The Magic Tree

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I’m excited. I’m awaiting (patiently thousands of miles away in lockdown world) my first order from Treadwells bookstore. Some candles, a crystal pendulum, some Abramelin oil (a magical oil used in ceremony to get in touch with holy guardian angels) and books. As we’re just three weeks away from the Summer Solstice (live zoomed from Stonehenge this corona year) it feels like a good time to celebrate things druidry, shamanic, ancient and mystical. A tree of knowledge to a tree of life with roots in many magical systems through the ages.

Here’s a couple of tomes that are coming:

THE BOOK OF ENGLISH MAGIC by Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate
A 560 odd page doorstopper of a history book. Full of Wicca, druidry, runes, John Dee, Golden Dawn — all in their Englishness and historical setting.

The Witching Herbs Book: 13 Essential Plants & Herbs For Your MagicalGarden by Harold Roth

Information about growing 13 herbs that have been traditionally used in in magic and full of details about the spirits of these plants. Gardening and germinating tips on such plants as: clary sage, yarrow, rue, hyssop,  vervain, mugwort, wormwood, thornapple and wild tobacco. Harold’s website has some wonderful details about plant oils, resins & incense, seeds, essential oils, herbs, flower essences, planting cycles (Moon etc.), correspondence codes (deities and planetary systems), plant alchemy, history, magic, wortcunning and unusual gardening.

^{Can't wait! These lovelies will sit alongside another new beauty to be devoured with tea and biscuits as my own self-care reading ritual. In these dark times, we all need a resilience magical life.}