Jul 17, 2020
I don’t see enough stressing the importance of working with native plants for newer witches. So many of those ~beginners correspondence lists~ are the same things over and over. Mostly native European plants.
Work with what’s around you. Don’t be tied down. (Also, can we just retire correspondence lists? There’s more than enough of them at this point and learning the theory behind why plants are associated with certain traits is far more interesting and practical than just memorizing a list.)
The most important book recommendation for anyone interested in working with the earth is a guide to native wildflowers and plants in their area. This will be a thousand times more useful to you than any kind of “green witchcraft” book you read.
#i'm generalizing here#obviously i understand the reason why european plants get so much focus#i am tired and sick so i'm not going to do this topic justice#but keep in mind if a book was written in a certain place or time period it's going to use plants from that place#this does not preclude all other plants from having use#oh yes while i am at it if you are american please do not take this as carte blanche to bastardize native american practices#be aware of what's around you that's all#green witchcraft#witchblr#witchcraft