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The Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick

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Two things immediately leap to mind on reading this book:

1) Judith has read _777_ so *you don't have to*. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
2) Do not, under any circumstances, skip the footnotes. They're hilarious. Yes, *really*.

In a book this short, what you get is necessarily a whirlwind tour, but it's a well-focused whirlwind. Highly recommended, and a delightful read. Not many works both instruct and entertain as well as this book does.

Judith Hawkins-Tillirson is the incarnation of the "Wise Woman." Her knowledge and experience of all things magical and herbal make her one of the most respected and revered figures in modern occultism.

Herbalist and occultist Judith Hawkins-Tillirson offers both lore and practical instructions in the magickal use of plants in The Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick, an easy-to-follow manual examining the mystic properties of plants ranging from mugwort, mandrake, and nightshade to olive, coconut, tiger lily, orchids, palm, and more. Chapters align different plants with corresponding planets of the solar system, and offer useful advice on preparing herbs for magick, gardening, and tips, tricks, and techniques for the successful performance of magick. "For magicians and astrologers alike, Water is the passive, receptive, magnetic element. Water acts as a physical Akashic record; it receives and holds all the energies exposed to it. This natural receptivity is the source of the psychic ability so often found in Water folk, and also of their infamous moodiness - those tides that Dion Fortune described are always moving." An excellent resource for anyone interested in exploring the wonders and benefits of herbal magick.

This book was full of surprises. It is so wonderfully written that I am going to let some quotes from the book do the telling. It is very unusual to find a book that presents tons of useful information that doesn't read like an encyclopedia; the author's wonderful use of the English language instead makes it read more like poetry! Here's a typical paragraph: 'We find that the entire Corpus Hermeticum is late anitquity's densely saturated, intellectually sophisticated, and magically erudite Neoplatonic stew. As it happens, this savor and complex broth was, at the outset, a 'stone soup', to which many profound and recondite thinkers added a turnip here, an onion there, a handful of parsley, simmer 600 years or so and bing!' Nothing more to add, except Thank You Judith Hawkins-Tillerson.

this is a good book, but some of it is not what I was looking for...too much extra...I was hoping for more information about working with the herbs, not all the background information

The Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magic is a well written resource for the
ledgends of herbal use in magic.
I found this book to have several unusual herbs not normally mentioned in herbal referance books.