Power and Free Will: The Spiral Within

The ominous and the opposite both hold sacred spaces in witchcraft. For those of us steeped in spirit divination, we have learned to internalise and celebrate the polarities of power.

A curse, most of the time, starts with a sacred divination ritual. And to heal—also begins with one. What remains suspended in the liminal space between the two is the axiom of free will.

A witch is the mystic who operates from these liminal spaces, mastering free will and embracing its consequences. For us, to co-create with the dead, the in-betweens, and the otherworldly is about disciplined practice and divinely guided resolve. Secrecy is a sacred ingredient, alongside the constant willingness to learn and unlearn.

A root, once consecrated and carried by a witch, ceases to hold power the moment she releases it from its ritualised bond. In craft and energy work, power is ritualised through practice—through forming familiar bonds with tools, through tending to them until they become her. The divination becomes her. The practice becomes her.

Being a Hekatian witch, consorting with spirit, I’ve found that free will becomes the most potent tool. But with it comes discipline—to honour one’s psychic spaces and sacred gifts.

To serve our altars is among the greatest rituals in divination. Yet even as we serve, we remember: the witch herself is sovereign. She is altar. She changes with the flames, expands like the skies, flows like water, and grounds like the soil she blesses.

There is power in how we move, seek, and conjure. Even the simplest act—holding a stone, dressing it with herbs, tying a strand of hair around it—is a spell of power. Because true invocation in spirit work starts by invoking the sanctuary within. The outer altar follows.

So go to your altars as you—the familiar, the imperfect voyager. No grand chants, no gimmicky wands. What your deities seek is your truth.

Move with purpose. With or without an altar— notice.
Observe.
Breathe.

Conjure work happens in spaces far beyond the linearities of life. Notice those spaces. That’s where the spiral begins.

Power is never absolute. Its presence is either beguiling—or synthetic.
Your spell crafting is only a part of the whole. The full dynamic is divination.

A witch creates and co-creates—to construct, to destroy, to evolve, to devolve.
And every consequence? Divinely ordained. And that, too, becomes another ingredient in the spiral. Again, and again, and again.

Energy work = The Sacred Spiral 🌀