Author: A Solitary Pagan
Folk Medicine and Remedies Prickling in the legs
Prickling in the legs can drive you crazy when you’re trying to go to sleep. One remedy is to eat banana – there’s a lot of potassium in bananas and the prickling sensation can come from a potassium deficiency.
MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK
MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK by Henry Clay Work My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born, And was always his treasure and pride; But it stopped short — never to go again — When the old man died. Ninety years with...
As Plantas e os seus Elfos
Os Elfos são seres elementais mitológicos, muitas vezes associados a tradições nórdicas, que o chamam de Alfs/Alfr é bastante interessante verificar que a palavra Sol dentro da língua nórdica seria Alfrothul em sua tradução seria Raio Élfico. Divindades menores da natureza e da fertilidade, associados diretamente as florestas, arvores e plantas. Dentro do mundo grego em especial o dos camponeses q...
‘THE PLANTS AND THEIR ELVES’
' Os Elfos são seres elementais mitológicos, muitas vezes associados a tradições nórdicas, que o chamam de Alfs/Alfr é bastante interessante verificar que a palavra Sol dentro da língua nórdica seria Alfrothul em sua tradução seria Raio Élfico. Divindades menores da natureza e da fertilidade, associados diretamente as florestas, arvores e plantas. Dentro do mundo grego em especial o dos camponeses...
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Take a moment to settle back into this world. If you can, eat and drink something to ground you in the present moment.You might clap your hands three times, or pat the earth three times to signal your full return.You can also say your name aloud three times. Journal your experience as soon as you are able.
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If the answer is yes,then you can proceed to ask them further questions, and get to know them.If the answer is no, then you can ask them to direct you to your guides.One will appear.Once you have met and spoken with your guide, you give your thanksand then return to the Middleworld.Place your hand once more upon the trunk of the tree, and a doorway appears.You travel up the stairwell back the way ...
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Take a moment and orient yourself to this new world.You find that you are standing next to a tree of the same type you used above ground to enter into the Lowerworld.You take your hand and place it upon the trunk, and call to the Lowerworld to reveal to you your spirit guide, whether in the form of an ancestor or that of the Fair Folk.A mist appears around you, and slowly clears revealing a figure...
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With your hands upon the bark, feel the power of the tree flowing upwards from the earth, and also downwards from the branches.Feel where it meets, and connect to that energy. You can then visualise a doorway opening up in the trunk of the tree beneath your hand, and with the slightest of movements it swings open, revealing a staircase that travels downwards.You enter, and proceed down the dimly l...
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Turn around counter-clockwise three times, and say:By the power of three times three,This is my will, so may it be.You may now proceed with your working. You may physically walk to a tree that you would like to connect with, if you are not there already, or you may sit down and perform the journey in your mind.Whichever you decide, know that you are now between the worlds.Once you are at the tree ...
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When you are ready, say the following or similar words:I walk between the worlds with the World Tree as my guide;May my roots reach deep,May my core be strong and centred, andMay my inspiration reach towards the skies.I now venture into the LowerworldTo understand my deepest shadow,To seek the roots of any difficulty,And to find my spirit guide as Ancestor or Fair Folk.In the realms below I search...
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To enter the Lowerworld and connect with an ancestral or Faerie guide, you can use a rite such as the one that follows, which ideally should be performed out of doors, but if that is impossible, can be done indoors as instructed previously using indoor potted trees as your liminal place, taking the place of an outdoor hedge.Go to your special, liminal place, whether that be a hedge, the seashore, ...
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In the Hedge Druid’s Craft, we can seek relationship with the Fair Folk, the Faeries, the Sidhe, deep within the Hollow Hills.We can seek them out, using our wit and intelligence, our skills and knowledge, if we dare. We can connect to the Lowerworld through their means, through their places of power, through the gateways that we begin to perceive, both seen and unseen.We can, through the aid of a...