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13 Signs You're a Witch
For many, the term ‘witch’ puts the image of make-believe, long-nosed, green hags with pointy hats and evil cackles into their mind. These characters were often seen riding brooms, casting spells, and working with black cats on Halloween night to stir up trouble. However, modern-day witches of today are very real and very different. In fact, they exist in many different cultures and religions today and are all around us (and no, they don’t come with the pointy nose and evil cackle - well, at least, most don’t).
Despite what many believe, witches are much different than their old-time cartoon depictions and are simply souls that own their power through nature-based practices that can be followed uniquely by many different religions, beliefs, and cultures. Because of this, truly no two witches will share the same practice and will likely conduct their craft very differently. However, despite the differences, one thing witches do seem to have in common is many of the same personality traits and lifestyle choices that lead them to this path. And since more people are feeling a call towards the path of witchcraft now more than ever, we wanted to do a fun article about witchcraft today and talk about some signs that you yourself may be a witch and may not even know it.
So, without further ado and in honor of the spookiest month of the year, here is a list of our top 13 signs that you may be a witch just waiting to awaken.
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Signs You’re a Witch
1. You have a strong connection with nature
To start, the first sign that you may be a witch is that you feel an unparalleled love and connection with nature. Not only do you long to be in it whenever possible, but you may even feel ill, anxious, depressed, or irritable when you aren’t able to be in it. When you are in nature, however, you feel instantly inspired, and ideas just seem to flow endlessly to you. If you feel stressed or anxious, the earth always seems to always have a way of relieving these ill energies from you and helping you to feel like yourself again.
Not to mention, you are also likely very environmentally conscious and have a deep respect for the outside world as well as a powerful sense that you must always do everything you can to honor and protect it.
2. You’re highly intuitive
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is that you are highly intuitive. You may experience premonitions, prophetic dreams, or may even have developed deeper spiritual abilities such as clairvoyance or mediumship. Not to mention, as a result of being highly intuitive, you may also feel things deeply and are likely a lot more tuned in and connected to the energies around you than anyone else.
3. You ‘feel’ people’s energy and emotions
Next, to go along with the previous sign, you also feel the energy of the people and the world around you very heavily. For this, you have a natural talent for reading people right off the bat and are usually an incredibly good judge of character even without knowing someone.
However, because you feel energy so easily, being around people can also be incredibly draining for you and can deplete your energy very quickly. Because of this, you’re likely not a fan of being in large crowds for extended periods of time and prefer to spend a lot of time with yourself. Others may even go as far as to describe you as an empath or a sensitive .
4. Animals are naturally drawn to you
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is that animals are naturally drawn to you. Whether it’s a family pet or a wild animal, you may find that animals naturally gravitate towards you and tend to act very calmly and unafraid whenever they are around you. This can be seen in animals in the wild that don’t scurry when you’re near or when normally aggressive pets act calmly around you and not other people. Whatever it may be, you may just feel a deeper connection and understanding with animals that other people don’t. You also likely don’t look at them as a pet but as a soul and find mutual respect, equality, and understanding within them.
5. You have an interest in holistic practices
Next up, you may also have a natural pull to holistic practices. This may have been something you’ve been drawn to your entire life or suddenly out of nowhere, but you have become very curious about these practices. This includes a sudden interest in home remedies, herbal or natural medicine, teas, acupuncture, and more. On top of that, following energy healing practices such as yoga, meditation, and crystal healing may also be of interest to you.
6. You’re a natural healer
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is that you are a natural healer. When we say this, it has different definitions for everyone; however, it could simply just mean that you want to do things that will benefit society, as well as help the people around you. You are likely the friend or the person in your family that others come to for help and advice, and many likely seek comfort in your words. You may also be involved in teaching healing practices such as meditation or yoga or may even be interested in other healing work as a nurse, doctor, or therapist.
Whatever it may be, you just have a natural act for offering words of wisdom and encouragement to those around you and always know exactly the right thing to say.
