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Continue reading →: Rain Magick
I love it when it rains. I guess it comes from growing up in Stage 3 and 4 drought and water restrictions, and never learning to drive in the rain. I remember the time I first had to drive in the rain – it was the evening that I first…
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Continue reading →: Day Sixteen – Representing their Pantheon
Day the sixteenth: How do you think this deity represents the values of their pantheon and cultural origins? Being that he began his journey as a man, he is true to that time. For those who see him as Celtic (I don’t, I see him as a Brit) he is…
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Continue reading →: Day Fifteen – Mundane Practices
Day the Fifteenth: Any mundane practices that are associated with this deity? I don’t see anything that he does as mundane, so I’ll leave this post here and come back to it.
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Continue reading →: Day Fourteen: Modern Day Worship
Day the fourteenth: Has worship of this deity changed in modern times? I’ve looked in books and online, and there is little that I can find of traditional ways to honour Herne. All I can go off is my personal ways of honouring him, and what I’ve read from other…
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Continue reading →: Day Thirteen: Modern Cultural Issues
Day the Thirteenth: What modern cultural issues are closest to this deity’s heart? Land conservation. Being that one aspect of who he is is the Lord of the Forests, most notably Windsor Forest, the world needs to be green. I read about the awful things Australia’s current pathetic excuse for a…
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Continue reading →: Day the Twelfth: Places associated with Herne
Day the Twelfth: Places associated with Herne and their worship. The most notable is Windsor Forest. It was there that he hunted, and in death lead his Wild Hunt. Damh the Bard wrote a beautiful post about his own journey into Herne’s forest here. For those of us wanting to…
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Continue reading →: Day the Eleventh: Festivals, days, and times sacred to Herne.
Day the Eleventh: Festivals, days, and times sacred to this deity. The Horn Dance. I first read about the Horn Dance in Eric Fitch’s book, In Search of Herne the Hunter, mentions a local festival which he believes is “a living echo” of an earlier time. In A Staffordshire village there…
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Continue reading →: Day the Tenth: Offerings – Historical and UPG.
Day the Tenth: Offerings – Historical and UPG. Historically, I can’t find mention. I’ve looked in my books, and naturally on Google. The feeling I get is that historically it’d be meat. Red, raw meat. Admittedly I did have to look up what UPG meant as this 30 day quest…
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Continue reading →: Day the Ninth: Common mistakes about Herne.
Day the Ninth: Common mistakes about this deity. Major one: He is not Cernunnos. Please stop saying that he is another facet of Cernunnos. They are not interchangable. Just like Athena and Diana are not the same Deity – they are individuals! [pause for Monty Python responce] Another facet of…
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Continue reading →: 20 Questions
(Participating in the Pagan Blog Project and not sure what to do for your second Q post?! Do this 20 questions!) 1. What is your favorite witchy movie? The Spirit of Albion! 2. Where is your favorite place to do a spell? In sunshine, outdoors. But! If it’s cold and…
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Continue reading →: Day the Eighth: Variations and regional forms of Herne.
Day the Eighth: Variations on this deity (aspects, regional forms, etc.) He was local to London, to Berkshire, and to Windsor Forest. His reach extended out from there through story, through generations, and then through his comparison to Cernunnos. He certainly isn’t Cernunnos, as Cernunnos is as old as time.…
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Continue reading →: Day the Seventh: Names and epithets.
Day the Seventh: Names and epithets. ep·i·thet (ɛpɪˌθɛt) noun 1. any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality: “Richard the Lion-Hearted” is an epithet of Richard I. . Herne…the Hunter. I sometimes refer to him as Herne of Windsor. Depends on both…
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I’m Rowan
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