Welcome to HexxNet

A decentralized knowledge ecosystem for the Witch.

HexxNet is a community-driven tagging system that helps witches like us organize, share, and discover magical knowledge across social media platforms. Using a unified hashtag taxonomy, we're building an interconnected web of wisdom that transcends any single platform, a true cyber coven for the digital age.

Why HexxNet Exists

To be honest? This is truly a passion project of mine that I find more necessary now than ever. I believe it is my mission in life, as it has always been, to help other witches help themselves, to communicate clearly and passionately, and to encourage healthy debate and discussion without the fear that being challenged means being attacked.

Growth requires friction. Without going back and forth with one another, without distinguishing what is witchcraft and what is not, without wrestling with hard questions and defending our practices, we cannot effectively evolve. The witch who cannot articulate why they do what they do, who cannot stand in their practice when questioned, is not empowered, they're fragile. HexxNet is designed to facilitate these conversations and connections while preserving our collective knowledge.

The Problem:

The Solution:

Witches are scattered across platforms, sharing profound knowledge in isolated silos. When platforms change, fail, or become hostile, our collective wisdom disappears. There's no unified way to find specific magical practices, connect with practitioners of particular paths, or build upon the knowledge others have shared. Worse, we're unable to have sustained, meaningful conversations that actually deepen practice, because everything is fragmented, ephemeral, and algorithm-dependent.

HexxNet creates a portable, platform-agnostic system using hashtags as connective tissue. Whether you're on BlueSky, Instagram, Threads, or the next platform that emerges, the same tags organize your content and make it discoverable. The system belongs to no one company, it belongs to the community. It's infrastructure for connection, debate, learning, and preservation. The more we use it, the more impactful it can be. We can eventually go to any social media platform and search the hashtag and find information connected that we want to see.

What this means for you: A Witch:

  • Find exactly what you need: specific practices, experience levels, seasonal work

  • Build your personal grimoire using searchable tags

  • Connect with practitioners who share your path—and those who challenge it

  • Engage in meaningful debate without it devolving into personal attacks

  • Preserve knowledge that survives platform migrations

  • Participate in a collaborative, non-hierarchical learning ecosystem

  • Strengthen your practice by articulating and defending it

How HexxNet Works

HexxNet uses a structured taxonomy of hashtags organized into six categories:

  1. Archetypal Practice Tags - The faces of the Witch you embody

  2. Experience & Learning Tags - Where you are in your journey

  3. Content Type Tags - What kind of post you're sharing

  4. Timing & Cycle Tags - When you're working magic

  5. Community & Connection Tags - How you're engaging

  6. Marketplace Tags - Buying, selling, trading, supporting

The Basic Formula: Combine 3-5 tags from different categories to create a rich, searchable post.

Example Post: "Just finished my first herbal tincture for sleep and dreams. Still learning proper extraction ratios but the lunar timing felt perfect. Any tips from experienced herbalists?"

Tags: #HexxNetHealer #HexxNetNewToBroom #HexxNetAsking #HexxNetNewMoon

This tells the community: You're working healing magic, you're new to this practice, you're asking for help, and you're timing your work with the new moon. Anyone searching any of these tags will find your post.

The Complete HexxNet Taxonomy:

1. ARCHETYPAL PRACTICE TAGS

These represent the different faces and roles of the Witch. You embody different archetypes depending on the work you're doing.

  • The Witch as medicine maker and poison keeper. Use this for: herbalism, remedies, wellness work, apothecary skills, plant medicine, healing magic, and the shadow side, poisons, antidotes, and the knowledge that cure and harm are two faces of the same coin.

    Example: Posting about making a healing salve or studying toxic plants.

  • The Witch who works with atmospheric forces and elemental energy. Use this for: storm magic, seasonal attunement, working with rain/wind/sun, climate awareness, weather prediction, elemental invocation.

    Example: Sharing a spell for calling rain during drought or reading cloud formations.

  • The Witch of desire, attraction, and influence. Use this for: sex magic, glamour, love spells, attraction work, sensuality, consent ethics in influence magic, enchantment, beauty magic, charisma work.

    Example: Discussing glamour techniques or ethical considerations in love spells.

  • The Witch who understands cursing, binding, and protective aggression. Use this for: hexes, curses, binding spells, banishment, justified magical warfare, protective cursework, reversal magic, breaking hexes.

    Example: Teaching how to identify when you've been cursed or sharing a banishment ritual.

