Green Wicca/Witchcraft

[MystIc_WolF]

I don't know how many others are on this path, but I thought I'd start a thread on this path within the craft. My practice is probably just about as eclectic as you can get since it mixes the green craft with an intense study of Divination of all kinds, meditation, the study and inclusion of numerous Eastern Philosophies, and an emphasis on the study of numerous other paths, belief systems, etc, in order to have a solid understanding of how they are all different, and yet the same. thus giving the advantage of being able to have educated debates with people. I'm currently solitary, but I'm hoping to find a coven to join when I go off to college (I'm currently 17).

[Kalika]

:)

Healing ties into green witchcraft in some ways...

What areas are you most interested in, as there are many?

Just curious!

[grnpuffer]

I don't know how many others are on this path, but I thought I'd start a thread on this path within the craft.

Hi Wolf;
What is green wicca? (sorry, never heard the use of the terms green + wicca before)

I was initiated into and worked the grades of a green ray lineage. The work drew heavily from Dion Fortunes writings and focused very heavily on elemental magics (especially in the alchemical sense). The workings had more of a ceremonial magic flavor than a wiccan devotional one. Are you referring to the same thing?
Just curious
best wishes

[RubyRose]

Isn't green witchcraft also referred to as Kitchen Witchcraft? Or as being a Kitchen Witch?

[Lucius]

Isn't green witchcraft also referred to as Kitchen Witchcraft? Or as being a Kitchen Witch?
I think I've heard that as well somewhere but I'm not exactly sure if it's correct or not. HHHHmmm, someone tell us.

[RubyRose]

:lol: aww, and here I thought I'd have an answer. Maybe its research time eh?

[spirit wind]

I like to label myself with Kitchenwitch/Hedgewitch :)

For me, it's using herbs, potions, brews, salves, ointments etc to heal, use in my spellwork etc.
There is more to it, but my brain is on strike! :lol:

I do like the sound of Green Wicca/Witchcraft though. It sounds interesting.

SW

[RubyRose]

So ... is a kitchen/hedgewitch the same thing as a green witch? ... cause green to me denotes herbs and stuff ...

[Lucius]

*shrugs*

[spirit wind]

From what i can tell....... GreenWitch does mean 'herbs and stuff' but normally it is called a kitchenwitch. I don't do rituals, cast circles and there is no leaning towards Wicca in my path. I don't worship certain Gods or Goddesses, just the Earth Mother and Sky Father and everything in between.

[RubyRose]

Wow, I didn't realise that Kitchen witchery (sorry couldn't resist) was so different than Wicca ...

[Lucius]

yeah, it's actually a lot different but there are some similarities.

[RubyRose]

Cool

[mothwench]

just thought i'd mention, to anyone who doesn't know, that ann moura has a thread in the author's circle. (she's the author of various books on green witchcraft.)
heh, that reminds me, i think i'll go in there and ask her to drop in the ole MW herball to have a lookey. :steppy: i hope she's still here, in any case. :)

[Lucius]

just thought i'd mention, to anyone who doesn't know, that ann moura has a thread in the author's circle. (she's the author of various books on green witchcraft.)
heh, that reminds me, i think i'll go in there and ask her to drop in the ole MW herball to have a lookey. :steppy: i hope she's still here, in any case. :)
...didn't know that. thanks a lot.

[RubyRose]

Thanks I'll have to check that out

[MystIc_WolF]

Well, apparently we have slightly different ideas of Green Wicca/Witchcraft. While part of Green Wicca for me is the study of herbology (the use of different plants and herbs as medicine) I'm not really able to get much farther into it than reading about it in books. In my personal path of Green Wicca, I focus primarily on connecting with nature and a deity that I see as having three identities, a God, Goddess, and a sort of life force that flows through everything, all three being the same thing, and yet different at the same time. I do this primarily through intense study and utilisation of numerous forms of divination and oracles, meditation, at some point Astral Projection, and numerous other methods. What I guess seperates me from Green Witchcraft is the fact that I see Divination and meditation, etc, as ways to bring me closer to the divine. I personally believe the idea "though art god", not in the literal sense of course, but in the figurative. As such my path focuses mainly on connecting with all of reality, coming to the realisation that we are all floating through space on a dot relatively barely the size of a grain of sand, and attempting to reach the point where a connection with this larger reality is possible, while still staying firmly grounded in day to day reality. A big part of this is, of course, the exclusion of illegal drugs and other substances from my work. Sorry if I've been rambling a bit, I just like sharing my path with others, like most people do when those other people are actually interested in learning.

