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

WE MUST REMEMBER THAT EATING is a sacred act.

Magically, cinnamon is associated with success, action, healing, protection, energy, love, prosperity, and purification.

The simplest method is to reach out and connect with the spirit of a single plant, then ask the plant spirit for information on the plant’s uses and properties.

Now try to pour that feeling into the cleaning product. Visualize the feeling welling up from your heart and flowing down your arms and out through your hands; see the product absorbing that energy.

Of those ten plants, which are indigenous to your area and which were imported? When were they imported and by whom? • What trees are most commonly found in your neighborhood? Again, which are indigenous and which were deliberately introduced? When and by whom? • What wildlife is native to your area? • Is the water that’s channeled to your tap hard

INTERACTION EXERCISES When observation is done with intent, you will discover more about your neighborhood. For this exercise, first choose a stone or a plant that you’re familiar with. Allow yourself to experience it again as if for the first time. Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your green witch journal. • What does this sto

Visualize the glow of energy collected in your palm gently stretching out to touch the glowing energy of the plant. As the two energies meet, ask yourself what you sense. Do you feel a specific emotion? Do ideas drift into your head? Thoughts or vague hunches? Pay attention. This is a method for collecting observations about the plant by sensing it

An element shrine is a place where you can connect with one element or all

A shrine, however, is a place to honor something or someone or to leave offerings, a place where you can collect things of personal significance and various energies to weave together an energy that is greater than the sum of its individual parts. A shrine creates a location for a certain kind of energy.