7. You feel deeply connected to the moon
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is that you feel connected to the cycles of the moon. Throughout time, witches have long been associated with full moons, and it’s not without reason. In fact, the power of the moon is considered to be a guiding light in many practices for witches and is a natural point on which many spells, rituals, and healing practices are based. Because of this, gazing at the moon or standing in its light may also help you to feel more grounded, cleansed, and lifted up.
8. Storms energize you
Next, another big sign that you may be a witch is that you are energized by storms, wind, and weather changes. Unlike a lot of people who often feel down when the weather patterns change, you feel rejuvenated and want to spend as much time as possible in it. Whether it’s lightning strikes, rain showers, or snowstorms, there’s just something about storms that help to energize you and get your mind spinning with new creative ideas and inspiration, leaving you feeling grounded, cleansed, and rejuvenated like no other.
9. You love to collect things from nature
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is if you have a love of collecting things from the natural world. This could be crystals, plants, shells, rocks, leaves, pinecones, or other pieces from nature. Whatever it may be, having a collection of this in your home helps you to feel more grounded in your space and more like yourself. Not to mention, you may just find it to be incredibly healing and a necessary element in your space overall.
10. You’re fascinated by the occult
Next, in one way or another, you may find yourself fascinated with the occult. This includes everything from the paranormal to astrology, witchcraft to magick, myths to legends, and even spell and rituals. You are also likely deeply fascinated with the origins of ancient societies and love to look into all their spiritual practices and culture in movies, documentaries, and books.
11. You’re able to ‘manifest’ or draw things into your life
Next, you may also have this innate ability to be able to manifest things into your life when you are fully emotionally and energetically invested in it. When we use the term ‘manifest,’ we mean that a lot of times, when you really want something to happen, you are able to draw it into your life subconsciously. The same goes for if you really don’t want something to happen; you are oftentimes able to keep it away just by focusing on it.
This is likely something you’ve experienced a lot as a child and throughout your life and is just another way that witches cast energetic intentions out into the world to draw certain energies closer or farther away from them.
12. You see a deeper meaning behind things
Next, another sign that you may be a witch is that you see a deeper meaning for the things all around you. You tend to move through life with the belief that everything happens for a reason and that there is something deeper to look at beyond the surface of a problem or situation. As a result, you also likely pay attention to recurring numbers and symbols around you and believe that there is an important message waiting to be uncovered.
13. You’re just different
And lastly, another sign that you may be a witch is that you just feel different. You may feel like an old soul , and are often the outsider to those around you, and may tend to have a much different point of view on situations and problems than the majority. Your mind may be open to pondering the depths of magic and the deeper enigmas of life, while other people seem to be caught up in drama, gossip, and other small mundane things.
While these details and situations are different for everyone, there’s no doubt in the fact that you are very unlike most of the people around you, and you aren’t afraid to own that.
Conclusion
Overall, every witch is different and may show none or all of these signs. However, if you’re drawn to witchcraft, and you’re reading this article right now to find out the truth, you are most likely a witch. Let’s just say witchcraft isn’t a topic that typically pops up in normal everyday conversations, so if you’re feeling pulled to it from out of the blue and find empowerment or comfort in it, that may be a sign that you should start looking deeper into its practices to see why you feel such a pull to it.
Above all else, while these weren’t all the signs that you may be a witch, we hope this article has helped to shed some light on the answers you seek to help to guide you to exactly where you need to be on your divine journey.
Witch signs
~ Image: Vintage, June Haver, 1940’s ~
People often ask me, “How do you know you’re a witch?” Most often, the question beneath the question is, “Am I a witch? Am I magic?” Often, they ask a little nervously because of the shadow that shames the word.
We owe that shadow to the patriarchy — the masculine societal rule that has pervaded the planet for over five thousand years. This is important — not male, not gender, but a perversion of masculine energy which brutalized, raped, suppressed the feminine.
The witch-hunts of Salem and Europe whipped up a hysterical mob mentality against women, against the feminine.
