This week on #WiccanChat, we sparked some magick with the elements! Our Sisters and Brothers of The Craft shared their best Witchy Wins, their worst fantastic fails, and more on Twitter as part of Plentiful Earth’s Wiccan Chat! This was our sixth Twitter chat, and we look forward to seeing our Pagan Twitter community grow!
Read our magickal recap below, and feel like you were part of the magick! Follow us on Twitter, and be sure to join us on Twitter every Wednesday at 11am Central time! We cover a new Wiccan topic every week!
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Icebreaker: How long have you been practicing? Make a new friend. Follow a fellow #WiccanChatter who has less years of experience than you and be a guiding light!
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “IB: Started practicing witchcraft at age 9 and am now age 30 so 21 years! Those first few years were a bit rough lol.” @witchingmoon13
- “I’ve been practising for about 20 years on and off” @PaigeofMaces
- “#WiccanChat 45 years” @Elisasspot
- “IB – I’ve been practicing sinse 94. But I don’t count the year and a day.” @Wicca_BluMoon
- “Icebreaker A: 10 years. Disc Wicca after expressing belief in a female deity to which my parents responded by getting me a book on Wicca.” @autisticwitchy
- “IB: Late :/ I practiced some as a young teen then felt should be “normal” for others. So newly being me for last couple months. #WiccanChat” @leAmazing_1
- “I’ve been practicing for a little over 20 years! I first discovered wicca when I was 9, and have developed my own practice since” @FatFemnistWitch
- “IB: I’ve bees OFFICIALLY practicing the craft since 1999. It felt like coming home! #wiccanchat” @NorthwestWitch
- “Have practiced for 23 years yet it ebbs & flows. It feels VITAL right now to ensure mundane grounding doesn’t overwhelm spiritual connection” @mookychick
- “39 yrs 40 on my 53 birthday But I’m a Witch not Wiccan though I think Wicca a worthy path” @forrestersmate
- “I’m 52 & have been officially practicing for less than a year. When i look back on my life its always been a part of me.#onthepath&didntnoit” @RhyleeDavidson
Q1: Are you out of the broom closet? If so, what was the best thing that happened to you when you came out?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A1. Yes. Best thing was the relief of being able to be my authentic self EVERYWHERE.” @NorthwestWitch
- “A1: I don’t think I was ever IN the broom closet. It didn’t ever occur to me to hide any part of myself.” @witchingmoon13
- “A1 #WiccanChat yes! Best thing to happen to me is finding out I had other family who practiced as well.” @autisticwitchy
Q2: What is your single-most crowning event that makes you proud to be a Witch?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A2: Friend diagnosed w/disease. We did a healing spell. Never again found trace of disease after REPEATED tests for several yrs” @NorthwestWitch
- “A2: Starting on a course of high magick with the middle pillar ritual initiation.” @8019346
- “Q2: Connecting ppl w lost fam members. At times via mediumship, at times via genealogy. Ancestor work is my fave thing EVAH.” @madrabanrion
- “A2: My dedication ceremony, I felt brand new and transformed.” @PaigeofMaces
Q3: What were the most amazing spell results you’ve ever had?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A3: I really think it helped me overcome a lot & not long after I started dating my boyfriend.” @witchingmoon13
- “A3: Figuring out cloud bursting a few years ago, and, recently when I began working on reversal magick.” @BreakdownGraphx
- “A3 I think I mentioned it before but I did a money attraction spell and we ended up finding $2k soon after.” @autisticwitchy
Q4: Have you ever forgotten to close a circle or dismiss the elements? Did anything crazy happen to you and your space?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A4: A friend & I forgot to close a circle. Were psychically linked for months, had each other’s thoughts/feelings. SO CONFUSING.” @NorthwestWitch
- “A4: Within two years ago, closing circle has been fine. Though, not dismissing elements makes for a tough universe.” @8019346
- “A4: oh thanks! my answer was I would not deign to summon it’s rude i work with not demand(mostly) so not part of my practice #WiccanChat” @Elisasspot
- “A4: This has never happened to me when I used to cast circles & invoke elements. I am a stickler for following the routine.” @witchingmoon13
Q5: Have you ever tried to use electronics in circle? What happened?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A5: I’ve used my iPad to follow ritual with a group, and it actually worked fine. I seem to only short out PC’s with my magic. Though the difference may be whether the device is MINE or someone else’s. My things are attuned to my energy and do okay. ” @NorthwestWitch
- “A5: I have had music playing on a iPod but outside of the circle & not that I can think of! #wiccanchat” @witchingmoon13
- “A5: I once worried my now husband! I cast a circle and kept my cellphone near me, in case he called. He was worried for 2 hours because calls weren’t making it to my phone!” @Plentiful_Earth
Q6: What great Witchy idea did you have that turned out to be a totally bad OR hilarious idea? (Spells backfiring, killed the grass in your yard with a salt circle, etc.)
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “A6. The first time I astral projected I had some entitys follow me back and one possesed my gf, had to preform a exercisism.” @Wicca_BluMoon
- “Used magic to keep a relationship together. It worked for several more months–some of the worst months of my life! Also I once set an intention to “feel more like a grownup”. NEVER ASK FOR THAT.” @NorthwestWitch
- “A6: Not yet lol but I’m sure one day it will happen. Lol ” @leAmazing_1
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! If you missed it, we look forward to seeing you next Wednesday!
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