  • The Witch as guide between worlds and tender of the dead. Use this for: death work, grief magic, ancestral reverence, spirit communication, liminal work, working with the dying or deceased, memento mori practices.

    Example: Sharing an ancestor altar setup or discussing grief as a magical practice.

  • The Witch who sees what is hidden and reveals truth. Use this for: tarot, oracle cards, scrying, pendulum work, augury, reading signs, prophetic dreams, revelation magic, truth-seeking.

    Example: Posting a tarot spread for the new year or teaching scrying techniques.

  • The Witch of transformation and boundary-crossing. Use this for: personal transformation magic, shadow work, identity magic, glamour as transformation, working with thresholds and liminality, becoming, evolution work.

    Example: Documenting a transformative shadow work journey or threshold rituals.

  • The Witch who works with celestial forces and cosmic timing. Use this for: astrological magic, planetary work, birth chart interpretation, electional astrology, working with transits and retrogrades, cosmic alignment.

    Example: Sharing a spell timed to Venus retrograde or teaching about your natal chart.

  • The Witch of hearth, home, and daily magic. Use this for: cooking as magic, kitchen witchery, domestic sorcery, food magic, blessing your space, daily practice, simple living magic.

    Example: Posting a recipe for magical bread or discussing daily devotional practices.

  • The Witch who works intimately with plants and earth. Use this for: gardening magic, plant allies, wildcrafting, earth-based practice, seasonal growing, connecting with land, bioregional magic.

    Example: Sharing your garden's progress or teaching about a local plant ally.

  • The Witch of experimentation, paradigm-shifting, and rule-breaking. Use this for: chaos magic, sigil work, servitor creation, paradigm-fluid practice, post-modern witchcraft, eclectic synthesis, breaking tradition.

    Example: Sharing experimental sigil techniques or discussing belief as a tool.

  • The Witch who honors traditional and regional practices. Use this for: folk magic, traditional practices, cultural and regional magic, inherited wisdom, family traditions, historical practices, rootwork.

    Example: Teaching traditional practices from your region or discussing folk magic preservation.

  • The Witch in relationship with deity. Use this for: deity work, offerings, altar keeping, prayer, patron relationships, building divine connections, sacred contracts, worship practices.

    Example: Sharing your deity altar or discussing building a relationship with a god/goddess.

  • The Witch who works with the Fair Folk and land spirits. Use this for: faery magic, land spirits, elemental beings, working with the Good Neighbors, dangerous alliances, trickster magic, fairy etiquette.

    Example: Teaching proper offerings for fae or sharing experiences with land spirits.

2. IDENTITY & SOLIDARITY TAGS

These help you find your community and make your content discoverable to people who share your lived experience. Identity is foundational, it colors how you practice, what you see, and what you bring to the craft.

  • LGBTQIA+ identity and experience. Use this to connect with other queer witches, share queer perspectives on magical practice, or make your content findable by queer community members.

  • Transgender identity and experience. Use this for discussions of gender alchemy, transition as transformation magic, trans-specific magical practices, or simply to signal your presence in the community.

  • Nonbinary and genderqueer identity. Use this for exploring gender beyond the binary in magical practice, working with deities outside gender constructs, or connecting with other nonbinary practitioners.

  • Bisexual and bi+ identity. Use this to connect with other bi witches, discuss bi visibility in magical communities, or share perspectives shaped by bi experience.

  • Asexual spectrum identity. Use this for asexual perspectives on sex magic, alternative approaches to "fertility" in witchcraft, or building community with other ace practitioners.

  • Aromantic spectrum identity. Use this for aromantic takes on love magic, redefining "love spells" beyond romance, or connecting with other aro witches.

  • Intersex identity and experience. Use this to share intersex perspectives, challenge binary thinking in magical practice, or build solidarity with other intersex practitioners.

  • Gay identity and experience. Use this to connect with other gay witches, share gay perspectives on magical practice, or make your content findable by gay community members.

  • Lesbian identity and experience. Use this to connect with other lesbian witches, center lesbian voices and perspectives in witchcraft, or build community with other lesbian practitioners.

  • Disability justice and disabled experience. Use this for discussing accessibility in magical practice, chronic illness and energy work, disability as a lens for magic, or building disabled community.

  • Neurodivergent identity, autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence. Use this for neurodivergent approaches to ritual, hyperfocus as trance, special interests as devotional practice, or connecting with other neurodivergent witches.

