Categories: Paths & Traditions

• Better than TV

  I’ve been enjoying my foray into the Pagan/Heathen/Witchy/Occult/Whatever Podcasting Community.
  Everyone is very nice and helps each other out. Good job folks! *pats backs*

  I adore podcasts, they are much better than watching Oprah for sure! hehehe

  Here’s a few of my favorites:
  The Wigglian Way
  Ravencast
  New World Witchery
  The Magical Earth
  Media Astra Ac Terra
  The Infinite and the Beyond
  Peter’s Crooked Path
  Elemental Castings
  Druidcast
  Hedge Folk Tales
  Celtic Myth Podshow
  SpiritsCast

  Whew, that’s plenty for one blog post. Now go turn off Dr. Phil and start downloading!

• 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, [...]

• 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 [...]

• A Shout Out to Traditional Witches

  Hullo!
  I am writing an article (and perhaps a chapter for a book) on the etymology of the word “Hedgewitch”. That is, the history of the term.
  While many Trad Witches insist the term “Hedgewitch” was used by Trad Witches before it was popularized as a solitary Wiccan or Kitchenwitch, there seems to be a terrible lack of evidence for this.
  If any Trad Witches can point me in the direction of the usage of the term “Hedgewitch and “Hedgerider” in the modern [...]

• 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 [...]