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Spells, Herbs, Plants and Magical Spaces Outdoors
A guide to the outdoor world and nature-based spirituality for real witches everywhere.
Kate West explains how to set up your own sacred space in the garden and how to grow herbs for use in spells and remedies. The Real Witches' Garden is a practical guide to witchcraft in the garden – whether you have 20 acres or a window box!
Contents:
• Nature based spirituality – Witchcraft by another name.
• How the garden fits into your life and your Craft.
• The garden as a sacred space for working ritual.
• The elemental garden – earth, air, fire, water and spirit.
• The garden as a medicine store – herbs and herbal remedies.
• The smallest of gardens – window boxes, pots and containers.
• Plant associations – a list of plants relating to various aspects of the Craft.
• Planting and tending by the natural cycles – the lunar calendar and the wheel of the year.
About the Author
Kate West has been a practicing Witch for over 30 years. She is High Priestess of The Hearth of Hecate, an established Coven with groups around the country. She is Media officer for the Children of Artemis, the UK’s foremost, and fastest growing Witchcraft and Wiccan organization, and previously served terms of office as both Vice President and Media Co-ordinator of The Pagan Federation.
Kate is a respected and sought after speaker on Witchcraft, appearing at Pagan conferences, as well as non-Pagan and interfaith events. She has an extensive list of TV and media credits, being the subject of a BBC Everyman documentary, and appearing several times on ‘The Heaven and Earth show’, as well as doing numerous radio and press interviews.
Kate is the author of the ‘Real Witches’ books which reveal the Craft for those who live in the real world. ‘The Real Witches’ Handbook’ and ‘The Real Witches’ Kitchen’ being Witchcraft bestsellers in the UK and the USA. ‘A Spell in Your Pocket’, a small gift book, will be published towards the end of 2002. She has just finished ‘The Real Witches’ Coven’ (due out Feb. 2003) which explores group working from both the perspective of running a Coven and being a Coven member. And is currently working on a collection of spells and rituals, to see the practicing Witch through the whole of the Wheel of the Year.
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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The Ultimate Green Witches Guide,
By Merlyn (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Real Witches Garden (Paperback)
For anyone who is interested in both Witchcraft and magical gardening this is the book for you. Kate West explains in her usual clear style how to grow herbs to use in your own spells or herbal remedies. She details the creation of your own sacred space within your garden, where you can truly meet the Gods and Goddesses on your home ground.A great book highly recommended Bright Blessings Merlyn
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4.7 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews) 47 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Use this book for developing the "green" section of your BOS,
By T. Tyne - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Real Witches Garden (Paperback)
While it does include helpful growing advice it isn't a how to book on gardening. Which is good because the focus is on the beautiful rituals which make up a good portion of the content. Besides those for growing healthy plants and dedicating your garden as sacred space, the author has included very special ones for the Sabbats that really highlight the connection of nature and Wicca. I thought the one for Mabon was particularly good in the way she ties all the elements as well as the God and Goddess into the tending of the garden.Because of the rituals, ideas for laying out gardens in witchy styles and the fairly extensive list of plant correspondences this book goes into my top ten list of most often referred to books. 30 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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The Ultimate Green Witches Guide,
By Merlyn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Real Witches Garden (Paperback)
For anyone who is interested in both Witchcraft and magical gardening this is the book for you. Kate West explains in her usual clear style how to grow herbs to use in your own spells or herbal remedies. She details the creation of your own sacred space within your garden, where you can truly meet the Gods and Goddesses on your home ground.A great book highly recommended Bright Blessings Merlyn 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Go for the (Green) Gold,
By W. Martin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Real Witches Garden (Paperback)
Real Witches. Real power. That is the premise of Kate West's new book, The Real Witches' Garden. In this book, like the others in the Real Witches' series Ms. West delves deeply into all the ways to bring your practice into focus using a garden. She states that since we are following a nature-based religion, we might as well do our rituals in nature. Makes sense to me.Now, you apartment dwellers don't go skipping over this book. There are gardens for the very large area as well as for the non-existent outdoor space. Something for everyone, no matter the size of your space or property. And you might even grow that green thumb you never knew you had. In 12 easy to digest chapters, we learn how to make and celebrate gardens of all sorts. We are taught about planning for things like pets and children. There are gardens with a focus on the Lady and Lord, the Elements, the Seasons, magic or healing. Each chapter contains numerous rituals to plant and celebrate in the garden's focus. Gizmos and doodads are kept to a minimum, so costs are not a big deterrent in achieving one with the great outdoors. While I enjoyed this book and found it interesting, the writing style took some getting used to, probably because the author is from the UK. This is an excellent book for a beginner either to the Craft or to gardening. Especially useful are the lists of correspondences in the book, as well as the chapter entitled "Take it from here" that lists further reading and resources. I was also pleased with the appendix explaining what witchcraft really is. It included brief paragraphs on our beliefs, something that is usually overlooked in many witchcraft books. All in all this is nice, handy book to add to your spiritual library. W. Lyon Martin Author/Illustrator of "An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child" |
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