#intuitive witchcraft

Let me tell you something they don’t always say in the glittery TikTok witch corners, you don’t need a candle for every mood, every moon, every color-coded correspondence chart. You don’t need twenty-seven jars of herbs and a wand carved from wood kissed by a fae prince.

Sometimes? You just need one candle. One flame. One little fire spirit. That’s it. That’s the whole altar.

I used to think I needed a different candle for every type of spell. White for clarity. Black for banishing. Green for money. Red for passion. And so on and so forth until I had a hoarder’s drawer full of half-burned wax orphans and a heart that still felt stuck.

But then one night, I had only one candle left, a simple tea light. No color. No scent. Just a stub of fire and a deep need. And what do you know? The spell worked anyway.

🌿 The Candle Itself Doesn’t Make the Spell, You Do

This is rule number one and it’s tattooed on the inside of my ribcage (okay, metaphorically): Your intention is the fuel. The candle is the match.

Yes, colors and scents can boost things, sure. But don’t let that trick you into thinking your power is limited to your supplies. It’s not. It never was.

One humble candle is a portal, a torch, a mirror, if you treat it like one.

🔮Cleanse It, Claim It, Charge It

Whatever candle you have, tea light, birthday candle, old emergency taper from the back of your junk drawer. make it yours.

Cleanse it: You can pass it through incense, sprinkle salt on it, whisper over it, or knock it against your palm three times. Do what feels like a reset.

Claim it: Hold it in your hands and say: “You are mine. You are my flame, my focus, my will made visible.”

Charge it: Focus on your goal. Imagine it soaking into the wax like honey. It doesn’t have to take more than a minute. The more focused you are, the brighter the burn.

🕯️Fire Is Fire, So Tell It What To Do

Here’s the magic: one candle can hold any intention, if you’re clear with it.

Need protection? Light the candle and say: “Burn away what doesn’t belong to me.” Need clarity? “Bring light to what I can’t see.” Need energy? “Stir my blood, sharpen my spine.” Need release? “Burn this tie, let the ashes fall.”

The words don’t need to rhyme. They don’t need to be long. They just need to be yours.

🌙 Reuse It With Respect

Yes, you can reuse your candle, as long as:

You cleansed it between spells (a quick pass through incense or a firm knock of intent).

You’re not mixing clashing energies (don’t follow a banishing spell with a love spell on the same stub).

You’re treating it like a tool, not trash.

Think of it like a paintbrush, rinse it, then dip again. Let it serve multiple portraits of your power.

🗝️ Burn Time Doesn’t Define the Spell

A candle doesn’t have to burn for hours to “work.”

Short on time? Burn it for three deep breaths.

In a rush? Burn it as you speak one sentence with your whole soul.

Want to use the same one all week? Burn a little bit each day.

Snuff it out with care (never blow it out, your breath is air magic, but it’s disruptive here). Use a spoon, a snuffer, or pinch it gently.

Final Whisper From Me

You don’t need more stuff. You need more trust.

One candle is enough. It always was. The flame is old. It remembers who you are, even when you don’t.

So next time your altar looks bare, or your supplies are scarce, or your heart feels small, light that single flame, and watch what it reveals.

You are the spell.

𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞

𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢, 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩,

𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘴

Have you ever seen those "intuition test" videos on IG and TikTok, the ones where you have to guess the color/object/whatever that they're hiding? Did you know that those tests have absolutely nothing to do with intuition?

Intuition =/= guessing. If you have no information, no possible way to deduce the answer, that is guesswork.

Intuition is the ability to subconsciously and quickly apply your experiences to the situation at hand and make a logical conclusion based off that judgement.

If a random stranger comes up to you and says "guess what color shirt I just bought" and you blurt out an answer based on nothing, that's a guess. But if that says "guess what color shirt I just bought" and one look at him says "Goth!" you will intuitively say black. No thought needed.

The thing with intuition is that all of this occurs faster than your conscious mind can process. It's rapid pattern reading, even when you don't know those patterns are there.

Some ways intuition manifests:

Deja Vu - you've seen this before, and react based on that.

Gut feelings - if you have a strongly negative feeling about somebody, they're exhibiting behaviors that have been harmful to you before, or that your social training is against. For example, if someone's smile doesn't reach their eyes, we are trained to view that as a fake smile, which will set off alarm bells.

Vibes - vibes and gut feelings are literally the same thing. If someone is upbeat and laughing, they'll give off positive vibes, because we have positive associations with laughter.

Finishing someone's sentence - whether out loud or in your head, if you know the person or topic well, you can finish their sentence before they do. My husband and I do this to each other all the time. We can have entire conversations where only one of us speaks, because that one can answer for the other. It's uncanny.

Fear of clowns/masks/makeup/etc - fear/distrust of clowns and masks is a deep seated evolutionary response. We base so, so much of our ability to communicate on seeing someone's face, so not seeing someone's face at all, or not seeing their true face, can trigger distrust. Some people even feel that way about drag personae, Santa Claus, goths, kabuki makeup, etc. It's one of the reasons so many historical cultures have used war paint!

Uncanny Valley - Similar to the fear of covered faces, seeing something kinda human but not quite triggers an intuitive distrust. ther UV reactions from them. I want to do a research paper.) I, for one, am terrified of those humanoid AI robots. They look too much like people but they act like a computer.

Gaydar - gaydar is definitely a type of intuition, but I understand how straight people develop it. For those in the know, it's just more pattern recognition.

Neuro-dar - similar to gaydar, neurodivergents can almost always find each other because we can read behind the mask, since we experience a lot of the same things.

How do you improve intuition? Sadly, there's only two ways: know shit and experience life. As an average American, even without ever having walked down a strange dark alley alone at 0200 , if you were to do that, your intuition would take over to warn you of danger and make you hyperaware of other danger-cues...even ones you didn't know you knew. We know this from implicit and explicit teaching within our society. But would your average man from Denmark feel the same way? Probably not, because that -plicit teaching wouldn't be there.

Similarly, experiencing life brings intuition. For some, it comes too young. Children from abusive households are very intuitive. A teenager with a healthy childhood is as dense as a pound cake. Living through situations will hone your intuition and make it sharper.

The King of Elixirs has wisdom and experience that is utilized towards introspection. He looks at himself, evaluates and tries to better understand the happenings of his internal. He is very calm, compassionate and balanced in the face of challenge and obstacles. He has learned when to put his heart on his sleeve for his benefit and when to retract it and watch carefully and keenly. 

He is dependable and always ready to give out his advice and support even when it is not asked for. 

The energy around us when this card appears is one of emotional stability. Things are steady or settling down now and finally we are able to check in with ourselves and what we are feeling. Remember during this time, to try and enjoy the little things around you. You have earned them after the many trials and tribulations you have been faced with. 

It’s time to talk about the GUT. Yes, that part of our bodies that society wants us to hate. But did you know that the gut = the seat of intuition?

There so much pressure to minimize the gut. But, if we’re cut off from our gut/intuition, whom does that benefit? Of course, you know the answer. It’s the people trying to get us to buy things to fix the problem they caused.

But what if you loved your gut? What if you listened to your intuition instead? It’s a radical act to be yourself these days, but let’s go for it.

I love my gut because it tells me how I really feel. I listen to it when I need to make a decision so I can be in alignment with my life purpose and what’s best for me.

Obviously I have a lot to say about all this. ☺️😂 If you liked that, there’s more in Intuitive Witchcraft, my new book dropping on April 8th through Llewellyn Books!