Welcome to Witchdom blog. A site for nature-loving, hedge-riding hedge witches. My name is Harmonia Saille, hedge witch and hedge rider.
For the past few years I have been recovering from major surgery after a cancer diagnosis and happily have now been declared cancer free. Now much recovered I’m resuming my blogs.
I am a hedge-riding hedge witch and pagan of almost thirty years. I’m also a proud wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. As no two hedge witches practice the same, I can only write about my earthly personal nature- and magic-based pathway alongside what all hedge witches have in common and that is hedge riding – an important aspect of hedge witchcraft.
Hedge riders are said to straddle the hedge with a foot in this and the realms of the Otherworld. Hedge riding is shamanic, and though some witches interpret it as only connecting with nature, hedge riding does involve Otherworldy travel. The rest of a hedge witches practice can vary greatly from witch to witch but many follow a nature pathway alongside as do I. With English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish and Norwegian among my ancestry it’s hardly surprising that my inclination is towards the Celtic and Norse pantheons.
During my recovery time I wrote a book about magic and the earthly side of my hedge-witch pathway called Magic for Hedge Witches in the Pagan Portal series published on 27th May, 2022 by Moon Books (an imprint of Collective Ink). During that year one of my other books in the Pagan Portal series Hedge Witchcraft became a publisher bestseller and my book Hedge Riding is not far behind.
My general pathway as well as hedge riding, includes then nature, folk magic, divination including the Elder Futhark runes), and connection with nature spirits. I’m also an animist. I have studied with Shamanism Ireland and guest lectured for several years in Modern Pagan Witchcraft at Liverpool John Moores University where I studied for my own degrees.
I have held workshops nationally and internationally. As well as writing many articles, which have appeared in various spiritual magazines, I was a co-founder of Irish Pagan magazine Brigid’s Fire. My books include Pagan Portals – Hedge Witchcraft, Hedge Riding, and Magic for Hedge Witches (to be published in May 2022), and The Spiritual Runes. I’m in the process of writing a second hedge riding book and two spell books.
I currently live in Cornwall in a rural cottage in the woods. I have previously lived in Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium where I was active in the pagan communities.
Harmonia Saille
