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Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook

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Whether you are just beginning to follow your interest in earth spirit magic, or an old hand, this book will inform, guide and inspire you to practice Healing Magic. Robin Rose asks the question, if "Healing Magic is present and available in any and every moment...where do you begin?" She then answers this for the reader in an easy to read, logically ordered way, and provides a wealth of information about awakening the chakras, the energies embodied in the 7 Sacred Directions and the Wheel of the Year. It is however, not a treatise on Magic, but a practical guide that can help anyone reconnect with the Earth and their deep self. This book provides many different and simple practices to help develop your intuition and engage with Spirit. It also provides a framework for creating ritual and sacred space.

The chapter on Herbal Magic is especially informative. It gives a summary of the energetic and emotional qualities of many plants and trees, and also discusses the different ways in which plants can bring their magical qualities into everyday life.

In this book, Robin Rose shares with the reader her personal experiences through stories full of humour and compassion, which empower and respect each persons individual journey. As Susun Weed says in her Foreword, "Healing Magic" is filled with green blessings. Don't wait! Help yourself to a large serving."

Thank you, Robin Rose!

For everyone with a green spirit, even those who feel stuck in a city.

I've always wanted to have a book with basic instructions on how to use and practice my Green Witch skills, develop my gifts and help me own my power, and I found "Healing Magic" to be just that. It is simple and yet goes into depth in every subject. I use it for myself and as an inspirational tool in my practice as an herbalist.

Every woman who is afraid of not being perfect enough should read this book. It brought me hope and peace of heart and re-connected me with the confidence I always had in Mother Nature and the goodness in humanity.

Healing Magic is very easy to read and understand. It is not only spiritual but also offers many down-to-earth examples and ideas to put into practice. Following your menstrual cycle according to the moon' s cycles, learning more about medicinal plants and their magical and spiritual aspects and how to use them, creating simple, effective spells and rituals, this book has it all.

Healing Magic A Green Witch Guide Book warmly and clearly affirms that we are all deeply connected to each other, to every living thing and even the seemingly inanimate things. Robin Rose Bennett shares her wisdom through personal stories and practical suggestions to empower and encourage (us) her readers to discover, explore, and create magic in our lives. Her writing is touching, entertaining, forgiving, and supportive...no matter what spiritual path you are on. She abundantly celebrates life, joy and deep healing through the gifts we receive from the earth and all of earth's cycles.

I love this book!!

Motivating, Spiritual,and wonderfully entertaining, Robin awakens a persons innermost senses to Mother Earth, and the universe as a whole. For the aspiring Green Witch or even those that have traveled the Green path for years, Healing Magic proves to be a wonderful and practical guide. Based on the Wise Woman traditions, Healing Magic guides the reader through Herbal lore, Emotional and spiritual self healing, Moon Magic,and so much more. As I read Robin's book, I could feel the spiritual power that flows from her to the reader through her written word. If I could recommend a book that everyone should have for their personal library, Healing Magic would be one of my first choices.

This is one of the best of its kind!! It is engaging and practical at the same time. It is filled with useful information, entertaining anecdotes and great tips. The author is obviously passionate and extremely knowledgeable about the subject matter.

Filled with practical information, this book empowers, entertains, comforts and truly Inspires! In a bewildering time such as now, Robins words reassure and reawaken the reader to the joy and magic that animates everything around us. A pleasure to read, it is a tribute and an affirmation to Gaia, and everything within her.

I guess I didn't realize it until now, but I've been a Green Witch most of my adult life. Thanks, Robin Rose Bennett - for bringing that to light. I love this book! I loved its earthiness, I loved its magic! Unlike one of the other reviewers, I really enjoyed the personal stories. Reading them, added deeper meaning to my own experiences - and urged me to reacquainted myself with the moon. I had been taking it for granted and now have a renewed respect for it. It is back in my life, and welcomed me. This book, this message came into my life, just when I needed it most. Mo' magic!

