Ye Olde Reading List
I came across this old reading list on Mysticwicks the other day. I like the MW Magazine (I have a couple of articles in early editions) but have neglected the forum for a while now. Anyways it seems 4 years later people are still using this reading list and I realized its not on the Hedge!
It used to be, back in the early days when the Hedge was lavender, pink and pastel green … written by hand in novice HTML code. Remember those days? hehehehe
So for old times sake, here is an old reading list. Not sure if all these books would be on this list today, and I wouldn’t be so bold and arrogant as to separate things into categories such as Beginner or Advanced. But I will let it stand as it was some 4 years ago (or however long its been, has it been that long???)
You can find a somewhat updated list here.
Some Book Suggestions for a Nature Witch
* Books with an asterisk are on Juniper’s favorite list.*
I would recommend reading at least one book in each subject group before moving on to the next level (beginner to intermediate, intermediate to… Continue reading
Things
Things
Trees are good for you.
Everyone is the hero of the story in his or her own mind.
Chances are, no one is out to get you.
A spiritual path wouldn’t be worth it if it were easy.
There are many approaches to everything.
Please yourself first, but not exclusively.
The sort of people who set up a yurt on the beach and spend a summer cleaning up oil spills, without pay, are amongst the least respected in our society. No good, longhaired, tree-hugging, hippy, eco-terrorists!
If there is a way off this crazy merry-go-round only Buddha knows it.
You can tell the difference between a curse and a run of bad luck, but I couldn’t explain it.
Education does not equate intelligence.
The majority of white people will be pagan again someday, but not any time soon.
Thou art God (really).
But don’t get full of yourself now; most of the entities in the universe can kick your ass.
There is a trend to claim to be god owned in pagan culture right now, this is not something you should lie about kids. The gods are real and not all cupcakes and bunny rabbits.
No one has any… Continue reading
Rumi
These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go? “Nowhere.”
What did you have to eat? “Nothing much.”
Even if you don’t know what you want,
buy something, to be part of the exchanging flow.
Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.
***
I asked, “what do I see? Is it an angel or a being?”
Said “It’s neither an angel nor a being, is another, say no more”
“Tell me what is. I will fall apart. End my torment?”
Said, “Just fall apart, be tormented, say no more!”
***
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are… Continue reading
Why Isn’t Your Altar in the Garden?
You say that you feel the most connected with the divine and the land when you are working in your garden.
You’re happiest when you are doing things like repotting your geraniums.
But you are frustrated when standing in front of that altar, candles burning and all, while trying to pray because it has no real meaning to you, you just don’t feel it.
So
Why aren’t you praying when you are repotting your geraniums?
Why are there no geraniums on your altar?
Why isn’t your altar in the garden?
~ Juniper
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