10 Signs You're A Witch Resource.pdf

10 Signs You’re a Witch 
 


Hi there magical creature, What follows is an in-depth exploration of sure signs that you’re rocking some intense witchiness even though you may not realize it. Often it’s much easier to take information in via audio rather than reading, so I also want to share with you this audio track: 


Click here to get the audio. 


The audio track is me getting interviewed by the wonderful Sarah Starrs of Punk Rock Personal Development on Becoming magical, deepening your desires, and raising your havingness level. Best,
 Carolyn Elliott editor of BAD WITCHES magazine teacher of INFLUENCE: the course on mastering practical magic

1. You don’t give a fuck. Witches are different than other people because they’ve integrated significant dimensions of their shadow-selves.
 


This means they’re forces to be reckoned with, and they have access to their creative unconscious. So the most amazing quality of a person who’s a witch (whether or not she consciously cultivates her witchiness or calls herself a “witch”)…. …. is that she’s reached a level of intuitive and imaginative power which gives her an inner authority. 
 


Witches are moved by their own genius and not by any external dogma or force (yes, that includes the dogmas of Wicca and neo-paganism and some of the most powerful witches I know are Buddhists and Christians - deep witchery comes in all flavors). 
 


They may use a wide variety of traditional or institutional tools, but they’re not dependent on traditional or institutional authority for their power. 
 


They’ve woken up the magic within their own hearts and it’s alive and throbbing.

Witches are often offensive to – well, just about every body. 
 


Both conventional types and also magical people who have rigid ideas about what magic “should” look like get alarmed in the presence of a powerful witch who obeys no rules but her own. So if you find yourself very committed to spiritual development but having next to zero interest in fulfilling anyone else’s expectations of what your magic or spirituality should look like…. …. then you may just be a witch.

2. Seriously, you do not give a fuck. In your life you’ve probably had plenty of experiences of people freaking out at you about your signature strange way of being in the world, and while this is sometimes sad or challenging, ultimately you don’t care. You know you’ve got work to accomplish – art to make, people to heal, houses to build, rituals to craft, stories to write – and you just don’t have time to be constantly soothing people who expect you to adhere to some standard other than your own genius and inner authority. This may mean that eventually you go into stealth mode so as not to continually create alarm, but you don’t go stealth because you’re hiding or avoidant. You do it because you know you’ve got things to accomplish and only a limited amount of time here in the third dimension.

3. You make people nervous. No matter how toned-down you allow you are in your dress or demeanor, you still make people nervous just by your very presence. There are things that can be done to mitigate this, but it’s probably unavoidable. For folks who are looking to external authorities to tell them what’s good and beautiful and okay, the presence of you, someone who is wholly reliant on inner authority, is inherently disturbing. Why is your witchy presence so disturbing? It’s because others can sense there’s something about you that’s unpredictable and uncontrollable. You’re not being ruled by the conventional programs, so you’re not immediately legible to people who still allow themselves to be ruled.

4. Folks tell you that your eyes are “beautiful” – what they mean is that they’re penetrating. Since you’re a witch, most people don’t have the words to describe your eyes. They just notice that there’s something compelling and different about them. That something is that your eyes truly see. You can look at someone and see what programs they’re running, see where they’re blocking themselves, see what they’re attached too, see how they mishandle their own sexual energy and power, see their potential for liberation. It’s just evident to you when you look at someone because you’ve done that liberatory work on yourself already.

5. You can always tell when someone is full of it. See the above. Your penetrating vision is a kind of psychic perception. You can see how people deceive themselves because you’ve unravelled many of your own self-deceptions. You can hear when someone is bullshitting because you can perceive that the whole of their being is not in full resonance with their words.

6. You’ve been actually persecuted at least once in your life. Because you make people nervous and you don’t give a fuck and you probably did not start out in stealth mode, it’s very likely that if you’re a witch you’ve attracted actual persecution at some point. This could be persecution in the form of cruel harassment and teasing in childhood, or persecution in the legal and professional realms as an adult.

Often it’s persecution in the form of malicious gossip from former friends who couldn’t keep up with your magical growth and then felt envious. Kindness and compassion in the form of brahmavihara cultivation are great antidotes to energetic persecution, and so are traditional protection spells and an ongoing practice of developing your communication and relating skills.

7. You encounter tons of synchronicity, and it doesn’t always lead you to peachy places. Truly powerful witches are basically tantric bodhisattvas; they have a soul-commitment to liberate themselves and all beings as fast as possible, ideally in one lifetime, using alchemical transmutation. This means that witches on the karmic fast-track and that life lessons very often comes super-fast and hard to witches.







So the downside of this is that following even gorgeous synchronicities can sometimes lead witches to apparently dark places – and that the visit to the dark and dirty places is a totally unavoidable, built-in part of the trip.

In other words, witches know that life and magic are not always “love’n’light” New Age bowl of cherries – instead, they’re often a tour of the hell realms.

8. Your disapproval visibly hexes people. 
 Most people are way more insecure than you are.
 


So one reason that you make people nervous is that you have so much personal power that if you dislike, insult, or disapprove of them or something that they like – they’ll feel it, hard. Their day will be ruined, and maybe their whole entire confidence in life.
 


Sounds harsh, but you’ve got that kind of power. 
 


When people get hexed by a cross word or look from you, they lose connection with their own best direction. They look dazed because they’re up in their heads, spinning scared, self-doubting thoughts around.




Folks are so affected by your disapproval for the very reason that they can sense your perception is penetrating. This is the “evil eye” that’s been so feared in so many cultures across history. 


Of course you would resent and fear someone who had the power to crush your confidence with a glance. So as a witch, it’s a good idea to continually cultivate awareness of and transmute your own resentments and fears.
 


When you do this, you make sure that you’re not walking around spattering everyone with mean ju-ju just because you don’t feel good about yourself that day.

9. You’ve experienced your raw magnetism in action. You know you’re hot stuff. You’ve had abundant experiences of your own magical ability to magnetize amazing romantic partners and friends and other beautiful stuff. Plus, there’s times when people just come up to you and tell you how fascinating you are or how deeply moved they felt by your work.
 


So yes, you’re magnetic.

10. Your experience of the fourth dimension is more vivid than most people’s

experience of the third dimension. “The fourth dimension” is a short-hand term for the world of spirit and emotion and desire and vibration and feeling and intuition and imagination. “The fourth dimension” is all the unseen stuff that can have the power to dramatically affect the seen. On the whole, witches have a much easier time navigating fourth dimensional realities than they do with third dimensional realities. The third dimension is hard, literally. 
 


The third dimension includes matter: table legs that you can stub your toes on, cars that can crash if you steer them the wrong way, water that leaks through roofs, bills that have to be paid. A major challenge for witches is integrating their fourth dimensional prowess with third dimensional day-to-day reality. The third dimension is more difficult for us than it is for non-witches for the simple fact that large amounts of our minds and hearts are usually occupied by the fourth dimension. 
 


We have less processing power to devote to third dimensional issues, and so we have to make it a deliberate part of our spiritual practice to deal with material reality – hence, practical magic.




So, feeling a bit witchier and bad-ass than you were a few minutes ago? 


Yay!
 


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