#witches before wizards

[fuzzynecromancer]

Hey remember in the second episode of Owl House when Eda just straight-up vored that guy? That shit was wild.

[owlhousetarot]

Seven of Cups: Adegast Tempting Luz

Upright: Choices, opportunities, wishful thinking, illusion, fantasy, daydreaming, indecision, searching for purpose

Reversed: Confusion, distraction, diversion, overwhelmed, clarity, personal alignment, making a choice

The Seven of Cups is the card of choices and opportunities, but also illusion and wishful thinking. It represents a moment where you're faced with a myriad of different options for the future, each seeming more exciting than the last—though you must be careful what you wish for, because all that glitters is not gold. The Seven of Cups may suggest your expectations for the future aren't grounded in reality, and that you're prone to wishful thinking and unrealistic ideals. This is exactly the situation in which Luz finds herself in Witches Before Wizards: she's followed the pipe-dream adventure Adegast set up for her, playing masterfully into her preconceived notions of being a fantasy protagonist, unknowing that she's being led by illusions straight into a trap.

The Seven of Cups reminds you that while wishing and dreaming are all well and good, there comes a time where you need to let go of your fantasies and face reality. Luz does exactly this by choosing Eda and King over Adegast's puppets, breaking free from the fantasy illusion and saving them both. This is Luz's first step on her journey of deconstructing her fantasy-hero complex and maturing into a more grounded person whose actions are guided not by unrealistic fantasies, but by her personal values and convictions.

Deck Order:

< Previous: Six of Cups | Next: Eight of Cups >

Show Chronology:

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[icy-watch]

Well, that's a skeleton

[the-owl-house-blorbo-brawl]

Preliminary Round Match 6: Adventures in the Elements vs Witches before Wizards

Adventures in the Elements: Luz needs to learn a new spell, so Eda takes her to the most magical place on the island to train.

Witches Before Wizards: When an ancient wizard gives Luz a map for a mystical quest, she wonders if she is actually a Chosen One.

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: January 17…

Hoping to become a witch in training under Eda’s wing, an ancient magical wizard gives Luz a quest while doing errands for Eda to become a powerful being herself, not knowing that something is off about the said quest. “Witches Before Wizards” premiered on this day, 5 Years Ago.

[animerunner]

I genuinely feel like anyone who still thinks Witches Before Wizards is filler. Hasn’t watched the episode in a long time.

All of the themes that are presented there are huge parts of season 3.

It really acts as almost a secondary pilot. Because so much of what essential to the shores core is in that episode.

It’s not filler. It hasn’t been filler for a while. If you genuinely think that maybe rewatch and this time pay attention to what the episode is saying in conjunction with what S3 was saying.

Because the later really picks up on it

[flower-boi16]

I know many people see the episode Witches Before Wizards as nothing but a filler episode, but I disagree, it's one of the most underrated episodes of the show imo. The episode first shows how The Boiling Isles isn't the idealized fantasy world that Luz expected it to be, as Eda and King say it's actually very nihilistic. Then while delivering stuff for Eda, Luz comes across a wizard in a castle that says she's a chosen one to get the celestial staff.

After Eda and King mock her for this, Luz goes on the quest and goes into what looks like a village, something that looks more like Luz's idealized fantasy world that she thought the boiling isles was gonna be like, and for a second she does think that this is what the boiling isles really is, because it fits her idealized version of a fantasy world more than what it's actually like.

However, as the episode progresses, we begin to see that Luz is being tricked, when King tells Eda what Luz is doing and finds that Luz is being tricked. Later in the episode when Luz reaches the end of her quest and she gets the staff, it was a trap all along as a weird creature thing reveals itself and says that he wanted to lure Luz in because he knows Eda will come to save her, and ofc, she does. After they fight off the monster and defeat him we get the ending scene.

Luz is sad that the boiling isles isn't the fantasy world she thought she was, and to cheer her up, Eda goes and takes Luz to a mystery flight on her staff, and takes her to a beautiful view of the boiling Isles bones. They tell Luz that while the boiling isles is kind of a slimy, stinky and gross place, if you look at it from a different perspective, it could look beautiful, and Eda tells Luz to choose herself instead of just waiting to be chosen.

I love that the episode took the chosen one trope and subverted it in a way that's interesting, where Luz wants to go on a fantasy quest to make herself feel special because she felt like a nobody back at her home, and wants to try and think that the boiling isles is idealized fantasy world she had in her head. She didn't feel like she was special back in her home, so going on this quest that is exactly what her version of boiling isles looked like made her feel like Azura (the main character in a book series that Luz obsesses over), a character who Luz wants to see herself in, so going on this quest made her live this fantasy world she always wanted in real life.

It's great for Luz's character and develops her in a great way. I also love the ending, where Luz sees that although the Boiling Isles isn't the perfect fantasy world Luz wanted it to be, if you look at it from a different perspective it could look beautiful in its own way.

Witches Before Wizards is the most underrated episode of the show for how it cleverly subverts and parodies the typical chosen one story into something interesting and what it does for Luz's character. Probably one of, if not the best episode of season 1, and one of my favorite episodes of the show. This episode does NOT deserve to be considered "filler".

[goodwitchazurafan666]

God if I have to see one more person miss the entire point of Witches Before Wizards. It's not 'escapism is bad'. Remember that the isles are a metaphor for the queer community- the point is that Luz has to learn that even these excepting places have problems. Metaphorically, she's learning that though the queer community is more accepting than 'regular' society (the human realm) there are still problems to be solved. The point isn't 'escapism bad', it's 'every community and group has problems and it's naive to assume otherwise' and, metaphorically, it's 'the queer community has problems actually'. Luz does have to learn to grow up, but not in the way people think- Witches Before Wizard sets up a lot of the themes the show has, and people keep missing how.

TLDR Witches Before Wizards is good actually.

[bitchliteraria1906]

Witches before wizards is such an underrated episode, wtf-

[raineism]

look kid, everyone wants to believe they're "chosen". but if we all waited around for a prophecy to make us special, we'd die waiting! and that's why you have to choose yourself.

[moonyswarmsweaters]

[morningtou]

secrets, lies, and honor

[icy-watch]

As accurate depiction of Icy's room

[hellishfig]

hey. hey brennan. what the fuck dude

asking aabria to roll her insight check where he can see and she can't before deciding whether to reveal her plans to silver is DIABOLICAL and i feel ILL

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: January 17…

Hoping to become a witch in training under Eda’s wing, an ancient magical wizard gives Luz a quest while doing errands for Eda to become a powerful being herself, not knowing that something is off about the said quest. “Witches Before Wizards” premiered on this day, 4 Years Ago.

[miles-crow]

Who wants to be a millionaire?

...Definitely not Boq.