Archives: February2010

• It’s Not Done Yet

  Hedge Witchery
  Hedge is a Teutonic term originally meaning any fence, boundary or enclosure, later meaning a specific type of living thicket planted to act as a fence, enclosure or boundary.
  Old High German (language used roughly from 500 to 1050 C.E): hegga, hecka
  Old Dutch (600 to 1150 C.E.): heggehn
  Old Saxon or Old Low German (800 to 1200 C.E) : haeg
  Anglo-Saxon or Old English (550 C.E to 1250C.E): hecg, hegge, haga, hecge or hege
  Middle English (11th century and about 1470 C.E): hedge, [...]

• Wordless Wednesday – Witchy!
• Consciousness

  I am asleep.

  I am asleep and have delved into some deep abyss of dreaming far beyond the physical enclosure that is my body.

  I dream and know I am dreaming. I glide through a realm of black and blue, soft and delicate as silk, sheer like fine muslin. I dance in the glory of the dreamscape.

  Then, a gradual awareness begins to tug at me. I feel my body calling me back to awakening. The most simple and basic need driving me [...]

• Another of Those “About Me” Posts

  What’s your Path?
  I am a Hedgewitch. Meaning I am a shamanic practitioner of folk magick (that’s the short explanation). My spirituality is Celtic/Anglo-Saxon Paganism. I started in Wicca like many do, but have moved further away from it more and more of time. I am not however a Wicca-basher like many non-Wiccan Witches are.
  Do you have an altar?
  Sometimes I use an altar and sometimes not. An altar is simply a workspace to me. I have laid out elaborate altars on [...]

• Right Now I am Reading…

  Research causes you to read books you otherwise might not have!

  “A dictionary of English etymology” by Hensleigh Wedgwood

  “Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: a regional and comparative study” by Alan Macfarlane

  “Shamanism: a reader” edited by Graham Harvey

  “An historical sketch of the provincial dialects of England” by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

• Wordless Wednesday