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While the oak, hawthorn, and apple are rich in folklore and well known as highly magical, many trees regarded as common and maybe even run-of-the-mill have colorful histories and can give your magical practices a boost. You don't need to have a tree growing in your yard to work with it. A twig, leaf, nut, flower, fruit, piece of bark, or anything from a tree embodies its energy and can be used to represent it. In addition to objects made from the wood of a tree, infused oils, essential oils, hydrosols (i.e. flower waters), flower essences, and other products can be used for magic and ritual, too. Sometimes, you may not have access to a particular type of tree or something made from it, ...
"Magic is just the science we don't understand yet."— C. Clarke Magic and science are an odd mixture to say the least, and when you throw Hedgewitchery into the cauldron, the result is completely unrecognizable to those who dwell only in reality. For the Hedgewitch is someone with one foot in one reality and the other in "unreality," the world where no amount of science can explain its beginnings, middle, and end. Hedgewitchery commands those who adhere to it, to suspend temporarily their belief and knowledge of this world, of Darwinian science and all that prevails, into a world of total mystery and fascination. In many ways and ironically, to use the terminology of one social ...
One thing that folks who are newer to Witchcraft and other magical practices often ask me: how do you really know when your intuition speaking to you? How can you tell that sense apart from your fears or some other aspect of your personality that may lead you astray? It's no wonder we doubt ourselves. Society likes to push the idea that magic isn't real—that we aren't connected to the world around us. This fallacy leads us to ignore our gut instinct and mistrust our ability to know and perceive. Our intuition helps us navigate the world more successfully and to make more informed choices. That is, if we're listening! And that doesn't take much, because our bodies are designed to ...
We live in a society that is uncomfortable with discomfort. Technology and progress are geared towards efficiency. The focus is on making our lives faster and easier, making our consumption greater, eradicating any waiting. When it comes to grief, however, there are no shortcuts. There's no new gadget that allows us to bypass the suffering that comes with loss. There's no easy way out; there is only through. We have to sit with the ache. Grief teaches us that sometimes discomfort is a necessary part of progress. When we're grieving, it can feel like we are shutting down. As if all parts of us are withdrawing, far away from the world that we'd previously inhabited; a world that made sense ...
