How to Embrace Your Inner Broke Witch: The Power & Magic of Being Broke AF

Let’s get something straight: being broke isn’t a setback if you're debt free. It’s a badge of honor, a superpower, and a secret club filled with some of the most creative, spiritually rich, and downright brilliant people who ever lived.

From artists who painted masterpieces with nothing but passion and leftover paint, to musicians who turned heartbreak and empty pockets into timeless songs, to sandal-wearing spiritual masters who owned nothing — the broke life is where innovation, authenticity, and magic happens.

So if your bank account’s echoing louder than your ambitions, lean in. Here’s how to celebrate and own your broke witch energy.

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1. Being Broke = Being Fiercely Creative

Look around: While most people are chasing materialism, scarcity sharpens your instincts. It forces you to rethink, remake, and reimagine.

No budget? No problem. You learn to conjure magic from scraps, thrift-store finds, and sheer willpower. Your cracked crystals, your altar cloth made from fall leaves, your thrifted candles—they’re not just FREE—they’re iconic.

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2. Magic Doesn’t Require Money — It Requires Intention

You don’t need expensive tools or fancy ingredients to practice powerful magic. The universe responds to focus and authenticity, not price tags or luxury.

Some of the most powerful rituals come from the simplest acts: gathering empty nut shells that squirrels dropped and colorful rocks. It includes lighting a candle, whispering your truth, drawing a sigil in the dirt, on a McDonald's napkin or on whatever’s at hand. Your broke witch energy is all about using what you have to manifest all that you need.

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3. Being Broke Is a Radical Act of Freedom

Money often comes with strings attached. Got a fancy apartment? You're paying extra rent, and maybe even renter's insurance, for that. A car? Beyond the payment, there's insurance, fuel, and vehicle maintenance requirements. Being financially broke and debt free means you’re able to make your own rules, craft your own path, and live life on your own terms.

You don’t owe anyone an explanation for your vibe, your aesthetic, or your pace. You’re a trendsetter of alternative abundance: rich in spirit, creativity, and purpose.

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4. Broke Is Where the Real Stories Come From

Some of the most powerful stories, art, and music come from places of lack—not from growing up in plenty.

Your broke witch life is literally a source of inspiration. Every thrifted candle, every patchwork altar, every story of “making it work” adds layers to your unique magic.

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5. Celebrate Your Broke Energy with Pride & Humor

This life isn’t always glamorous—and that’s much of the point. Embrace the hilarious, chaotic, messy beauty of it.

Laugh at all the resourcefulness and creativity that you imbued by weaving corn stalks into dolls for your altar, that TV tray that doubles as popcorn table when you're watching movies on your phone. Joke about the resourceful decorations and ceremony of a queen. Share your stories proudly—because that energy? It’s pure gold.

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Bonus: Broke as Freedom 

Here’s the real magic: being broke often means you’re not buying into the materialism machine that keeps so many people enslaved to chasing the endless “more.”

While others race after the latest gadgets and trends, you’re choosing a path where value is measured by creativity, meaning, and joy — not by possessions.

You’re free to design a life that honors your time, your spirit, and your unique magic. Your worth isn’t tied to a paycheck or stuff—it’s in your power to live authentically and fiercely on your own terms.

That’s a kind of magic money can’t buy. On a personal note: I've seen so many working people suffer terrible emotional abuse because they could not afford to stand up for themselves in dysfunctional career situations. Their debt kept them indentured. 

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Final Words: Broke Is the New Powerful

Being broke is a launchpad. It’s the spark that lights your fire into changing whatever has not worked for you before. It's the space where your most authentic magic lives.

So light those thrifted candles with confidence. Raise your mismatched crystals that you found on a shore like trophies. Own your broke-witch vibe with fierce pride.

You’re not slacking—you’re leading.

OH - AND IF YOU DECIDE YOU REALLY WANT TO DO SPELL WORK TO MANIFEST MORE MONEY: 

There are so many wild forage herbs and leaves that will help you accomplish your goals. Here are a few!

• Douglas fir needles or cones good for spells to grow wealth or success.
• Burn small cedar shavings as incense during money workings or place cedar sprigs in charm bags or altar spaces for abundance.
• Carry the blue Oregon Grape berries (dry or fresh)in charm bags or spell jars for attracting prosperity. 
• Sprinkle dried yarrow on money altars, or use in mojo bags for attracting luck and wealth. 
• Salal is an evergreen shrub with shiny green leaves often used in flower arrangements, symbolizing growth and stability.

The Rune of Need: Ancient Magick for Breaking Through When You Feel Stuck

I'm at a Crossroads where I'm doing a deep-dive into exploring the best life choices for me moving forward. This morning I passed the Naudhiz rune, that I had long ago painted onto my floorboards. Nauthiz (Proto-Germanic *Naudiz, Elder Futhark ᚾ) is the historical “n” rune. Its meaning, according to Medieval and linguistic evidence, ties it to the concepts of NEED, NECESSITY, distress and/or constraint. That's very OLD magick.

In the earliest of times, people would carve ᚾ into bones or stones and sang about it in rune poems: a heavy weight on the heart, an unavoidable constraint, the stuff of sagas. The Poetic Edda, Sigrdrífa even suggested carving it on your fingernail for protective magic—basically the Viking version of “better safe than sorry.”

Throughout time, this rune of dire need has itself been repurposed—out of necessity. In more modern magick, witches have utilized this rune in spells and rituals. Instead of reminding you that "life is suffering," (as experienced with no electricity, no time for social life when you must harvest and cook and prepare for winter's cold) it’s the symbol that means “find resilience,” “transform obstacles,” or—let’s be honest—cope, as when you're disappointed because your wifi has crashed.

In a nutshell:
• Then = “grim necessity, deal with it.”
• Now = “hardship makes you stronger, carve it on your vision board and manifest what you need.”

In practice today, keeping Nauthiz nearby (as a charm, sketch, Rune in your pocket, or meditation focus) can remind you that pressure can spark solutions you wouldn’t have found otherwise.

On a personal note: I look at this Nauthiz Rune and notice how much it looks like a bind room using the Isa rune, "I" (which means frozen, or ice) and it's like a sword slashes through it to break out of that ice. (That's just how I visualize it - but I'm in a position where I need to break through being stuck right now, and whatever situation you or I find ourselves in - that is how we interpret the Words from the Wise Ones). Our personal experiences are why there are so many different religions and interpretations of beliefs; even among people who all read the same spiritual scrolls or Holy Bible.

Odin did not gift us the runes lightly. He hung for nine nights upon the World Tree, upside down, pierced by his own spear. He sacrificed his own eye and threw it into Mímir’s well so he could see more deeply than sight alone allows.

From that sacrifice he gave us the runes—shapes not just of language, but of living truth. Nauthiz, the rune of need, is part of that wisdom: it reminds us that hardship presses, but also sharpens; that constraint can force the spark of transformation.

When we face our own trials, we walk in the shadow of Odin’s ordeal. His pain becomes our guidance. Our needs can still become our strength.