The Timeline

I present to you my Death Witch journey thus far. I chose this format rather than going in depth for each of these experiences all at once because I wanted to walk my path backward from present day to the origin that started my interest in death and my witchcraft in death work. I wanted to highlight what events shifted my focus to this work and my inspirations for claiming it as sacred and necessary today.

My path begins with a personal near-death experience, sprinkled with paranormal happenings throughout and profoundly shifted further along by deaths at my workplace and those of my loved ones. All of these sparked my journey in the search for appropriate ways to honor them in life and in death. A journey that became so important to me that it cemented itself in my spirituality and in the very essence of the deities I work alongside. I believe that having a space, a practice and assistance in the processing of the various stages of death is invaluable and should be accessible to those who want it.

Current Death Witch practice

Providing in person death work services in an immunocompromised household, however, is currently an impossibility and leaves me to consider what I can do from home right now. What is my practice like when I can’t be an in-person advocate?

Home based death work in pandemic times brings with it all my usual work of honoring ancestors, providing ghost 101 info when friends need the help, volunteering aid to those who have passed and their families from afar, but it also carries with it the weight of so much unknown death. So many people lost behind the fluctuating numbers on the screen. People whom we will never know but with the knowledge of that loss comes the work of having to acknowledge and process the massive death toll in the wake of these last couple years. Recognizing this work is needed in the global community now more than ever has made me want to introduce my Death Witch work in preparation of offering my services to the public via distance methods in the future. These methods won’t encapsulate all the possibilities of death work that I am capable of but rather what I feel comfortable offering from afar without overstepping the boundaries of services that are best provided in person.

In summary, I’m not talking out of my ass. This work is important to me, and I believe it needs addressing so I plan on doing just that. Some options will be paid products and others will be free resources, blogs, and other fun formats that I haven’t thought of yet where we can discuss this topic and its varying complexity.

So, here’s to next steps. I hope you’re prepared to do the work with me.