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    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding
    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding
    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding
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    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding

    By Harmonia Saille

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    The hedge is the symbolic boundary bet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateAug 27, 2012
    ISBN9781780993492
    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding

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    • 5/5
      Easy read but very informative. Author gives personal examples as well as directions on how to hedge ride. Also has very good exercise to help with meditation and grounding
    • 4/5
      An excellent, thin volume to introduce the reader to the world of the hedge witch. This volume covers the elements of ritual, working with spirits of the natural world, and attuning to a sense of place, all of which are critical to a working hedge witch. There is no filler in this book (which is good, considering it is only 76 pages in length) and contains exercises, rituals, and stories to illuminate the world of the hedge rider. I'm in the midst of the author's other currently in print text, Hedge Riding, and am eagerly awaiting the next volume, Hedge Magic.

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    Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding - Harmonia Saille

    Studies.

    Introduction

    The Hedge Riding Hedge Witch

    Many people call themselves hedge witches but the true hedge witch will practice the main feature of hedge witchcraft — hedge riding. However, the individual hedge witch’s other interests and practices may vary. Not every hedge witch lives in a rural cottage in the forest or on the edge of the village, many live in the suburbs and in towns with only a window box as a garden. However, this will not stop the determined person, from their daily hedge witchcraft pursuits.

    Hedge riding is the journey of your spirit into the other-world realms. These are generally the upper and lower worlds. There is also a middle realm, our everyday world, which has spiritual aspects. We can use this realm to travel back into the past to meet our ancestors, former selves, or forward to the future. In the lower world, an earthy place, you will find your animal guides and it also has access to the underworld of the souls of the dead. In the upper world is the home of the divine, gods and goddesses, spirit guides and wise teachers. Having said this, to otherworld travelers the worlds, realms or planes can have various levels, depending on the individual and/or their teachers and their own explorations.

    Hedge witches do not roam the other realms for the sheer fun of it or the experience; we go there for a particular purpose whether that is for healing, spiritual advancement, wisdom, knowledge or for spell work. Therefore, only those who already have at least three years intense experience and study of witchcraft should attempt to hedge ride. That experience should cover all aspects of the Craft before attempting a journey. You should never hedge ride if you are ill, particularly if you have a mental illness as it can tip you into a psychotic episode, or leave you susceptible to negative entities. Please heed this warning. Hedge riding is not something to be undertaken lightly and without thought, by anyone inexperienced in the Craft or without some form of shamanic teaching. If in doubt, then go and seek teaching and only hedge ride in the company of an experienced rider or shamanic practitioner who can then guide and instruct you.

    Before hedge riding, which I have been doing for twelve years, I had been astral projecting/travelling for thirty-nine years. Within astral travel, I have visited my own environment but also the three other realms, although for many years I did not know where in particular I was and just accepted it. This was a natural occurrence and it was not until I was a young adult that I learned to induce it. Anyone, who has the capabilities of astral projection, will almost certainly find it easier to hedge ride.

    This book is not the definitive guide to hedge riding; it is simply a guide. The hedge riding aspect of hedge witchery is perhaps the most difficult part of the pathway. This book focuses on that aspect alone and further study, research and practice are essential.

    If you want to learn more about Hedge Witchraft, there is an accompanying book in this series, Pagans Portals — Hedge Witchcraft.

    1

    What is Hedge Riding?

    The ‘hedge’ in ‘hedge witch’ has more than one meaning. Primarily the hedge is the boundary separating this world and the otherworld. The hedge witch rides the hedge or as I like to say, has one foot over it, meaning she or he regularly explores the realms of the otherworld This is sometimes referred to as getting ‘oot and aboot’. The hedge is also both psychically and physically protective keeping out unwanted visitors, spirit or human. It separates the witch from civilization, where she or he lives close to the wilderness on the margins of the town or village. In crossing the hedge, the witch enters the twilight, the veil between worlds, and emerges in the other realms, the lower, middle or upper.

    Hedge riding is shamanic in nature and is related to seidh. Seidh which involves communication with the spirits, is often oracular, but does include other practices including magic and shapeshifting, which are also aspects of hedge riding. Modern seidh more often involves a group of people of whom one, the seer, is guided into trance (by one or more people through various methods such as chanting) and seeks answers which will serve the community or group. Hedge riding is usually solitary as the hedge witch is solitary, but there is nothing wrong in occasionally joining others for journeying and for support. Within a group, often the riders share symbols and even experiences, which indicates a psychic link can be formed within groups. Here though,

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