#moonlit-hedge

Mundane before magickal: make sure you’ve tried all mundane options, including but not limited to professional help.

Every spoonie witch is different, so what might be easier for me might not be for you. I start my day by grounding and centering myself, then going into an active meditation to see where my spiritual/magickal energy is for the day. If this doesn’t work for you, please just make sure to do what you can. Don’t push it if you can’t, it’s okay.

This spell works best with your favorite thing to drink, or something you drink daily.

1. Choose your favorite cup or mug and hold it in both hands. Close your eyes and focus on how the mug feels in your hands while saying/thinking “at the bottom of this mug, I’ll find energy in the day.” Repeat this saying or thought every time you touch this mug (yes, every single time! Even on good days!).

2. Fill mug (or cup, etc) with your preferred drink of choice (mine is water or tea). As you drink, think “I’ll find my energy at the bottom of this mug.” Repeat on every drink/sip.

3. Finish your drink, as quickly or as slowly as you want. Repeat as needed. I find that the more I do this, the stronger the spell becomes. It’s one of my many spells that relies on repition and routine to gain strength.

Alterations to this spell:

- Can’t drink alcohol? Choose a pop/soda and change the phrases to “at the bottom of this drink, I’ll find relaxation.” (My “beer” is ginger ale)

- Need to focus? Change the spell intent from “energy” to “focus”. This can work for various moods, but I’d recommend choosing a different drink for each one. I use water for energy, tea for calming (earl gray for calm focus, green tea for casual calm), vanilla soy milk for reassurance, and ginger ale soda for relaxation.

March 2019 moon schedule

I’ve just realized I’ve been doing some things in my craft that could be useful to some witches who need to keep their practice a secret, are on a budget, or are both.

If you need to organize a drawer but can’t afford/find containers, take some printer or construction paper and fold up the sides for a flimsy but effective enough desk container. You can secure the sides with tape or glue. This becomes witchy by adding color correspondences to the color paper you use, and using that for what I call a “no ingredient” spell. Focus your intentions and invite the energy into the newly created little container. No one would be the wiser unless you told them.

String, yarn, or friendship bracelets work well with “no ingredient” spells as well. They’re simple and fairly normal to see, and if anyone asks about them you can say you like the color. Bonus points if you make one with someone else (theirs doesn’t have to be witchy), so you can say it was a gift or something you did with a friend.

Crocheting, knitting, sewing, embroidery, and cross stitching are all common hobbies. While some may not consider them budget friendly, doing your research, limiting purchases, learning from someone else, and looking for deals are possible. All these can use modified forms of knot magic, or your take on it, and “no ingredient” spells as well.

If you enjoy cooking and have the resources, it’s quite easy to implement some craft. Stir clockwise and request something (I usually think something like this “with each stir, ____ shall be easier to get/overcome/achieve.”) Stirring counter clockwise is a good way to get rid of negative emotions/energies as well.

When you add sauce to a thing, like making a sandwich or something, add the sauce in the shape of a spiral going clockwise or counter clockwise. It works like the bullet point above. If asked about it, say it’s for even sauce coverage. Zigzags and parallel or perpendicular lines work as well.

My financial future will be bright

I haven’t managed to find a lot of posts or blogs about Hedge Witchcraft, and just in case I’m not actually bad at finding such things, I figured I’d answer this question. Please note that this question is answered by me through my personal journey in Witchcraft, and is not a global response to what all Hedge Witches are. Just like in all other aspects of other forms of Witchcraft, every Hedge Witch’s journey is different.

So what is a Hedge Witch? A Hedge Witch is a Witch (of any identification) that focuses on astral projection, working with spirits/the dead/etc., divination, and healing. The term “Hedge Witch” comes from the Middle Ages where dedicated practitioners of medicine weren’t always available, but nearby Witches were easier to come across. These Witches often lived outside of town and near the forest, often called the Hedge. Hedge Witches would help heal not only physical wounds, but mental and spiritual as well. They were known to have potions and salves ready, with knowledge of the local environment and experience to act on the knowledge.

That practice became tradition for Hedge Witches, being able to help and heal. Astral projection, or soul wandering, is what I call “walking the hedge.” This means being able to travel to Otherworlds, whether its the land of the dead or somewhere else, for various uses. These uses can be for divination, spell casting, any soul magic, and more.

Because of their wide range of skills needed back then, Hedge Witches picked up an eclectic nature to their practice to best suit them and their environment. This eclectic nature means that every Hedge Witch is different in their practices, and what I say here may not be accepted by other Hedge Witches.

I haven’t brought up a major point, though, that needs to be mentioned. Hedge Witches don’t follow any Deities, unless you count Nature, the Sun, the Moon, or the Stars/Universe as Deities. They can work with any Deities, but usually don’t dedicate themselves to any.

So what does this all mean? This means that a Hedge Witch is a little mixing pot of a Green Witch, a Kitchen Witch, and many others depending on their individual practices. The biggest differences are their ability to astral project (or at least borrow magick from Otherworlds) and they don’t usually follow Deities. Due to this, most Hedge Witches are solitary in nature.

I plan to make a post in the near future going into more detail about hedge walking, how I believe it’s different to astral projecting, why I use the terms interchangeably, and the risks in walking the hedge.