lot of different kinds of witchcraft.

Because the thing is: witchcraft is not a religion. Following the tips and the things people say you have to do it's nice in the beginning, but eventually, if you're not into a religion, you have to write your own path. You have to walk your own path and write your own path and be autonomous and choose for yourself what you want to do with this practice.

Because if you don't choose, you will be always following another person. And if you want to follow another person, that's fine, too. But I think for me, witchcraft is about freedom and choosing what you want to do with this power you just unleashed. So it's choosing to anchor yourself, choosing to enchant your makeup and put it on with intention. Because witchcraft and magic is about intention. It's not about something written in a book. Books are great, I have some to share with you if you are interested in it, but they are not rules. They are paths someone walked before that you can walk, too. But you don't have to walk the same path someone walked before you.

Witchcraft doesn't have to be hard, busy, or complex. You can feed witchcraft into your daily life and enchant your routine. When you think about your routine, what are the things you do every day? When you think about it, we could probably enchant every single second of our lives.

What is already in your routine that can carry magic with you? You can choose the mundane moments that are already in your day to enchant, because you don't need tools to make magic. You just need intention. And when you do things with intention, that's where magic lives.

So, I'm going to go into three spells I do almost every day that you can copy and apply to your routine too!

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The Tea Spell

Grab your tea. You can use herbs or you can use that English tea that comes ready where you just add water. I like to pour the water three times clockwise. When you're pouring water clockwise, it's because you are manifesting something—in this case, clarity. So repeat while you are pouring your tea:

"The more tea I drink, the clearer I think."

You can repeat it until you are done pouring the water, and then you drink it. That's it! You already made some magic in your day. You can do this even if you are not at home. You can go to a coffee shop, ask for tea, and if they give you sugar, put some sugar in your tea, grab a spoon, and do the same thing in a clockwise direction while repeating the words. You don't have to create the perfect space to do magic. You can do this right in your morning when you are making your breakfast with your tea.

The Glamour Spell

The second spell is a glamour spell. I enchanted my moisturizers—all of them, not just for the face, but for the body and everything. And the spell is:

"Every time the moisturizer I apply, the more glamorous I arrive."

That's it. You have your moisturizer, you put some in your hand, and you go: "Every time the moisturizer I apply, the more glamorous I arrive." This is a glamour spell because you are putting intention into the moisturizer and into the act of moisturizing your body. You can do this with your face or body moisturizer, or even your sunscreen. You can enchant everything you put onto your body to attract things through that energy of attraction. You don't need to light seven candles and make a crazy spell—taking care of yourself through skincare and enchanting it in the process is already a glamour spell.

The Hair Spell

The third spell is my favorite because, you know, I am a cleaning witch. I like to banish things! I use this spell with my hair and my hair products. Every time I comb my hair, I say this spell:

"I release all bad memories held by this hair and replace them with strength so it grows beyond fair."

That's it. I'm there combing my hair—and it is a lot of hair! If you don't put products in your hair and just comb it, just use the comb and repeat it while combing: "I release all bad memories held by this hair and replace them with strength so it grows beyond fair." We are not only banishing the memories and situations that our hair is holding, but we are also attracting strength so it keeps growing. This is practical magic that you do in your daily life. If you wash your hair three times a week, you're doing this spell three times a week when you are already combing it.

Do you get it? 

Everything you do in your life can be enchanted in a way. You just have to think about it. Think about your routine and think about how magic can really be born in that routine you already have.

I have these three spells inside the Pragmatic Witch Emergency Guide. You can get the guide for free. It arrives directly in your email—no need to download heavy e-books.