Categories: About Juniper

• Plugging My Podcast

  Click the link below and have a listen … or else!
  Standing Stone and Garden Gate Promo

  Now head on over to the Podshow’s website at:
  Standing Stone and Garden Gate
  (a podshow for thinking Pagans and working Witches)
  For full episodes.
  Enjoy!

• 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 [...]

• The Square Peg

  I have often thought that
  If only I had been born into a tribal society
  I would have been given a costume and drum
  A place and role in society
  And happily spent my life as a shaman serving my community
  Instead I am stuck working retail
  Moving through Western society as awkwardly
  As a square peg jammed into a round hole
  And practicing my spirituality behind closed doors

• Compost and Stone

  Last night I dreamed I was sitting in a grove with a lineaged Traditional Witch or Wiccan.
  I am not sure which Path she was on exactly, dreams are like that, but I knew she was hard-nosed Traditional.
  We were discussing our different world views and Paths.
  She leaned against a large grey boulder or small standing stone and said:
  “My Path is like this stone, strong and old; a solid foundation upon which to build.”
  Then she pointed to a pile of leaf litter [...]

• Musings About Life and the Land

  I am a farm girl; I “get” the lambing season at Imbolg as I have spent many sleepless nights in the barn, praying to Brighid as I midwife livestock. I don’t need to be reminded of where my food comes from, I have grown it!
  I don’t need a lesson to tell me how to experience the elements, I have lived in them, and I have worked in them. I have been up to my knees in frozen mud and in [...]

• Things I Understand

  A Simple Life
  By Kat Ballew

  Cows grazing on the mountain side
  horses running wild along the seaside
  Birds singing as they journey past
  and old men telling tales that are unsurpassed
  Butterflies fluttering their wings in the breeze
  And the sun doing everything to appease
  This is the simple life of living
  This is a day of thanksgiving

  The tumbleweed rolls across the desert floor
  The owl sings a song and is the nights decor
  The fireflies flash their lights in harmony
  And the crickets they do play for all a symphony
  The [...]