Mariposa Young

05/05/2026

Listen, it’s not magical doings instead of mental health care or spiritual healing instead of going to therapy… it’s both, reinforcing each other.

I have PTSD from surviving being kidnapped and trafficked as a child. I started the heavy lifting of therapy and therapeutic activities in my late teens to address this. Why? Because I couldn’t manage my life or relationships because I was acting out and spinning out. I needed to hold down a job and maintain trusting relationships. Therapy helped me do that.

At the same time I was getting myself together, psychologically, I was going very far afield magically and spiritually. Because I was attending to my psychology, I had a great sense of discernment when it can to spiritual practices. I also had childhood training so I was able to explore my mastery instead of trying to gain mastery in early adulthood in magick and divination.

My mental health improvement made me a better metaphysical reader and being a metaphysical reader fast-tracked my mental wellbeing.

Not to downplay serious mental health conditions like mine that to my eternal irritation, take lifelong management. So when some spiritual practitioner says they can “heal” me completely with spiritual practice, that’s a huge red flag and makes them easily avoidable.

You should also see that kind of 1 and done sales pitch as BS. In addition you should see your mental health as important as your physical health as something to attend to.

That way we can be super duper manifestors together!

04/29/2026

Online there’s all manner of quizzes and descriptions of different kinds of witches but really this is a trick question. There is all kinds of different witchcraft. A witch typically does a variety depending on their intentions.

For example, I do reverent magic at seasonal events of the year, especially at equinoxes and solstices as well as new and full moons. I celebrate my connection as a human being with nature. That I have air in my lungs, fire in my nerves, earth in my bones and blood and water everywhere. That the seasonal changes can cause similar changes in my life and I encourage these changes by celebrating being an earthling.

I do devotional magick when I focus my energies on a specific deity in order to do what they do or borrow their powers for a purpose. For example, when I left my marriage in a hurry with my child, I did devotional rituals about Kali and Hecate.

I do spellwork for very specific purposes like healing, luck, to enchant an object, and even glamour magick. These I do in conjunction with other forms of witchcraft and separately.

I do magick around divination to ensure I am an ideal messenger and give messages for others’ highest good, delivered with diplomacy.

For some of this witchcraft, I am a “green witch”, for others, I am an “Astro witch” and so on. Sometimes I have practiced alone (hedge witch) but mostly I have practiced with others.

I encourage you to define witchcraft more broadly for yourself and see the different ways more utilitarian in use.

09/29/2025