Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden
Plant Spirits in Magickal Herbalism
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
• 2023 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award
• Provides detailed instructions for making single-flower essences and magickal and therapeutic essence blends
• Shares new magickal uses for flower essences, from creating sacred space to dressing candles to preparing incense, as well as how to use essences in meditation, potions, spells, spagyrics, and ritual
• Includes a detailed directory of 100 flower and plant essences, complete with astrological, elemental, and magickal correspondences
In this practical guide to using flower essences in witchcraft, alchemy, and healing, Nicholas Pearson provides detailed instructions for making and using flower essences based on traditional Western magick practices. He shares new uses for essences--from creating sacred space to dressing candles to preparing incense--and explains how to use them in meditation, potions, spells, spagyrics, and ritual. He shares exercises for connecting more deeply to the energies of the green world and exploring how essences can be used in traditional sacraments of witchcraft like the Great Rite.
In the hands-on formulary, the author provides recipes for essence combinations for the eight sabbats and formulas based on familiar blends like traditional flying ointments of European witchcraft. He shares his method for creating flower essence spagyrics--alchemical preparations made from the body, mind, and soul of the plant that offer the highest vibrational potency for therapeutic and spiritual uses. Pearson also provides a detailed directory of 100 flower and plant essences, complete with astrological, elemental, and magickal correspondences and the therapeutic indications for each essence.
Weaving together magickal herbalism, traditional plant lore, and flower essence therapy, this guide allows you to see flower essences not just as vibrational remedies but also as powerful tools for transformation, magick, and spiritual practice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reiki practitioner Pearson (Crystal Basics) presents a thorough guide to "safe and effective ways to work with plants" when practicing magick. The author offers detailed descriptions of a variety of botanicals alongside instructions for creating and using homemade flower essences (solutions usually made through soaking flowers in water) to "bring balance to the psyche by flooding the mind and emotions with the positive virtues of flowers." For example, one love spell requires making rose essence by soaking roses in a glass bowl of water, adding the essence to a bath with rose petals scattered about, then visualizing "unloving thoughts" washing off oneself. Other recipes show how to make essences out of such plants as dill, dandelion, mistletoe, and thistle to attract money, commune with the dead, find new opportunities, or break curses. Pearson concludes with a directory detailing the metaphysical applications of 100 flower essences. With this comprehensive manual, Pearson succeeds in presenting an accessible methodology for working with botanicals and cultivating a connection with nature. This will appeal to magick practitioners of all levels.
