PATRONS ONLY: Compelling Magic in Herbal Charms

This event is livestreamed for members of Coven and Inner Circle tiers on Patreon. Recordings will be available afterward for all other students to purchase. To join in, sign up on Patreon. 

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.

Come explore the dark side of European plant magic & lore in this exciting and brand new lecture. Students will analyze charms and rituals which employ this dominating form of…