The Wandering Witch

The Wandering Witch ✨Learn, grow, and practice among kindred spirits with a shop and circle in one! We’re a community that believes in learning & growing together.✨
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As we move towards this weekend’s Full Moon in Sagittarius, we are thinking about the people who hold us up when we feel...
05/28/2026

As we move towards this weekend’s Full Moon in Sagittarius, we are thinking about the people who hold us up when we feel we can’t lift ourselves. 🌕

Tag someone in the comments who helps carry you when life gets overwhelming. Who shows up for you in the quiet moments, the hard ones, the ones where you didn’t even have to ask. The friend, the family member, the person in this community who just gets it and sees you when you need it the most.

We’ll start…

We are so grateful for every single one of you who has walked through our doors, shared our posts, brought a friend, made a purchase, volunteered, or simply encouraged what we’re building here. You are the reason this hearth stays lit, and the reason we continue to be able to build this with all of you.

This community has always shown up for us, and we do not take that lightly.

If you feel called to support the shop right now, the QR code in the image will take you to the ongoing GoFundMe link where you can contribute directly to our community fund.

Every donation to The Wandering Witch Community Fund helps cover unexpected shop expenses, emergencies for both the shop itself and community members, class sponsorships, the community care pantry, and more. Every little bit helps us keep the doors open and the magic flowing. If you have the means to give, we would be incredibly grateful.

Tag your person below. 💜✨💛

Can we talk about energetic hygiene for a second?I am someone who has always been very good with words. My eloquence has...
05/27/2026

Can we talk about energetic hygiene for a second?

I am someone who has always been very good with words. My eloquence has often served as my armor. I learned early, after years of feeling misunderstood and judged by my peers, that if I could articulate something clearly enough, I could make it make sense. I could make it manageable. I could create a sense of safety.

What I didn't realize until much later is that I was doing the same thing to my own emotions.
Categorizing them. Labeling them. Lining them up. Corralling them into eloquent carefully crafted sentences and calling that feeling my feelings.

But here’s what I've learned… not everything can be processed cognitively. Some feelings do not ask to be understood. They want the space to truly be experienced. And when you keep trying to think your way through something that is begging to move and release through your body, you end up thinking yourself in circles, while the feeling just waits in the wings.

One of the most powerful forms of energetic hygiene in my practice has nothing to do with smoke or salt or moon phases.

It's music.

Specifically, building playlists for whatever I'm carrying, and then actually letting myself feel and experience it with the music as my guide.

Miniature dance parties in my living room.
Singing at the top of my lungs in the car.
Letting sound move through me instead of sitting with my feelings at arm's length, analyzing them.

Singing and songwriting have been part of my life for as long as I can remember.
But using music as intentional somatic release, as a way to feel things I would otherwise intellectualize away, that's one of the most transformative practices I’ve ever stumbled into.

One song I keep returning to in my journey is "Healing is Not My Purpose" by Toni Jones.

There's a lyric that hits me in the gut every time:
My living is the healing. Life is purpose in itself.

We spend so much time trying to “prove” our healing by presenting it a certain way.
But where are we abandoning or punishing ourselves by delaying our living in the name of “healing”?

With the Full Moon in Sagittarius on the horizon this weekend, beckoning us towards expansion and authenticity, this is the energetic hygiene I'm inviting you into.

Not a ritual you have to perform perfectly.
Just permission to feel something, fully, in whatever way your body knows how.

A chance to ask yourself what wants to move through you when you stop trying to manage or control it?

You deserve to truly live.
You have always deserved that.
Even now. Especially now.

Lexi 🌞
Your Illumination Guide

Tonight is Witchy Wednesday: Show & Tell! 🔮Every week our Witchy Wednesday is a different focus. Some weeks, it’s a mini...
05/27/2026

Tonight is Witchy Wednesday: Show & Tell! 🔮

Every week our Witchy Wednesday is a different focus. Some weeks, it’s a mini class. Other weeks, it’s baked goods, crafts, or meditations.

