Nature as a practice

The babiest of baby witch steps

So, um. Hi.

A bunch of you didn’t unsubscribe after I wrote about being a witch instead of melting down about the election. And in fact, even more of you made your way here!

As a baby pagan, I am experiencing a wide range of feelings these days. I still don’t know *how* to write about all of this, because my usual modes are not quite as helpful. In the past, when I wanted to learn about something, I would read and read and read and read. And now? I don’t have the capacity to become an ethical expert on all things witchy and/or pagan. I just have the little practices I am carving out for myself, and slowly growing my knowledge and intuition in a wide variety of ways. I am hoping that this community can be a place where we can make space for people to be exploring their connection to the earth and to their power at whatever pace they are at — while also expanding our knowledge of the ways in which we can do less harm to each other and to the earth. The colonized mind needs a lot of help, and that includes knowledge about how to do better and experiential learning from the earth herself.

So let’s start here:

I am growing my connection to nature.

Last year I asked one of my witchy friends what she does to be a witch. She looked at me strangely, and she said “I dunno. I just go in the woods and do whatever I feel like.”

Like a good little ex-vangelical, I pressed for more details. Were there specific rituals? Prayers? Spells? Things to do? No, she said. Just vibes.