A list I comprised of things to do when you’re feeling passionate about your witchiness, but are not looking to do spells or rituals etc! I get this all the time, so I thought perhaps others do to! Some will be more basic then others, but I hope to inspire! Feel free to send in suggestions to my ask box for me to add to the list! I’ll update this whenever I can!
- Collect some interesting sticks (from the ground, preferably) and wrap them in colourful string or wire, perhaps add feathers or crystals! Make into a wand? An altar decoration?
- Write witch-inspired poetry or stories, or create art based on your craft.
- Take a walk in nature and listen and look out for your native birds and other wildlife! Keep an ongoing record of what you see, perhaps in your BOS/grimoire? Or make a chart of wildlife you expect to see in your area, with identification methods and pictures which you’ve drawn yourself or taken from books/internet?
- You can always add more to your BOS/Grimoire! (We’re all good at putting it off, through fear of “messing it up”) This video, was a great help for me!
- Create a witchy wardrobe by going through your clothes and making mysterious outfits! Or visit charity shops and find inexpensive pieces?
- Moderately and ethically, collect flowers and leaves to press and stick in your BOS! Pressing flowers instructions
- There’s always more research to do and books to read! Check out your local libraries’ collection of books on the occult, witchcraft, paganism etc or even broader subjects like herbs and crystals?
- Help your local community look after nature! Collect rubbish, volunteer at animal shelters etc?
- Make sigils! Add them to your BOS? Draw them on yourself (with correct ink) or on paper? Store them to charge later?
- Write spiritual chants or songs for your craft! Use an instrument, if you play one?
- General crafting with nature’s bounty! This could be helpful
- Create mystical or natural jewellery! Or maybe a pendant? Here’s an idea
- Terrariums are a beautiful way to keep a bit of nature inside your bedroom! Here’s some instructions
- Create ornamental or potent crystal arrangements! Perhaps on your altar?
- Decorate or redecorate your altar space to match the season!
- Gardening or planting! Water your indoor/outdoor plants? Have they got enough sunlight?
- Make leaf art! Press them, draw on them, cut them into shapes, arrange them in patterns?
- Join a club or class for anything new that interests you! Eg, glass blowing? Pottery? Cooking? Cards? Skills which you could easily incorporate into your craft!
- If you work with deities, why not give them an offering? Something physical like a food offering or perhaps something less physical like a poem?
- Decorate a notebook cover, plant pot, vase, plate etc or even your body (with suitable ink) with symbols and sigils which promote an emotion or action! Luck? To grow well? To prosper?
- They’ll always be a baby witch online you can offer advice to! Or perhaps in real life at a local spiritual event?
- Make a chart on the identification of clouds! Because why not? Impress your friends with your wealth of information on clouds!
- Plan out your altar space or ritual for the next sabbat!
- Dry and bottle useful herbs, plants and flowers you might need for a spell or ritual coming up! Or perhaps as a gift, charged with helpful energies? Perhaps make ordained labels?
- Create a dream diary! Bonus points for trying to work out their meaning!
- Create a witchy music playlist! For meditation? Or magickal workings?
- Collect rainwater, because they’ll always be a use! In spells? Watering your indoor plants without using a tap? Some ideas
- Learn a new skill within the craft, eg divination methods, herbalism etc
- Visit charity shops to find inexpensive hidden gems! Interesting old books? Jewellery? Possible athames/bolines and chalices! You’ll be supporting a charity too!
- Make a wild flower section in your garden to encourage bees and insects to thrive, depending on the time of year! Or even a herb garden!
- Find some witch shops near you! They’ll be thankful for the business and you never know who you’ll meet!
- Find a tree close to you and use it to observe the Wheel Of The Year! Try to not pick an evergreen for the changes will be harder to note. If it’s in your garden or a public place, perhaps meditate by it? Sketch it’s changes? Research its magickal attributes, folklore or medicinal properties? What Deity is associated with it? It might even provide you wand! (Concept borrowed from Kate West’s The Real Witches’ Handbook)