This week is for your inner child!
Have you ever found a really cool rock, discovered a family heirloom, or thrifted a haunted object and wanted to share it with someone - just to find that no one else was as intrigued or interested as you were?

Well, that’s where Witchy Wednesday: Show & Tell comes in!

That really cool nature item you found?
We want to see it!
Your great grandfather’s pocket watch?
Absolutely!
The porcelain doll you got at a thrift store that feels a little more alive than she should?
Yes please!

This is the night to bring all your cool, unique, or meaningful items and tell us all about them!

We’ll see you tonight! ✨

🔮 Witchy Wednesday: Show & Tell
📅 Tonight - Wednesday, May 27
⏰ 6:00pm
📍 106 Bacon Avenue, Williamsburg

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MYTH: You need the “right” tools, an aesthetic altar, and the perfect Instagram-worthy spellwork to be a witch.Let's tal...
05/26/2026

MYTH: You need the “right” tools, an aesthetic altar, and the perfect Instagram-worthy spellwork to be a witch.

Let's talk about something insidious that has been quietly doing a lot of damage within the spiritual community for quite some time now.

We live in a very digital age, where technology and social media are often at the core of everything. Scroll through WitchTok, click through Witchcraft listings on Pinterest, or check out some witchy pages on Instagram and you will start to feel it, lurking, settling into your psyche. The elaborate altar setups. The aesthetically color-coordinated spell jars. The Pinterest-perfect layouts with crystals arranged just so, and candles that probably cost as much, if not more than, your weekly grocery budget.

It's beautiful. It really is.
Aesthetics are lovely to look at, and our brains enjoy seeing things that align perfectly.
But these things have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your magic works.

Folk magic practitioners have KNOWN this for centuries.
Chaos magic practitioners have been SCREAMING it for years.
The tools are not the magic.
The aesthetic is not the practice.
The perfection is not the power.

Your grandmother who stirred her tea three times and whispered a prayer over it was practicing magic.
The person who wrote their intention on a scrap of receipt paper and burned it in the kitchen sink was practicing magic.
The witch who built their first altar on a windowsill with a tea light, a w**d from their backyard, a rock from their driveway, and a photograph of someone they loved... was practicing magic.

Intention is the engine.
Belief is the fuel.
Everything else is just decoration.
Bells and whistles aren’t the magic -
everything behind it is.

Social media has done something very tricky to witchcraft (and countless other things) by “trendifying” them. On one hand, it has made the practice visually stunning and wildly accessible - but on the other hand, it’s created barriers and a level of exclusionary elitism that we can’t seem to get away from.

When algorithms reward aesthetic over substance, they create insidious programming through subliminal messaging that you need to look a certain way, spend a certain amount, and perform a certain kind of magic a certain kind of way to belong in the world of witchcraft.

You don't.
You never did.
In fact, you don’t even have to call it witchcraft - your ancestors who practiced folk magic never did.
They called it superstition.
They called it tradition.
They called it life.

Some of the most powerful magic we have ever witnessed, and have ever done ourselves, has come from working with what we had, in the middle of the hardest moments of our lives, with nothing but intention and need and the willingness to believe.

That is real witchcraft.
Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Mean what you say.

The rest is just window dressing.

This week at The Wandering Witch we’ve got show and tell, spell jars, closing out cycles, besoms made by hand, wards on ...
05/25/2026

This week at The Wandering Witch we’ve got show and tell, spell jars, closing out cycles, besoms made by hand, wards on the threshold, and a Blue Moon in Sagittarius asking us to aim a little higher and wander a little further.

