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A free course by Everything IFS Academy on modern witchcraft: a complete beginner foundation covering witchcraft traditions, magical theory, grounding, intuition, the elements, ritual tools, circle casting, spell structure, and craft ethics. No expensive supplies needed, just attention. Written in plain English for everyday people.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on becoming a practicing witch: explore the shift from studying witchcraft to being a witch, self-dedication versus lineage initiation, and the strengths and risks of the solitary path. Learn how to evaluate covens and groups, the decision of coming out as a witch, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly rhythms including the Wheel of the Year from Samhain to Mabon, seasons of intensity and dormancy, and what the craft looks like across deca

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the ethics of witchcraft: explore the Wiccan Rede and the serious challenges to it, the contested Threefold Law, and the consent framework most traditions share. Learn where targeting becomes coercion, why love magic aimed at a specific person crosses the line, the honest truth about baneful work, cultural appropriation and closed practices like hoodoo, mental health and the craft, and how to spot red and green flags in teachers.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on spell architecture: learn the five phases every effective spell moves through, intention, preparation, operation, release, and integration. Follow the same structure through a candle spell, a sigil working, a protection jar, and a simmer pot, discover why lust for result kills workings, how to diagnose a failed spell phase by phase, and how the architecture applies to everything from a five-minute candle to a difficult conversation.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on casting the circle and the ritual arc: learn why the circle is a sphere, not a line, how to cast deosil with athame, wand, or finger, and the alternative compass round, ceremonial, and folk approaches. Explore calling the quarters, invoking the divine, raising and releasing energy, the cakes and wine, releasing the elements, and opening the circle. Discover when to cast, when to skip it, and the reusable arc behind nearly every ritua

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the altar and the witch's tools: learn where to place an altar, how to arrange it elementally, and how to consecrate and maintain it. Meet the athame, wand, chalice, pentacle, cauldron, besom, bells, and the book of shadows, plus wand woods from oak and willow to elder and hazel. Discover the minimalist approach, hidden and travel altars for closeted practitioners, and why the witch, not the tool, is the source of the magic.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the four elements and directions in witchcraft: explore earth, air, fire, water, and spirit from Empedocles through medieval alchemy to the Golden Dawn. Learn each element's season, direction, tools, and magical uses, the true meaning of the pentagram and pentacle, why directional assignments vary across hemispheres and land-based practice, single-element workings, elemental balance in the witch, and how to read any situation in elem

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on intuition and magical sensitivity: learn the four clairs of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance, how to identify your dominant psychic channel, and how to tell genuine intuition apart from wish, fear, and projection. Discover training exercises for subtle perception, the journal as a testing tool, when intuition should override the book, and the crucial difference between grounded and ungrounded intuition

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on grounding, centering, and shielding: learn the three foundational skills of energetic hygiene every witch needs before spellwork. Discover the roots-into-earth grounding technique, alternative methods using hematite, black tourmaline, barefoot walking, and root vegetables, how to center at the solar plexus, heart, or lower tan tien, and how to build an energetic shield without falling into the over-shielding trap. Includes the cleans

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on how magic actually works: explore the spirit model, energy model, and psychological model of magic, plus Peter Carroll's chaos magic insight that results matter more than metaphysics. Learn the universal principles of sympathetic magic and contagious magic, correspondence systems from candle colors to planetary days, the roles of intention, symbol, and energy raising, why spells sometimes fail, and what magic can and cannot reasonabl

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the history of modern witchcraft: follow the story from pre-Christian Europe through the witch trials, the long silence, and the Victorian occult revival with the Golden Dawn and Margaret Murray. Meet Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, the birth of Wicca, Robert Cochrane's traditional counter-current, Starhawk's feminist Spiral Dance, the Radical Faeries, chaos magic, the new age crossover, Ronald Hutton's scholarship, and witchcraf

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the many paths of modern witchcraft: explore Wicca and Gerald Gardner's Wheel of the Year, traditional witchcraft and the Clan of Tubal Cain, chaos magic and sigil work, folk traditions from Appalachian granny magic to Pennsylvania Dutch Braucherei, hoodoo and rootwork, plus green, kitchen, hedge, sea, cosmic, urban, and death witchcraft. Learn the difference between religious and secular practice, solitary and coven paths, and eclec

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the word witch and what it truly means: discover what a witch is, what witchcraft is, and what it is not. Explore the Old English roots of wiccecraft, the difference between Wicca and witchcraft, the witch trials and the modern reclamation of the word, and traditions worldwide including the strega, bruja, hexe, cunning folk, rootworkers, and the practitioners of Vodou and the Yoruba diaspora.