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78,634
78,634 words and counting now.
The book continues to take on a life of its own.
Wanting to be a book that speaks of Witches in the New World, while still looking back to places where the heritage lays it seems to want to focus more on the every day stuff.
As well on Seership, Shamanism and such.
History lessons get dull after a while and suggestions on related arts and craft projects somehow work their way in.
I write to friends and people I [...]
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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!
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It’s Not Done Yet
Hedge Witchery
Hedge is a Teutonic term originally meaning any fence, boundary or enclosure, later meaning a specific type of living thicket planted to act as a fence, enclosure or boundary.
Old High German (language used roughly from 500 to 1050 C.E): hegga, hecka
Old Dutch (600 to 1150 C.E.): heggehn
Old Saxon or Old Low German (800 to 1200 C.E) : haeg
Anglo-Saxon or Old English (550 C.E to 1250C.E): hecg, hegge, haga, hecge or hege
Middle English (11th century and about 1470 C.E): hedge, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Right Now I am Reading…
Research causes you to read books you otherwise might not have!
“A dictionary of English etymology” by Hensleigh Wedgwood
“Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: a regional and comparative study” by Alan Macfarlane
“Shamanism: a reader” edited by Graham Harvey
“An historical sketch of the provincial dialects of England” by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