[Faeawyn]

So ... is a kitchen/hedgewitch the same thing as a green witch? ... cause green to me denotes herbs and stuff ...
I'll jump in and say yes :). A kitchen witch is more like a witch who is very relaxed with her craft, cooks up her brews on the stove, uses a kitchen knife as her athame, uses a great deal of herbs and oils. Same as a hedgewitch (I believe an English version of a kitchen witch, but not positive). A green witch...same thing. They're all nature based forms of witchcraft...which is more like what I am :)....altho I do, on occassion, do the formal ritual thing.

[spirit wind]

Oh, you are certainly not rambling Mystic Wolf!!! I find that what you have to say on this subject is intruiging. :) Please, go on and share with us more on this subject. I am certainly a willing listener. At the moment i am studying Medicinal Herbology and have found it amazing what you can do with herbs. I feel they are under rated in some ways. I meditate, use runes, tarot cards, candles to focus on and manipulate as well as many other things.
Hope to hear from you soon :)

Spirit Wind

[Phae Talon]

So ... is a kitchen/hedgewitch the same thing as a green witch? ... cause green to me denotes herbs and stuff ...

Not the same, no ... but similar. From what I understand, kitchen witchery is about cooking, potions, herbs etc ... your magical tools are your kitchen tools (such as knives) because it adds a bit of magic to everything that you make for your family. It is all about your home and family ... kind of like a Mom-Witch.

Hedge witchery is a little different. There is a big element of kitchen witchery in it, but there are also many assorted other spells, there is more contact with dieties (many are polytheistic) ... it is basically a revival of the folk practices of the Old Religion of Britian. One big difference between Wicca and Hedge Witchery is that a hedgewitch doesn't need a big elaborate ritual in order to cast a spell (and hedgewitches tend to be solitary). It can be as simple as a meditation while in the bathtub.

The green path is a little closer to Wicca for those who want things to be a little more formal, but is still seriously nature centered.

That is not all that there is too it, of course, but those are the basics ... hope that was helpful :)

--Phae

[Shugo]

Ok, for those of you that haven't read my post in the introductions section, its stil MystIc_WolF, I just started a new account since my old one got messed up during the upgrade. Anyway, feel free to ask me whatever you want. Spirit Wind, I would be really interested in talking with you, send me an IM sometime.

[RubyRose]

Not the same, no ... but similar. From what I understand, kitchen witchery is about cooking, potions, herbs etc ... your magical tools are your kitchen tools (such as knives) because it adds a bit of magic to everything that you make for your family. It is all about your home and family ... kind of like a Mom-Witch.

Hedge witchery is a little different. There is a big element of kitchen witchery in it, but there are also many assorted other spells, there is more contact with dieties (many are polytheistic) ... it is basically a revival of the folk practices of the Old Religion of Britian. One big difference between Wicca and Hedge Witchery is that a hedgewitch doesn't need a big elaborate ritual in order to cast a spell (and hedgewitches tend to be solitary). It can be as simple as a meditation while in the bathtub.

The green path is a little closer to Wicca for those who want things to be a little more formal, but is still seriously nature centered.

That is not all that there is too it, of course, but those are the basics ... hope that was helpful :)

--Phae

Thanks, I think I understand it now

[Faery-Wings]

Hi all!
I consider myself a Kitchen Witch, with a strong religious component in it. But I am not a hedgewitch, because I am more eclectic, and not hard polytheist. Confused yet? ;)

Should we make a separate thread for Green Wicca and one for Kitchen Witchery in this forum? Or do you all think it is good to keep them combined here for now?

[Phae Talon]

Should we make a separate thread for Green Wicca and one for Kitchen Witchery in this forum? Or do you all think it is good to keep them combined here for now?

No, I think that is a good idea :) Go for it

--Phae

[Nitefalle]

Thanks, Phe Talon, for clearing up the bit about hedge witches. I consider myself to be mostly a hedgewitch with kitchen witchery tendencies and some green thrown in. I'm mostly a by-the-seat-of-my-pants type of witch, doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done, but not really doing a ritual every full moon or even necessarily a ritual every sabbat. I honor them, but in my own way, which is different every time.

~N~

[Phae Talon]

Thanks, Phae Talon, for clearing up the bit about hedge witches.

