But a hedge witch is considerably manager than that, and the hedges she crosses can be populace that illustrate the staff concerning this world and the world of the spirits as considerably as the dividing line concerning a reserve and kingdom manner.
A new book called Fence Witchcraft,by Harmonia Saille, compound of Walking the Faery Corridor, attempts to give details real what a hedge witch does, and how guise with the keenness to learn can hunt down in the hedge witch's way to learn her craft.
Publisher Moon Books says about the book on its website: "Gift is no belief coupled to hedge witchcraft. Gift are no tenets to hunt down. And if you asked a hundred hedge witches what their practice is, you inner self get a variety of additional answers. The path of a hedge witch is very considerably an single one, and it is a solitary practice. This book inner self guide you if you wish to read manager about hedge witchcraft as a causeway, or are in advance resulting such a path and wish to swelling."
Fence Witchcraft explains that learning to be a hedge witch is manager about triumph individual and learning personally from the land, sea and sky than about conducting rituals found in books. Harmonia says: "As a hedge witch, it is senior to go out and undergo lettering than sit in, think and read recurrently."
The book begins by explaining how to connect with lettering - by using all your mind to get to know the world bumpily you, next to go new and to use your extra-sensory powers of visualisation to: "Shapeshift clothed in lettering by becoming what you see". This is the essential elegance of the hedge witch; the balcony to learning how to convey with lettering spirits and even with the divine root of the land.
Of course, hand over is a lot manager to essence a hedge witch than that. Parsley lore, folk magic and insight are all facts a hedge witch would be environmental to know about - and this book offers an introduction to populace subjects. It both explains the grand emigrant festivals of the joystick of the rendezvous that are honoured by best pagans today with festivities and income.
Conceivably the first-rate periphery of hedge witchcraft is hedge riding. Harmonia explains: "The hedge in hedge witch' has manager than one meaning. For the most part the hedge is the dividing line separating this world and the otherworld, the hedge witch crosses the hedge to investigate the realms of the otherworld."
Fence riding is bar to the shamanic practice of discovery. The hedge rider's consciousness travels to the otherworld, which is the realm of the cooperative not in, to engagement form symbols - or spiritual entities - and first-rate knowledge. The book explains the basic ways of statute this as an introduction to the flow. Allay, Harmonia said: "It right has a litter about hedge riding and hedge magic as this book has too aloof a location to report them. Plea read my accompanying books in the Pagan Portal series, Fence Riding and Fence Imaginary, resulting in a minute."
I would make aware Pagan Portals - Fence Witchcraftas an introduction to hedge witchcraft for guise who looked-for to learn the basics of this craft. I inner self be reviewing Harmonia's books on Fence Riding and Fence Imaginary since I've read them - which I'm looking send out to statute.
"Harmonia Saille is an compound and practising Fence Witch who holds workshops on the runes, faeries, hedge riding and other subjects. She lives in Ireland and is ambassador editor of Ireland's pagan magazine Brigid's Call off. You can read my review of her book Walking the Faery Corridor here: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/01/review-walking-faery-pathway.html"
Friends and earlier connected posts:
Pagan Portals-Hedge Witchcraft
http://www.moon-books.net
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/01/review-walking-faery-pathway.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/review-crusty-crones-get-out-and-about.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/07/review-medicine-for-soul-shamanic.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/07/interview-with-author-and-shamanic.html
