Spirituality as a Witch

Spirituality is very important to me. As a witch and a pagan, I use spirituality to help with my personal growth and to help in the world around.

At first, I grew up as a Christian and it was more of a saying rather than a belief. I did believe God was out there but I also felt like it was an open space for me. Growing up with a biological father who was a priest but did not act as a good person, it made it hard to believe if God was supporting that.

Later on in my belief, I would just say that I was Christian but I did not go to church or study the Bible. It was more of a safety blanket for me. It wasn't until about 2021 that I started to explore witchy things and paganism.

Paganism interested me because of the belief of how we interact with nature and impact the world. The deities that surrounded paganism and being a witch didn't interest me at first. I was more focused on how the Universe and the planet worked. Especially as a geologist and having a belief that coincides with planet, this made sense to me.

But later I started to delve into mythologies and deity work. I started worshiping a deity from Greek Mythology named Hestia. She is the goddess of the hearth and the home. As my craft delved further, I did not feel connected with her but I was thankful for her help. It helped me believe there was beyond the world. When I began workings or readings, it felt like someone was hearing me out and helping me. This made me more accepting of belief beyond our Earth.

My belief circles transformed around the idea that whatever is beyond the world coincides with us. When we work on ourselves, we help what is beyond and our planet. I worship many different deities now- Hekate, Athena, Morrigan, Persephone, etc. and each I believe helps me grow as an individual. Each deity I worship I venerate through cards and other spiritual items. By doing that, I figure what I need to work on at the moment or what I can celebrate for doing well at.

And while I do not work on myself all the time, I still feel their presence throughout the day or when they pull back when I need a rest. But the fear that there is nothing beyond where I am started to fade. I started to wonder what was beyond Earth? When people talk about astral travel, do they see beyond Earth truly? I can also question who am I truly in life and what is the purpose here beyond just living. This is my next hurdle. Finding the parts of me hidden in a labyrinth of mazes and catacombs of libraries. It will be a longer journey in my spirituality. But a path I want to take to explore who I really am.

Spirituality also helps me not fear death as much. That there is a beyond to whatever a person believes. Whether it is Heaven, Valhalla, reincarnation, going back into the Earth, or more, there is a place to go for that person. While the unknown in my regular life does instigate fear in me, the idea where I go after death does not worry me as much.

So this is my belief around spirituality and the view of it as a witch. It's a small blurb but it really accentuates this.