Life of a Hedgewitch

The adventures of Juniper!

To Answer Some Questions

What are you up to?

 

Getting ready for Yuletide; I found tree ornaments that look like fly amanita mushrooms! Writing, working, unpacking, playing Skyrim.

 

 

Is the podcast going to keep going?

Yes. Bren put up an episode recently and we hope to get back into the swing of things with the new year.

 

 

I am interested in casting objects and divination as spirit communication. Can you recommend some books?

I recommend that you look for books on the divination and spirit communication systems that appeal to you.

My main sources of inspiration were the FUTHARK and the Ogham. There are people who cast personal sets. I come across them from time to time, usually online. Not always though. I lead a workshop on it for Fest one year and a lady showed up with her casting cloth based on Hoodoo concepts.

I’m really rusty in some areas, tarot seems so long ago. I moved on from tarot (because it just wasn’t a good fit) in my early twenties, so about 7 or 8 years ago? I am amazed at what I have forgotten. It’s weird. Or not, since I never really clicked with it. It’s… Continue reading

Wordless Wednesday: Laid Out

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Recommended Reading

 

I don’t comment on other people’s blog very much. Because I’m  lazy. However, every now and then I will put together a post of links to articles I find … well I just like them or find them interesting. So here’s a link to the article and maybe a little comment by me below it.

 

Juniper from Bewitching Names

I am unlike many others in that I am fine with other people having the same name as me. I really don’t have to be that original. I actually had another person in the Pagan community (out here, in Ontario) tell me that I should stop using Juniper because she has used it online and as a stage name before and people might be confused. I didn’t respond.

 

Adventures in Depression by Ali Brosh

Get well soon Champion of the Internet!

 

Under the Ancient Oaks: Hoofprints in the Wildwood

Yay! A book review!

 

Let’s Talk About Necromancy by Sarah Lawless

Sarah always defines things much clearer than I could. Probably because I put very little thought into defining things clearly.

 

New World Witchery Podcast 36 – Dealing with Spirits

Corry and Laine offering some good introductory tips… Continue reading

A Breath

It rattles through the trees
And whispers with silver and platinum leaves
It turns them scarlet, copper, bronze
Against a backdrop of blue and golden light
The wind, the wind
The air I breathe
I dance with it
The autumn breeze

Let Go and Slip Away

I let my mind wander

I allow it to drift

I don’t understand why people expect it to be rigid

Focused, perfect, single minded

Why do they seek trance in text book rigidity?

It’s not about staying in the box

I let my mind go out of bounds

Beyond the boundaries of what is allowed

In the daytime in the sunshine in the work-a-day world

We have to be so polite

So nice and sweet

Structured and organized

I am not disciplined as I sit before Them

Chatting and rambling on about nothing

They listen indulgently

Like grandparents letting a small child prattle on

I let my mind wander

Out of bounds

Beyond reason

What focus?

There is no focus

I drift on a sea of thoughts

Unbidden and unfettered

Thoughts come and go as they please

I drift here and there

I open up

I become expansive

Too big to fill my little shell

I slip and slide away and down

Out of bounds

Beyond the boundary

I slide away from the body sitting before the altar

And we go wandering in a twisted landscape

Some might fear if they realised this is what is to be found

But… Continue reading

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