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
It’s All Rather a lot of Bother
(okay, I’ve been working on this one for a while now. But it wasn’t ready yet. Now it is)
When folks come over and inquire about the macaroni in the offering dishes upon my house shrine I act like it’s no big deal. I just made too much and so I gave it to my spirits. It gets a little more complicated to explain that I am expected by my spirits to make too much and give them their fair share. That I keep their offering bowls small because they expect them to be filled.
It’s all rather a lot of bother.
Spirit work and devotional practice that is. A bother. That’s why it’s called work and practice I suppose.
Years ago, I was researching medicine bags and crane bags and the like. I came across something talking about Native American shamans and their relationship with their medicine bags, and with the spirits within their medicine bags. For some, they had to sing a specific song for each item/spirit in the bag before opening it. Over the years the bag would acquire more and more items. When they died, they might pass their bag onto someone… Continue reading
Worthy Reads
It seems to me that when Mercury goes retrograde I become the whole world’s punching bag. The joys of being ruled by Mercury.
Also I am dealing with a half empty house and all the joys of a break up. So here’s a lazy post for you: Links to awesome & interesting articles that I have been reading.
The Top Ten Questions about Ancestor Veneration
Treading the Mill
summer solstice omelette
my horoscope advised against exactly this kind of post
I Must
Facing down The Morrigan
Celebrating Lughnasadh with Bread
Mundane vs Physical
I am a Conscientious Objector in the Spiritual War
The Garden Remedy that Survived the Bubonic Plague: Four Thieves Vinegar
Using Seidr for Healing
To Answer a Question
Perform bird-y funeral as best as you can. Blessings, smoke, offerings etc.
Receive permission from the animal’s spirit before you cut.
Cut at the joint. I used a combo of quality wire cutters and good scissors.
You will want to purchase mite/flea spray and use it.
Once dry from the mite spray, you will want to cut open the fleshy parts at the joint. Turn it onto it’s back and make a slit from behind. This makes the flesh dry quicker and better. You might have to do a little trimming
Make sure there is no rot or maggots!
Place in a tupperware in the position you want the wing to stay in.
Gently bury in a mixture of one part sea salt, one part baking soda and two parts borax (just straight cornmeal is also traditional but it takes longer). Have a bit of the mixture at the bottom as well. And place in a safe, dry not too bright or warm place.
Make appropriate offerings to the spirit of the bird while you wait. I like to pop open the container now and then so the air in there doesn’t get stagnate but that might just be my… Continue reading
A Few Worthy Reads
So while I stop dragging my feet and start doing some updating of blog and website (program upgrades, adding new links and articles and themes etc) here are a few awesome blogs: (apologies if any of these I may have posted in an older post of the same nature, I never do keep track of these things)
Silent Owl
Under the Ancient Oaks
Van Diemen’s Craft
The Ditzy Druid
Walking the Tides
Hag of Naedre
Howling Hill
Path to Witchstead
The Norse Alchemist
The Hidden Grove
PS: Thanks to everyone who emailed me about the last blog couple of posts *hugs*
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To Fly By Night
Hoofprints in the Wildwood
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