I won’t lie — one of the coolest parts about being a witch is the tools.
Check out an instagram feed that features witchy things and you’ll see all sorts of pictures of crystals, candles, athames (daggers for you new folk), tarot cards, cauldrons, and chalices, all inscribed with fancy symbols that also look really cool and mysterious. One can spend all kinds of money on things like spell kits or statues of deities or talismans. The “witchy aesthetic” is so camera-ready and popular these days, that there is no shortage of people who want the look. And that also means that there are plenty of vendors out there more than willing to charge those people lots of money to have it. And of course, those of us who practice the Craft watch some of this going on and chide those who would seek the look of the Craft without actually undertaking the work of the Craft.
But at the same time, it’s worth noting that even the most seasoned, humble, unprepossessing witch gets a little flash of excitement when they find a shiny object imbued with just the right kind of energy that they most need. That object might be a beautiful silver amulet we see in an Etsy shop, or it could just as easily be a smooth stone we find by a riverbed on a hike with a friend. Although most witches know that an object need not be pretty or expensive to be powerful, we do, nonetheless, have a tendency to accumulate objects that become…
