Who doesn't want to get to grips with what it is they actually believe.
I'm interested in hedge witchcraft, or witchcraft involving woodland. I was raised for 18 years with woodland on three sides and I am actually learning traditional timber-framing with the intention of a career in it and owning a woodland, so the English woodland is something I have great spiritual affinity with, I also feel a particular closeness to and fascination in the elusive hare, frequently seen at the hedgerows between fields and woodland.
I have for a long time been very interested in herbal medicine, and bushcraft has been my own ventilation for this until now. Cleavers, nettles, comfrey, rosehips, they all interest me (even if I haven't had any opportunity to use them!). I also have in the last year been considering keeping a notebook and noting everything I see in the weather when out in the countryside (I live very close to rural area, so very easy), in order to recognize patterns, cloud formations, tree movement, behaviour of birds etc. I believe that there is something beyond nature that separates the living from the dead, even if I don't understand what that essence of life is. Aside from that, I believe there is power to be found in plants, animals and minerals which is not the same as the essence of life (after all, if I were to use a bit of wood from a tree or tooth/bone from an animal, it is dead, and rocks never had a pulse!)
What say ye, interesting people? Do you see a similarity between this and other things? Do I sound like smoke something you're interested in? (sorry I don't) or does it sound like some sort of twisted animism? For that matter I don't believe in "spirits" per se, like I don't believe in an afterlife and I don't feel the need to worship anything, but I would pay respects to powers that enable me to achieve magic, which I'm willing to believe in if I learn how it works (the closest I've been to magic is seeing casette tape strewn around trees) through forms of votive offering (putting a lit candle somewhere relevant so that it is not for my benefit). I do believe that the essence I talked about is the spark that ignites the dynamism and consciousness of all living things, rather than a spirit which dwells in any one given thing.
I'm interested in hedge witchcraft, or witchcraft involving woodland. I was raised for 18 years with woodland on three sides and I am actually learning traditional timber-framing with the intention of a career in it and owning a woodland, so the English woodland is something I have great spiritual affinity with, I also feel a particular closeness to and fascination in the elusive hare, frequently seen at the hedgerows between fields and woodland.
I have for a long time been very interested in herbal medicine, and bushcraft has been my own ventilation for this until now. Cleavers, nettles, comfrey, rosehips, they all interest me (even if I haven't had any opportunity to use them!). I also have in the last year been considering keeping a notebook and noting everything I see in the weather when out in the countryside (I live very close to rural area, so very easy), in order to recognize patterns, cloud formations, tree movement, behaviour of birds etc. I believe that there is something beyond nature that separates the living from the dead, even if I don't understand what that essence of life is. Aside from that, I believe there is power to be found in plants, animals and minerals which is not the same as the essence of life (after all, if I were to use a bit of wood from a tree or tooth/bone from an animal, it is dead, and rocks never had a pulse!)
What say ye, interesting people? Do you see a similarity between this and other things? Do I sound like smoke something you're interested in? (sorry I don't) or does it sound like some sort of twisted animism? For that matter I don't believe in "spirits" per se, like I don't believe in an afterlife and I don't feel the need to worship anything, but I would pay respects to powers that enable me to achieve magic, which I'm willing to believe in if I learn how it works (the closest I've been to magic is seeing casette tape strewn around trees) through forms of votive offering (putting a lit candle somewhere relevant so that it is not for my benefit). I do believe that the essence I talked about is the spark that ignites the dynamism and consciousness of all living things, rather than a spirit which dwells in any one given thing.
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