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How to Cast an Abundance Spell for Home & Hearth

REFLECTIONS OF MOTHER EARTH

Meet Your Familiar

4 min

Meet Your Familiar

When people envision a witch, they usually are with a black cat, owl, or other animal. In the days of the Witch Trials of Europe and North America, women accused of witchcraft were assumed to have a familiar, most often in the form of cats, dogs, owls, mice, ravens, or toads. These familiars were considered demons. Legends say that the familiar would feed on the blood of the witch, and in turn, the witch used the animal's power for casting spells. The familiar could shapeshif

Honoring Our Local Wildlife

Bird Seed Offerings

2 min

Bird Seed Offerings

I leave offerings for the birds every winter. Humans have depleted their habitat. It is my belief that when food is scarce, I’ll honor my feathered friends with some bird seed to tide them over. I’m also noticing what they are eating naturally so I can make sure they have a supply of that as well. Let's create a bird-friendly buffet to honor the winged ones. You’ll need: 1/2 cup water 3/4 cup unbleached flour 3 Tablespoons corn syrup 2 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin 4 cups

Plant Seeds Of Intention
For An Enchanted Year

Planting Seeds of Intention Ritual

How To Create A Bewitching Life

How To Embrace The Witch

7 Ways To Live With The Seasons For Happiness

6 min

7 Ways To Live With The Seasons For Happiness

When we live with the seasons, we embrace the very heart of that season and live in harmony with the weather patterns, our body, home, and hearth. Living with the seasons is living with nature. To me, there is a sense of romance around the simplicity of this way of being. Unconsciously, I have always marked the changing of the seasons, but never fully wrapped my whole being into them, because of the busyness of my life. My mind was always looking ahead to the next season. Slo

Moonlight Milk & Dark Moon Cookies

2 min

Moonlight Milk & Dark Moon Cookies

I have a new ritual during the dark of the moon and the full moon to soothe the soul. A little candlelight and imagine taking in the light of the full moon and dark moon for balance. The moon's light is the one that does not burn. Here's my little Moon Magic treat. Moonlight Milk with permission from Loveshovel 1 cup nut milk (store-bought or homemade) 1 dropperful Ashwaganda tincture Small chunk of Cacao butter (or 1 Tbsp coconut oil) 1/4 tsp cinnamon a pinch of salt Splash

How to Tend the Earth To Mend Your Soul

5 min

How to Tend the Earth To Mend Your Soul

HOW TO FIX OUR WORLD CRISES AND MEND OUR SOULS Hedgewitch Permaculture is a holistic approach to tending the Earth as we mend our own souls. It is about rooting and reconnecting with Earth energy. The philosophy is not about planting food for ourselves, but planting for ALL life. If we don’t feed the life around us from soil microbes to the birds and mammals to the plants and trees, we won’t have a life ourselves. Humans have this urge to control things, even Mother Earth. At

What is Hedgewitch Permaculture?

6 Rituals to Unlock Ancient Wisdom

5 min

6 Rituals to Unlock Ancient Wisdom

Wisdom of the rhythms of nature are unlocked for all who seek healing and understanding of its ways. Mother Earth represents the physical existence of all women. She is the cohesiveness of the Divine Feminine. Once we unlock the secrets of this rhythm, we unlock the wisdom held within each of us. Make no mistake, the "Divine Feminine" is in no way a "women only" concept. We all have masculine and feminine energy within us. They make the perfect balance for our holistic Selves

How to Talk with Plant Spirits

3 min

How to Talk with Plant Spirits

Plants are incredibly complex Beings, living in harmony with kindreds and connected to a community of companions. Mother Earth provides for their needs and they reciprocate with blooms, fruit, colors, and fragrance. Their root systems dive deep where they quietly communicate and contribute to the soul soil to the mutual benefit of all life forms within the ecosystem. In earlier times in our history, humans lived in harmony with the natural world. Plants were considered intell

13 Lenses to Refocus Your Life

6 min

13 Lenses to Refocus Your Life

Our lives are getting more complicated and less interesting. We wander through our world with blinders on, not acknowledging each other or even ourselves. Our electronics demand more and more of our time and energy, but what we really need is time in nature. Hands in the soil. The energy of the Earth herself is the energy of change and healing, expression and integration. We, as humans, can harvest and harness this energy for healing. And I don’t mean that in a controlling, p

3 Ways to Connect to The Power of Mother Earth

3 min

3 Ways to Connect to The Power of Mother Earth

Earth represents the energy of nurturing, nourishing, abundance, belonging, and home. It is the energy of the great mother, and because we are of Earth, we hold this same power within us. However, if we hold onto wounds inflicted by others, this makes the connection to this powerful energy very difficult. If you think of Mother Earth as a dangerous place to be, a place to use for your own benefit, and separate from yourself, you will go through life cut off from the one great

5 Ways to Root Where You're Planted

3 min

5 Ways to Root Where You're Planted

The economic, social, and political events happening all over the world today have triggered changes that come at us so quickly that we run in circles trying to figure out how our lives will be affected in the next six months to a year. There is negative noise from around the world bombarding us daily from news to social media. And let us not forget the craziness of our everyday lives—coping with aging parent, moody teens, angry young men, and navigating workplace politics.

How to Make a Seed Bomb Offering

2 min

How to Make a Seed Bomb Offering

Goddess permaculture (as created by Colette O'Neill from Bealtaine Cottage) is about planting like your life depends on it, because it does. I've found that my spiritual and everyday life are very much intermingled. I like being prayerful and intentional as I walk with the Great Mother and create my Spirit-filled gardens with prayers and offerings. Now that we're in the Spring, here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is a time of planting seeds. These are not just for your garden

Create A Garden For Mother Earth

Part 2: No-Dig Garden

2 min

Create A Garden For Mother Earth

Mother Earth spends centuries creating her masterpieces. Here’s how you can work with Mother Earth instead of against her. 1. Open and aerate the soil Move anything you want to plant elsewhere. Pull out any weeds, spent flowers or vegetables, and toss them onto the bed you are creating. It’s called the “Chop and Drop” method. It is Mother Nature’s way of composting. These garden scraps feed the soil and add structure, too. Stick your broadfork into the soil and gently lift. I