22 Signs You Are A Witch: Unveiling Your Magic Through The Major Arcana

Do whispers of ancient lore stir something deep within your soul? If you’ve ever wondered, ‘Am I a witch?’ or caught yourself pondering the subtle signs of witchcraft in your daily life, you’re not alone. In today’s post, we explore 22 signs you are a witch through the lens of the Tarot Major Arcana.

My Witchy Origin Story

I’ve always known I was more kin to the fae and tree spirits in my Swedish grandmother’s garden than to the muggles bustling cluelessly around me. While other children poked at ants or built dens, I was conversing with birches, feeling the hum of moss beneath my feet, and noticing the shimmer around things that weren’t supposed to shimmer.

From a very early age, I went hunting for occult books like they were oxygen. I read my first book on Numerology at age 10, and pulled my first Tarot card at 15. At 17, I did the “sensible “ thing and converted to Evangelical Christianity during a High School Exchange Year in the USA. The conversion made me feel safe and accepted, which my neurodivergent and traumatised younger self sorely needed. I thought it was time to put away “childish magick.” Spoiler: the magick was not having it.

I kept reading people using astrology. Their numerology continued to sing to me. I kept having dream visions. And I kept spotting the invisible threads between events. I didn’t stop—and if I’m honest, I had zero desire to.

Eventually, near my first Saturn return, I left the church. A few years later, I dared to say it aloud: “I’m a witch.” Margot Adler was right: The first time I called myself a ‘Witch’ was the most magical moment of my life.

The 22 Witch-Signs Hidden in the Major Arcana

And as with so many of us, I now see how the Major Arcana held the clues all along—twenty-two archetypal doorways into the Craft.

Let’s step through them and see which ones resonate the most. Clue: check for elemental alignment. With my Moon and Rising in Water signs, I definitely resonate the most with the Water Element cards.

0 The Fool: You Leap Into the Unknown Because Something in You Recognises Home

From the moment you were old enough to toddle off the beaten path, you felt that the real world wasn’t the pavement under your feet but the shimmer just beyond it. That sense of quiet curiosity — the one that nudged you into forests, old libraries, or conversations with beings nobody else seemed to notice — is pure Fool energy.

Witches recognise beginnings instinctively. We’re drawn to thresholds, crossroads, and fresh cycles. If you’ve always trusted the invisible compasses inside you, even when the outer world thought you were “a bit eccentric,” you’re moving with the Fool’s current.

Your magic has always known that the unknown isn’t danger; it’s an invitation.

I The Magician: You Feel the Energetic Architecture Behind Everything

Some people look at the world and see objects. You’ve always seen currents. Patterns. A kind of living circuitry woven through thoughts, emotions, places, seasons and people.

When you enter a room, you can instantly discern between a stormy room and a stagnant one without needing explanations. You may not call it “elemental differentiation,” but you live it: Fire feels sharp, Water feels round, Air feels light, Earth feels steady.

This is the mark of the Magician. Not showmanship or theatrics, but the quiet ability to notice how energy moves and to respond to it with intention. A whispered word here, a shift of focus there, and the atmosphere bends.

II The High Priestess: Your Inner World Speaks in Symbols

Some people dream in static. You dream in language — images, sensations, and uncanny knowing. You don’t have to force intuition; it arrives the way weather arrives. If a dream nudges you three nights in a row, you take it seriously. If a symbol keeps turning up, you follow its thread.

This is High Priestess territory. Your subconscious is not a murky pit; it’s a temple. And you’ve always had a quiet key to the door.

III The Empress: You Bond Naturally with the Living World

You’ve always had an instinctive rapport with plants, animals, land, and weather. When you step into nature, something welcomes you—sometimes gently, sometimes with full orchestral enthusiasm.

You know how to grow things. How to soothe. How to bring harmony where there was static.
The Empress speaks through every moment you’ve ever healed someone with your presence, just like Mama Nature Herself.

IV The Emperor: You Manifest Best with Rhythm and Structure

You’ve always known your magic sharpens when your life has a pattern: morning rituals, moon cycles, altars arranged just so. It’s sacred architecture.

The Emperor shows up in your ability to organise intention, to anchor energy, to give a spell a spine.
Your magic doesn’t scatter; it stands.

V The Hierophant: You Decode Hidden Teachings Instinctively

You’ve always been able to read the esoteric subtext beneath rules, scriptures, and traditions. While others take things literally, you spot the mystical scaffolding behind the words and see what unites rather than what divides. Your thirst for learning is insatiable, and you often find yourself teaching others what you learn.

With the Hierophant as your witch-sign, you’re not interested in dogma—you’re interested in the bones beneath it.

VI The Lovers: Resonance and Logic

You’ve always relied on a combination of resonance and logic. When something is right, your whole system lights up. When something is wrong, your energy recoils before your brain has time to assemble a sentence.

The Lovers reveals itself in your ability to read alignment—in relationships, opportunities, and pathways. And when you choose, you choose with your entire being.

VII The Chariot: Focused Will

When you decide something, you decide it. Others may dither or procrastinate; you galvanise. You can hold a magical or creative intention steady until reality crackles and says, “Alright, alright, I’m coming.”

