The algorithm is beyond our control. I wish there was a better way to communicate and collaborate. Hopefully this hashtag will help.

Witchcraft is not what it use to be. I find any practicing Wiccan on social media kind of loses some credibility. I don’t know, it just feels like people are wannabe witches and are not interested in the craft

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and being so vulnerable. You did not come off as naive in any fashion and provided alot of information.

Content consumption vs Doing - At first, at least for myself, content consumption was driven by the need to learn. Later a need to connect or be kept company was the motivating factor. Also the more you see and hear something the more you remember it. In the beginning years I think consumption of knowledge is key. One needs the lecture hours and then the practical labs. When your busy learning may be more important, with smaller magical acts woven into the daily routine. **Smile**

Awesome tag. Thank you!

I love this conversation. It's very important to understand the influence of social media on our spiritual practice. I just uploaded my VR. Thanks for all the prompts!

Great conversation ❤ Thank you for sharing this 😊

Thank you for collaborating on this discussion. These questions are very important. The discussion, across many channels, has gotten me to really think! ❤❤❤

Welcome back, Leah 💜 Thank you for your authenticity and vulnerability. As someone who has been practicing in private for many years, and who also grew up in Appalachia and moved away from home a long time ago, I see you. There are many folks, particularly older practitioners, offline in person having these same conversations. The wavelengths are finally converging. Enjoy the Virgo full moon 🌕

Pleased to meet you through this great tag.. I really enjoyed your thoughts. Im hoping to have a go myself next week ❤🌷

This is such a great tag and I’m excited to participate, great video! I love listening to everyone’s videos like one big podcast ❤

wonderful tag so interesting to hear your responses

Great discussion with many points to ponder. Thanks for posting this.

Cool! Thank you. I was thinking about something sImIlar recently and i'm glad this tag exists.

💯🖤One learns by doing and taking the time to study. It's cool watching videos but you don't want to rely on someone else's experience without ever finding out for yourself.

Great video!

I used to lament, as a Gen Xer, that there were not more resources when I was growing up. I've studied many paths over the decades, from Wicca to Trad Craft, Druidry, various Recon traditions, etc. I discovered Wicca in the late 80's when I was 11 in the American south at a bookstore in the mall. It had a very small occult/new age section next to the roleplaying game section. There really wasn't a lot of places to get the info. No internet. One occult shop that was a pilgrimage to get to for most in my area. But now, seeing the negative impact of social media in all areas of society, especially in the pagan/occult community, I'm so grateful that my exposure to the craft was so focused by default, with no ability to replace real physical experiences with online soul withering zombification. I'd rather have the restrictions that I grew up with instead of having to be a newbie today and slog through the resources out there and determine for myself as a newbie what is authentic, or rely on someone else to tell me what is authentic when they themselves might be one of the inauthentic ones.

Thank you for these prompts, there's Definitely stuff to discuss on the matter. Just the other day i was asked about what i rhink about rhe inlaxt witchtok has had on witchcraft and how bad popularity can be bur at the same time who knows who will start to practice after having stumbled on any piece of content? Hope to get my strength back soon (im in severe autistic burnout at the moment) to join #occultea

Thank u for sharing this Leah. There are so many interesting discussion points. It's really got me thinking more about how the platforms and algorithms themselves dictate in some ways the quality and dynamics of our community as a whole. I would be interested in discussing further 🙏

You forgot to put the prompts and your links in the description. ☺️❤️

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I've been watching these videos for a while now and they've all been, in my opinion, lukewarm. I'm just being authentic. The real #OcculTea would be talking about something like being a conservative witch or a witch who is voting for Trump or a witch who is even just center right. Would love to see that. Or a bisexual witch who is against childhood transition. Or being a witch who is anything but far left. I feel like this is going to be deleted but I think when you're talking about authenticity this should be talked about as well. Could be a real heated conversation. Good for a live stream. I just feel like there is too much cowardice in the witch community when it comes to this and things like it. You know? Like, we should be able to share our real and actual unpopular opinions. For instance, I've started calling myself a mage more than a witch lately because of the people I've heard on KZfaq basically saying you have to be an activist to be a witch. I just think that would be an interesting conversation. Since, apparently, you can't sperate politics from witchcraft.