The six lineages
The six types of witches
Six lineages are named in this work: Hedge, Sea, Hearth, Storm, Green and Bone. Each one describes a temperament and the terrain it prefers. None of them is a rank, and none is better company than another.
Most pages that answer this question hand you a questionnaire. This one does not. A lineage is assigned from where the weight of a real birth chart actually falls — computed from your date, hour and place of birth, with twelve witnesses examined rather than the ten familiar bodies. You are never asked to describe yourself.
Hedge
The one who works the boundary.
The hedge is the line between the settled place and the wild one, and this temperament lives on it rather than on either side. Chart weight gathers at thresholds — the angles, the twelfth, the points that cross rather than settle. Practice tends toward travel between states: sleep, trance, the errand nobody else will run.
Sea
The one who reads tides.
Water carries the weight here, and feeling arrives as information rather than noise. The temperament is tidal by design: it floods, it withdraws, it returns on a schedule that belongs to it. Its craft is dream, memory and the long patience of things that wear stone down.
Hearth
The one who keeps the fire lit.
Domestic in the old sense, where the house is an instrument rather than a backdrop. Weight settles in the fourth and in the earth that holds heat. The work is repetition made deliberate — a fed room, a mended thing, a rule about who may come in.
Storm
The one who breaks weather.
Sudden by construction, not by temper. Cardinal and airy pressure builds until it has to move, and the chart shows the release rather than the slow accumulation. Its craft is timing: knowing the hour a thing will give, and standing there when it does.
Green
The one who grows what it needs.
Rooted, seasonal, unhurried. Weight gathers in the fertile houses and in bodies that reward attention over force. The practice is cultivation — plants, yes, but also the slower shaping of a life that produces something at the end of the year.
Bone
The one who keeps the dead in the conversation.
Ancestral rather than morbid. The chart leans on the dark points and the deep houses, on inheritance and the parts of a story that were handed over rather than chosen. Its craft is remembrance, lineage and the honest accounting of what came before you.
A verdict names one of the six and shows the reasoning behind it.
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