It rounded up and killed the wise women, the natural healers, any women with land they wanted or those outside of the societal status quo, who refused to conform to Christian and Patriarchal rule.
Basically, in fear of the power of the feminine, women, the earth, and its creatures, were slaughtered under false and hysterical pretenses.
It is crucial we reclaim ourselves and the beauty, power, heritage of the word Witch. A witch’s purpose is the very earth we need to save.
Witches love the earth, and worship nature. I repeat, Nature, not Satan. The latter is a myth — including that we are wart-on-nose Halloween-mask-scary ugly — that we owe to patriarchal Hollywood movies.
Truth is, witches are as beautiful as nature herself and do no harm. They live by the rule of three, a karmic understanding that everything they do comes back to them threefold. The more we kill the earth, the more we kill ourselves.
For as long as we can remember, we have been taught to fear ourselves as well as nature. Witches however, relish their wild nature and align themselves with the cycles of the earth and the phases of the Moon.
For many women, to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim one’s self and her relationship to the Great Mother.
So, because I love to de-stigmatize, and re-honor the big beautiful juicy word Witch, the answer I give, when someone asks me if they are one, is Yes.
If you think you are a witch, you are a witch — meaning you are a Goddess, Priestess, Healer, Shaman, Wise Woman. Here is a round up of 13 moonlit and mystical signs you might be a witch:
1. Earth Powers. A witch is a woman of the earth. We inherit her natural powers of birth, transformation, healing, rebirth. These are the powers of woman, one in the same with the powers of the earth.
“Where there is woman, there is magic.” ~ Ntozake Shange
Do you find the answers to life through the patterns of Mother Nature? Is her wisdom your wisdom? Are you, your life and body, aligned with her seasons?
For instance, are you on fire — sexually and creatively in the Summer, letting go and cutting out what does not serve in the Fall, dying to the old in the dark silence of Winter, and reborn in the Spring?
2. Wisdom. Do you find yourself bubbling from an internal cauldron of ancient natural healing wisdom?
Are people drawn to you to sit by your fire and discuss life and all its fury, pain, love and wonder? Do you end up sending them off with hope in their hearts, and perhaps a tincture, a potion, an herbal remedy (you are familiar with the properties of plants), or even a ritual or two?
In other words, when shit hits the fan, is it you they come to?
3. Nature. Do you live by or in the woods, or by a body of water — and if not, do you long to?
Witches, being intricately intertwined with nature, embodying the powers of the Great Mother herself, long to be as close to her natural beauty and power as possible. Many do their rituals by the water or in the woods. You have most likely always felt at home in nature.
4. Storms. Are you not afraid of storms? In fact do you revel in the power of Mother Nature at her most visceral? And do you sometimes wonder if you yourself — your passion and energy — caused the storm?
5. Animal Nature. Are animals naturally attracted to you, and do you love them as well, so much that you cry empathetically with the creatures of this planet? Do you naturally know their totems, and find wisdom and insight in their visits/appearances in your life?
Do lost dogs follow you home, do birds fly into your windows, do horses rush towards you in the fields and place their long necks on your shoulders? Do you find you can speak to them? Heal them?
Witches and animals are so aligned with nature that they speak a similar energetic language and recognize each other.
6. The Moon. Are you drawn, pulled, and moved by the moon’s energy? Have you gazed at her, spoken to her, been flooded by her light since you were a little girl? Are you aligned with her phases?
For instance, do you start new projects and relationships when she waxes (grows full), do things peak and culminate — and tend to go a little crazy — around you while she is full, and are you drawn to let things go, or end relationships and patterns, as she wanes?
On the New Moon, in the darkest of nights, do you sit with the mystery, the emptiness and unknown, the potential and possibility of the dark? Do you dream up new plans in the dark of the new moon?
If you answered No, then the above are just a few ways you can attune with the moon’s phases.
7. Powerful. Do you have more than a sneaking suspicion that your wishes come true — good or bad, and are you perhaps a little cautious and in awe of your own power? Have you been called an old soul on the reg?
