Posts Tagged ‘101’

Hearth Craft Class Starts Jan 5

Posted by Juniper on January 3rd, 2009 under Getting Started, Hearth & Home, Paths & Traditions, Practice & Learning Tags: , , , ,  •  No Comments

Please come and join the wild geeks of Walking the Hedge in a fun and informal Hearth Craft Class lead by Juniper and Broom Ridin’ Vikki!!
Each class will be posted in the Hedge’s Classroom in our Forum, on Mondays. It will run 6 to 8 weeks.
Join for the whole class, or drop in when you [...]

Workshop: Rattles and Bell Branches

Posted by Juniper on December 10th, 2008 under Arts & Crafts, Getting Started, Practice & Learning Tags: , , , ,  •  No Comments

It’s up folks, check it out HERE.
I tried getting it up on the blog but it’s just too big.
Cheers!

Making Do Without Elders

Posted by Juniper on November 30th, 2008 under Getting Started, Practice & Learning, Rantings & Ravings Tags: , , ,  •  2 Comments

So chances are you live in an area where there are not a lot of experienced pagans or witches. If you do, it is mostly likely that any Elders in your area are probably busy doing their own thing. They probably do not have the time, energy, money etc to teach a class once a [...]

Online Reading

Posted by Juniper on November 23rd, 2008 under Getting Started, Reviews & Recommendations Tags: , , ,  •  No Comments

Back by popular demand, some online and downloadable reading material:
Nature Religion and the Modern World
Dreamers and Doers: I can’t breathe your imaginary tees
Walking the Hedge - A Hedge Witch’s Musings on Permaculture
Meadowsweet’s Red Chaplet

and some listening material as well:

Interview With Robin Artisson (by Peter Paddon)

Check out this article folks

Posted by Juniper on November 16th, 2008 under Everything Else, Getting Started Tags: , ,  •  3 Comments

Where Have All the Happy Witches Gone?
Author: Autumn Heartsong
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustn&c=words&id=12979
 
 What a wonderful article, good point!
I am no newbie (something in between Neophyte and Elder I suppose) either but when I attend group rituals and say things with emotion, show any emotion really, do more than just stand there shifting from foot to foot, people think I’m [...]

Hags and Hedges

Posted by Juniper on November 12th, 2008 under Everything Else, Paths & Traditions Tags: ,  •  No Comments

hag
c.1225, shortening of O.E. hægtesse “witch, fury” (on assumption that -tesse was a suffix), from P.Gmc. *hagatusjon-, of unknown origin. Similar shortening derived Du. heks, Ger. Hexe “witch” from cognate M.Du. haghetisse, O.H.G. hagzusa. First element is probably cognate with O.E. haga “enclosure” (see hedge). O.N. had tunriða and O.H.G. zunritha, both lit. “hedge-rider,” used [...]