A coven practicing their rites at the club, chanting their spells to house music. No one approaches or bothers them as they dance their rituals long into the night.
International covens who have their meeting through Skype during the full moon in all its phases.
Witches from all over the world exchanging information via Tumblr, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, etc…
Witches from the bayou trading gumbo recipes for sauce recipes with witches from Italy. Witches from Japan, England, and India exchanging tea recipes. Witches from Brazil and Peru exchanging booze with witches from Russia, acai liquor for vodka.
Witches in cities keeping hives on tops on building, and planting flowers for the bees in their window boxes.
Witches who can’t afford to become doctors learn massage instead and cast healing spells on their clients through touch.
Witches who are servers and bartenders, giving out blessing and curses alike to patrons who deserve either.
Witches who are bartenders using salt and spilled beer to cast protection spells on the girls leaving their bars.
Witches who are doctors, saving lives like miracles but at great personal cost to themselves.
Elemental witches who dedicate themselves to certain professions. Fire witches who are firewomen. Water witches who are life guards. Earth witches who are gardeners. Air witches who are weather forecasters.
Witches who earn their spirit animals, who seek out Native American wise women or aboriginal wise woman. They take their spirit walks with them, and learn about dream magic.
Witches who have hanging herb gardens in their kitchens or on their porches.
Witches who refuse to wear black, or just black. Witches who wear floral prints and/or hot pink.
Witches who are beauticians and/or hair dressers who cast spells on their clients to help them love themselves better.
Witches who are servers who cast a basic glamour on themselves so that people who like them will tips well and assholes who don’t will be unable to remember anything about them, only able to give vague descriptions and never remember their name.
Witches of color who braid charms, blessing, and protections in their loved ones hair because things are really fucked up right now.
Witches who are ‘fag jags’ and ‘gay goddesses’, who love, support, and become new family because we know what it’s like to live on the fringe.
Witches who ease our secret sisters into womanhood and help with their transition, the ones that teach them what their birth mothers never would.
Witches who see no color or religion, who only see women who are all made of iron, stardust, pure will, and of course, magic.
Inner city witches who cast spells with graffiti and protect the block.
Witches who are hitchhikers, fearless and free, going wherever fate and the road takes them.
Witches who have taken back the night.
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