Compelling Magic in Herbal Charms @ Hauswitch

This lecture is hosted through Hauswitch. Please purchase tickets here on their website.

Join author and occultist Melissa Madara for an especially verdant lecture!

For many practitioners who walk the green path, considering plants as allies and collaborators is the logical conclusion of an animist perspective. In acknowledging the spirit and selfhood of a plant, we access deeper capacities for relation, craft, tutelage, and affinity. However, history presents another side to this relationship, in which plant allies can be dominated by the practitioner to ensure their magical assistance. Here, the relationship between plant and practitioner becomes adversarial, and green spirits can be manipulated, controlled, and adjured by force into surrendering their virtues. In this lecture, students will analyze charms and rituals which employ this dominating form of green magic, and compare the techniques, tools, and praxis within.