Having run large group workshops for 15 years I'm returning to my roots and offering small gatherings and one to one sessions of mentoring in animist shamanic hedgewitchcraft.
Working with any of the elements is working with all of the elements, we cannot divide this work neatly into dissassociated threads, we are a living part of an entangled living whole - but just for ease, here are some of the threads we'll follow:
Everything is alive and everything is connected. We explore both the land around us as 'the visible face of spirit' and the land of The Otherworld. Connecting to the spirits of nature for personal and planetary healing and for the calling together of a holy temenos, a temple, within which to undertake holy, healing or magical work. We will explore the lands of ourselves as we relate to the interwoven web of all life, undertaking illuminating and liberating practices to enliven our connection to all that is.
Connecting with our helping Spirits and with the Elementals we will work with the raw, beautiful land of Dartmoor, with it's ancient settlements and sacred sites, learning practices that will deepen your relationship with the living, breathing land wherever you find yourself.
We will find home.
We will interweave oracular and divinatory ceremonies and practices with a continuation of our exploration of our relationship with our Helping Spirits, Nature Spirits, Elementals and The Spirits of Place.
Working with a wide variety of divinatory tools both inside and outside we'll explore both the notion of omens, and that of 'readings'.
Specifically with a Black Mirror we will place breath in service to truth and for a moment become the oracle, the one who speaks with the voice of The Morrigan herself.
Part of the work is in finding our sovereignty within the landscape of ourselves and bringing this into balance and right relationship with our notions of service. The most effective use of power comes about through equal partnership between us (our free will) and The Spirits.
Gathering at the fire we will explore spell work - it's ethics, methodologies and practicalities.
We'll look at different ways of working with plants, animals, the elements, words, gesture, intention - always looking for clarity, sound ethics and a strong intention to 'harm none'.
There will be some precise herbal knowledge but please be aware that I'm not a herbalist and will be inviting you at all times to take responsibility for yourself and your own actions.
We'll walk, talk, work and dream together. We'll create ceremonies of healing for ourselves and our world and carry sparks of the wisdom we find together out into our wider world.
Our meetings will explore Ancestral Healing - unravelling the tangles in our family lines that we can experience as 'curses' and celebrating the 'blessings'. We will work with the wise and compassionate Ancient Ancestors to bring about healing and honouring for both the Remembered and the Forgotten Dead and ameliorate their affect on the living.
We will work specifically with the notion of the 'Witch Wound' within our current psyche (it's there for both men and women) and with Water's incredible capacity to transmute grief.
We will also look at ways in which to nourish, protect and empower ourselves as practitioners in service to the human and more than human community.
We'll dive deep!
if you'd like to work with me send me an email outlining what your practice and experience is so far and where you're hoping to go with it. We'll meet up on Zoom to see if we're a good fit for each other and go from there.
For groups of people I charge £100 per day per person - we meet for one day, usually once a month but it can be more spread out than that.
For individuals it's £150 per day.