Witches are as old as time; your eyes — the windows to your soul — hold ancient stories and secrets, myths and mysteries, answers and possibilities.
You were probably speaking ancient truths and wisdom even — or especially — before you forgot your magic, as a little child.
8. Healing. Are you drawn to the healing arts? Do you tend to seek natural or energetic remedies for yourself, and do you offer them to others? Have you ever laid a hand on someone’s bad back, which was fixed the next day? People might also heal just by being around you.
Witches, being so attuned to the earth, are natural healers.
9. Past Life Memories. Do you have painful past life memories or images of being cast out, burned, or drowned — just for being wild, wise, and free you?
Most importantly, are you scarred from for being different, not conforming, for loving who you wanted to love, for speaking the truth/saying what you were called to say — in an old lifetime? This is karma you are awake to heal. It is time to not be afraid, and to be your you-est you.
This is how you will heal your karma, by being unafraid to live your fullest expression. It is your time.
10. Outsider-ness. Have you always felt a little bit of an outsider — nose pressed against the glass of life on earth, while knowing you were actually an insider of a magical tribe, with insider wisdom?
While you never fit in the norm, you knew there was something sacred, secret, special about you — a magic just a few other magical people could see.
You do not run with big crowds; you are a bit more of a sensitive but powerful lone wolf; you need a lot of time to think, dream, recharge, and commune with Source — Nature/The Universe/The Goddess.
11. Mystical Crystals/Accoutrements. You are drawn to beautiful rocks — pieces of earth energy — and you have kept stones like clear quartz, turquoise, rose quartz around you for as long as you can remember, even if you did not know their properties at the time.
They were either given to you, or you picked them up along the way and collected at least a few.
Witches know the properties of the earth’s stones and charge them with — among other things — healing, love, abundance and protective benefits, and are often wearing their special stones in jewelry.
You also love to keep candles around and lit — because candles are invitations to spirits and angels, and create a more magical, divine vibe. And you probably like a good, energy-clearing sage or incense.
12. Magic. Did you believe in magic as a child, see magic in the air and in life? Were you drawn to magical things, creatures, fables, stories, even as you grew older, despite everyone telling you “There Was No Such Thing?”
And despite the rest of the world not believing, did you save some room in your heart for tales of magic, love, and the mystical and mysterious, anyway?
Were you drawn to movies and books about witches, magic, the spooky, the mystical, the unknowable? Have you always thought there was no such thing as a coincidence, that we were not really alone, and this was not all there was?
Do you believe that no-thing means nothing — in other words, everything means something? Do you believe in signs and symbols?
13. More Magic and Divinations. Speaking of signs and symbols — you get premonitions, as if you have an internal crystal ball.
When you are talking about what you think will happen, people tend to perk up and listen. Sometimes you see or feel outcomes — flash-forwards — so far ahead that you find it frustrating when others have not caught up with you! You have dreams and visions, of past lives and the future.
And you can read other people and their energy and intentions fairly well. You have Sixth Sense. It is also a reason why you are drawn to Tarot, Runes, or other mist-parting divinations.
I hope this has helped. These are just 13 signs — you might recognize a few, or a whole lot of these witchy ways. A witch’s message is one of self-love, earth-love, and about the importance of aligning with the phases of the earth and moon. Pretty simple, really.
But at one point, if you were too close with the earth, if you were too wise, too powerful — too much, and definitely too feminine — you were cast out or slain for your largeness and wildness. It need not be so any longer.
It is time to heal your past karma, own your power, wisdom and beauty, and rise, dear ones — the earth needs you, and we, of course, need the earth.
Pay Attention to the Omens: 10 Signs you might Be a Witch.
This past month marks 323 years since the first witch hanging as a part of the infamous Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. Back then people (mostly women, though some men too) were accused of being a witch based on their behaviors or interests, but now being a witch is proudly self-proclaimed.
