The Magic of Being Seen:
Witchcraft as Self-Liberation

🔮 Monday, June 16, 2025

Visibility is a spell.

Every time you choose to show your truth—to speak your name, wear your colors, love who you love—you cast an enchantment into the world. That’s not poetic fluff. That’s real, raw witchcraft. The kind that shifts energy, breaks chains, and weaves a better world from the bones of the old.

For many queer witches, being seen as we are is the first spell we ever cast. It might not have felt like magic back then. It might’ve felt like fear. Like risk. But make no mistake—it was a sacred act.

To live openly in a world that has often tried to silence, erase, or harm us is one of the most courageous things a witch can do. We are not just resisting—we are reweaving the energetic fabric of our communities, our lineages, and even our own spirits. There’s magic in claiming space, in walking through the world unmasked, in refusing to be made small.

Visibility is not about performance. It’s about permission. You don’t owe anyone a coming out, an explanation, or a slogan. But when you do choose to show yourself—to wear that rainbow pin, to walk hand-in-hand with your partner, to call yourself \”witch\” out loud in a space where it’s not always safe—know this: you are igniting transformation.

There’s power in being the witch someone else sees and recognizes. Power in being the mirror that tells another seeker: “You’re not alone.” Many of us didn’t grow up seeing people who looked or lived like us practicing magic. By being visible now, we anchor new futures.

✨ Magical Acts of Visibility

Being seen doesn’t always mean being loud. Sometimes it means quietly correcting someone who misgenders you. It means building an altar that reflects your actual self, not the one others expect. It means using your magic to protect your softness, your rage, your joy.

• Wearing symbols that resonate with your truth (pentacle, Pride flag, trans sigil, etc.)
• Hosting or attending queer-friendly rituals and circles
• Sharing your practice or spiritual identity in art, writing, or online communities
• Creating inclusive magical spaces where others feel safe to show up whole

Each of these acts is a seed. And like all seeds, their roots go deep.

🌀 The Witch’s Spiral: Identity as Sacred Evolution

One of the most beautiful truths of witchcraft is that identity isn’t static—it spirals. Who you are today may not be who you were last year, or even yesterday. That’s not a failure of consistency; it’s a sign of your magic maturing.

Let yourself evolve. Let your spellcraft evolve with you. Visibility doesn’t mean locking yourself into one image forever. It means honoring each sacred layer of becoming. Let the world witness your unfolding. Let the gods see you in bloom.

At Crone’s Hollow, we welcome that spiral. We honor the multiplicity of our community—witches of all genders, bodies, paths, and wounds. There is room for all of you at the altar. You don’t have to fit a mold. You only have to be real.

🔥 A Spell for Self-Liberation

🌈 The Legacy of Our Light

We are not the first witches to wield visibility as a spell. Our queer ancestors practiced their craft in kitchens and closets, in coded letters and secret shrines. They found ways to survive—and sometimes, to thrive—even when everything was stacked against them.

To be seen now is to honor them. It’s to carry their light forward and expand it. It’s to say: You didn’t burn in vain. I am still here. I am still magic.

Let this Pride season be more than a celebration. Let it be a working. A spell of liberation so radiant it echoes into the bones of those who come after us.

We light the candle. We speak the spell. We take up space.

We are seen. We are sacred. We are spell.