Mandi Em - Happy Witch: Activities, Spells, and Rituals to Calm the Chaos and Find Your Joy

Happy Witch

Activities, Spells, and Rituals to Calm the Chaos and Find Your Joy

Mandi Em

Author of Witchcraft Therapy

Dedicated to every obstacle that was secretly hiding an open door.

At its core, witchcraft is a source of empowerment, where anyone, regardless of age, spirituality, or whatever can tease out happiness through performance, play, following impulse, and inviting some magical joy into their lives. Beyond just spell jars and candle magic, theres a whole world of magical ways to conjure up a little childlike wonder and healing to infuse joy into your daily witchcraft practice. By approaching your craft as a divine tool for wellness and growth, you can bust open the doors to happiness and healing, every day!

Happy Witch provides a road map for conjuring up your best high-vibe life in a world that can often have you feeling depleted and as though youre asleep at the wheel. Youll find practical tools and advice on tackling the messy work of meeting yourself where youre at and making big shifts in order to cultivate a life thats full of magical joy.

Each chapter that follows captures an element of being that leads to thriving. This book will cover how to use witchcraft to:

• Be Free by laying the groundwork for a magically empowered mindset.
• Be Wild by connecting with nature and leaning into rewilding as a source of joy.
• Be Playful by inviting play and creativity into your life through spells and rituals designed to heal and delight your inner child.
• Be Still by unearthing bliss in the quieter work of your witchy practices, exploring your shadows to find the light.
• Be Connected by using relational magic to enjoy your connections with yourself and others on a deeper level.
• Be Soulful by embodying the magic you want to see in the world.

Each of the fifty entries divided among these chapters explores one way that witchcraft can help you flourish into the happy, self-empowered witch you deserve to be. Youll uncover the roadblocks that can pop up and mess with your vibe, and find simple spells, rituals, and other magical activities for reclaiming happiness regardless of what life throws at you. After all, cultivating a life thats juicy, delicious, and ripe with joy is not only #goalsits your divine birthright! So are you ready to step up and invoke the badass happy witch inside of you?

Although the term witchcraft can conjure up images of edgy aesthetics and devilishly compelling fictional characters, the reality is that it is a healing modality that has the power to transform your life! Witchcraft is a practice, and one that can help you connect more deeply with yourself, with nature, and with the larger mysteries of the Universe. Best of all, witchcraft allows you to pick up the reins of your own life, directing each day to be an adventure in joy, healing, and self-growth. How exactly? Through its transformative nature. We witches are shape-shifters who refuse to be governed by limiting beliefs about what is true and possible. Instead, we seek to break open the doors of possibility and transmute pain into peace through shadow work, ritual, spells, and spiritual self-care practices. While the mundane dimension of experience can be full of stressors and drama, magic allows us to tap in to joy and align with happiness. Though every witchs particular craft will look different, for most, this course in personal power through positive magic is at the heart of their work.

In the next sections, you will explore essential elements of magic. But, before we get into that, its important to understand that while magic is a powerful tool, it is not a catch-all quick fix. All magical workings must be matched by real-world efforts for best results. This means real mundane action, as well as digging into your belief systems and making sure that you are making yourself available for the outcomes you want. For example, as a response to toxic positivity (the bypassing of truly feeling and honoring your emotions in favor of just thinking happy thoughts!bleh!) in the spiritual world, theres been an attitude shift and wariness toward the topic of adopting a brighter outlook. However, in some cases, this has been overcorrected to the point that it can leave people feeling jaded and salty about cultivating a brighter mindset.

Balance and perspective are keyespecially in conversations about happiness and joy, where circumstances and injustice can make the playing field pretty imbalanced. You need to simultaneously hold space for that, while recognizing the immense power you have as an individual to connect with the joyous wellspring within. Joy can be a powerful act of sovereign rebellion against the systems and contexts that can make life feel draining and out of your control at times!

Given that every witchs practice is so unique, there are very few rules (if any) when it comes to practicing the craft. That being said, there are some magical basics that lay the foundation for getting best results. The following sections outline these basics and define concepts that will help you get the most from this book.

Just a little note on safety and protection before you start: Prior to doing witchcraft, there are precautions you can take in order to keep yourself both physically and energetically safe. Practices such as smoke cleansing or circle-casting can be utilized to keep you and your workings safe in the energetic sense, while proper fire safety while using candles and such during a ritual, spell, or other technique can keep your body and property safe. (Shout-out to my fellow fire hazard witches!) Additionally, although the craft can be used as a powerful wellness tool, it is not a substitution for professional physical or mental healthcare, should you need it. Your safety and well-being are very important parts of your magic!

In witchcraft, the practitioner raises their energy in order to propel their spells and rituals, making energy work a pretty crucial technique for getting the most from your craft! Energy work is the practice of sensing and working with the energies both within and outside of yourself. Although this can sound a little out there to the uninitiated, most people, witches or not, have some experience sensing and/or working with energies in mundane life. For example, the electric sensation that can come before a kiss, or the heavy sensation that lingers in a room where people have been arguing. Even historical sites with a rich backstory can carry a particular vibe that even the most skeptical person can perceive. This is a dimension of experience that you can sense, even if you dont yet have a mundane explanation for it. Since witches essentially have one foot in the mundane and the other in the realm of the mystic, they are able to work with and manipulate these energies for specific purposes.

Additionally, everyone has an energetic field of their own. When you hear about vibes in witchcraft, this refers to the idea that, because we are energetic beings, everyones energetic field carries certain vibrational frequencies that are in a constant state of flux depending on environment, emotions, interactions, etc. Happier, more elevated states correspond with a higher vibrational frequency, and lower base emotions such as anger and fear carry a more dense and heavy vibrational frequency. Through aligning your energy to higher and more positive frequencies, you are able to attract more positive things and experiences. This is why dancing to your favorite upbeat song can shift your mood in a big way, and why dwelling in the negative can keep you from seeing your own blessings.