We spend so much time outside of ourselves.
Thinking, planning, scrolling, striving.
Trying to manage life like it’s a spreadsheet, a strategy, a to-do list.
But the body doesn’t care about any of that.
The body remembers.
The way your shoulders tighten when someone raises their voice.
The way your stomach clenches when you feel unseen.
The way your jaw locks when you swallow what you should’ve said.
The way your throat feels tight, because to be brave you didn’t cry,
and trapped that feeling in muscle memory for a lifetime.
That’s not weakness. That’s information.
That’s magic trying to break through.
1. The Body Speaks First
Before you think, your body already knows.
Every movement is communication.
A kind of language that doesn’t use words, but still says everything.
We’ve been taught to ignore it.
But listening to the body is power,
In the way you carry yourself.
The way you breathe when you’re calm.
The way you move when you’re not afraid.
That’s real presence. That’s real magic.
2. The Ritual Is Already Happening
Witchcraft isn’t just robes and candles (unless you want it to be).
It’s not something separate from real life. It is life.
It’s the wildness, which we are
That clothes and good espresso cloak
We are wild animals
We are not separate from nature
we are part of it, born into it,
I myself am a wild beast,
I stand in the wild
and I speak for it.
I move like it
My magic is entirely here
This is my work
The way I move is a pattern.
The pattern becomes habit.
Habit becomes identity.
So when I move differently—when I break the old rhythm—I start to change.
That’s what a ritual really is: repetition with intention.
Noticing this repetition,
becoming aware you are aware is a way to break this trance.
Everything is hypnosis.
3. What You Feel Is What You Know
We spend a lot of time trying not to feel things.
But feelings are how your body tells the truth.
We hide feelings and emotions in our bodies
I know I am carrying a lot at present, so my shoulders and neck are stiff.
It is a hero complex, an Atlas deficiency,
something I need to shrug.
I am an antihero, not a hero
I cannot save the world,
but I can start to save myself.
When there are issues, and I feel stuck
I notice I am reliant on something external saving me
when in reality
Only “I” am the answer
and it is myself who must change, as the world will not.
These are not obstacles—they’re access points.
That anxiety in my chest? A signal.
That ache in my neck? A story.
That full-body tension I can’t explain?
My body is trying to hold onto something that was never mine to carry.
Magic doesn’t always look like control.
Sometimes it looks like release.
4. Embodiment Is Resistance
We live in a world that rewards disconnection.
But the body moves at the speed of breath.
It asks for presence.
To be fully in your body—in a culture that tries to pull you out of it—is an act of rebellion.
This work is that.
It is the act of the Witch,
To feel deeply. To dance when there’s no reason.
To rest when you’re tired.
To say no when your body says no.
That’s not just self-care.
That’s spellwork.
It is not to conform,
it is to disobey.
5. You Are the Magic
You don’t need to believe in magic to do it.
If you’re breathing, feeling, moving—you’re already in it.
The body is not a problem to be solved.
It’s not a project or an aesthetic.
It’s your altar.
And if you let it, it will teach you how to live
Start there.
With your feet on the floor.
Your breath in your chest.
Your voice when you’re ready to use it.
You don’t have to become anything.
You already are.
I didn't understand a fraction of these statements and indeed they offer more questions than answers. Some things seem logical as if I learned them earlier while forgetting where. Or does the body speak in that moment? Wichtcraft doesn't need any robes? Sounds right. But why? I like the elementary approach that hides in those lines. The reasoning has to be done by the reader. It seems new and refreshing to me. There is no system except perhaps the reference to the living which is not a bad one. Thank you so much.
“Everything is hypnosis”…YES!
Magick without embodiment is a microwave not plugged in.
Embodiment without magick…is still magick.
I believe this is the answer to the unspoken question: “Where did the power go?”
Ritual is Embodied Psychopomp.