Now You Do It! *poke*
The Witchy/Pagan meme that newbies probably wouldn’t be able to do! *evil laugh here*
Please describe briefly your Path:
Hedgewitch. Shamanic, Nature and animal oriented, some Hearth Craft as well. My practice has a weird flow to it, a push and pull; I focus more on different things at different times. Celtic, some interest in Anglo-Saxon as well.
Please describe briefly how you practice it:
Lots of little things, such as simple around-the-house-magick, a fair amount of spirit work. Ancestors worship, working with the Land, devotional work with my god. Seasonal rites (now often with my ritual group). Working with animals in one form or another. Meditation, trance and shamanic work, mostly for my own self though as I don’t feel quite advanced enough to offer my services to others. Divination. Observation. Making incense and such. Always learning.
When did you first commit to your Path?
In my mid teens and again in my early twenties.
How is your practice different now than it was then?
So many ways! I started as a silly young solitary Wiccan. My practice is much more slow and careful in some cases and much more bold and brazen in others. I know enough to… Continue reading
The Flu and Divination
Some awesome questions were posted over at the Wild Geek Hang (the forum) about using pendulums, Ouija boards and what-not and I gave a rather long answers. Since I have the flu they were slightly fevered answers though! Enjoy:
- First and foremost, is Ouija as dangerous as common opinion would have me believe? What are the risks involved in using a Ouija board?
- Are there any similarities between what I’m looking to do and Ouija in terms of risk?
- Are there any specific precautions I need to take when using a board? How different is it from yes/no questions?
- Can the pendulum be influenced by other, less benign, spirits?
- I’ve heard talk of ‘opening doorways’ – what is it, and is it necessary? I’ve been doing simple yes/no questions without any ritual or faff so far
- Is doing this sort of thing without ritual or faff a good idea? Do I need to lay out some sort of protection?
- If opening doorways is necessary, how do you do it properly and how do you close it afterwards?
- Is there any chance I could get in over my head by doing this? (I accept the possibly, but how severe are we… Continue reading
Perfect Practice
It is common for people interested in home, hearth, garden and kitchen based Crafting to think they aren’t well suited to it. A lot of people get this image in their heads of someone akin to a love child of Martha Stewart and Scott Cunningham. I know myself that I find it hard to read Mrs. B’s blog over at Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom and not feel just a little inadequate.
I’ll admit, there have been times where I’ve felt like a failure because I used a blanket that is only for show or put a dish in the microwave that doesn’t go in the microwave. I still don’t understand why people own bowls and plates that are not microwave or dishwasher safe?
Only recently did I discover you’re not supposed to store food items in the refrigerator in the tin cans they came in. I’m still working out how to explain this to my mother, who does that! I’ve often wondered if there a class my mother failed to take me to, as a child, where we are supposed to learn how to tell if something is an antique or if it will clash with the drapes?… Continue reading
Smarty Pants!
You don’t need “Pagan” books to be a smarty-pants Pagan. Most libraries (even small ones) have books on history, mythology, folk lore, archaeology and so forth.
There’s more to being a smarty-pants Pagan than being well read as well.
Its called critical thinking and deep thinking.
How about observation? That’s a good one too!
Here’s an important one: application of knowledge.
And another thing! Thinking for yourself and not doing what a book tells you, but sorting the information and coming to your own conclusions, then trying them out, then back to the drawing board.
The problem is that a couple of books or classes aren’t going to make you an intellectual or a smarty-pants Pagan. That’s the first step on the road.
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To Fly By Night
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