About Me

My name is Aga and I am an urban witch.

No.. I don’t look old, wear long black dresses, make potions, love to curse and have all-pointy-everything (from nose, chin, fingers to hat).

Yes.. I do put spells on people’s skin through tattoos.

Witchcraft is usually related to down to earth activities so it may seem like an oxymoron when I say that I am an Urban Witch. That is because modern human society as a whole is somehow the opposite of nature, which is the opposite of Witchcraft. But I make sure to worship Mother Earth, respect the folklores, and believe my complex and diverse heritage (like susuk and santet) while also embracing my metropolis life in the big city of Jakarta.

When my friends ask questions like, "But how do you connect with nature while dealing with the urban environment everyday?"

We may be exceedingly smart and creative, we may have built amazingly complicated cities and social systems, but we are still just animals. We don’t have to force everything to get back to nature. We are nature, everything we build is still part of nature, inextricably.

The energy that we harness isn’t only the power of some plants or even the power of an environment, the Earth. We can incorporate those energies into our magic but when we boil it down, the ability to do that is innate. It is not something outside of ourselves, it is us. This magical ability is an innate part of being a human and it doesn’t matter what environment we are in, what tools we are using or whom we are around. We are the magic.

The figures of witches I know nowadays are enough to show that it is possible to have sorcery life anywhere. We can have indoor plants, take a walk at dawn when cars are still sleeping and shops are closed, master meditation in the middle of noisy places, also all kinds of technology to help us capture the magical phenomena happening in the world. Practicing witchcraft in any environment is a natural way to practice.

Over time we learn, discover, collect and build our practices and ideas in order to be entirely empowered and self-sufficient; it represents a conception of being a witch.