HEDGE WITCH FULL

SPELLCRAFT FOR HEDGE WITCHES teaches the magic that can help a wise hedge witch to survive in a harsh time or to come through a personal crisis. Prayer is described as a magical act and devotional hedge witchcraft is blended with natural magic. THE HEDGE WTCH’S WAY concentrates on the hedge witch and priest/ess’s Deities, the Lady and Lord, whom we know by many names and in many aspects.

HEDGE WITCH FULL

The first book, HEDGE WITCH, blends hedge witchcraft with solitary Wicca and roots the hedge witch firmly in the Wheel of the Year, giving rites and spells for each festival and for the Full Moon as well. If followed with commitment, this Path can bring you to see the magical, shape-shifting nature of all reality and also to see a role for yourself within that as a healing spell-caster with spirit allies.Įach of my books describes a different aspect of the work of a hedge witch or hedge priest/ess or covers a subject relevant to that.

I have been practicing hedge magic and hedgerow spirituality for almost forty five years. Therefore, dear visitor, if you proceed, your hedge magic and spirituality will not be like exactly like mine because your own individual style will emerge with experience. (We may work alone but that does not mean that we are uninfluenced by other approaches and styles.) For me, hedge witchery and hedge priest/esscraft must be creative, aligned with the times that we live in, exploratory, healing and, as far as possible, original. In my own work, they can be blended with such things as natural magic, Wicca, Green/environmental spirituality and faerie lore. There are many, many ways to practice hedge magic and hedgerow spirituality now in the present day and to reinterpret the themes and ideas. A meeting with nature spirits or familiars then has a context, a setting which extends beyond our personal circumstances and facilitates an awareness of the bigger picture, allowing us to develop a sense of interconnectedness with all creatures - all beings of any kind. In this way, awareness of those on the far side of the hedge can open gradually and also be fully aligned with the natural world on our side of the hedge. Today’s hedge magicians wisely begin by learning to ground themselves within the seasonal celebrations of the land’s yearly cycle and by coming into step with the Moon’s cycle as well. And indeed the personal familiar, the fylgia, is very much an aspect of the witch her or himself, a part of the soul, so help is mutual.) Instead, they give help on the basis of friendship or common interests. (Familiars do not require an offering of blood, our own or anyone elses’. It could also lead to alliances with nature spirits and to the gaining of a familiar and so to increased power for any spell-casting work. This is in order to connect with those on the far side and so to give and to gain blessings from and for human communities and the living lands we inhabit. The job of a hedge witch (or any worker of hedge magic) was and is to ‘part the hedge’ or even ‘fly over it’ or in other words attain altered consciousness by means of rites or spirit journeys undertaken in light trance. And there are now hedge witches all over the World, along with hedge priestesses, hedge priests and hedge Druids. However, it has parallels within the Celtic tradition, such as the Green and Burning Tree which stands at the outer edge of Faerie. This and similar symbolism seems to have come to Britain mainly with Saxon and other Germanic tribes. Each of these refers to a symbolic hedgerow, one which could be seen to divide the everyday world of the human community from what was perceived as being beyond it – the Otherworld of wild nature spirits and ancestral spirits and elves or faeriekind.

And another term found in Northern European traditions – ‘haegtessa’ meaning ‘hedge rider’. That is the short answer.īut there is a much earlier definition contained in an old German word ‘hagazissa’ meaning ‘hedge sitter’. Like the Victorian ‘hedge teacher’ they work on their own initiative – unofficially, as in a field corner by a hedgerow rather than with a coven or group. First, the hedge witch or hedge priestess/priest is a solitary worker.

If you are a visitor to the realm of hedge magic, you may be wondering what hedges have to do with spell-casting (or indeed with anything other than bordering fields and gardens!) Here is some kind of explanation.

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