What Type of Witch Are You?

There are many types of witches, and most modern witches blend paths to suit their own beliefs and lifestyle. I would definitely fall within that realm! These “types” are more like styles o rather than rigid categories. Think of them in terms of roles or focuses, not job titles.

I am going to break down a few of the common “types” of witches. This is not an end all be all list so if you see anything you feel as missing, please let me know and we can add it!

Green Witch 🌿

• Focus: Nature, herbs, gardening, plant magic

• Practices: Uses plants and natural materials for healing, rituals, and spells

• Often works closely with the seasons and moon cycles

• Might make their own teas, oils, or tinctures

  
  

🧪 How a skeptic might see it: Like a spiritual herbalist with a garden and a ritual habit

Kitchen Witch 🏠

• Focus: Home, hearth, food magic

• Practices: Infusing intention into cooking, cleaning, and daily routines

• Uses food, spices, and recipes for ritual and wellbeing

🥘 To a skeptic: A mindful cook using food as a form of meditation or energy work

Eclectic Witch 🌕

• Focus: Mix and match from multiple traditions

• Practices: Takes what resonates from various paths (Wicca, folk magic, astrology, etc.)

• Highly personal; no two eclectic witches look the same

  
  

🧩 To a skeptic: A spiritual sampler building their own belief system

Divination Witch 🔮

• Focus: Tarot, runes, pendulums, astrology, etc.

• Practices: Seeks insight or guidance through symbolic tools

• Often combines intuition with study of systems like numerology or astrology

  
  

📜 To a skeptic: A ritualized form of introspection or pattern recognition

Hedge Witch 🪶

• Focus: Spirit work, liminal spaces, folklore

• Practices: Journeying, working with ancestors, (symbolically moving between worlds)

• Often solitary and deeply intuitive

  
  

🌫️ To a skeptic: Someone exploring altered states or meditation with heavy folklore influence

Traditional Witch 🕯️

• Focus: Old folk magic, ancestral practices, historical witchcraft

• Practices: Draws from regional customs, folklore, and pre-modern magical systems

• May work with spirits, deities, or ancestral lines

  
  

🏛️ To a skeptic: A history buff with a spiritual ritual practice

Cosmic or Astrological Witch ✨

• Focus: Planetary influences, moon phases, astrology

• Practices: Aligns rituals with celestial events

• Often very attuned to energy shifts during retrogrades, eclipses, full moons, etc.

  
  

🌌 To a skeptic: Someone who ritualizes their calendar using the sky as a guide

Elemental Witch 🔥

• Focus: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit

• Practices: Uses elemental correspondences in spells and rituals

• May identify with or “work through” a specific element

  
  

🌀 To a skeptic: A symbolic way to explore inner balance or psychological states

Shadow Witch 🖤

• Focus: Shadow work, transformation, healing through darkness

• Practices: Working through trauma, facing fears, integrating the unconscious

• Deep psychological/spiritual introspection

  
  

🧠 To a skeptic: A poetic approach to self-therapy

One thing that you will never see on any of my lists is the term “Baby Witch”. That is specifically because I do not resonate with that term. To me, it does not matter at what point in your life, you decided to embrace and step into the role of witch or practicing witchcraft. Whether it’s something that you’ve been doing for years, that you did in childhood, or something that you just started resonating with; you are a witch.

As witches, we are constantly learning, evolving, and growing. You are never going to “know it all” at one time so to me the term “Baby Witch” doesn’t exist. Personally, I have known some very powerful witches that have just stepped into their role and they are more powerful than witches I’ve known that I’ve been practicing for years.  So regardless of how long you’ve been practicing, embrace the fact that you are a witch, whether or not you know what type you are.

Personally, I identify very well as an Eclectic Witch, as I tend to take things that resonate with me from various different types and practices. I work a lot with specific deities, but I also work a lot with the elements, plants, and moon cycles. If it resonates or I feel called to it then that’s the direction I go.

Most witches don’t fit neatly into just one of these as they overlap and evolve over time. What type of witch are you?