In my Morgan Mystery School, where we work in devotion to the Avalonian goddess Morgan le Fay, this is the EXACT time of year where we enter Enchantress Season and indulge in all things witchcraft!
For me, spring is the season of witchcraft – or, perhaps, this is the other season of witchcraft, as no-one can deny the magic in the air between Autumn Equinox and Samhain!
Right now the world is springing alive with possibility, the energy of seeds making ready to sprout, the fire of life and sex and that thrust for the sun. Everything in nature is physically seeding and manifesting, and this is the very hopeful, optimistic, innocent sexual energy that powers magic and spells.
I like to think of the year as having two totally different witchy vibes – the Witch of Autumn and the Witch of Spring.
The Autumn Witch moves deeply with the rhythms of the earth, engages with prophecy and shadow work to manifest her multi-layered intention and perhaps presents the more stereotypical image of a witch stirring a cauldron, alchemising golden inspiration from the dark depths of her brew…
… but the Witch of Spring is in love with magic, possibility, and the fire of manifesting her desires.
Her spellcraft is effortless, fuelled by passion and fun and determination, trying out as many different pathways and options as possible!
The Enchantress
My name for the Spring Witch archetype is the Enchantress, which has quickly become one of my new favourite words, because it just sounds so playful and sexy.
The Enchantress dances her world into alignment with her desires, leading with love and playfulness.
The Enchantress has a powerful faery quality to her, and a feeling that her powers are rooted in her connection with the ever shifting, tricksy world of Faery.
She is a witch of Fire, who dances and laughs loudly and follows her dreams while charming everyone around her.
She’s a very social witch!
Historical Enchantresses have always been beautiful ladies turning men into pigs or carrying hotties away to her otherworldly kingdom to make love for a million years – their magic is worked for their own gratification, delight and enjoyment – to make life more fun.
YES. We get to desire things and have things just because we like them. We get to choose things just because it would be fun.
We get to celebrate our loves and our likes just because they are wonderful – there doesn’t have to be a heavy logical essay behind each desire justifying why you are allowed to want it, or a three-part plan that shows how you having x is actually for the benefit of the world.
The Enchantress teaches us that we are allowed to have what you want.
You are allowed to enjoy life!
The Sorceress
My Autumn Witch sometimes gets called a Sorceress – she who is connected with the source of all things and sees how everything is connected, who works with both the shadow and the light.
She is unafraid to look into the mirror that the darkness presents us with and work with what she sees there, and is a master of Alchemy – transmuting one thing into another.
She is earth, and responsibility, and knowledge of her place in all things.
It’s a very different vibe to the Enchantress, far heavier but equally magical.
Now, neither one of these witches is “better” than the other.
It is the way of our culture *cough* patriarchy & toxic capitalism *cough* to make sure there is always a Winner and a Looser – a Right Way and a Wrong Way.
Sure, the Witch of Spring is light-footed, a little tricksy and less experienced, and her energy is perhaps younger and a bit wilder…
…but it doesn’t make her less than the Witch of Autumn, with her wisdom and shadow depth, who cannot deepen into her wisdom without her time as the Witch of Spring – where else would she get her experience from?
Both – the excited, passionate energy of the Witch of Spring and the deep, earthed energy of the Witch of Autumn are important.
They feed each other – an Autumn Witch can get lost in herself without the outward desire and thrust of Springtime, and the Spring Witch can easily fall into chaos without the grounding reflection of Autumn.
Morgan le Fay has both of these witchy energies in her – no surprise really, given that she is a Goddess of Witches.
I feel like in witchcraft, like in all spiritual things, we often feel like there is a version of ourselves we should be – and usually, it’s the wise, serious, skilful witch who knows what she is doing and is all smart and experienced and stuff.
Because we have this vision of how much smarter and wiser we should be, we dismiss the Enchantress for fear of being selfish or childlish.
We feel we need to be very very grown up witches, y’all.
It’s easy to lose out on the playfulness of the Enchantress, we lose touch with the fire that fuelled our passion long ago, and bog it down with the heaviness of earth, which is what we “should” do if we are “serious” witches – we should be serious right?
Nah. Stuff that.
It’s time to PLAY again, friends.
As spring creeps in, it’s time to embrace the spirit of the enchantress.
To try new things, to make magical mistakes, to be a beginner again, and to do magical things that delight and enchant you.
To remember what you love about being a witch.
To find the most easy, fun way to make magic possible – or to gleefully hide up in your bedroom with a bunch of awesome books.
How can you make witchcraft playful again?
It’s the perfect time of year to find out.
Comment below to let me know how you are rediscovering your Witch this spring!
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