June is also right around the corner, and with it comes the Summer Solstice! Our theme for June is “Lit From Within” and we are so excited to share all of our magical seasonal events with you, so stay tuned for some summertime magic! 🌞

Wednesday 5/27 - Witchy Wednesday: Show
and Tell (FREE)
https://facebook.com/events/s/witchy-wednesday-show-tell/962866956101953/

Thursday 5/28 - Thursday Special: Spell Jar Bar
BOGO Free (Drop-In, 12-8pm)
https://facebook.com/events/s/thursday-special-bogo-free-spe/2160322708095864/

Friday 5/29 - Closing the Cycle: Full Moon
Sound Bath Meditation ($11)
https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/closing-the-cycle-sound-bath-meditation/

Friday 5/29 - Baby Witch 101: Warding ($33)
https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/baby-witch-101-warding/

Saturday 5/30 - Sun Spun Besoms: Broom
Workshop ($33)
https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/witchs-workshop-sun-spun-besoms/

Saturday 5/30 - Full "Blue" Moon in Sagittarius
Community Circle (FREE)
https://facebook.com/events/s/blue-moon-in-sagittarius-commu/1999677847295363/

Sunday 5/31 - Find Us at Newport News Pride
Festival! (Tradition Brewing Co., 12-7pm)
https://facebook.com/events/s/newport-news-pride-festival/1882056796105519/

We are, as always, your neighborhood one-stop-shop for crystals, curios, and community.
We can't wait to see you. 💜

The shop will be closed tomorrow for a very special baby shower! This is a day for us to celebrate mama-to-be, Sky, and ...
05/24/2026

The shop will be closed tomorrow for a very special baby shower! This is a day for us to celebrate mama-to-be, Sky, and her precious baby! Thank you for allowing us this time to celebrate together. We will see you all again on Wednesday! 💛

Hearth Breath 💛Before the night carries you any further, pause for a moment. Take a slow breath in through your nose... ...
05/22/2026

Hearth Breath 💛

Before the night carries you any further, pause for a moment. Take a slow breath in through your nose... and slowly release it through your mouth.
Notice where tension and pain are living in your body right now. It might be in your shoulders, your jaw, your chest, or somewhere deeper like your gut.
You don't have to fix it or understand it or explain it to anyone. You don’t even have to release it or work on it. Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is
simply acknowledge that we are carrying something, and intentionally decide to be gentle with ourselves.

So, what does your body need most right now?
Rest, warmth, stillness, connection?
Whatever it is, you are allowed to have it.

The New Moon in Ta**us over the weekend reminded us that survival has always been communal. We are not meant to weather ...
05/21/2026

The New Moon in Ta**us over the weekend reminded us that survival has always been communal. We are not meant to weather the hard seasons alone. Showing up for each other, in small, intentional, and consistent ways is one of the most powerful things we can do.

So today, we are opening up a space to tend to the people that make up our hearth more directly.

✨ Drop some words of affirmation in the comments. ✨

Either tag someone in a comment with some encouraging words who you feel deserves a little extra kindness today, OR leave your words of affirmation for the collective and trust that they will find exactly who needs them. 💜

We'll start in the comments, and then it’s your turn! 💛

Our Crystal Companion of the Week is… Labradorite! ✨This is arguably one of the most underrated stones of the Crystal wo...
05/21/2026

Our Crystal Companion of the Week is… Labradorite! ✨

This is arguably one of the most underrated stones of the Crystal world, not only for its stunning appearance, but also for its abundance of highly relevant metaphysical properties.

If you’ve ever picked up a piece of Labradorite and turned it slowly in the light, then you already know exactly why we love it. One moment it looks like a boring and quiet gray stone. The next, it flashes blues, greens, pinks, purples, and golds…
and reveal a whole universe living just beneath its surface.

But this appearance is not just pretty - it’s powerful. The color shifting and fluid nature of the appearance of Labradorite ties directly into its properties of reflection, divine insights, truth being revealed, and shadows being brought into the light.

This stone sits right at the intersection of mental and emotional wellbeing and spiritual practice… two things that we believe are deeply intertwined.

This is a wonderful stone ally during seasons of intense transformation. It is not graceful or gentle - it is visceral and real. It reminds you that the only way past hardship is through it, and that you must befriend The Tower to learn to embrace change. Labradorite is there to support you when the ground shifts and you have to find your footing all over again. This stone doesn’t promise you it won’t be hard. It just reminds you that you can do hard things, and the universe is with you every step of the way.

