About

Hello, my name is Nikki, but many know me as The Glittered Witch. I would like to cordially invite you to join me on the enchanting adventure that is witchcraft.

My Witchy Journey

Starting at an early age, I knew I was different.

Talking to ghosts, having a spirit guide teach you how to “window” or create portals so you can be with your grandmother no matter where you or she were in the world, and seeing wee folk as a kid makes you different, no matter how hard you try to be normal.

Then there was the fact that I always just knew things when I shouldn’t and really didn’t know how. I could always tell you what songs would be hits the moment I heard them. I could always spot a trend, whether in fashion or pop culture, months before it would hit. I’d see something and just feel it was going to be huge—and it would be.

Like most “odd” people, I pushed my peculiarities into the realm of coincidences and nonsense by my preteens, driven by the extreme need to be normal. It’s a tale as old as time for anyone who wants acceptance from their loved ones and peers.

Over the years, I tried to be myself, but people always laughed or brushed off my extreme imagination. Then, as I got older, it was slayed with a dagger to the heart by being told I was just plain… crazy. To the point, I believed them.

And there my peculiar side lay murdered in its grave until one day I fell in love. But not with who you might think. He wasn’t a mystical man who woke my magic, not in the slightest. He was, and is, a very analytical, scientific method of a man whom I fell head over heels for because he adored me exactly as I was.

His love resurrected the me I thought long slain.

That love was so strong, I moved from my beloved Washington state all the way to the most foreign-feeling world I had ever been… New Hampshire.

He accepted my quirks, he accepted my being, and he accepted my dark side. Here’s the thing: he doesn’t believe what I believe, and he doesn’t have to because that man loves me exactly as I am. And it freed me.

Now, as drawn to witchcraft as I was, it took me time to find my way back. Over the last 15 years, I’ve read, researched, and dabbled here and there but couldn’t connect fully. I held myself back, still hearing “you’re just crazy, Nikki” in my head.

Then two years ago, I let go. I cut the cords that were binding me and started practicing full-time, embracing witchcraft with all the knowledge I had garnered over the years. I reconnected with my spirit guide, and with her help and the help of those she’s led me to, I’ve learned (and am still learning) to find and tune my gifts:

My Witchy Philosophy

First, let me tell you what I don’t believe in.

I don’t believe in hoarding the information I’ve gathered and keeping it from others. If I learn something in my excessive digging into the craft, the first thing I want to do is share it.

I also don’t believe in dictating my belief system to others. You will NEVER see me telling another soul that how they practice isn’t the right way. I simply share my knowledge in the hope you learn something and then add your own touches.

I believe that witchcraft is its own living, breathing entity. The more people learn from our past, learn our practices, and MAKE THEM THEIR OWN, the more this entity will grow. The craft has survived for millennia, even with active persecution, and I believe the quickest way to stop that growth is by shoving it in a bottle, restricting it, and making it a “members-only” club.

The only people not welcome here are those who see witchcraft in blacks and whites, the ones that judge, the ones that think they can control the magick of others. The free spirits are not only needed here but very much wanted.

I was born near the spring equinox, near the balance of night and day. I believe that my magic should be a balance of light and dark. For without the dark, we would have no light. I believe hexes have their place, never for revenge, but to correct ill behaviors.

(Favorite Hex: simply say “have the life you deserve”)

I am equal parts all things pink and Hello Kitty as I am the dark and twisty. It was quite the path to accept my attraction to the creepy, equating dark with evil my entire life. It wasn’t until I fell for a mutilated, disfigured creepy doll that equally fascinated me as much as it terrified me that I started to embrace it.

I read about medieval gargoyles and how builders placed them on buildings to deter evil from entering. For many years, nightmares plagued me, and when I looked at one of these dolls made by @heather_lynn_artist, the idea popped into my head: maybe one could scare away the bad from seeping into my head at night.

So I got one, and it worked. I’ve slept peacefully every night since. I also now have ten (and counting) with a special demon baby that travels with me.

I am the light; it is the dark, and together we have balance.

I believe what you put out into the universe comes back to you multiplied, amplified, reflected.

All my life I’ve been attracted to all things sparkly. All glitter is a reflection of the light around it. Put good out into the world around you, and you start to sparkle too.

If you put out hexes that correct behaviors so others don’t get harmed, you get protection back. It reflects back on you.

This is my belief; you can and should believe differently, but I believe if you put a hex out into the world as revenge, to harm someone else on purpose, it steals your own protection away.

The magic is the belief in it. It’s all individual.

The same way if all you do is complain about life, your partner is bad, your business is slow, you gossip endlessly about others. You surround yourself with what will be reflected onto you. You honestly believe these negative things, making your own magic destroy you.

Some call it karma, wyrd, or just the universe universing. I call it the great balancing act, but again, that is just how I practice.

I once believed balancing my magic meant constantly doing good for others, but let me tell you this: when I began doing good for myself, I truly embraced my full power as a witch.

We have self-love spells for a reason, and I believe that if you truly don’t love yourself, if you aren’t the first person you show kindness to, you will never find balance. I’m sure others can find balance without it, but for me, loving myself was in itself the greatest gift.

Witchcraft has taught me to finally live in the moment. With the everyday holidays, you are always rushing to prepare for that day. With Sabbats, you get to wait and then celebrate. I look forward to waking the earth every year at Imbolc by putting my bare feet to the frozen ground, celebrating the season of plenty with fruits and vegetables for the summer solstice, or lighting white candles to help return the light at the winter solstice/Yule.

I will focus mainly on practices from my own heritage; the more we practice what our ancestors practiced, the more we honor and connect with them.

If there is another culture you are practicing, it is our duty to learn as much as we can about it so we can honor and respect it as well. Practices cross cultures, each bringing unique differences in style, ceremony, and purpose.

Witchcraft is an amazing, insightful, and exciting adventure. I hope you choose to ride along with me for a spell.

Our broomsticks await!