Magick: Types of Witches

While everyone's path is unique to them, Pagan cultures influence and inspire us with their historical traditions and practices. Many of the world's Pagan or rural beliefs were abandoned as people converted to majority religions. Today, many groups and practitioners revive these rich histories with new literature and the celebration of forgotten holidays. Below are some of the most popular and prevalent paths of Magick today. We all may identify with different types from time to time, but overall what kind of Witch are you?


Red Witch (Philosopher)
A Red Witch is a secular, atheistic, agnostic, or simply spiritual witch. They favor science and experience Magick with energy and spirits, but not necessarily with religion, faith, or deities. Red Witchcraft includes prayer, yoga, meditation, manifestation, and Candle Magick. The Red Witch is an alchemist and draws motivation from new age literature and philosophies such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Huna. They work to calm, focus, and train their minds.

Orange Witch (Anthropologist)
An Orange Witch is a conjurer of indigenous or folk magic. These arts and traditions are generally inherited or passed down over generations, but also can be learned. They draw power from folk gods, ancestors, stories, histories, and legends. Orange Magick includes many systems such as Shamanism, Hoodoo, Santeria, Brujeria, and Vodun. Orange Witches believe in cultivating and protecting personal power.

Yellow Witch (Synergist)
Yellow Magick is eclectic and embodies specialized and applied crafts. Yellow Witches enjoy studying and compiling information and correspondences between elements, herbs, planets, astrology, metals, and other symbols. Imagery and pantheons from Greco-Roman or Egyptian mythology are the most prevalent and encompass adherents of Kitchen Magick, Stregheria or Italian Magick.

Green Witch (Horticulturalist)
Green Witches are those who feel a strong desire to commune with nature whether by exploring it, tending to plants at home, or working to remove themselves from secularism and become more self-sufficient. Like Kitchen Witches, they are inspired by herbs and symbols, but can also be ritualistic or ceremonial. For the Green Witch, deepening spirituality, living ethically, and conserving and appreciating nature are their greatest tenets. Traditions include Druidism, Celtic, Hedge, and Herbalism.

Blue Witch (Artist)
Blue Witches are lovers of art, history, literature, and poetry. For them, Magick is about appreciating and inspiring beauty around them. You might be a Blue Witch if you've enjoyed creating shrines or altar spaces to display, but not necessarily to manipulate. These witches tend to be private about their practice and not let any particular movement define them. Blue Witches enjoy drawing, painting, or writing spells for themselves and others, as well as practicing arts to enhance balance and harmony, such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi. The Blue Witch is sentimental and enjoys temples and sacred places like those seen in Hare Krishna, Shinto, and Daoism.

Indigo Witch (Oracle)
These Witches possess a keener ability to sense, intuit, and divine. They work by counseling, guiding, and reading others and strive to sharpen their inner psychic voice and perception of the unseen. Activities include Tarot, Runes, scrying, dousing, empathizing, and communicating with spirits. Indigo Witches have a powerful Third Eye and tend to favor more eclectic spiritual beliefs from Germanic, Nordic, Baltic, and Slavic cultures. Indigo Magick includes Candle Magick, summoning, channeling, and exorcising.

Purple Witch (Cleric)
Purple Witches are the most deistic and implement many rituals and performance arts into their practice. Contemporary traditions include Wicca, Heathenry, Thelema, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and other secret or occult societies. Wicca, a popular and broad-ranging Neopagan religion, can observe any number of mythologies or styles. Purple Witches enjoy completing rituals alone or in groups, many often joining groups or covens, where they observe Sabbats and Esbats. Its popular in groups or covens to adopt names and roles for its participants.

As always, let us know what kind of witch you are in the comments below, as well as any questions, comments, or suggestions!

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