Hedgeriding and the Otherworld door…

Tonight I talk of doors…🚪

There are words and herbs🌿and postures. There is music and dancing and singing. There is fasting and swaying. Stand on one foot, close one eye, 👁 and raise one arm. Eat this mushroom, 🍄 soak this herb🎋 in wine🍾 overnight, and infuse this fat with belladonna leaves and mandrake root. Sing these words, scream them… mean them. Beat a drum 🥁 and shake a rattle until your wrists hurt, until you cannot feel your hands. Dance around the fire 🔥 until you sweat and sweat, until you forget you are human. Shroud yourself in complete darkness, until there is nothing but the world of visions. All these things and more can lead to hedgeflight and transport one
to the otherworld’s door.”

Things to do in a witches wood.

Published by Raven Wood

I am a herbalist, planetary alchemist, writer and magickal folklorist who lives and practices her craft in the woods of mid western North America. I am the owner and alchemist at “Deep Within the Hollow” A witchy little shop of tarot readings, poisons, ointments, flower essences, candles and incense for magickal intentions. I am also the proprietor of “Ravens Hedge” a sister shop to Deep Within the Hollow. Ravens Hedge is a little forest shop of seasonal herbal wildcrafts to rejuvenate, pamper, and experience the woods with. In addition I write the blog “Witch of the Wood with Raven Wood” for Patheos Pagans, and have my first book in the works.

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