Witch or Warlock?

[Promise]

Celestial Executive of Energetic Operations. CEEO. Seems to cover a broad range of the occult, and I kind of like that it implies the power a CEO has, which is similar to the power we wield with various spirit helps of various sorts, and various energies, and so forth.

I think it's a magical act to create your own identity, including the name for it.
A term we make up like that may not land as well for others, but the CEEO term that I just made up is meaningful for me, at least in this moment. I don't generally have occult conversations in my daily life, although it seems to be happening more often these days.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I don't generally have occult conversations in my daily life

Me either, as people tend to look at you like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

 

[Accipeveldare]

Personally, I always considered the term "witch" to be non-gender oriented and "warlock" to just be a term for a witch who exists within D&D or some game like that.

 

[Xenophon]

Personally, I always considered the term "witch" to be non-gender oriented and "warlock" to just be a term for a witch who exists within D&D or some game like that.

Given that the term "warlock" goes back to Old English c.1000 A.D., it has a considerably longer and more serious pedigree than mere gaming. It means "oath-breaker," which was a particularly otiose thing to be in Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, and Germanic culture. The Voluspa prophecy remarks of the River Slid, "near the shores of Death": "There in torrent raging, See I outlaw, oath-breaker, adulterer..." One might surmise that, in a culture that possessed various practitioners of magick, the oath-breaking kind were the least-liked. Magickal pariahs at worst; badasses at best.

 

[Mercurius2393]

This is 100% correct on the terms Witch and Warlock. I couldnt have said it any better.

Actually Paul Huson popularized the word starting in 1970.

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i sometimes use warlock to refer to myself (

i use witch and warlock interchangeably, but i find magician also fits me fine as a “definitive” gender neutral term. i will say witch works the same way, but i do understand some people’s grumbling about it.

Warlock for me.