Hello my darlings and welcome to a day in the life of a witchy content creator. In this
video I’ll take you along with me during my day and show you some of my routines. I
will share how I use sigil magic to make sure I communicate clearly, how I use new moon
energy to plan my content and how I work with deities. And, at the end I share a simple
self-love practice that you can do every day. Let’s do some magical crafting.
This video is a collaboration with five other Witchy Content Creators. We chose several
topics to talk about in our videos including Being a Witchy Content Creator, Deity Work,
Sigil Magic, Self Love, and Using Moon Phases for magic. I will let the other creators introduce
themselves.
My name is Heather Lynn. I am the green forest witch, and you can find me at my channel The
Wild Forest Witchery.
My name is Ivy, I am the Occultist on YouTube and on Instagram. My video will be focused
on a spell to improve psychic abilities using a mega sigil, with a chaos magic flair.
My name is Aurora and I’m over at lavender Hazelwood Witches. I’ll be showing you how
to use and make a moon calendar for magical purposes.
Hi, I’m Panthera and my channel is Panthera the Feralwood Witch. For the collab I’ll
be doing a confidence spell for content creators. Check it out.
Hi, my name is Bente. I’m the Norse Witch, and in this video collab I will show you how
to cast a very easy, beginner friendly self love spell.
Good morning. This is how I start my day. After feeding the crows, I make the bed and
put on some walking shoes, I make a thermos of coffee and head out to the lake.
As a Solo Content Creator, my work days can often feel over scheduled and chaotic. They
are extremely busy and often quite long. As you might imagine I spend most of my day seated
at a desk, writing scripts, recording voice over, live streaming or filming content. Add
to that editing videos, creating graphics, and posting on social media.
The most important part of my day is not part of my work day at all, it is my morning trip
to the lake. It is my chance to do a lot of things that are important to me before I begin
a long day of sitting.
First, It is an opportunity for me to spend time in nature. This is an activity I draw
a lot of energy from and store it. And I use that energy throughout the day. It also gets
me out into the sunshine each day. Before I began walking at the lake, I would spend
days without ever spending time in the sun, and soaking up those uplifting rays
Second, it is an opportunity to spend time walking and getting some movement into my
day. If I skip my trip to the lake, my pedometer tells me that I have a very sedentary day
with very few steps.
Third, it is an opportunity to think without distraction. I often use my walks as moving
meditations and focus on a topic that I need clarity on. And after my walk I spend time
at my favorite shaded benches. This is where I can spend time with a journal or a sketch
pad and a cup of coffee. Sometimes I bring my tarot or oracle cards and my tarot journal,
and pull a few cards to start my day
Welcome to my secret little island. This is my favorite place to spend my mornings with
the ducks and the egrets and the dragonflies. The geese and crows are always calling to
each other.
It is a New Moon so I’d like to share the ways I like to use this lunar phase each month.
During the new moon, there are several traditional activities that you can do. It is a time to
do any banishing work that needs to get done. This can be a good time to rid yourself of
a bad habit.
There are several ways I bring the magic of the new moon into my work as a content creator.
The new moon is a good time to do shadow work, and this is most often when my shadow work
journal comes out. This month my topic to reflect on is how I can be a more authentic
person in my creator persona.
My process to do this is by journaling on what is important to me, and to have a discussion
with myself about whether being authentic is a core value for me or not.
Sometimes it is easier to listen to the voices of others rather than your own voice. I want
to both be open to change and also to be at peace with the things I may not want to change.
And to be able to easily discern between the two.
Shadow work helps me listen to myself and sort through my emotions. Sometimes authenticity
is recognizing your own desires apart from what social media is telling you that you
should want or that you should do.
My absolute favorite way to use new moon energy is to plan out a goal or a project. This is
the time that I set my intentions and plan out the steps to get me where I want to be.
I am using this new moon to plan out the website for my Magical Crafting Retreat. My goal is
to communicate the offerings of the event as clearly as possible, with as much detail
as possible.
There is so much information to include about the location, travel, meals, and of course
all of the crafting projects to be enjoyed throughout the retreat.
One of my biggest goals with the web site is to make it clear that you do not have to
be an artist or master crafter to attend and that people with any level of skill will have
fun at the event.
