Different Types Of Spellcasters

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Greetings To All Of You So I looked on google and I’m going to share my understanding of the differences between the different types of Magickians and I would appreciate your commenting and opinions on this
Here goes

Sorcerer
One Who Draws On Their Ancestral Magick or magical gifts.
They’re seemingly born with magical gifts

Wizard
Learns magick by studying and practicing oft using spell books and practice

Mage
See Description of Wizard

Warlock
Gains Power From From A Pact with A Supernatural Entity oft in exchange for service

Witch
Harnesses The Power of Nature And Uses Folk Tradition Also oft uses multiple types of Spellcraft To Forge Their Spells

Psychic
Uses Divination To See Into The Past, Present, or Future

Necromancer
Communicates with the Dead
Sometimes used as Divination

Witch of The Waters
Harnesses The Power of Water

Witch of The Fires
Harnesses The Power of Fire

Witch of The Earth
Harnesses The Power of Earth

Witch of The Winds
Harnesses The Power of Air

Witch of The Forest
Harnesses The Power of Nature

Witch of The Sun
Harnesses The Power of The Sun

Witch of The Moon
Harnesses The Power Of The Moon

Witch of The Stars
Harnesses The Power of The Stars
Uses Astrology

Witch of The Ceremony
Uses Ceremonial and Ritual Magick
Oft Calling on Or Honoring The Gods

Witch of The Coven
Does Their Craft In A Group of Witches
Combining their magic
Magick and Rituals are performed under the Wing of The High Priestess

Traditional Witch
Practices Their Magick Under A Specific Tradition

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@DarkestKnight
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You’re trying to herd cats :joy:

In reality people are going to define themselves and there’s no consensus. Specific orders can agree between them of what all their members titles are and often do, but on the Internet it’s a free for all. As soon as you lock on definition down you’ll meet someone who calls themselves that and means something different. It’s really best to just ask them and have a conversation than try to make hard and fast labels - it doesn’t work well out of context.

For me, most of these are vastly oversampled, most are wrong, and they all overlap. I’ve never heard of “witch of the x”, outside of fiction anyway - where does that even come from?

Don’t forget magick users can also come from non-western traditions. Like, what would you call a Brujeria, if not … Brujeria? Are you going to add the other thousand names for magick users by tradition too? Do you thing a Brujeria is just a Necromancer or are they not also a traditional witch, herbalist, healer, psychic, wizard, mage and sorcerer? What about Buddhist monks? How about qigong/tantra/yoga practitioners, or people who only use NAP?, what about those who practice eclectically from all these and more?

If you want my advice and you’re looking for how to label yourself to tell others what you do, have an elevator speech set up to define it. To understand what others do, when you’re unsure ask them to define what it means to them at the time

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Your distinction between wizard, sorcerer, warlock and witch is literally from Dungeon and Dragons.

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These are from RPG lol :joy:! The thing in RPG is that sorcerer and mages are different, in reality everyone has magickal “gifts” (magick is something inherently to human kind) but not everyone can express them, either by dogma or lack of knowledge.

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I’d say at least half of these aren’t really a thing and if they are, they overlap and are rarely used. A lot of these labels are outdated, nobody uses them anymore, and they shouldn’t. You can practice whatever you want as long as you feel like doing so. Labels and titles like these are only going to put you and others in a box.

Some of them such as Necromancer are valid titles too but in this day and age rarely anyone chooses to make themselves a specialist in only one area and nothing else because people are beginning to understand their magick is boundless and shouldn’t be confined in such a way.

I’d like to simplify it, there’s one type of magician: a person who practices magic. Regardless of what pantheon they work with or what they specialise in, they need no further titles, and they likely don’t even need that one.

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Spanish-speaking person here, “brujería” literally translates as “witchcraft” and we don’t make any kind of difference, when someone says “bruja” (witch) we think of the typical old woman who eats children in fairy tales but we also apply the term for some crazy woman who sacrifices cats or toads in rituals (I’m not pointing out anyone here, I am simply giving an example of what we consider a witch) and in general for anyone who practices any kind of magic, regardless of whether that person is benign or malignant.

