A PathandPractice Witchcraft Survey
✨Here is a fun little survey for anyone who wants to participate. You do not have to be tagged or receive any asks to join. You do not have to be a @pathandpractice tag member to participate. It is not an ask game; just a good, old fashion myspace-style survey. Just copy this post questions, post your answers, and (if you feel like it) tag a few blogs. Please keep this description and credit to @pathandpractice when reposting.✨
1. If your magic had a soundtrack, what would be its theme song?
I have two songs. The first is “Golden Afternoon” from the animated Alice in Wonderland, and the second is a song my Grammy would sing to me that I can’t find it online anywhere.
2. What’s the weirdest substitute component you’ve ever used?
I honestly don’t use a lot of weird components in spells, but I guess using water to replace fire in most spells could be considered weird to some.
3. What’s a superstition you don’t believe in?
Most of them, I only believe in them if I need it for something.
4. What’s your most chaotic spell outcome? How off-target did it go?
I’ve had many unexpected outcomes, but nothing I can share for personal reasons. Safe to say I now have a very reliable spell that over-fulfills the intention in a way I didn’t design it to do.
5. What’s something "completely mundane" that feels magical to you anyway?
Being outside. Just sitting under a tree, biking downtown, taking the dog for a walk. Seeing the world move is magical.
6. If your intuition had a voice, who would it sound like?
My Grammy. Very soft and slow, with meaning behind every word.
7. What kind of magic do you think you are/you would be bad at, and why?
Anything to do with herbs or cooking past just stirring intention into a soup. I can cook, just not well and it makes me very anxious, so adding magic in sounds like a recipe for disaster.
8. What’s a sign or omen you completely misread at first?
I honestly don’t look for signs or omens. When my deity wants to get in contact, he has more effective ways of doing so (which I do sometimes misinterpret).
9. If your altar could judge you, what would it say you’ve been neglecting?
I don’t have an altar, so I’ll answer for my bookshelf where I store most things when not in use. It would say that I need to dust off my deity’s statue and make it a new scarf, which I’ve been putting off for a while now as I sort out some other things. He’s still getting regular offerings though so at least that’s still happening.
10. What fictional universe would your magic thrive in?
The Fairy Realm series by Emily Rodda.
11. What is a witchcraft-related hill you will die one?
Belief is truth only to the believer.
12. What’s a habit you have that accidentally turned into a ritual?
I always collect the last drops of water from my leaky faucet in my hands after I turn it off to offer to my deity.
13. If you could take the shape of an animal for a day, which one would you choose?
I’d love to experience being a blue jay.
14. What’s something you’ve outgrown spiritually, but still feel nostalgic about?
Wicca. Like many in the mid 2010s, this is where I first learned about witchcraft as something outside of something just me and my Grammy did. I very quickly diverged from Wicca and continued to follow what I’ve learned from my Grammy, but there was a short time when I dabbled in ritual magic and I miss it sometimes.
15. If your magic had a moral alignment (chaotic, lawful, neutral), how accurate would it be?
Neutral. I don’t feel the need to follow specific rules, as my practice is very intuitive, however I wouldn’t categorize what I do as chaotic.
16. What’s a belief you held early in your practice that makes you laugh now?
You have to cast spells all the time to consider yourself a witch. I do so many things in my practice casually or outside of spell work now, which a younger me wouldn’t consider witchy enough. I still don’t always call myself a witch, but that’s for other reasons.
17. If you could bottle and save one feeling for spellwork, what would it be?
Joy. It fuels my spells like nothing else.
18. What’s your “this shouldn’t work, but it does” method?
Everything I do has a reason for working, so I’m not sure if I have an answer to this one. I’ll keep thinking on it.
19. What’s the most aesthetic over practical thing you’ve done in your practice?
I bought myself a tiny cauldron. I don’t need it because I don’t burn anything, but it makes me happy and feel witchy. I mostly use it to hold water offerings for my deity.
20. If your practice had a warning label, what would it say?
“No Burning Allowed, Faints With Incense.”
21. What was the first magical/witchcraft book you ever read?
I (accidentally) jumped in the deep end with “Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism.” I’d read a number of books about spirituality with my Grammy, so this definitely isn’t my first, but was the first book I read after learning about witchcraft and Wicca in particular online. I found it in an old chapel library in the middle of the woods on a mission trip - I saw the word “tarot” on the cover and thought it might be anything other than what it turned out to be. It’s a series of letters meditating on each card in the major arcana from the perspective of Christian Hermeticism, neither of which I knew anything about at the time. Nonetheless, I loved it so much that my Grammy bought me a copy after I returned home, along with my first tarot deck. There are very few books I would say truly changed the way I view spirituality and practice, and this is absolutely one of them. While I’m still working my way through it ten years later, and can’t say I fully understand or incorporate all it has to offer, it continues to influence my life.
