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

Written by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Narrated by Gabra Zackman

“For covens who prefer meeting outdoors, perhaps in a garden or a deep forest clearing, The Green Witch is a delightful guide to nature magic. It’s filled with practical recipes for herbal blends and potions, the properties of essential oils, and lots of ideas for healing and relaxation.” —Bustle

Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this guide to green witchcraft.

At her core, the green witch is a naturalist, an herbalist, a wise woman, and a healer. She embraces the power of nature; she draws energy from the Earth and the Universe; she relies on natural objects like stones and gems to commune with the land she lives off of; she uses plants, flowers, oils, and herbs for healing; she calls on nature for guidance; and she respects every living being no matter how small.

In The Green Witch, you will learn the way of the green witch, from how to use herbs, plants, and flowers to make potions and oils for everyday healing as well as how crystals, gems, stones, and even twigs can help you find balance within. You’ll discover how to find harmony in Earth’s great elements and connect your soul to every living creature. The green witch focuses on harmony, healing, and balance with the Earth, but also with humanity and yourself. This guide also contains easy-to-understand directions for herbal blends and potions, ritual suggestions, recipes for sacred foods, and information on how to listen to and commune with nature. Not only will you attune yourself to nature, but you will also embrace your own power. Learn about the world of the green witch and discover what the power of nature has in store for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Jul 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781508266532

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Arin Murphy-Hiscock is the author of The Green Witch’s Grimoire, Spellcrafting, The Pregnant Goddess, Wicca, The Green Witch, The Way of the Hedge Witch, House Witch, The Witch’s Book of Self-Care, Pagan Pregnancy, Solitary Wicca for Life, and The Hidden Meaning of Birds—A Spiritual Field Guide. She has been active in the field of alternative spirituality for over twenty years and lives in Montreal, Canada.

Reviews for The Green Witch

[Samantha Hyde · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome for anyone just beginning their practice! Can not wait to use to look back on some of the things mentioned and apply them to my practice.

[Herbs spices condiments and oils · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Learnt so much from this book

[Brooke Sanabria · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

AMAZING!!! Felt so connected and learned so many new remedies ❤️

[lucja.gorna1b · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

i loved it, definitely going to use these spells. great

[Mattias L · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Cozy little book with lots of recipes and ideas of nice things to do around your home.

[John Joyce · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a great book, a lifetimes wearth of knowledge.

[Justine Shumate · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This has open my mind to everything, I feel like my spirit and mind has been feed

[Yessica Leal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Un libro muy completo con mucha información! Es un libro al cual regresaría a leer porque tiene varias recetas que me interesan

[Corina Ciurlea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Studying is mostly about reading because, as of now, there is no other way to condense valuable information rather than a book

[Megan Pendl · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I believe that I have found a new favorite Author. I have been practicing Witchcraft off and on since I was 13 (I am now 39) and these books are helping me to find my footing after being lost for the past while. These are amazing ?

[caedocyon · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Picked it up for free and spent a couple hours paging through it.

All the things that bore me about "witchcraft" books are nicely contained herein:

- wiccan-influenced without understanding just how much so it is. "In general, witchcraft acknowledges a god and a goddess (sometimes solely a goddess)" p. 14; oh, *does* it now?

- 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. (Or a vague claim that all those traditions actually come from it?? (p. 23)) Bonus points for invoking the image of "midwives, wisewomen, and healers who live on the edge of town" repeatedly. Hey, an intriguing quote from actual medieval scholarship about how the main function of "cunning-folk" was removing curses/evil eye, and how that dried up as belief in curses/evil eye did! But no further information there, or acknowledgement that those cunning-folk wouldn't recognize anything about white north american green witchcraft including the name.

- but really, where *does* the author get all this stuff about the green witch path? I get that the real history is much less important to witches than the mythical history (p. 21), but I care! I hate the false, insulating sense of timelessness and culturelessness it creates. If it's her own creation or that of a community located in spacetime she should say so.

- puts "earth" and "humanity" before "yourself" as the focuses of green witchcraft (p. 16), but then all the spells/crafts/rituals are about things you can do for yourself and maybe your friend circle and/or customers of your small business. That's not much of a definition of other humans, much less the earth.

- much too brief reference to "Pennsylvanian pow-wow" as a type of "spellcasters who performed folk magic particular to a region" (p. 19). I wish there was more info here, as it's hard to internet search: most of the references that aren't to horror fiction are back to this book. Seems to be some kind of christian faith healing thing with a name appropriated from Native people to make it exotic and dangerous.

- lists of plants and gems with uses/correspondences, but *zero* interest in botany or geology. This is overwhelmingly common, and so self-centered! 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.

- where do gemstones come from? IDK, the store?? Seems a little disconnected from the earth. The quartzite, mica, and feldspar you can probably find in your backyard or park don't merit a mention.

- exclusive focus on harmony, abundance, and other positive emotions/states of being. (p. 31) Where does justice enter this picture? Productive conflict? Economic scarcity? Other people's needs and feelings?

[pmtracy · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Basic, but we'll written with a lot of good information.