    I prefer NeuroSparkly over NeruoSpicy but honestly do you! #HexxNetNeuroSpicy #HexxNetNeurodivergent whatever you feel best with.

  • Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Use this to center BIPOC voices, discuss race and magical practice, challenge white-dominant witchcraft narratives, or build BIPOC community and solidarity.

3. EXPERIENCE & LEARNING TAGS

These indicate where you are in your practice—not as hierarchy, but as context.

  • You're just starting your journey into witchcraft. Use this when you're exploring basics, asking foundational questions, or sharing early experiences.

  • You're actively studying and growing (aren't we all?). Use this for ongoing learning, skill development, and acknowledging you're in student mode on a particular topic.

  • You have significant experience in your practice. Use this when sharing from a place of sustained practice, pattern recognition, or long-term observation.

  • You're actively sharing knowledge or instruction. Use this when you're explaining techniques, offering guidance, or creating educational content.

  • You're documenting your journey publicly as you learn. Use this for real-time learning, experiments, mistakes, and progress updates.

4. CONTENT TYPE TAGS

These clarify what kind of post you're sharing and what response you're hoping for.

  • You're seeking advice, asking questions, or looking for input from the community.

  • You're offering knowledge, resources, techniques, or experiences without necessarily asking for input.

  • You're posting photos or videos of your altar, spells, crafts, ingredients, rituals, or results.

  • You're sharing personal experiences, anecdotes, or narrative accounts of magical events.

  • You're sharing or asking about books, websites, tools, shops, suppliers, or other practical resources.

  • You're sharing a controversial opinion, challenging common wisdom, or inviting discussion and disagreement.

  • You're expressing frustration, calling out problematic behavior, or critiquing aspects of the community.

5. TIMING & CYCLE TAGS

These connect your work to natural cycles and cosmic timing.

  • Working with new moon energy, anything and everything dealing with the new moon and its magic.

  • Working with full moon energy, culmination, manifestation, peak power, release.

  • Working with dark moon energy, void time, deep shadow work, banishment, rest.

  • Working during the waxing moon phase, building, growing, attracting, increasing.

  • Working during the waning moon phase, releasing, banishing, decreasing, letting go.

  • General sabbat observance. You can also use specific sabbats:

    • #HexxNetSamhain,

    • #HexxNetBeltane,

    • #HexxNetYule,

    • #HexxNetImbolc,

    • #HexxNetOstara,

    • #HexxNetLitha,

    • #HexxNetLughnasadh,

    • #HexxNetAutumnEquinox

  • Magic aligned with the current season but not necessarily tied to a specific sabbat.

  • Working with or navigating retrograde energy (Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc.)

  • Working with eclipse energy, major shifts, portal work, shadow integration.

6. COMMUNITY & CONNECTION TAGS

These facilitate connection and community building.

  • You're looking for community, collaboration, study partners, or coven connections.

  • Celebrating solitary practice, sharing solo techniques, or discussing the hermit path.

  • Sharing tips, tricks, shortcuts, or insider knowledge that makes practice easier.

  • Safety concerns, cautionary tales, things that went wrong, or warnings about dangerous practices.

  • Wins, breakthroughs, gratitude, success stories, magical victories.

7. MARKETPLACE TAGS

These facilitate ethical buying, selling, trading, and community support.

  • General marketplace activity, use alongside more specific tags below.

  • You have items or services available for purchase.

  • "In Search Of"—you're looking to buy something specific.

  • You're offering to barter, swap, or trade items or services.

  • Highlighting handmade, small business, or artisan goods.

  • Offering readings, consultations, custom spellwork, or other magical services.

  • Signal-boosting other witches' businesses (not your own listings).

  • Honest reviews of products, books, services, or shops.

8. CONTENT WARNINGS & ADULT CONTENT TAGS

These tags signal mature, explicit, or potentially triggering content. They allow people to seek out OR avoid specific types of posts based on their needs, boundaries, and interests. ||Also know what platform you are using these on and make sure they fall in abidance with that platforms rules and regulations. ||

CRITICAL: All content shared under these tags must involve legal practices and consenting adults only. HexxNet does not condone, support, or provide space for any content involving minors, non-consent, or illegal activities. Consent is not negotiable.

Sexual + Erotic Content

  • Sex magic, sexual energy work, orgasmic magic, and tantra. All content must involve consenting adults and legal practices only.

  • Sexually explicit creative writing, erotic poetry, or sensual storytelling. All content must involve consenting adult characters only.

