As we lead up to Yule, I thought I’d extol the virtues of magical mistletoe. Some plants really have that feeling of magic, and mistletoe, for me, is one of them. When I moved into my current home, I was delighted to find a large ball of mistletoe in an old apple tree in the back garden. Mistletoe grows prolifically in...
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The Importance of Divination in Hedge Riding
I built my own witchcraft practice from the following: hedge riding, working with magic (mostly herbal and with items from nature), nature worship, communicating with spirit, and not least, divination. Although not necessary to be a hedge witch, or indeed any type of witch, nevertheless, learning a divination skill is helpful to hedge-riding hedge witches. So what is the importance of...
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Our garden has several wild dog roses (Rosa Canina). There are fields and a farm next door, so the roses sit among the wild honeysuckle, elder and bramble in the hedgerow. To collect the petals I took a walk along the hedgerow with a bowl and touched each rose that was wide open and had lost half its petals and knocked...
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