Back at home it is almost time to start my work day. Just a few more morning routine
tasks to complete first.
Near the entrance to my home, I have an eclectic little shrine to the Goddesses Lakshmi and
Quan Yin.
As a way of honoring these archetypes of compassion, good fortune, beauty and luck I place golden
coins in a bowl. And I light jasmine incense at the altar as well.
In my office I have a shrine to Ganesha. As an offering I place a shortbread cookie in
a small dish inside the shrine.
I also light an orange candle.
And as a final offering I light a tealight candle to warm up a wax warmer and place several
drops of a sweet floral essential oil into it as a smoke offering. I thank Ganesha for
sharing his gifts of creativity and removing obstacles.
I start my work day at 10am and usually grind through tasks until it is time to make dinner
at 7:30pm Here is a quick look at my office. This desk is where I record audio and film
my videos. I have a project set up for filming today and I am checking the placement of the
items in the monitor. I also like to watch or listen to other inspiring witchy content
while I film. So I usually have some videos playing on the second monitor or a podcast
going.
And this desk is where I spend the majority of my time. I keep a labradorite stone and
a small Ganesha statue near my monitors.
Most of my day is not very exciting to share. I spend the majority of my time working on
graphics needed for thumbnails, live streams, and social media posts.
I also interact with my Patrons a lot. I upload printables several times a month. Today I
am working on a post for my October printable planner stickers.
I like to upload the planner stickers a day before the plan with me video comes out. So
my next task is to work on editing that planner video. Which will likely take me the rest
of the day.
At 12:30 I take my lunch break. I usually throw together a salad. I prepare the ingredients
ahead of time so I can usually prep lunch in 5 minutes. Then I take an hour lunch break
with a friend and we watch esports together as we eat. Planning a lunch break with a friend
keeps me accountable to taking a break, otherwise I would likely not eat and work right through
lunch.
After lunch it is back to editing the video and later that evening it is time to record
the voice over audio track.
I am constantly communicating with my audience through all manner of visual arts. I am filming
and editing video, writing and recording voice over, I am creating book of shadows pages
and recipes, journaling prompts and artwork for my patrons, I am live streaming twice
a month, and posting on social media several times a week. It is so important for me to
communicate clearly.
And so I decided to use some sigil magic to help me communicate clearly. I wrote out my
intent in a positive and immediate sentence. Crossed out all of the vowels. And began making
a list of all of the consonants that remained. Any consonants that are repeated are ignored.
I am left with C, M , N, T, L, R, Y and I will create my sigil with the shapes of these
letters.
I begin with the C turning it sideways The drew the letter T underneath
The letter L sticks up out of the C Then I add the letter M upside down in the
center The Y goes under the T
This leaves me with two letters left, The R and the N
I have decided to break them down into their composite shapes and place those shapes in
the sigil. I like to keep my sigils as symmetrical as possible and I dislike having a random
and obvious letter R sticking on the side.
After adding the final shapes to the sigil I have my final outcome which I think came
out looking a lot like a cell tower to be honest.
The next step is to put the sigil into my phone case. I am drawing it on with a white
chalk marker. However you can place a piece of paper with the sigil into your case as
well. As I draw the sigil I envision all of my communications being clear and not causing
any confusion. I imagine people nodding, smiling and saying “I understand” or “you explain
things so clearly” or “I never thought of it that way, that makes sense.” I envision
my sigil being charged every time I charge my phone battery.
I promised to share a simple self-love practice that you can do every day at the end of this
video. This is how I like to practice a self love routine using scent to trigger a loving
mental state and positive brain chemistry. Once a day, usually in the morning, I repeat
a series of self-love affirmations while applying a specific scent. In my case I use a combination
of Amber and Patchouli. I say:
I am magical. I am powerful.
I am worthy of love from myself and others. I am intelligent and focused.
I am creating the life that I want. I can be whatever I want to be.
Over time this specific scent has become associated with these affirmations. Any time I need to
lift my spirits or am feeling down, I can use this scent to change my brain chemistry
to a more self loving frame of mind. It takes several weeks of repetition to create this
result. If you would like to download a free printable of these affirmations I will leave
a link in the description below.