Well… here we are.

If we haven’t met yet, I’m Lysandra Wildwitch Shadethorn. Or, Lysandra the Wild Witch.

There’s a lot I want this blog to explore, but at its heart, it’s all going to be about witchcraft. My craft is shaped by the fact that I’m queer, neurodivergent, and disabled – which means it doesn’t always look like what people expect. Sometimes it does, though. My disabilities are inconsistent, which means sometimes my practice is a little more involved and theatrical – and I’m still unlearning the old religious programming that pops up like a bad weed now and then.

This space is here to hold that evolution. To unravel and reconstruct the practices I inherited that didn’t account for the fullness of the lived experience of the sacred weird – and to rebuild something wilder, freer, and more honest. It’s about exploring the magick that emerges when we live as ourselves, fully and fiercely. We don’t get to choose everything about who we are… but we do get to choose how we live in relation to it.

I want this blog to be a place that helps other Witches like me – Witches who want to live so fully as themselves that there’s no other word for it but Wild.

I’ve been walking this path most of my life, even if I didn’t know to call it witchcraft until years after my grandmother – my first teacher – passed away, and I was nearly out of high school. Since then, my path as a Witch has been tangled up in every other part of who I am: a parent, a queer person, a chronically ill and chaotic human just trying to live as who I am.

My practice won’t always make sense. And that’s kind of the point. Witchcraft doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but you. I’m here to share what I’ve learned, what I’ve experienced and left behind, and what I’m still becoming – in hopes that we can build a world where accessible, inclusive, messy magick isn’t the exception. It’s the standard..

What Ink & Thorn Is

This is kind of my sanctuary.

It’s where I get to explore witchcraft through the lens of someone who doesn’t really do gender – and who sometimes has to sit with the weird realization that a crystal really wants to be treated as masculine, feminine, or straight-up identifies as a dude. It’s where I can plan the most elaborate rituals in my head… and then forget I started them halfway through because my executive function wandered off. It’s where I rage at all the gatekeepy, elitist nonsense about who does or doesn’t get to call themselves a Witch.

So… this is my answer to all of that.

This space is part education – witchcraft knowledge and experience shared in as many formats as I can manage: podcast episodes, voice rambles, blog posts, maybe even videos if the stars ever align.

It’s also part exploration. I’ll be unpacking my own personal mythologies, figuring out how I adapt my practice to the shifting terrain of my body and brain, and reflecting on what actually works for me – even if that looks nothing like what books or social media say it “should.” And learning to be okay with it when it does.

Because honestly? My craft runs the full spectrum – from drawing sigils on water bottles to casting full, theatrical, rituals. My witchcraft is me. But I also know that just doing things “my way” isn’t always accessible to others. So alongside the messy, personal stuff, I’ll be sharing more structured, inclusive content – making sure that what I create can be adapted by more folks, in more bodies, with more realities.

That’s the whole point: making room for all of us. Or at least as many of us as I can.

What I’ll be Writing About

There’s a handful of main categories things will be falling into.

• 🕯 Ritual & Rite: The more involved, active magick and witchcraft. Spells, ceremonies and rituals.
• 🔮 The Thorned Oracle: Divination, veil-walking, intuition, and altered mental state experiences.
• 🏡 Hearth & Hallowed: Gentle magick, spontaneous, in-the-moment experiences.
• 🌲 Witchcraft as Wild: The natural, sensory-indulgent, and messy magick of mother earth.
• ⛈ The Storm & The Self: Shadow work, liminality, and the intersectionality of witchcraft and identity.
• 🌺 Thorns in Bloom: My personal seasonal magick – the sabbats and moon phases.
• 📚 Stormthorn Grimoires: Series’ built around specific topics, and ongoing explorations of the sacred weird.
• 🔥 Sacred Rage: Witchcraft and ritual as intentional acts of resistance and rebellion, the holy, sacred “no.”
• 🖋 Inkbound Offerings: Devotional writing, prayers, pleads, conversations with the divine.
• 🌟 Ghostlight & Godsong: Ancestral work, divine relationships. Where we walk with the dead, and dance with the divine.
• 🌑 Echoes and Embers: Memories, philosophies, essays – stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else (you are here).

The Values of Ink & Thorn

Witchcraft doesn’t need gatekeeping.
You don’t need a title, a lineage, or permission to call yourself a Witch. If you feel the spark and choose the path – you are one. Period.

No dogma.
What it means to embody being a Witch? That’s your call. Your practice, your power, your rules.

Witchcraft must be accessible.
We are all one moment away from becoming disabled – if we aren’t already. If what you share of your craft for the community doesn’t include the realities of disabled Witches, it isn’t built for the whole community. That’s not okay.

Magick is sacred – and deeply personal.
There’s no one right way to practice. How you cast, commune, or connect is yours to define.

You belong here.
I will die on this hill.

And finally: cultural appropriation has no place in witchcraft.
If a deity, practice, or tradition comes from a closed or culturally specific system – learn it from those within that system. If they say no? That’s the answer. It’s not yours. Let it be. Find another way to honor that energy without stealing what wasn’t given.

How to Stay Involved

Gradually, I’ll be covering topics from the blog through video on youtube, and via podcast.

For now, you can keep an eye on my Instagram and Facebook accounts to be notified of when I make new posts – and for when I go live with the videos and podcast.

Facebook: Stormborn Coven
Instagram: ofinkandthorn / stormborncoven

In Closing

Whether you’re new to the path, well-seasoned, or just a curious, wild soul passing by – you’re welcome here. Even if things get messy.

May your thorns be sacred,
may your path be true,
and may your magick be wild and yours.

See you in the Wilds.

– Lysandra 🌩️🌒