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I love that, it’s nice and easy. :slight_smile: “I do magick.” Boom.

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With how ive seen you go around with your posts and whatnot the question of whether your either really really new to magick and dont know what its about or whether your simply acting as though u practice and dont really do so comes into mind but nontheless:

Most of these are wrong. Most of them dont exist outside of RPG’s. In reality, anyone and everyone can do all types of magick and no one is limited to doing one thing at all. In reality, people can label themselves wizard, warlock, sorcerer, whatever and they all mean the same
thing. Except for warlock, that means an oathbreaker, someone who has broken their oath. But whatever.

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I did Say That these were from GOOGLE
I was just curious because people use these titles interchangeably and I assumed there was a difference between them since there’s so many titles

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Maybe that’s because I chose to word them differently

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What is NAP?

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I didn’t know this shit wasn’t real
I just thought it wasn’t common to put yourself in a box cuz I noticed I’ve only read about it but I’ve never heard people talk about it
I’m mean I’ve never heard a person label themselves
I only hear people say that they’re a witch, practitioner, magician, or sometimes Sorcerer

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Why are you posting google shit then and not your own thoughts?

Don’t you know by now you need to think for yourself first? It’s what this forum is literally all about, so you come here to post some machines, generic, lowest common denominator, mixed-up-with-fiction random nonsense?

Yeah, I don’t know why you thought it would be. For the same reason AI isn’t reliable. Think about it… Google is the entire internet and most of the internet - 99.999% - is not about magick - we’re pretty niche here.

Google will be mostly from the multi trillion dollar entertainment sector - fiction, and fan fiction, you cannot really expect Google, Ai, or any other aggregate all-Internet scan to get you anything reliable. Never mind cited and verified gnosis.

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We have a lot of those in the intros thread if you scroll through that, and also in many people’s profiles.

For example, in my own profile I labeled myself quite a lot, as well as listing some things I do… labels outlined in orange… mostly if it’s something I do a lot and plan to keep on doing, I feel ok taking that label, as a tool to convey the idea that I practice those things consistently.

The entire point, imo, of a label is to communicate efficiently what you do or who your are, what you’re about, to other people.
If you then have to spend time defining the label, that nullfies the point of the label.

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These are also labels. Labels are also things like “mother, roommate, gardener, “pronouns”, body builder, software engineer, practitioner, empath, medium…”

Labels are nouns that describe who what something is. Nouns are “naming words”. A label is like a kind of name, then.

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Thanks for the link I will check it right away!

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I would say all spell casters are the same, the different is each individual’s connection to the source of power and their own energy with different range of abilities

A lot in the different listed, I perceive them as the same like Wizard, Sorcerer, Mage… To me they are all in the same. Also, I would not call Psychic spell casters. Sure, these are folks with abilities and gift the average do not possess, but not that does not make them necessarily spell casters

Some psychic can commune with the dead too, why are they in a different class from necromancers?

Essentially, all those listed is what I would call a well rounded magician

My thoughts -

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I agree with everything you just said

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The way you worded them is exactly how D&D sites would word them so no dude, you just got the info from some D&D site or an AI chatbot and thought it was real information because you (probably) dont really practice. I mean, i hope you dont practice if your that unresearched.

Like man, no hate from over here but i gotta call out the bullshit my guy.

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HEAVILY agree
It is a cool CONCEPT to think “Oh you practice this the most so you’re this” but a lot of us practice wildly different “Opposing” ideas and craft simultaneously.

Like the owner of this forum lol, E.A practices multiple types of magick but you wouldn’t label him as just “Satanist” because he’s most known for his work in Goetia for example. Which is another thing, Satanism and Goetia practice can be perceived as either the same thing or totally different practices.
Cool idea, but very very impractical and misleading by design

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