The Bewitching Blogger

Using a blog as a diary is useful for magic in many ways. For example, you’re able to tap into the social aspect of blogging and also the magic of releasing your own thoughts into cyberspace.

Additionally, you can turn each post into a working for a spell or ritual.

Microblogging can be used as digital paper charms.

Altars take many different forms and depending on the person in question, there can be altars that don’t even look like altars. For me, I see a blog as a way to share my devotional stuff, and in some cases share my spells and knowledge with others. Blogging is both a grimoire accessible to others and a personal reflection of yourself. For this reason, one must approach the art of blogging with the reverence that an artist would approach a canvas or a device they’re working on to show the world their soul.

When you’re working with blogs and witchcraft, you have to have an understanding about who your audience is. Once you have that, you can unleash your passion.

Passion is the most powerful emotion to channel into blogging magic. With the right level of passion, you can blog spells, build your community, even have your own blogging witch coven. It all depends on what you want to accomplish.

Self expression is all about getting out there and telling the world what you think of things.

An extreme example would be the use of a news story, linking it into your blog post and then rallying the troops.

Everyone knows the traditional tools of the Craft, but a little known fact is that there is a whole range of different ways to see these tools. In this post, I am going to list the traditional tools and then describe my personal thoughts on how a witchy blogger might modify them. I am also going to do individual posts on each of the tools listed here for a more in depth look at how they can be used.

List of Witchcraft Tools:

- Altar: For a witchy blogger, this could be the device you work on or the blog itself.

- Athame: Consider using your copy and paste of links to your blog to spread awareness. This directs energy towards your blog and can also be used direct other elements in a blogomantic ritual towards a greater purpose. (Yes I’m reaching since I don’t use an athame in any regard).

- Book of Spells: Every witch has some way of recording spells and rituals. For a witchy blogger, this could be a separate and private blog for your eyes alone.

- Candles: Images of candles are pretty simple, but the animated ones can also be used. Alternatively, if you want to create a writer’s ambiance, using LED candles like tea lights are a great idea.

- Cauldron: Audio, images and video are the water and flavor of the internet in my opinion. Mixing these into collages or even just creating and sharing playlists on your blog would count as using a cauldron.

- Crystals: Images of crystals can be put into a post on a blog and create a form of crystal grid.

- Divination Tools: ok here is where it gets fun. I have personally used a poetry community here on Tumblr to perform a version of bibliomancy and poetic prophecy. That being said, there are other ways to do it. Let’s say you find a tarot reader’s blog that you like and they do a daily pull. Instead of reading what they write for what it means, apply what it means to you as a form of blog post and meditation.

- Wand: Your keyboard, your mouse and your hands are what help direct the magic, so in essence they are your wand.

Some of you might have heard of me from my other blog “The Cyber Witch’s code”. This blog is specifically for the topic of witchcraft and social sorcery. I came across this idea based around the concept of alliteration and blogging as a form of witchcraft.

Hear me out, blogging is a form of Magick and can be used as such. How many people see things like emoji spells? The concept of “like to receive blessings”? Let’s take that a step further and look deeper into what blogging actually is.