The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More

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It’s filled with practical recipes for herbal blends and potions, the properties of essential oils, and lots of ideas for healing and relaxation. vague claims of continuing a tradition multiple hundreds of years old; no exploration of how it continues from european witch/pagan traditions of the last 150 years. Not finding things beautiful or fascinating for what they are and how they came to be that way, only concerned about what they can do for you. Not only that but I think it was also disappointing and messed up with how Anti-Indigenous this book is.

I love this book, bits of knowledge of everything, although your path is personal to you and we all walk our own way. This is untrue; if a green witch is going to, say, work with the spirit world for a spell, they still need to cast a circle because that type of work is dangerous to everyone.This book is an indispensable guide to connecting with the energy of the earth and the power of nature. Additionally, there are numerous directions to further reading on the subjects covered, allowing for a deeper exploration of the various topics. In fact, if we're being completely honestly, it's high passed time for Neopagan authors to stop using Christian Folk Practices as their examples altogether. The icing on the cake is truly them saying that "This yearning [for the simpler time of the past] isn’t nostalgia, which is a longing for an airbrushed memory. We have a responsibility not to do violence to it, just as we have a responsibility not to do violence in the present […] In the end we contribute neither to world peace nor to saving the planet by romanticizing the past.

With anything, it's important to thoroughly understand the basics and develop senses and intuition with a guide before leaning too heavily on your intuition, especially if you're doing invocations and herbal preparations. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).They're brief, never make me feel like I'm "doing witchery wrong" or not enough, and are like warm hugs. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. If you have lived in harmony with the earth, know your basic crystal and celestial lore - then you don’t need this.

Unfortunately for me, I didn't get a lot of new information, but it is an excellent resource that I will hold on to when needed. Especially when the vast majority of traditional Folk Magic practices are Christian, and so many authors do so in a way that attempts to unrightfully claim them as "Pagan". The author also did not mention any cares or alerts regarding the consumption of stone elixirs which is a VERY sensitive and careful topic due to the characteristics of certain stones. This seems like it would be good beginner’s book but I honestly didn’t find any of it to be very helpful.I got to chapter six and was really sick of each chapter, new thought or section heading saying “the green witch”. And after finding out the author is a member of Black Forest Clan, no less- a Neo-Wicca sect founded by none other than the Queen of nonsense herself (Sliver Ravenwolf). Author and herbalist Arin Murphy-Hiscock shows the way to healing through the natural magic of flowers, herbs, and essential oils.