Stars of Ivy

Earth Witch: Witches who specifically work with their magic around the element of Earth, such as grounding exercises, rock/soil collecting, crystal magic, and Green Witchery.

Elemental Witch: Witches who work around the 5 elements: Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Spirit.

Green Witch: use plants/herbs/flowers in herbal and natural magic, such as using them in spells and creating remedies with them.

Garden Witch: A version of a Green Witch, they enjoy working with the earth through gardening and using their herbs and plants to help and care for their families and loved ones.

Flora Witch: Similar to the above witches, they work with flowers in their practice. Their Book of Shadows would likely be full of Green Witchery, such as than herbs, recipes, and flower classifications and associations. Water Witch: Witches who work water magic, such as through water scrying, collecting water, swimming and other water-related actives, and so on.

Desert Witch: A witch who lives in the desert, enjoys the natural desert scenery, uses desert plants, bones, sand in their practice, and collects desert rocks. They normally worship desert deities and study desert lore in their area.

Swamp Witch: Witches who live within the swamps, use swamp plants, and enjoy the company of swamp animals. 

Sea Witch: They work with magic and deities around the ocean and oceanic world. The practice sea magic using seashells and bones, sea weed, beach sand, driftwood, ocean water, etc. They also worship sea deities and enjoy the imagery of sea creature, like mermaids.

Forest Witch: A witch who enjoys the company of tree and live amongst them. The seclusion is perfect for cottage magic and tree magic. They also enjoy the company of fey and woodland animals, and use local plants. 

Ice/Arctic Witch: A witch who lives amongst snow covered land for most of the year. They worship ice deities, use snow water, and enjoy the cold. 

Air/Wind Witch: Witches who center around the element of Air. They work with wind, using tools and symbols associated with air.

Fire Witch: Witches who focus on the element of Fire and fire magic, such as candle magic.

Sun Witch: A witch who enjoys sunshine, works with spell work involving the sun, and sun deities.

Nocturnal Witch: A witch who works with nocturnal deities and shellwork at night. They find solace in darkness, the darker side of life, and normally wear dark colors. There is a great book by Konstantinos called Nocturnal Witchcraft.

Storm/Weather Witch: Witches who combine one’s energy with the energy of the weather and storms. They collect rain water, utilize the energy of a lightning storm, and so on.

Seasonal Witch: Witches who draw magic during a specific time of the year. They are known as Winter, Fall, Spring and Summer witches who have a deep connection to the season they love.

Lunar/Moon Witch: A witch who draws magic from the moon. They are nocturnal witches and do magic at night. They also tend to worship moon deities.

Astronomical/Space Witch: Witches who focus on the planets and stars. Their Book of Shadows will have information about each planet, the zodiac and astrology, and enjoy nocturnal magic.

Kitchen Witch: Witches who enjoy working in the kitchen and put their magic into herbal mixtures, brewing, baking, and cooking.

Cottage Witch: A lot like a kitchen witch, they enjoy being in their home and doing things for their loved ones.

Crystal Witch: Witches who work with stones and crystals, such as through crystal healing. Their Book of Shadows will most likely have information about the stones, chakra balance, and crystal meditation.

Divination Witch: Witches who work with practices of divination, such as tarot readings, palmistry, tea leaf reading, and so on.

Hedge Witch: Also known as shamans. They use a type of magic that is oriented around the spiritual world. Astral travel/projection, lucid dreaming, spirit-work, healing, and out-of-body experiences are some of the magic they do.

Fairie/Faery/Fey Witch: Witches who communicate and work with the fey, such as calling on them and leaving them offerings regularly to thank them for their assistance.

Draconian Witch: Witches who call upon dragons, use dragon imagery in their practice, and worship dragon deities.

Animal Witch: Witches who have a deep appreciation for all animals and use animal materials, draw on their energy, and most of the time worship animal deities.

Urban Witch: Witches who live in a urban environment and use more modern practices of magic.

Country Witch: Witches who enjoy living in the country. Some may have a large ranch with livestock, while others enjoy the seclusion for their practice. Most likely they will enjoy the company of horses. 

Technological Witch: Witches who work with technology. They practice modern witchcraft through phone apps and most likely have a digital Book of Shadows.

Music Witch: Witches who enjoy music. They use magic in their singing, chanting, and playing instruments. Music is in their lives everyday is played whenever they do spell work.

Artist Witch: Witches who put their magic into art, such as drawing, sculpting, painting, and creating.

Literary Witch: Witches who enjoy books and literature. They enjoy reading and studying witchcraft, lore, and magical practices of every culture.

Athletic Witch: Witches who enjoy pushing themselves physically. This could be through yoga, running, or a sport. Their practice includes keeping themselves healthy and using their healthy energy to help others through physical challenges. 

Eclectic Witch: Most modern witches follow many practices and traditions, and go by many titles. 

In Ellen Dugan’s Natural Witchery (which has become almost a textbook for me lately), she gives a great outline of the four types of psychic power, or psychic ability. This can be thought of as a Witch’s power well, or method by which she is most inclined to in divination or drawing power.

Clairvoyant: This is “Seeing”, in the classical sense. Clairvoyants are great visualizers, and find that they can see outcomes and results more clearly than others. They may get images that pop into their head, or see a situation play out both in and out of divination. Usually, clairvoyants find best success in highly visual spells using correspondent tools, and are excellent scryers.

Clairaudient: “Hearing things”, having music pop in your head that is relevant to the scenario, and being able to tell a person’s temperament or truth by listening to their voice falls under clairaudience. This is essentially the aural equivalent to clairvoyance: If you’re prone to being affected most by music in ritual, rather than ritual setting, you might be clairaudient.

Empath: Understanding and feeling the emotions around you, and the resulting emotions from a situation. To empaths, this may feel very second nature: Do you take on the mood of other people in crowds very easily? Can you be in a great mood, then hug a friend who is depressed and immediately feel their pain? You may be an empath! Unlike intuitives, who “know” what something is, empaths actually feel that thing.

Intuitive: Having a “gut feeling”, or “just knowing”, what something is or when it’s going to happen. Unlike clairvoyants or empaths, who feel this by seeing or imagining it happen, or emotionally understanding or attuning to what will happen, intuitives get a quick punch in the gut (or brain) with a clear crystal view of what is to be. As a result, intuitives can often forget or second-guess that vision, but with practice, intuition grows clearer. Being an intuitive, this is the only one I’m actually qualified to talk at length on, but for me, it feels like a deep squeezing in the solar plexus when I reach for, think of, or say I’m going to do something. Often, if I try to do that thing anyway, the squeezing/foreboding grows and it’s unmistakeable I should try something else. Many intuitives feel this in their throat, between the eyes, or upper chest rather than the solar plexus, as well.

Witches and magick-users often have one primary, strongest mode of psychic power they identify with, and consequently use most, but many also have a second (or third!) power that is lesser (or even equally!) strong. Feel it out, and you’ll be able to figure out beyond a doubt how you’re receiving your psychic information.

Blessed Be!