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Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft

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Leave in a bowl some cake or honey, cream or apple juice or other biodegradable treat. Or sing a song for them.) The book is simple and easy to read, Van Der Hoeven don't come with big pretensions to be the authority in the topic, she brings a practical easy-to-use Grimoire for each one of those witches working alone and looking to find magic in every corner and in every day and night. I suggest we speak charms like the following – asserting what our hearts really want for the future’s children. And doing it in the hope that we will see at least some of it come into being while we ourselves are still alive. There is some good stuff in here - I liked how the author made a point of stressing that its best to be in-tune with your own environment/climate as opposed to following the dogma of the Wiccan wheel of the year calendar -her simplified versions of ritual, rites and tool use and overall basic information was easy to read/understand - might not bode well for traditionalists - but I liked it. Hedge Riding – the practice of Shamanic and Astral voyage – is covered in-depth in her follow-up book: Pagan Portals Hedge Riding.

Many magical creatures were named dropped but there was no description or explanation of what they were. Some were not creatures I’ve heard of before and assume they were made up by the author, but why not describe them to us? Surely Cassie wouldn’t know either, considering she is new to this world? There was more - I'll edit it in if I remember. But I felt like I was reading the plot of Harry Potter, just reimagined with a girl witch and a different setting. If you’re a fan of The Worst Witch, love a talking cat (looking at you Nevermoor fans) or have always wanted to visit a bookshop run by a hob, which is a very distinct entity from a goblin, then you need to read Hedgewitch💫 Great Lady and Lord of the golden Sun and golden days on Earth and the heart’s fulfilment, I call upon you. Let all be blessed with a sense of the beauty of this Earth…..Help us to celebrate love for one another and for all life. And help us also to put to flight forces that oppress love and deny justice. Make us strong in magic. Make us like summer trees. Make us like summer stars. Make us like summer seas. In dedication to the vision of untamed peace, set us free.” Cassie has no fancy witches' broom or experience of a witching family in spite of pedigree, etc., but suddenly a male relative appears out of the blue and gifts her a most envied, fastest, speedy broom for her birthday, which is the envy of her peers and which she can barely controlWhen we join twelve year old Cassie at Fowell House, she’s an outcast whose primary escape when she’s perfecting her invisibility is reading. Once she arrives in Hedgely, some things come naturally to her but she struggles with others. The pain she feels as a result of her mother’s absence is always there but, despite this, Cassie has an unshakeable optimism. Set in a modern day magical world, The Hedge Witch follows Rowan on a summer visit to relatives in a small town, nestled in the Welsh countryside, before she starts sixth form. This places Rowan in her mid-teens and the themes of the novella match her age, with Rowan trying to fit in, make friends, assert her independence.

However this book is about Wicca, not headgecraft. Hedgecraft is not a solitary Wiccan and Wiccan are not the only witches as Rae Beth seems to believe. Futhermore, hedgewitches are not overly formal and do not create and execute formal rituals like the ones found in this book. Rituals, if performed, are simple and simply honor the earth, dieties, and nature. One thing she does get right about hedgecraft and hedgewitches is that the tradition is based on the old wise woman or man who lived on the edge of town, by the hedge rows. They were healers and earth lovers who worked magic out of their home and gardens.The image I see when I hear the term "hedge witch" is that of a traditional wise-woman walking along a wayside in a meadow, a basket in her arm, gathering herbs and flowers from the hedgerows to use in the cooking pot or for a healing balm or maybe a magic potion. As she walks, she watches the way the leaves on the bushes blow in the wind, knowing from ancient weather-lore that this will tell her if it will rain or if the sun will shine. At the Spring Equinox, the hours of darkness and those of daylight are equal. But from now on, the days will be longer than the nights – until next Autumn. So we are poised between the ascendancy of long winter nights and the time of increasing light. It is a perfect time to say goodbye to whatever harms us or limits us – or to any harm we might be causing. To clear the way for a more healed and healing and creative way of life.

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