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A hands-on guide to using flower essences in magick, spellcraft, alchemy, and healing
• 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Entering the Witch's Garden
1 What Are Flower Essences?
2 A History of Flower Essences
3 Devas, Plant Spirits, and Green Familiars
4 Balms, Banes, and Tree Spirits
5 Making Flower Essences
6 Deciphering the Language of Flowers
7 Choosing and Using Flower Essences
8 Flower Essences in Magick
9 Flower Essence Formulary
10 Plant Spirit Alchemy
11 Directory of One Hundred Flower Essences
Appendix
Flower Essence Suppliers
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Flower Essences
Index