Not a problem :) I figure that if there is at least one area where I know what I am talking about, I may as well speak up! :lol:


I'm mostly a by-the-seat-of-my-pants type of witch,

:T I like that one!

--Phae

[ororo]

I think I'm more of a green witch. I love the nature and my spells are very elemental. I would put more "hedge" into my craft if I had the supply of herbs that I wish I had. I love nature, though. And I've never had a doubt in my mind as to where my path leads.

[WiccanGoddess]

To me, a Green Witch is one associated with the natural things in nature, and has a connection to Mother Nature herself. The natural things could be herbs, stones, oils....and also, as a Green witch the way I was taught, someone who works with meditations, karma, works on feeling and seeing auras so they can help someone in need of help, and works on studying each path out there, seeing how thiers is connected. That is how I was brought up at least.

[FaerieGothMommy]

To me, a Green Witch is one associated with the natural things in nature, and has a connection to Mother Nature herself. The natural things could be herbs, stones, oils....and also, as a Green witch the way I was taught, someone who works with meditations, karma, works on feeling and seeing auras so they can help someone in need of help, and works on studying each path out there, seeing how thiers is connected. That is how I was brought up at least.

This is exactly what i do. I mostly work with herbs, healing, divination etc. I don't do rituals and do not worship any particular god or goddess, i worship mother nature :)
I usually call myself a hedgewitch or if referring to what i practice, i say green witchcraft.

[Bec_W]

I'm mostly a by-the-seat-of-my-pants type of witch, doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done, but not really doing a ritual every full moon or even necessarily a ritual every sabbat. I honor them, but in my own way, which is different every time.

ditto. I'm a bit like that, okay so mostly like that. My path seems to be a blend of kitchen/green witchery, I like to focus on healing and looking after my family. I'm itching for spring (or at least the end of winter) so I can plant up my garden, still got a while to go yet though.

[FaerieGothMommy]

ditto. I'm a bit like that, okay so mostly like that. My path seems to be a blend of kitchen/green witchery, I like to focus on healing and looking after my family. I'm itching for spring (or at least the end of winter) so I can plant up my garden, still got a while to go yet though.

Same here :)

[Bec_W]

Hey, while I'm thinking of, has anyone heard of a tradition called "Cottage Witchery"? I heard the term somewhere a while ago and gather that it's similar to kitchen witchery and green witchery (maybe a combination of both). I haven't heard anything about it since.

[IvyWitch]

I'm still not quite understanding.

Is Green Wicca/Witchcraft just more heavily focused on nature "worship" than other Wiccan sects, and the Gods that are focused on are those associated with nature? That was the impression I got from paging through a couple of books about it.

[Bec_W]

I was hoping some one with a better grasp on, reality, English...well everything today, would answer, but seeing as no one has I'll have a stab at it :)

Is Green Wicca/Witchcraft just more heavily focused on nature "worship" than other Wiccan sects, and the Gods that are focused on are those associated with nature? That was the impression I got from paging through a couple of books about it.

I think that's an apt general description. I've found that most Green Wiccan's I know are less ritualistic that those of other Wiccan trads. I'm not Wiccan at all so I tend to be less ritual focus anyway.

[starshadow]

To me, a Green Witch is one associated with the natural things in nature, and has a connection to Mother Nature herself. The natural things could be herbs, stones, oils....and also, as a Green witch the way I was taught, someone who works with meditations, karma, works on feeling and seeing auras so they can help someone in need of help, and works on studying each path out there, seeing how thiers is connected. That is how I was brought up at least.
That is pretty much how I see it too. I don't consider myself Wiccan. I practice natural magic and see nature on a spiritual level. Alot of my path is based on my participation with some Native American Spiritualists that I was aquainted with in the 80's. So, witchcraft doesn't really cover it either.

Although I have incorporated some aspects of Wicca into my practice. IE: I wear a pentegram and a medicine bag. I read tarot and medicine cards. I see the magical and medicinal properties of herbs. etc.. etc. Call me what you will but, my connection to the earth and the sky are my roots.

Peace and Blessings
Starshadow

[Shugo]

Sorry for sort of abandoning this thread, but I was involved in another forum, and now that I've had two accounts in that forum banned for no reason, I figure maybe its time I take some time to return to the old haunting grounds. Anyway, to me Green Witchcraft is focused on more practice and less ritual. Its main focus is prayer, study, divination, meditation, that sort of thing, and less about giant, fancy rituals.