Witch types

Some common types of witches and their focus, tools, and practices. You may be more than one type of witch:

Cosmic Witch: Focuses on astrology, sun and moon phases, and planetary alignments.

Creature Witch: Works closely with animals, wildlife, and animal familiars.

Divination Witch: Relies on intuition, tarot cards, scrying, and symbol interpretation.

Eclectic Witch: Blends practices, cultures, and beliefs from a variety of traditions.

Elemental Witch: Works with earth, water, air, fire, and spirit, often using altars.

Fae Witch: Connects with nature spirits and engages in the lore or negotiation of the fae.

Green Witch: Focuses on plants, herbalism, natural healing, and eco-friendly living.

Crystal Healing Witch: Uses crystals, gemstone energy, chakras, and practices like Reiki.

Hearth / Kitchen Witch: practice around the home, cooking, baking, and herbal remedies.

Hedge Witch: Specializes in trance work, herbalism, and crossing the barrier to the spirit realm.

Hereditary Witch: Practices traditions and folklore passed down through family ancestry.

Intuitive Witch: Relies on deep empathy, clairvoyance, and personal energy shielding.

Ritual Witch: Follows structured traditions and precise, ceremonial spell work.

Shadow Witch: Explores the subconscious mind, shadow work, and trauma reflection.

Shamanic Witch: Combines spirit communication, energy healing, and astral projection.

Solitary Witch: Practices independently as a self-taught individual rather than in a group.

Craft Witch: Incorporates textiles, colour magic, and sigils into their work.

Weather Witch: Tunes into storms, wind, sun, and atmospheric energy.

Water / Sea Witch: Draws power from oceans, rivers, lakes, and water-based magic.

White / Black / Grey Witch: think yin yang, moral or ethical alignment (healing/help, vengeance/harm, or neutral balance).