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
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
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
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