Getting started as a Solitary Witch

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Being a solitary means you will have freedom to practice without worrying about coven social dynamics, performance ritual and be limited to a coven's traditional system. However, being a solitary also means 'you' have to come up with all the rituals and traditions yourself. Developing your tradition will take time.

A little history, a little herstory

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What is witchcraft? Where did it come from? Scott Cunningham states (in Wicca for the Solitary practitioner) that shamanism was the first recorded religion. The shamans were the medicine people, the "wielders of power", both male and female. Through deep contact with nature and themselves they obtained magical knowledge. They could conference with spirits and deities of animals and plants. They moved on to fashion tools and used those tools to continue the quest for knowledge. Witchcraft can be defined as a shamanic religion, because of these origins. We today have adopted ancient aspects of these shamans to further our understanding of the world around us.