Archives: September2008

• Hedgewitch & Witchcraft Ethics??

  Traditional and Contemporary Witchcraft Ethics
  Rather different from Wiccan ethics. In fact, many will say that Hedgecraft (and other Traditional and Contemporary Witchcraft Paths) has no moral code. And that may very well be true. However, there are certain ethics that I find most hedgewitches I come across do ascribe to.
  Know thyself.
  You are responsible for your self, your actions, words, thoughts and feelings.
  There are consequences for everything. You must accept these consequences, as they are a result of your actions.
  The witch [...]

• In Hardwood Groves

  In Hardwood Groves
  The same leaves over and over again!
  They fall from giving shade above
  To make one texture of faded brown
  And fit the earth like a leather glove.
  Before the leaves can mount again
  To fill the trees with another shade,
  They must go down past things coming up.
  They must go down into the dark decayed.
  They must be pierced by flowers and put
  Beneath the feet of dancing flowers.
  However it is in some other world
  I know that this is way in ours.

  Robert Frost

• Some Interesting Reads

  A Field Guide to Otherkin by Lupa
  Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing, and Pablo Amaringo
  Irish Witchcraft by Lora O’Brien
  Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places – Steve Brill
  Peterson First Guides: Trees – George Petrides, Olivia Petrides , Janet Wehr
  The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety – Simon Mills
  The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism: A Comprehensive Guide to Practical Herbal Therapy – Simon Mills [...]

• Autumn Equinox 2008

  Or what I did for the Second Harvest
  I attended a CWA of BC ritual for the Equinox (I went to the Lughnasadh one as well) Link: http://www.cwabc.org/ in Kelowna BC, actually it was held in Oyama at a beautiful park that is basically a small peninsula on Kalamaka Lake. The ritual was lead by Andrea (of the CWA) and Tad (of the Druid’s Hearth, see links), with a number of other people helping. There were about 15 people who attended. [...]

• Some Definitions

   
  Traditional:

  1 a: an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom) b: a belief or story or a body of beliefs or stories relating to the past that are commonly accepted as historical though not verifiable
  2: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction
  3: cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions
  4: characteristic manner, method, [...]

• The Evolution of a Book of Shadows

  The Evolution of a Book of Shadows
  There is often a lot of understandable concern about newbie, and young, pagan’s Book of Shadows. Indeed, there is a trend to have a BoS filled with page after page of info printed off the Internet. Many “old timers” worry that the handwritten grimorie painstakingly filled with personal notes and research may be going the way of the dinosaurs. I thought, as a Pagan in her late twenties, I might share a little about [...]