Walking the Hedge » inspiring http://walkingthehedge.net/blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:37:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Quick Message From the Otherside http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2012/01/a-quick-message-from-the-otherside/ http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/2012/01/a-quick-message-from-the-otherside/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:14:13 +0000 Juniper http://walkingthehedge.net/blog/?p=2785
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  • Look! A Press Release!
    • ]]>     I spent a good portion of the weekend doing castings, reading and just communicating with the spirits in general. It’s the New Year, after all. Also the casting collection got rebirthed over the holidays (blogs post about that to come) so I needed to do a little work with it.

    I have a back log of writing due to computer issues, but I hope to get all caught up over the next week.

    Any how, this one is supposed to be quick which is why I am boring you with it now.

    Last night I tried something a little different. I sat on a High Seat and did a casting. Holy Shit!

    This is a public service announcement!

    My question: I asked my spirits what they wished for my blog readers (and friends and podcast listeners and etc) to know?

    The answer:

    Poor self esteem, self doubt and lack of self worth is like walking around on a broken leg.

    The approval and acceptance of others does not heal a broken leg. It only acts as a crutch. Yes, it’s easier to get around on a broken leg with a crutch, but the leg is still broken.

    Tearing down other people may stop the pain of the broken leg, but it will never heal the fracture.

    Comparing yourself to others, and finding yourself lacking, only breaks the leg further, slowing or stopping the healing process. Comparing yourself to others, and finding them to be lacking, is like taking a baseball bat to their legs. Get your nose out of other people’s Crafting.

    Only your own accomplishments and self satisfaction can heal the broken leg. Remove doubt, make a commitment and achieve something.

    Stop waiting for other people to approve your desires and goals. Do it anyways.

    This year find ways to say “I did that!”, “This is my choice for myself” and “I made this!” as often as possible. Care naught if others give you the kudos that you think you deserve; learn to walk on your own legs. Walk for yourself. Go places, new places, hard places, scary places. Be brave for yourself. Earn something the hard way.

    Heal the leg.

    Happy New Year gang!

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    The empty hand of innocence
    Transfusing street of the sorrows
    And children of the wood
    Hounded, shredding off veils
    Unwinding all the sheets of the dead world droning
    Overturning tables
    Laden with silver sacrificial birds
    Beating goatskin drums
    Advancing With hands outstretched
    And we keep filling them with mercury
    Nitrate, asbestos
    Baby bombs blasting blue
    Scavengers picking through the ashes
    Children of the mills
    Children of the junkyards
    Sleepy, illiterate, fuzzy little rats
    Haunted, paint-sniffing
    Stoned out of their shaved heads
    Forgotten, foraging
    Mystical children
    Foul-mouthed
    Glassy-eyed
    Hallucinating

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    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 for meeting with spirits.

     

    “Dangerous Knowledge.” by Scylla

    This article shamed me, because I have been holding back on a post on the subject of being ridden and hounded by spirits and not-so-nice-things. Maybe I will post it after all.

     

    How I Accidentally Became A Toadwitch. by Scylla

    I came home from work the other day and my room mate says “I found this crazy ritual online where you crufiy a toad!”  and so began a rather long and fun conversation on things that are not Wicca 101. Then, like the very next day, this article pops up in my feed reader, so I forwarded it to my room mate.

     

    Deconstructing Seid: A Form of Magic in Norse Paganism By Franco Bejarano

    Seid magick fascinates me. Really. It especially gets all my Anglo-Saxon blood running hot.

     

    Introducing my collection casting system by Patch

    YAY!!!!!!!!!!!  I love seeing people take an idea and run with it and make it theirs! *dances*

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