I’ve never written a blog before and I’m not exactly sure how to begin, but I figure explaining what I’m doing is probably a good place to start.
For the next year I am going to document my adventure learning witchcraft and how I am incorporating my practice into my daily life. Which seems like a simple plan, but…
My plan seems to keep evolving and getting bigger and bigger. At first I just felt it was time. Time for me to try something new. Time to stop living the life I’d been raised to live and start living the life I was meant to. Writing and witchcraft was going to be my outlet. Both things I have dabbled in and dreamed about since I was a teenager. Someday I’ll finally look into witchcraft properly. Someday I’ll publish a novel. Then I had this idea to combine the two, I could write a novel based in our actual reality and include witchcraft as it actually is in our world. The time to do it was now – I could feel it all the way down to my bones.
Naturally, I started researching and fairly quickly came across the term witch’s path. The Witch’s Path is a period of time, usually one year plus one day, that has many historical and cultural roots. Generally speaking, it is a symbolic and literal time frame that is used for study, preparation, and transformation before a witch formally dedicates themselves to a path, coven, or deity. The idea of learning for a year (while writing my book) caught my attention and felt like the answer to how I could do both at the same time. And since I don’t know enough about any of the lore, history, or sects to choose one to follow now, using the general meaning for the Witch’s Path (outside of any Wiccan traditions, or specific coven requirements) seems like the ideal way to start.
I talked to a bunch of my friends and family and found a lot of support and interest, so naturally, I enlisted a bunch of them to join me on my journey. We started a Discord server because I figured that we could all share resources we’ve found useful. Not to mention that with all of us researching our own things, we could gain exposure to different areas that other people are working on that we may be interested in looking into later. With everyone buying in on the experience, we decided the next full moon was the time to start.
We wrote out our intentions and then burnt them under the 2026 Worm Moon, from what I had already learned, that was kind of like sending an email to the universe saying; hey, here’s what I’m about to do, I could really use your support.
And dude, did she listen.
I don’t know if it was the strength of my intent or that this year’s Worm Moon had both an eclipse and Blood Moon aspects that intensified its power, but the amount of excitement I’ve had for this project exploded. I threw myself into books and reading. I watched YouTube Videos and took notes on all the things I wanted to look into further and got our Discord Server up and running. But I also quickly got overwhelmed with all the different types of witchcraft, and possibilities, and different paths I could take. My head was spinning.
And then real life happened. Three of us were already actively moving homes, we literally got the keys to our new house on the day of the Worm Moon. One of our group’s sister died and she was inundated with family issues and drama surrounding the things her sister had left undone. A couple more had classes and the academic term was quickly coming to a close. We were busy, spread thin, and exhausted from our normal everyday responsibilities.
But I didn’t want to give up. The relatively minor spells or rituals we had tried seemed to work. And I felt amazing. Like I was tapping into an energy that I’ve known was there just out of reach all my life. It was like inhaling deeply after holding your breath for as long as you can.
So I meditated and reaffirmed my intention to take this journey, acknowledged that if I was going to do it, I need to do it properly and sat down to work on the basics.
Check out my next post to see how that went…