SpirtualBrother, Myself and Wicca

There’s something quietly powerful about the conversations that catch you off guard — the ones that shift something inside you before you even realise it’s happening.

Yesterday, my brother and I fell into one of those conversations.

He’s always been deeply spiritual — it’s just part of who he is. But lately, like me, he’s started leaning into it more… listening to the pull instead of brushing it aside. It’s funny, because while he’s younger than me in age, in many ways he feels further along on his path.

Over Christmas, during an earlier conversation with him, I said something out loud for the very first time — something I’d only ever thought quietly to myself:

“Maybe I am a witch.”

Even writing that still feels a little surreal.

But it didn’t feel new. It felt… old. Familiar. Like something that had been sitting in my bones long before I had the words for it. Honestly, it feels like something that runs in our family, something ancient.

I tried to explain to him how this pull has always been there. I’ve been drawn to something for as long as I can remember — I just never knew what to call it. Pieces of it showed up everywhere: in the things I read, the things I felt, the things I was naturally curious about.

Wicca, energy, ritual, intuition… they were always there, but I treated them as separate threads instead of parts of the same tapestry.

It wasn’t until recently — oddly enough, through the fantasy books I’ve been devouring — that things started to click into place. Some of the stories carried quiet undercurrents of magic and Wicca, and suddenly all those scattered pieces began to come together into something that actually made sense.

Then yesterday, as my brother was talking about his interests —his connection to energy, his rituals, his oracle cards, his meditation and manifestation practices — I had a bit of a moment.

I asked him if he’d ever looked into Wicca.

He paused, a little unsure. “Like… a witch?”

And I realised… everything he was describing, everything he’s naturally drawn to — it all lives within the same space I’ve been slowly discovering myself.

So I pointed him toward Ashley’s Seeking Witchcraft podcast to see if anything resonates for him.

Because the truth is, he’s already doing so much of it.