Tags: shamanism

• Consciousness

  I am asleep.

  I am asleep and have delved into some deep abyss of dreaming far beyond the physical enclosure that is my body.

  I dream and know I am dreaming. I glide through a realm of black and blue, soft and delicate as silk, sheer like fine muslin. I dance in the glory of the dreamscape.

  Then, a gradual awareness begins to tug at me. I feel my body calling me back to awakening. The most simple and basic need driving me [...]

• 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

• The Tenth

  The tenth Rune-spell I did learn
  Whilst hanging from the World Tree
  Is to gaze deep into the murky night
  And spy the Hedgewitches flying high,
  Sending their spirits far and wide
  I see their true forms,
  Though they may shift their shapes
  With this Rune-charm that I know,
  I can confuse their wandering souls
  Then turn them ‘round and send them home
  Back into their bodies,
  Back within their own skins
  And for a time at least, trap them within.

• Eating Your Totem

  Okay. So my dear Bren may or may not have eaten his “Totem” for dinner last week. And I joked about it. A few people had panic attacks about this. So in my usual sweet but sarcastic way let me address this.
  First of all, I am the kind of woman who has been known to start pillow fights in the middle of the afternoon in downtown Ottawa. I don’t take life all that seriously. I take my Witchcraft seriously, but [...]

• What the Heck is a Hedgewitch Anyways?

  What the Heck is a Hedgewitch Anyways?
  Hedgewitchery, or Hedgecraft, is a kind of combination of Witchcraft and Shamanism. This Path is based on the Traditional Witchcraft and Cunning Folk traditions of Europe from ancient to modern times. It is an something of an “eclectic” tradition, but just how much so depends on each individual practitioner.
  The shamanic aspect being the most important, in fact to call oneself a Hedgewitch is to call oneself a shaman, with out having to steal a [...]

• Happy Samhain

  Blessings for Samhain everyone! I will be out of town for the celebrations for a few days. Take care and have a happy Celtic new year. Since I am doing a workshop on shamanic rattles and the Silver Branch for Samhain:

  The Dedication To A Book Of Stories
  by William Butler Yeats

  There was a green branch hung with many a bell
  When her own people ruled this wave-worn and tragic Eire;
  And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,
  A Druid kindness, on all hearers [...]