from what I hear, any weather is weather for witches. This is good for them, witches are fine.
the thing is though, I'm not a witch. And that's also fine. idk, to me I only like the term witch/witchery or wizard/wizardry when it's applied to like, a thing I do I'm really good at, and I don't view that expertise as being supernatural (e.g. "a spreadsheet wizard" means I worked hard at learning how to be good with spreadsheets and can navigate/control them adeptly).
I'm not going into it here, but I do think some magic is real. I just don't like describing my magic in witch or wizard terms. It feels super western and while being born and raised in the west has hugely affected who I am, one of the ways it's done so is by making me just. Way more into rejecting western interpretations of myself and particularly of the parts of me that don't fit neatly into western definition boxes (which is many of them). After all, I can't imagine much caring what English word someone used to describe my magic if I had been born and raised in Vietnam. Oh, I'm sure I would still have issues with labels and such, just not this label.
(⬜ fragile people should stop reading here)
There's also the part where definitions of witch/witchery vary wildly and many of them are not just western but specifically white-driven and are often rooted in appropriation and colonization (of the traditions themselves as well as in the way they spread said traditions). I've seen a lot of witches who are white try to coach non-white people into their personal school or theology of witchcraft* and it often feels like watching a white yoga instructor or listening to an MLM presentation. Of course I respect witches who are white, but I would not trust them to tell me jack, diddly, or squat about witchery because there is SO much in me that their ideologies are incapable of touching in the smallest capacity (not because I'm ~special~ but because white ideologies are severely limiting and the longer I live this life, the more I find that the trust I've put into white people of "surely they can understand/empathize with/learn about Z" is always severely misplaced). idk idk!!
*this is different from simply just talking about their experiences of being a witch
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