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🌲Welcome to the Plant & Herb Magic Course
A complete beginner's course in plant and herb magic, taught as its own full discipline foundational herbs, correspondences, sourcing, preparations, applied workings, and a closing IFS parts-work integration in every lesson.
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🌲 1 Plant Magic Course - Module 1 — What Plant Magic Actually Is
An introduction to plant and herb magic what it is, how it works, what it can and cannot do, and the braided traditions a modern witch inherits when she begins the green craft.
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🌲7 Plant Magic Course | Module 7 — The Poison Path: Baneful Plants, Bounded Honestly
An honest account of the poison path in European witchcraft — belladonna, mandrake, henbane, datura, wolfsbane, and the others — what the tradition is, why beginners do not learn it, and the safer plants that cover its functions.
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🌲8 Plant Magic Course | Module 8 — Drying, Storing, and the Closed-Practice Conversation
The craft of drying and storing herbs to preserve their magical charge across seasons, plus the closed-practice conversation around white sage, palo santo, sweetgrass, and other plants that belong to specific Indigenous traditions.
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🌲9 Plant Magic Course | Module 9 — Infusions, Teas, and Magical Waters
Water-based plant magic — hot infusions and ritual teas, cold infusions, root and bark decoctions, sun and moon waters, Florida water and the hoodoo cleansing tradition, ritual baths, floor washes, and body washes.
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🌲10 Plant Magic Course |Module 10 — Magical Oils and Herbal Salves
Oil-based plant magic — choosing carrier oils, the slow infusion method, solar and heat infusions, building anointing oils with essential oil layering, the hoodoo condition oils tradition, and herbal salves with beeswax.
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🌲11 Plant Magic Course |Module 11 — Sachets, Mojo Bags, and Carried Plant Magic
Carried plant magic — European sachets, the hoodoo mojo bag tradition, dream pillows, herbal poppets, and the daily-life sachets that thread plant magic through cars, workplaces, drawers, and thresholds.
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🌲12 Plant Magic Course |Module 12 — Simmer Pots, Incense, Smoke Bundles, and Jar Spells
Four major delivery methods of plant magic — simmer pots that fill the home with sustained scent, loose incense and resins on charcoal, smoke bundles for cleansing, jar spells and witch's bottles for sustained background working, and herbal powders for thresholds and dressing.
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🌲13 Plant Magic Course |Module 13 — Plant Magic for Specific Intentions
Applied plant magic for the situations beginners actually bring to the craft — love, prosperity, protection, healing, sleep and dreams, peace in the home, courage, communication, grief, cleansing, road-opening, fertility, and spiritual development.
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🌲14 Plant Magic Course |Module 14 — The Long Practice: Living as a Green Witch
The long arc of green craft — daily rhythm, seasonal attunement, the garden that grows with the witch across decades, fluent substitution, teaching forward, the garden as ancestor work, the one plant who becomes a witch's center, returning what is spent, and the carriage long-term practice produces in a person.
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🌲6 Plant Magic Course |Module 6 — Growing, Wildcrafting, and Buying: Sourcing Your Herbs
How to source magical herbs across the three paths — growing on a windowsill, balcony, plot, or indoors with grow lights; wildcrafting ethically with consent and identification certainty; and buying from suppliers who honor what they sell.
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🌲5 Plant Magic Course |Module 5 — The Correspondence System: Elements, Planets, and Magical Properties
The correspondence system underlying Western plant magic — the four classical elements, the seven classical planets, the doctrine of signatures, how to read a magical herbal entry, how to match herbs to intentions, and how to build a personal correspondence practice across years.
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🌲4 Plant Magic Course |Module 4 — The Foundational Herbs: Your Starting Library
The foundational green allies of beginner plant magic — rosemary, lavender, bay, the kitchen herbs, and the protective, prosperity, love, dream, healing, cleansing, and grounding herbs that make up a witch's starting library, with elemental and planetary correspondences and safety notes for each.
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🌲3 Plant Magic Course | Module 3 — Plants as Allies, Not Ingredients: The Relational Foundation
The relational foundation of plant magic — the difference between using plants as ingredients and working with them as allies, the slow build of relationship across seasons, asking rather than extracting, and the plants who choose the witch.
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🌲2 Plant Magic Course | Module 2 — The History of Plant Magic Across Cultures
A history of plant magic from prehistoric burials and the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus through Greek herbals, medieval monasteries, the witch trials, Culpeper, hoodoo and rootwork, Indigenous and Asian traditions, and the modern Western synthesis on the bookshelf today.
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🌲Welcome to the Plant & Herb Magic Course
A complete beginner's course in plant and herb magic, taught as its own full discipline foundational herbs, correspondences, sourcing, preparations, applied workings, and a closing IFS parts-work integration in every lesson.
🔮7 Knot Magic Course |Module 7 — Handfasting, Cord-Cutting, and Relationship Knot Magic
Knot magic is uniquely suited to the work of relationship. The knot's physical binding of two strands into a single visible structure maps onto human connection in a way few other magical tools manage. Two cords woven into one. Two hands tied together at the wrist. The cord between a mother and the child she has carried. The bond between friends sustained across decades. The line between the witch and her beloved dead. Across many cultures the metaphor of relationship as kno
🔮6 Knot Magic Course | Module 6 — Binding and Unbinding: The Operative Heart of Knot Magic
Binding is the magical operation of fixing something into place — making it stable, committing something or someone to a state, a promise, or a course of action. The knot is the natural vehicle for binding because to tie is, in the most literal sense, to bind. Every knot is a small binding, every cord drawn tight a small commitment. The vocabulary of binding runs through ordinary language wherever weight and seriousness are at stake: bound to a promise, bound by oath, bound t
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