This book was a huge disappointment for several reasons. I am interested in learning more about green magic and witchcraft, which is why I bought it. While it did have some good suggestions for working with myself and my surroundings, I did not feel what substance it did contain made up for the rest.
One of my big problems with this book is the almost complete absence of the God (or male aspect). Granted, by green you can assume it would be mostly Goddess (or female aspect) focused, but is not ignoring the God so completely just as bad as ignoring the Goddess? Bennett talks a lot about being whole or fulfilled and how to achieve this. How can someone espouse ideas about being whole and complete when they neglect a whole half of existence? Yes, women carry and birth life, but men are needed for the initial creation.
Similarly, while "women's wisdom" is listed as one of the topics covered, nowhere does it say this book is intended solely for women. However, it quickly becomes clear that this is most likely what the author intended. Although it says witch in the title, this should not be taken as meaning it is only for women since many, many men call themselves witches. Likewise, Bennett spends quite a while in chapter 3 on the subject of women being treated as inferiors throughout history and how we need to end this practice, and she often reminds the reader of this throughout. While I agree completely, if I wanted political writing, I would buy books on that and not on witchcraft.
As a student of anthropology interested in current and historical cultures, I almost sat the book down for good when she started talking about how older women used to be revered as "crones" during some golden period of human history. True some cultures did and do revere elderly women for their experience, knowledge, and in some cases, mystical powers, but this has never been proved to be an all-encompassing practice that mysteriously disappeared.
The description promises lore and stories, which I took to mean traditional lore and stories. Instead, I find that a good portion of this books, maybe even half, is composed of stories from the author's personal life. While the occasional personal story affirming the author's personal successes or failures is to be expected in works such as this, the number of them in this book is ridiculous. This book is presented as a guidebook which means it should guide readers in practicing and performing what is discussed, yet the reader must slog through numerous personal accounts to get to what little actual guiding information there is. What little traditional lore I found was often presented as a summary or incomplete.
Finally, I felt the material for practice that was presented to be repetitive, generalized, and often poorly explained. Many of the activities discussed seemed to reappear more than once but worded differently. For example, in chapter 3, the suggestion to take a "moon bath" or to stay outside and stare at the moon must have been repeated 3 or more times, but it was labeled as a different activity each time. It seems like the author is trying to stretch what material she has. An equally annoying issue is that Bennett discusses many things in a very general fashion without giving the specifics. Lastly, not only are rituals poorly explained, but the uses and explanations for things like herbs, sabbats, and spells are also to be found sorely lacking.
To be quite blunt, this book was a waste of money. It was a slow and difficult read, and what information I did get was not worth my money or my time.

Robin really expresses the concept of magic and relationship to energy in ways that speak deeply and inspiringly to me who have been praticing this for years, and also in ways I can see would also speak to someone completely new to these ideas.
I've been using the book for my morning meditations, reading a passage and letting it really sink in, to excellent effect.

It is my privilege to have read Robin Rose Bennett's book, Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook , cover to cover several times and in snippets more often than I can count. I feel compelled to encourage others to share the magic as it would be a travesty for me to keep this jewel of a book a secret. Robin Rose has many gifts which she generously shares through this vehicle, but what I feel is the most valuable is her willingness to share these gifts in a way that exposes herself and leaves her vulnerable.
Robin shares her alternative journey through the adventure of life..She allows those of us who respect this lifestyle but who have little or no experience to walk by her side, to experience nature and the world of spirit in a sensitive, enlightened way. She encourages us to be able to feel, perhaps for the first time, the heartbeat of the earth, the life force of air, the warmth and energy of fire and the flow and encompassing embrace of water. She helps us understand how these forces nourish, protect and challenge us, and permit us to be in an environment where we are safe.
Robin has expressed this in a personal way through her own experiences which she shares with us through stories-She teaches us ways to center ourselves-ways to communicate with spirit, practical ways to perform rituals. She helps us to allow ourselves to be the best, most authentic selves we can be and what could be better than that?
In single word adjectives her effort can be described as, magical, joyful, positive, warm, thoughtful, clean, clever, intelligent, articulate, simple and pure. It was my privilege, as it will be yours, to read this book. Make reading this book a priority. You will be giving yourself a priceless gift.