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A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: 12 modules on working with deities, ancestors, and spirit allies through discernment, respect, and reciprocity. Meet the major pantheons, learn the art of offerings and devotion, and understand the difference between open and closed traditions. Build an ancestor altar, honor the hard lines around troubled dead, and connect with familiars, spirit guides, land spirits, and plant allies. The course closes with how

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: explore the three categories of unseen companions, deities, ancestors, and spirit allies, and the four ways presence is commonly experienced, felt sense, dreams, synchronicity, and quiet knowing. Learn the working vocabulary of the field, including veneration, patron deity, the veil, UPG, and the lore, then apply the three-legged stool, a tool for weighing spiritual experiences honestly against tradition, time,

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: discover the four frameworks witches use to understand the divine, animism, polytheism, the archetypal view, and the non-theistic path, plus neighboring stances like duotheism, pantheism, and settled agnosticism. Learn the difference between hard and soft polytheism, what an archetype is, and how each framework changes what happens at the altar, including what silence means. Includes the "practicing as if" tool

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: follow the two doorways into deity work, being approached and going looking, and learn what a genuine call actually looks like across signs, dreams, felt sense, and quiet knowing. Build a calling ledger to run the time test, avoid confirmation shopping, and work through seven research questions before any first hello. Includes borrowable words for the small introduction, the polite decline, the not-yet, and the

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: meet the major pantheons a Western witch is most likely to encounter, Greek, Roman, Irish and Welsh Celtic, Norse, Egyptian, Slavic, Baltic, and Mesopotamian. Learn the read-the-world-before-the-person method, then get fuller portraits of Hecate, Brigid, the Morrigan, and Freyja, the goddesses modern witches call on most. Covers chthonic deities, the Tuatha Dé Danann, seiðr, Kemetic revival practice, why Hindu

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: learn why an offering is recognition rather than a bribe, and how to build a small devotional space in any home, with substitutions for every supply. Covers what to offer, from honey for Aphrodite and whiskey for the Morrigan to free offerings of water, song, and service, plus the libation, the oldest form of giving. Includes the six-step offering method, how often to give, respectful disposal in apartments and

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: learn the real difference between appropriation and appreciation, and which traditions are open, closed, or in the middle. Covers why Santería, Vodou, Hoodoo, Indigenous American traditions, and Kabbalah are closed, the middle zone of Hinduism and Kemetic practice, plus honest swaps for white sage, palo santo, dreamcatchers, chakra clip art, and "spirit animal." Includes the five-question provenance audit and w

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: meet the ancestors as three streams, blood, lineage, and the beloved dead, and see how nearly every culture has tended its dead, from Qingming and Obon to kispum, shraddha, and Día de los Muertos. Learn why modern Western forgetting is the historical outlier, what the severance cost, and why ancestors are not deities and death upgrades nobody. Covers adopted, estranged, and harmful-line paths into the work, plu

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: build the ancestor altar step by step, from placement and the bedroom question to photographs, name-slips, heirlooms, and the glass of clean water that is the most universal offering to the dead across traditions. Learn the thirty-second daily tending rhythm of water, flame, and a greeting by name, how to hold longer sittings in plain speech, and how to read subtle signs honestly. Covers curating who belongs on

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: learn why not every ancestor is safe to work with, and how to sort your line honestly with the altar triage, on the altar, remembered not placed, or acknowledged not welcomed. Covers the older and well ancestors of the deep line, the Welcome Declaration for setting your altar's terms, epigenetics and inherited burden, and the three refusals, no obligatory forgiveness, no forced intimacy, no altar as therapist.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: meet the familiars and spirit guides, the personal companions of the third door. Learn what a familiar was before the witch-trial propaganda, the signs of a true physical familiar versus a beloved pet, and the spirit familiars that often begin in childhood. Covers how guides differ from familiars, why real allies reveal themselves rather than answer summons, the Recurring Presences page, and the five-part ally

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: explore land spirits, plant allies, and the animism underneath the whole craft. Learn the sit spot method, one ordinary place visited across seasons until it becomes a relationship, plus the whose-land question every respectful witch answers first. Covers asking permission before harvesting, the Honorable Harvest etiquette drawn from Robin Wall Kimmerer's teaching, why the land is not always friendly, and how t

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on relational witchcraft: learn the shape of a practice that lasts decades, why complexity at the start signals performance, and how to write your one-page Rule of the Practice with daily, weekly, and seasonal keepings. Covers the seasons of every long relationship, how to tell silence from a true completion, the leave-taking ritual for ending well, and the quiet test for the social media age. Closes with the notebook's secret: the Book