The word witch is often associated with images of an old woman with warts and a large nose who’s into evil or scaring children. In the Wizard of Oz or other mythology the witch was either good or bad but never both but these images and stereotypes are outdated and already in the midst of a makeover.
The way I see it, the new version of the witch is much different. She (though could be a he, for the purpose of this article I use feminine pronouns) works for the light and the dark and oscillates between being a loving mother and a wild lover. She has the beauty/power of the seductress and the brains/wisdom of the crone and knows when to use which. She is both the Earthy warrior goddess and the mysterious cosmic communicator.
I want to be this woman. And, as my latest issue of the magazine The Cauldron: Witchcraft, Paganism, & Folklore arrived in the mail, I wondered if I was, in fact, a witch. Sure, I have a cat, celebrate the cycles of the moon, wear lots of black, love magic and study astrology—but was I really a witch or just a wannabe one?
After careful reflection and a lot of tarot, I decided that yes, I am in fact part witch (though not as much as I’d like). However, as an etymology detective (it was my entire thesis topic) it was important for me to first understand where the word itself came from since the original meanings of words are often more powerful than the modern adaptations. It is of mysterious, uncertain origin, though the best guess is that it came from Proto-Indo-European meaning “to be strong, lively.” It shares the same roots as the word wake, though I have come to understand the word means an awake woman/man.
A witch is a woman who is awake and aware of her soul, body and darkness. She knows the deepest parts of herself and knows her strength comes from this depth of knowing. Transformation is her playground as she loves her ever-changing, wild and chaotic nature. Throughout different cultures she has many names as the dark goddess: Kali, Lilith, Ceridwen or Psyche. However, witch seems to sum her up best.
As witches are bridges of duality, the signs of witchhood require an “as above, so below” approach. So, here are the internal and external omens that have revealed to me my own witchiness:
1. Interest in healing and esoterism including, but not limited to: astrology, herbalism, energy work, crystals, sacred geometry, tarot, alchemy or other divination.
2. Following and communing with the cycles of the moon and seasons. Bonus points for rituals with the moon cycles magic/manifestation.
3. Wearing lots of black and grey. Black is the ancient symbol of the mysterious feminine and grey in esoteric traditions is linked to wisdom.
4. Believing in magic. Whether its synchronicities or manifestation, respecting and honoring the deep relationship between the inner and outer worlds.
5. Gathering in community. Witches (of male and female gender) gathered together to create and cast spells (I like it nude, but find sometimes that makes people uncomfortable…you know who you are…sorry).
Oh and it certainly doesn’t hurt if you own a cat or two. Cats were believed to be protectors from evil spirits, so witches needed them nearby. However, perhaps more importantly than the visible signs is your internal process.
1. Being nourished and comfortable with the darkness and your own shadow. Knowing this darkness is the key to owning your light and power. Bonus points if you actually let your darkness out.
2. Courage to follow your desire. This is how the witch finds her freedom—getting rid of suppression and niceties to allow herself to want what she wants. Hopefully no more fears of witch hunts!
3. In touch with your volcanic, powerful sexual energy. Owning the creative energies of our first and second chakras as the root of our power. Gulp, I’m certainly still a bit afraid of it.
4. Owning and listening to your authority, wisdom, and intuition—the gifts of the divine feminine. Witches listen to others but ultimately follow their own instincts.
5. Communicating and listening to other realms and beings from (and not from) Earth, whether it be star beings, animals, elementals (fairies or elves) or angels.
Most importantly, the witch understands the importance of tending to her cauldron of desire. She understands that this transformational energy of desire feeds her soul and moves her toward becoming more herself. While she may not always be “pretty” or “nice,” she is powerful and a virgin in the purest sense of the word.
While the witch hunts were hundreds of years ago, this archetype is more alive now than ever. As the next wave of feminism attempts to integrate more and more feminine values into society, the witch as the wild feminine has never been more necessary. She might have been hunted and quieted before but now she no longer hides in the shadows and is rather mainstream.
It is up to us to help the witch enjoy her freedoms by owning up to our own witchiness and paying attention to the omens.
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