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Welcome to Modern Witchcraft,

The foundational course of the Witchcraft & Folk Magic Series

The practitioner who has arrived here has chosen, or is in the process of choosing, to take the craft seriously. That choice is itself the beginning of the work. This course is the foundation she will build everything else on.

What this course is

Modern Witchcraft is the foundational course of the Witchcraft & Folk Magic Series. It is the first course meant to be taken, and the one that makes every other course in the series make sense.

The course is free. There is no paywall, no upsell, no premium tier withholding the real teaching. What is here is what is here, in full, available to whoever arrives at the door.

Candle work, plant and herb work, crystal practice, sigil magic, moon ritual, the wheel of the year, shadow work, household and hearth magic, folk protection, deity and ancestor practice — each of these has its own dedicated course in the library, and each of those courses assumes the practitioner has the foundation this course teaches. A student who begins with a specialty before she has the foundation usually stumbles. A student who begins here walks into every other course prepared.

Who this course is for

The true beginner — the practitioner with no prior knowledge of witchcraft, who has arrived at the door without ever stepping through it before.

And the practitioner who has been working loosely for years without ever receiving foundational instruction. Both are common, and the second is more common than the field usually acknowledges. A significant portion of contemporary witches are self-taught from social media fragments — they know how to light a candle, how to set up a simmer pot, how to draw a sigil — but they have never been taught what magic actually is, what the ethical framework looks like, where the tradition comes from, or how a spell is built from the ground up. This course fills that foundation. By the end of it, the practitioner knows what she is doing, why she is doing it, where it comes from, and how to practice sustainably across a lifetime.

A note on tradition

This course is deliberately non-denominational.

Wicca is one path within witchcraft. Traditional witchcraft is another. Folk magic, chaos magic, eclectic solitary practice, kitchen witchery, green witchery, hedge witchery, sea witchery, and specific cultural folk traditions all exist alongside one another, and sometimes inside one another. Modern Witchcraft teaches the broader practice that contains all of these. The paths are named fairly. The practitioner is invited to find her own, without being forced into any single tradition's theology before she has had time to know what fits her.

A note on Internal Family Systems

The course is grounded in witchcraft. It is not founded in Internal Family Systems, and IFS is not what is being taught here.

What IFS does in this course is integration. At the end of each lesson, the practitioner will find a short Internal Family Systems and parts work practice designed to land the lesson's teaching at a deeper register than reading alone reaches. IFS — developed by Richard Schwartz — is a framework for relating to the various parts of the self with curiosity and care rather than conflict. It maps unusually well onto what witchcraft has always asked of the practitioner: knowing herself well enough to work cleanly, recognizing what is hers and what isn't, holding her own internal complexity without flattening it.

The IFS practices at the end of each lesson are optional. The witchcraft teaching stands on its own without them. But the practitioner who works them in finds the lessons settling into her body more thoroughly than she would have settled them otherwise — and across the twelve modules, the parts work accumulates into something that supports the practice for the long haul.

How to take this course

In order, if possible. Each module builds on what came before. The history module lands more clearly after the orientation; the ritual architecture lands more clearly after the elements; the spell architecture lands more clearly after the working theory of magic. Skipping ahead is not forbidden — the practitioner drawn to a particular module is welcome to read it on its own. But the course is built as an arc, and the arc rewards being walked from beginning to end.

Slowly, if possible. The course as a whole can be read in a weekend if the practitioner moves quickly through it. That is not how the course is meant to be used. Each module contains material to sit with, return to, and work with. A practitioner who reads the course in three days has done the reading. A practitioner who takes a month — or three months, or six — and lets each module land before moving to the next has begun the practice the course is teaching. The pace is hers to set. The depth is what matters.

With a journal. The course's module on the witch's tools will explain why every practicing witch keeps one in some form. The practitioner can begin hers tonight, before she reaches that module — a notebook, a binder, a digital file, whatever fits her life. She uses it to record what she reads, what surprises her, what she begins working, what she notices, and what arrives during the IFS practices at the end of each lesson. By the time she finishes the course, the journal is the beginning of the magical record that will accompany her for the rest of her practice.

What this course opens onto

A foundation strong enough to support a lifelong practice.

The course does not make the practitioner a witch. The practice does. What the course offers is the vocabulary, the framework, and the foundational skills that practice is built from — the materials a witch needs in her hands before she can build anything substantial. By the end she will have what she needs to begin, to keep going, and to recognize the territory she is in as her practice deepens across years.

The door is open. The course begins where she is now.

Course outline

Orientation

Module 1 — The Witch, Named

Module 2 — The Many Paths of the Witch

Module 3 — The History of Modern Witchcraft

The Core Teachings

Module 4 — How Magic Actually Works

Module 5 — Grounding, Centering, and Shielding

Module 6 — Intuition and Magical Sensitivity

Module 7 — The Elements and the Four Directions

Module 8 — The Altar and the Witch's Tools

Module 9 — Casting the Circle and the Ritual Arc

Module 10 — Spell Architecture: The Universal Structure

The Practicing Witch

Module 11 — The Ethics of the Craft

Module 12 — Becoming a Practicing Witch