I didn't always identify as a witch. I used to be a pastry chef. I feel like in capitalist America we always identify with our occupation first so now that I'm professional which I'm doing which a lot harder and a lot more than I ever was. I'm one of the owners of Callahan books. And we are an interfaith occult shop and event space meaning we hold community events rituals talks and classes and we also sell pretty much everything you'll ever need for witchcraft. Magic is something that I do. Witchcraft is something that I practice and and being witch in the modern world. It's a little bit rebellious. I'm witch because it's empowering it feels like I'm participating in a living history of women and trans feminine people that goes back forever. I'm a witch because it's something I grew up with and something that made a lot of sense for me as an adult. As like a practical approach to spirituality my family was Catholic Irish Catholic. But um you know there's a lot of Catholic folk magic and Catholic folk traditions. That people don't realize are witchcraft. You know just by another name or not having a name at all. My grandma definitely did things. My mom did things that they would never label witchcraft. But that's what they are like hanging. Rosary on your door to keep evil away so one of the first things I learned about with. Witchcraft was about the wheel of the year. And sort of the seasons changing and the festivals that go along with the seasons changing. You've got soin which most people know is. Halloween you've got um the winter solstice which is Yule. But that was the first sort of thing that I acknowledged in terms of like living magically my practice revolves mostly around spirit contact and transport. I do a lot of work with certain spirits that like I. I think I can get a practical result out of and going into trances and like dealing with them their Tarot is a divination method. It's like a tool for your intuition. It doesn't just say something on its own.

It just helps you reframe a problem and see it from a new perspective. Dreaming is very in witchcraft. A lot of my magic revolves around dreams and dream magic practicing witchcraft. At least for me is an effort at decolonizing myself. My notions of morality religion gender and returning to or trying to return to online state that was pre-christian less prejudicial and freer every morning. I wake up in I pour glass of water for my ancestors and I leave it at their altar and that's just a way to honor them and to thank them for where I am right now and at the end of every day. I always say thank you too for things I say. Thank you to the land. I say thank you to the gods spirits and animals of the place that I'm living. I say thank you to the mighty dead and I say thank you to the living people so those are my two daily practices and then it's kind of like what I need to get done in between I think anyone can be a witch. Everyone should be a witch. I think it's very similar to being a musician that there are some people you know that. Have the talent kind of from birth and there are other people who practice every single day and it takes them years and years to get even sort of good at it but anybody can play the guitar. You know if you if you want to do it you can do it and if you want to be which you can be wish.