#I did that when someone said using the word magick was a dogwhistle for conspiracy theorists

[sweetwitchythings]

If I may add on:

Referring to the Sun as “he” or the Moon as “she” is not what’s a red flag.

The red flag is when people try to divide people by Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine and use the Divine Feminine rhetoric as a way to be misogynistic and transphobic. Way too often do I see “witchy women” and “divine feminines” act EXACTLY like trad wives with a weird worship of men and masculinity. THAT’S the red flag. It’s just classic “women are inferior/men are the dominant sex” rhetoric repackaged with crystals and closed practices thrown into the mix.

So I usually try to (personally) stay away from Divine (gendered term) stuff because most, if not all, the time, it’s a mask for bigotry.*

*disclaimer: you’re not a bigot if you use the terms Divine Masc/Fem, but please be aware of the attributes you/others attribute to the Divine Masc/Fem. If the Divine Masculine is things ONLY like “strength, dominance, power” and the Divine Feminine is ONLY things like “fertility, gentleness, homemaking” then please reevaluate why you think that and think about how it affects your view on women and trans people.

Earlier today, I fell into a « Witchcraft Red Flags » rabbit hole. It felt for a second as if anything could be a red flag. It made me want to be even more secluded & stick to the practices I already know.

I mostly felt that way because one of red flags I saw was to refer to the Moon as feminine & the Sun as Masculine. Which I do daily. Now I'm very influencable & anxious so I had to think about this for a while.

In french, those two words are gendered that way. On top of this, I was introduced to witchcraft by wiccan content creators. I never really identified as a wiccan, but I used those beliefs & practices as inspiration to build my own, at the beginning of my journey. The Sun & the Moon are the two main entities I « worship ». I believe they dictate a lot of what goes on all around our planet. I do use masculine pronous for the Sun, even thought I never attributed any type of humanoid form to him. I use feminine pronouns for the Moon because of her greek name « Selene » which is female-sounding.

The other red flags I saw were wildly different. I think the message they were trying to spread is to be careful of how certain practices & opinions make you feel. Spirituality is very personal, but any personal journey is tinted with a lot of feelings. If you feel your practices work for you & are harmless to others, there's nothing wrong with that.

Sorry for the paragraph!