Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living (10th Anniversary Edition)
Robin Rose Bennett
Language: English
Pages: 211
ISBN: B00V1DHA0I
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Filled with stories, songs, rituals, recipes, meditations, and trance journeys that outline more than 100 ways to practice the art of magical healing, this guidebook to conscious living by renowned herbalist Robin Rose Bennett makes it easy to follow the path to physical and spiritual health. In the tradition of natural witchcraft, Healing Magic, 10th Anniversary Edition presents step-by-step instructions for conducting earth-centered rituals, preparing herbal remedies, and casting spells to enchant and heal as well as advice on cooking everyday meals incorporating health-enhancing herbs and home remedies.
• Find out how to reconnect with the earth and draw on its energy
• Interact with the power of the seven chakras of the body
• Build an altar
• Make use of moon magic and women's wisdom
• Prepare herbal infusions and baths
• Work with the medicine wheel
• Cast spells for love and wealth
No matter what your beliefs, this guidebook will open your heart and mind to everyday magic and the joys of living in tune with the energies of nature.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Susun S. Weed, author of the Wise Woman Herbal series
Introduction
1. Reconnecting with the Earth
2. Engaging Mystery
3. Moon Magic and Women's Wisdom
4. Herbal Magic
5. The Medicine Wheel of Magic
6. Spells
7. Rituals
Epilogue: A Final Story
Afterword
or eat red foods to heighten your awareness of the root-chakra energy. Different sound vibrations have been used to open the chakras for thousands of years. Sit quietly, indoors or outdoors, and practice intoning these sounds for each of the chakras. Pay attention to any feeling you become aware of in the body area that corresponds to the chakra tone you are singing. You can also place your hands over the energy center to feel any warmth or vibration that may develop there as you practice. The
you get, the faster they seem to pass. Nights don’t figure as prominently in our sense of time and timing. The moon reminds us that time also cycles in a lunar way—a female way that includes the nights. Time, too, fills up and empties, expands and contracts, begins and ends again with each complete lunation. The sun and moon offer us totally different rhythms to dance to, but we don’t need to choose between them. Why dance to just one kind of music? If you could look down on them from above the
to, but only cycles returning to begin again, like breath. This moon work is my favorite ongoing spiritual practice. Its benefits are numerous: focusing consciousness, increasing self-awareness, shifting notions of time from linear to cyclical, attuning you to your inner life, helping you to realize your dreams. I’ve found that aligning yourself with the cycles of the moon via a specific intent each month literally shifts your experience of time from linear to spiraling. Time becomes more
show their moon bag to anyone because they may then want to make it conform to their idea of someone else’s expectation or concept of beauty. Support and affirmation are wonderful and necessary, but the need for approval is so ingrained in women that it must be countered. It is not that the bag is a secret, which is often linked to feeling shame. It is private—a personal, creative bridge to complete self-confidence and personal authority. This single, symbolic gesture of self-trust has a rippling
melt into the tree and be silent. Then, I heard the tree saying, “Yes, yes, tell them to eat me and drink me. I wait here in my ancient form to awaken the parts of your brain that have never been used before.” Did you know that every molecule in your body has already been in existence for fifteen billion years—and goes back to the original birth of time and space itself? This tree’s leaves, taken as a tea, or in a bath, or used as an anointing ointment, increase your sense of the vastness of