Walking the Hedge

To blog is to ruminate and sort out your thoughts, opinions and feelings.

In public.

Juniper is a proud Canadian who comes from farm folk and grew up in “the dog world”. Raised by outdoorsmen and animal lovers; Juniper was truly a wild child.

Today she has experience in homesteading, wildcrafting, bush craft, back country exploring, hunting and subsistence farming. As well as various bohemian lifestyles such as wandering North America like a gypsy in an RV. This is one woman who doesn’t need running water or electricity to be happy and comfortable.

She has worked in kennels, stables, pet stores, and in animal rescue. Not to mention a few gigs at the local metaphysical shop wherever she might have found herself at the time.

Having been raised in a non-religious but Pagan friendly family, Juniper never found Paganism as to her mind: it was always there. She has been practising since her mid teens, which means she has been a Witch and Pagan for half her life. Juniper usually identifies as a Hedgewitch and a freestyle Pagan of a Celtic and Anglo-Saxon bent.

She runs the Walking the Hedge website, which among others things contains a blog and a forum. Juniper co-hosts the Standing Stone and Garden Gate Podcast with Brendan Myers. Juniper writes a column for the Pagan Newswire Collective called Fur & Feather.

Juniper has contributed to two anthologies. The book “To Fly By Night: Craft of the Hedgewitch” edited by Veronica Cummer, and “Hoofprints in the Wildwood: A Devotional for the Horned Lord” edited by Rick Derks.

She is currently taking various certifications in the animal welfare and wellness field and is studying Animal Welfare through Thompson Rivers University at home.

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Most folks call me Juniper, my friends call me Juni. I am thirty-one years old but eternally youthful.

I have been a farmer and a city girl, a homesteader and a wanderer. I have worked in animal rescue and occult shops, art galleries, liquor stores and bead shops.

I am not an Elder, nor guru. I am just a messy little Hedgewitch who speaks her mind.

I hunt in thrift store jungles and gather in the wildwoods. I practice in groves and ditches, hedgerows and sea shores, basements and vacant lots.

My Dad made sure I grew up with a love for the outdoors and my Mom made sure I loved animals. I’m an avid reader and I have a thing for museums. I grew up around dogs as my mother had bred, raised, trained, rescued and shown dogs most of my life. My own favourite breed is Beagle (one the smallest of the Hounds)

I also enjoy all manner of arts and crafts and am pretty decent at beading and jewellery design. I make great cloaks and tunics too, and I am working on improving my sewing and crochet skills.

I started to study paganism and such as a young teen, and counting from my self-dedication at the oh-so-wise age of 15; I have been pagan (one way or another) since Summer Solstice 1995. I started out a teen-aged Solitary Wiccan, which didn’t last long. Wandered along a twisty eclectic Path for a time, and then I discovered herbalism and a more Nature oriented Path in about 2001. In 2003, I began to study Shamanism.

Now I call myself a Hedgewitch.

This is my journal. It will have funny bits, rants, ramblings, ideas, poetry and more … Take it as you please. I suggest reading with your tongue firmly in cheek.

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