Tags: About Juniper

• Plugging My Podcast

  Click the link below and have a listen … or else!
  Standing Stone and Garden Gate Promo

  Now head on over to the Podshow’s website at:
  Standing Stone and Garden Gate
  (a podshow for thinking Pagans and working Witches)
  For full episodes.
  Enjoy!

• Another of Those “About Me” Posts

  What’s your Path?
  I am a Hedgewitch. Meaning I am a shamanic practitioner of folk magick (that’s the short explanation). My spirituality is Celtic/Anglo-Saxon Paganism. I started in Wicca like many do, but have moved further away from it more and more of time. I am not however a Wicca-basher like many non-Wiccan Witches are.
  Do you have an altar?
  Sometimes I use an altar and sometimes not. An altar is simply a workspace to me. I have laid out elaborate altars on [...]

• The Square Peg

  I have often thought that
  If only I had been born into a tribal society
  I would have been given a costume and drum
  A place and role in society
  And happily spent my life as a shaman serving my community
  Instead I am stuck working retail
  Moving through Western society as awkwardly
  As a square peg jammed into a round hole
  And practicing my spirituality behind closed doors

• Compost and Stone

  Last night I dreamed I was sitting in a grove with a lineaged Traditional Witch or Wiccan.
  I am not sure which Path she was on exactly, dreams are like that, but I knew she was hard-nosed Traditional.
  We were discussing our different world views and Paths.
  She leaned against a large grey boulder or small standing stone and said:
  “My Path is like this stone, strong and old; a solid foundation upon which to build.”
  Then she pointed to a pile of leaf litter [...]

• Me

  I will be me
  Unequivocally
  Always
  And in every situation
  No audience
  No following
  No friends
  Or family
  Will make me be
  Anything other than
  Me
  I am not a one dimensional character
  I am an onion
  I have many layers
  It may take time
  For them all to see
  All that is me
  Sometimes happy
  Sometimes sad
  Sometimes compassionate
  Sometimes stark raving mad
  Though I am a human being
  And thus I will change and grow
  And often be a different me
  I will still always
  Be me
  But always and forever
  I will be me
  Consistently
  With integrity
  I will be me

• Musings About Life and the Land

  I am a farm girl; I “get” the lambing season at Imbolg as I have spent many sleepless nights in the barn, praying to Brighid as I midwife livestock. I don’t need to be reminded of where my food comes from, I have grown it!
  I don’t need a lesson to tell me how to experience the elements, I have lived in them, and I have worked in them. I have been up to my knees in frozen mud and in [...]