The Chariot represents magickal will that is precise, and you know how to direct energy with clarity.

VIII Strength: Your Power Comes from Calm Presence

People often mistake your quietness for softness. They miss the fact that your softness is exactly where the power hides. You soothe storms—inner and outer—by refusing to escalate.

With Strength as your witch-sign, you have the power to change the atmosphere without raising your voice.

IX The Hermit: Solitude Feeds, Heals, and Clarifies

You’re not lonely when you’re alone. Instead, you are surrounded by energies, beings and elementals that silently help you rebalance your energy. Your best insights arrive in quiet. You can hear the universe think and relish the downloads you receive in your solitude.

Hermit energy manifests when you pull back from noise, not to escape life, but to listen to it properly.
Your inner lamp is fuelled by silence.

X The Wheel of Fortune: Synchronicity Has Always Been a Language

You’ve had too many “coincidences” to play sceptic.
You know the feeling of being nudged by a larger choreography — numbers repeating, messages echoing, meetings that arrive at the exact right second.

The Wheel of Fortune is the witch-sign that you can read the rhythm beneath events.
You see cosmic timing at work long before others do.

XI Justice: You Sense Energetic Imbalances Instantly

Walk into a room, and you know who’s upset. Shake a hand, and you see the subtext. Read a situation, and you can spot the imbalance before anyone speaks.

Justice energy is the witch’s inner tuning fork—the one that rings when something isn’t true.
You’ve always felt the shift between harmony and distortion.

XII The Hanged Man: You Know How to See from the Other Side

You can pause. Invert. Withhold judgment.
Most people find surrender confusing, but you recognise it as a doorway. Your ability to shift perspective—emotionally, spiritually, magically—is uncanny.

The Hanged Man is the sign of witches who are fluent in liminality.

XIII Death: You Transform Easily (Even When It’s Messy)

Where others cling to what’s familiar, you shed old skins before they have a chance to suffocate you. Endings aren’t catastrophes for you—they’re compost.

Death energy shows in the way you reinvent yourself without apology.
You are change embodied. In fact, Death is in many ways the witchiest card of all.

XIV Temperance: You’re a Natural Alchemist

You blend energies, ideas, herbs, colours, and intentions until they harmonise. While others chase extremes, you intuitively know how to create equilibrium.

Under the witch-sign of Temperance, you excel at healing, brewing, balancing, and transmuting.
You live in the sweet spot between all extremes because this is how you best help others with your Craft.

XV The Devil: You’re Curious About Taboos

You were never frightened of the so-called “forbidden” topics. If someone tells you not to look behind a door, you want to know why.

This natural, grounded curiosity dissolves fear-based thinking—especially the rigid binaries of Right-Hand Path vs Left-Hand Path, “white” vs “black” magick.
You understand power is neutral; intention is what shapes it.

The Devil witch-sign is all about sovereignty, not rebellion. You don’t worship the shadow; you simply refuse to be bullied by it, whether it’s your own or someone else’s.

XVI The Tower: You’ve Survived Spiritual Upheavals That Reshaped You

Your path includes lightning bolts: moments when life cracked open and unexpectedly accelerated your growth. You saw this for what it was.

These weren’t breakdowns — they were breakthroughs.
Under the Tower, witches rebuild with clearer vision every time.

XVII The Star: You Carry Hope That Feels Like a Frequency

Even when everything collapses, something in you still shines. Perhaps this is when you shine most brightly and become a beacon to others. You’ve always had a quiet, steady connection to the Light—not naïve optimism, but an inner signal that guides you back to your centre.

The Star is the witch-sign of someone who instinctively seeks to bring hope to others.
People intuitively seek your clarity and encouragement.

XVIII The Moon: You Navigate Mystery as If You Were Born There

You’re comfortable with shadow, intuition, liminality, dreams, and the edges of reality. Even when the Moon confuses you, it feels like home.

The Moon is the witch-sign of someone who reads dreams, Tarot cards, and metaphors like others read popular memes. You’re fluent in the language of the in-between because you sense the liminal energy of every word, every symbol.

XIX The Sun: Your Authenticity Changes the Room

Your natural vitality is radiant and giving, the way the Sun shines on everyone without discrimination. People feel it. They trust it. They open up around you.

Your magic is transparency—light that illuminates rather than blinds. When you are authentically you, you shine without trying.

XX Judgement: You Feel Called

There’s always been a sense of purpose humming beneath your life, even when you didn’t have the words for it. At some point—gently or dramatically—something awakened you.

Judgement is the witch-sign that you know what it feels like to hear an inner trumpet.
You’re here, in this body, because it’s part of your soul blueprint, sometimes carried down the bloodline genetically.

XXI The World: You Live with One Foot in Each Realm

You move between the mundane and the mystical with ease. You’re a bridge between worlds, systems, paradigms, past selves and future selves.

The World is the witch-sign of someone who magically completes cycles and opens new ones. It’s also the sign of the witch who is determined to clear her karma and graduate.

Which of these 22 Tarot-inspired witch signs spoke the loudest about your soul’s calling in this lifetime? Which of them could do with a bit of work? Let me know in the comments!