Entering Hekates Garden, Cyndi Brannen
Entering Hekates Garden, Cyndi Brannen
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Entering Hekate's Garden
The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft

Author: Cyndi Brannen

Narrator: Leslie Howard

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/01/2020


Synopsis

A guide to plant spirit ritual and witchcraft, with practical instruction on the use of botanicals especially associated with the beloved goddess Hekate and her daughters Circe and Medea.

Bringing pharmakeia (the practice of plant spirit witchcraft) into contemporary times, Entering Hekate's Garden merges historical knowledge with modern techniques. In it, author Cyndi Brannen offers her extensive insight into Hekatean ritual and witchcraft and especially its application to the Green World. The book features detailed monographs dedicated to 39 plants ranging from the esoteric such as aconite, American mandrake, and damiana to the accessible including bay laurel, dandelion, fennel, garlic, juniper, and lavender.

This book blends traditional methods with the author's personal approach, emphasizing her understanding of plant spirits as allies in the witch's journey. It includes a new taxonomy for interpreting plant energies, methods for creating new correspondences, the importance of layering, using botanicals in spells, rituals, altars, and more, as well as ways to develop meaningful relationships with the pharmakoi (master plant spirits). Poetry, petitions, and musings about pharmakeia are woven throughout. Entering Hekate's Garden takes listeners deep into the mystical world of botanical witchery in a way no other book has before.

About Cyndi Brannen

Cyndi Brannen is a spiritual teacher, trained energetic healer, psychic, and herbalist. Merging her training in shamanism, tarot, past life work, meditation, and psychology, she teaches and writes about better living through witchcraft.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tania on November 23, 2020

Overall I think this is good devotional material with decent information on how to make things, but I do believe that an Herbalist and Aromatherapist should have reviewed the book before it was published. (I am both.) There are a few places where information wasn't accurate and a mention of taking f......more

Goodreads review by Nightshade on November 24, 2020

This book is in keeping with the current trend toward herbal witchcraft and being that it is devoted to Hekate in particular I was intrigued. I was expecting something a bit more from this book but found it a little bit too much like a standard herbal correspondence book. I am also a bit perplexed a......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on March 19, 2021

So I'm giving this book a 3.5 and rounding up to 4 stars for a few reasons. Overall the information here is easy to read and useful to a reader. She lists 39 botanicals in the book and gives a fairly detailed review of each one. If you are not botanically inclined it is a good introduction to herbs......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on January 14, 2022

This was a very ... interesting book. For clarification, I would not consider plant magic or herbal witchcraft my specialty, but the inclusion of Hekate and the fact that this was available at my local library caught my interest. This... has the formatting of a textbook and comes off very academic a......more

Goodreads review by Tania on August 27, 2020

I was fortunate to read an advanced copy of this book and I was blown away by the content. Everything you need to know to forge a strong relationship with plant spirits is in this magical text. The explanations are clear, the rituals are powerful and the recipes are tried and true (some are even qui......more