We have a beautiful selection of this powerhouse stone in the shop right now.
Come in and find the one that calls to you!

This week at The Wandering Witch we are writing the words we’ve never said to our mothers, learning to speak to and inte...
05/18/2026

This week at The Wandering Witch we are writing the words we’ve never said to our mothers, learning to speak to and interact with what's beyond the veil, letting the little witches make some magic of their own, practicing the sacred magic of boundaries, and holding space for grief to be shared within supportive community - all in the same week, because life never stops and sometimes we have to intentionally create the things we wish we had.

Tuesday 5/19 - Monthly DnD Night with Max ($5 to Play)
Tickets ➡️ https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/dungeons-dragons-game-night/

Wednesday 5/20 - Affirmation Envelopes:
Letters to Mom ($11)
https://facebook.com/events/s/affirmation-envelopes-letters-/2161934164573401/

Wednesday 5/20 - Witchy Wednesday:
Mediumship 101 (FREE)
https://facebook.com/events/s/witchy-wednesday-mediumship-10/975715915311202/

Thursday 5/21 - Thursday Special: Witchlings
Wish Jars ($15)
https://facebook.com/events/s/thursday-special-witchlings-wi/952723554303161/

Friday 5/22 - Practicing "No" Sound Bath
Meditation ($11)
Tickets ➡️ https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/practicing-no-sound-bath

Friday 5/22 - Monthly Grief Circle (FREE)
https://facebook.com/events/s/monthly-grief-circle/1271255104941685/

Saturday 5/23 - Baby Witch 101 ($22)
Tickets ➡️ https://thewanderingwitch.com/product/baby-witch-101

Sunday 5/24 - Closed for a Private Event

We are, as always, your neighborhood one-stop-shop for crystals, curios, and community. 💖
We can’t wait to see you. ✨

✨ Collective Reading Recap | 5.13 - 5.17 ✨This week, Spirit gave us pieces of the same message from different angles, ho...
05/17/2026

✨ Collective Reading Recap | 5.13 - 5.17 ✨

This week, Spirit gave us pieces of the same message from different angles, hoping at least one framework would take root where it was needed.
What was the thread running through every message?
That our internal narratives can distort our perception of reality, and discernment and connection are the medicine.

Here’s what moved through the collective this week:

5/13 - The Moon + The Tree (by Lexi)
In emotionally charged seasons, we go to extremes - acting impulsively or pushing feelings down before they get the gravity they deserve. Neither is the full truth. Storms don’t last forever, but don’t bypass true repair by rushing to the temporary illusion of performed comfort.

5/14 - Power & Might (by Lexi)
The judgment limiting you most right now is no longer coming from external sources - it lives in your head. The cruelest pieces of the world rooted into your psyche and calcified into narratives that need to be questioned. You built a cage for your spirit until the bars felt like home. Will you choose differently?

5/15 - The Prism + Devotion (by Lexi)
The core of who you are is whole and true - but once filtered through wounds, inherited beliefs, and survival strategies, it fragments into stories that can distort reality. When the prism has been fragmenting your truth, how do you discern the difference between devotion and obsession?

5/16 - Element of Swords (by Lexi)
5.16 was a busy day, so we have a quick 1 card pull. The Element of Swords reminds us that words are nice, but without aligned action and practical steps, they are just empty air.

5/17 - 8 of Pentacles + The Crossroads + Ace of
Cups (by Donovan)
The call is coming from inside the house. Head versus heart - a tale as old as time. Have you put in the work for real, or are you resting on withered laurels? Your memories can do more than hurt you. Trust your experience.

Which message this week really spoke to you?
Let us know in the comments!

Join us next week at The Wandering Witch, where the everyday and the enchanted meet. 💜

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Address

106 Bacon Avenue
Williamsburg, VA
23185

Opening Hours

Wednesday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 12pm - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

Telephone

+17575044596

Website

http://thewanderingwitch.com/

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