by thehypewitch | Aug 13, 2025 | Magic 101
One of the first things I learned when I started my spiritual practice was about protection spells. I remember working with my first mentor Elena and how she would describe the importance of protection, especially for magical people.
Put it this way: if you’re a shining beacon of light, everyone will notice you. Which means you will attract everything that’s around you, the good to the bad.
If you’re a magical or intuitive person like me, you’ve probably experienced stuck energy inside your body or even your home. Here’s what I mean when I say stuck energy:
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by thehypewitch | Apr 27, 2025 | Magic 101
I grew up with witches, but I didn’t know they were witches. I just called them family.
I have been around folk magic and occult traditions since I was a child; to me, it’s a way of life. However, no one in my family claimed the title of being a witch. No one ever used the word witch. As I grew up, went to university, and started incorporating practices in my day-to-day, practices I learned from the amazing women in my family, things started to connect. One day, it dawned on me while visiting my mother and looking around my childhood home that I realized, “Oh wait, we are witches!”
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