There are so many witches that call upon the gods and goddesses in their practice it might seem that you need to do that too. Calling upon Hekate, the Morrigan, Brigid, Kali and other powerful goddesses or “the Universe” and so on might make you feel like you’re missing something important if you don’t vibe with that. However, you don’t need to be into polytheism to be a witch. You don’t even have to believe there is a god to be a witch (let alone many gods).

Believing in the deities that inform different religious ideals and practices is just that: believing in deities. Magic exists irrespective of worshipping gods and goddesses and you don’t have to do that to get the benefits of magic. While there are certain religions like Wicca that believe you can and should call upon the goddess or god to bless your practice, there is no preset witch condition that requires you to work with god/s in order to conduct magic. In the case of a religion like Wicca, you adopt the ideas and hold them to be truthful and sacred to you. If you are Christian, Jewish or other religions, you will have your own god/s that you pray to (or God, singular). This is your religion and the way that your religion makes sense to you through its spiritual ideals.

In witchcraft however, the practices and applications of magic don’t need a deity or god to be valid.

Deity relationships can enhance the work that you do with witchcraft by offering protection or guiding your practice if you believe in god/s. But your practice can easily be guided by your own intuition and experience without deity informing it.

Witch is a term that encompasses all kinds of ideas about deities and gods and doesn’t hold one singular one as self evident or necessary to be a witch. Being a witch is being someone who uses magic, not worships a god or gods though some witches do both. If you do worship deities or god, know that this practice can only inform and enhance your own experience of witchcraft and not change the fundamentals of it.

It’s okay to worship god/s just as it’s okay not to. No matter what your choice is, this doesn’t affect your status as a witch and witchcraft welcomes all kinds of witches into its fold.