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The Old Ways: A Hedge Witch's Guide to Living a Magical Life
Embrace the old ways with the new as you develop your own vibrant hedge witchcraft tradition. Leading you beyond The Path of the Hedge Witch, Joanna van der Hoeven deepens your skills in herbalism, spellcraft, hedge riding (trance work), and more so you can truly live your Craft.
Following Joanna’s guidance, you will develop a daily practice that involves connection to deity, the Fair Folk, and your familiar. Explore a thirteen-month lunar ritual series and create your own divination set based on your local surroundings. With this book, you can expand your solitary practice and find your place in the world.
“A volume to refer to at every Moon, at each turning of the wheel, and whenever the Otherworld needs to be consulted.”
—Ellen Evert Hopman, author of The Real Witches of New England
Following Joanna’s guidance, you will develop a daily practice that involves connection to deity, the Fair Folk, and your familiar. Explore a thirteen-month lunar ritual series and create your own divination set based on your local surroundings. With this book, you can expand your solitary practice and find your place in the world.
“A volume to refer to at every Moon, at each turning of the wheel, and whenever the Otherworld needs to be consulted.”
—Ellen Evert Hopman, author of The Real Witches of New England
256 pages, Paperback
Published March 8, 2025
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About the author
Joanna van der Hoeven
28 books115 followersJoanna van der Hoeven was born in Quebec, Canada. She moved to the UK in 1998, where she now lives with her husband in a small village near the coast of the North Sea.
Joanna is a former Trustee of The Druid Network. She has studied with Emma Restall Orr and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. She has a BA Hons English Language and Literature degree.
She is currently enjoying writing fiction, and her Witches of the New Forest series has been wonderfully received.
Joanna is a former Trustee of The Druid Network. She has studied with Emma Restall Orr and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. She has a BA Hons English Language and Literature degree.
She is currently enjoying writing fiction, and her Witches of the New Forest series has been wonderfully received.
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July 30, 2025
I learned a few new things, but not sure if I'd wholeheartedly recommend it. I accidentally read this out of order, I do intend on picking up her first book and reading that too. Personally I found the section on familiars the most interesting.
October 18, 2025
Such a good read! I liked that it provided a frame work for extending knowledge in that area of witch craft. Some of the information was repetitive from her last book but I did appreciate if she repeated herself she added some extra info with it.
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