  • Ritual nudity, body positivity, skyclad practice, nude photography in magical contexts. All content must involve consenting adults only.

  • Kink as magical practice, BDSM, power exchange, dominance/submission work. All content must involve informed, enthusiastic consent between adults.

Substance Work

  • Working with psychedelics, plant medicines, and consciousness-altering substances in ritual context. Share only legal practices in your jurisdiction. Harm reduction and safety information encouraged.

  • Ritual use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, or other substances in magical practice. Share responsibly and be mindful of addiction and recovery communities.

Shadows + Heavy Content

  • Menstrual magic, blood offerings, blood magic, and working with your own blood. Includes safety information and hygienic practices.

  • Imagery or discussions involving corpses, death, decay, memento mori practices, or heavy grief work. May be disturbing to some viewers.

  • Processing trauma through magical practice, PTSD work, or sharing heavy emotional content. May be triggering for trauma survivors.

General Warning

  • Catch-all content warning for any adult content not covered by more specific tags above. Indicates content is not appropriate for minors.

#hEXXnET eXAMPLES IN aCTION

Example 1: Beginner Asking for Help

Post: "I want to start working with tarot but I'm overwhelmed by how many decks exist. How did you choose your first deck?"

Tags: #HexxNetDiviner #HexxNetNewToBroom #HexxNetAsking

Why it works: Identifies the practice area (divination), experience level (beginner), and content type (asking for advice).

Example 2: Experienced Practitioner Teaching

Post: "Thread on timing curses with the waning moon. The moon's decreasing light mirrors the energy you're sending—reduction, removal, banishment. Here's how I structure these workings..."

Tags: #HexxNetMalediction #HexxNetYearsDeep #HexxNetTeaching #HexxNetWaning

Why it works: Shows the practice (cursing), experience level (years deep), content type (teaching), and cosmic timing (waning moon).

Example 3: Sharing Altar Photos

Post: "My Samhain ancestor altar this year. Featured: photos of beloved dead, their favorite foods, marigolds, and divination tools for receiving messages."

Tags: #HexxNetPsychopomp #HexxNetShowingWork #HexxNetSamhain #HexxNetDevotional

Why it works: Combines the practice areas (death work and deity work), content type (showing work), and timing (Samhain).

Example 4: Marketplace Post

Post: "Small batch herbal sleep tinctures available. Mugwort, passionflower, and lavender grown in my garden. DM for details."

Tags: #HexxNetMarket #HexxNetHealer #HexxNetGreenWitch #HexxNetForSale #HexxNetSmallBatch

Why it works: Clear marketplace intent combined with practice areas, making it discoverable by people interested in herbalism AND people shopping for handmade goods.

Example 5: Controversial Take

Post: "Unpopular opinion: Love spells aren't inherently unethical. The issue is consent, not the practice itself. Let's discuss."

Tags: #HexxNetLoveWitch #HexxNetDebate #HexxNetSharing

Why it works: Identifies the practice, signals that this is meant to spark discussion (debate), and shows this is sharing an opinion rather than asking a question.

Getting Started with HexxNet

Step 1: Start Using the Tags Begin incorporating HexxNet hashtags into your posts TODAY. You don't need permission or formal membership—just start tagging.

Step 2: Use 3-5 Tags Per Post Combine tags from different categories for maximum discoverability:

  • 1-2 Archetypal Practice tags

  • 1 Experience/Learning tag

  • 1 Content Type tag

  • 1 Timing/Community/Marketplace tag (as relevant)

Step 3: Search the Tags Explore what others are posting under specific tags. Follow tags that align with your practice.

Step 4: Be Consistent The more consistently you use HexxNet tags, the more your content becomes part of the searchable archive.

Step 5: Share This Resource Help build the ecosystem by introducing other witches to HexxNet. The more people who use it, the more powerful it becomes.

Friends + Family + Team Members

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The Deviant Witch
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Karl Holland

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Join Our Team

Join the HexxNet Community

HexxNet is alive and growing. Every time you use these tags, you're:

  • Contributing to our collective knowledge base

  • Making your wisdom findable

  • Building connections across platforms

  • Creating an archive that survives platform changes

  • Participating in a truly decentralized magical community

Start tagging. Start connecting. Start building the network.

Questions? Feedback? Use #HexxNetDebate to join the conversation.

HexxNet is a community-created project. It belongs to no one and everyone. Use it, share it, build upon it.