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Book Review – The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch by Rose Quinn
Title: The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch: A No-Nonsense Guide to Green Witchcraft & Magic, for the Modern Witch on the Go Author: Rose Quinn Publisher: LSPublishing Date: August 15, 2025 Pages: 178 If your only altar space is a shelf in the bookcase or the closest you get to nature most days is the monument with a fountain on the corner, then “The Busy, Lazy, Green Witch” is for you. Its subtitle proclaims it is “A No-Nonsense Guide to Green Witchcraft & Magic, for the Modern Witch on the Go,” but it could just as truthfully be billed as a survival manual for the practical, urban green witch. With years…
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Book Review — Plant Energy Medicine: The Guiding Voice and Healing Vibration of 58 Plants by Rhonda PallasDowney and Sandi O’Connor
Book Review — Plant Energy Medicine: The Guiding Voice and Healing Vibration of 58 Plants by Rhonda PallasDowney and Sandi O’Connor Publisher: Healing Arts Press, a division of Inner Traditions International 320 Pages Release Date: July 8, 2025 I feel like I’m super lucky to get to review some amazing books, particularly ones about nature, plants, herbalism, and other “green” magic-associated topics. This volume, which promises to explore a whopping 58 plants, is, unsurprisingly, very enticing to me. The book starts with some beautifully moving song lyrics by Kate Watters, and a foreword by Rosemary Gladstar, of the Science and Art of Herbalism course. The introduction explores synchronicity and the…
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Book Review: The Apothecary of Belonging
Title: The Apothecary of Belonging: Seasonal Rituals & Practical Herbalism; Reconnecting to the Land, Our Bodies & Our Communities Author: Alexis J. Cunningfolk Publisher: Weiser Books Date: November 3, 2025 Pages: 272 “The Apothecary of Belonging: Seasonal Rituals & Practical Herbalism” acquaints readers with plants that serve as allies, teachers, and companions, guiding us through the seasons as they flow within and around us. Working with the premise that “we are all land,” Alexis Cunningfolk, an intersectional herbalist and witch, facilitates connections between plants and people. She presents an overarching theme for each season, with in-depth information about three primary botanicals and short profiles of dozens of herbs that address…
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Book Review — The Divine Nature of Plants: A Medical Intuitive’s Guide to Plant Spirit Medicine by Laura Aversano
Publisher: Destiny Books, a division of Inner Traditions 288 Pages Release Date: July 8, 2025 Content warning: This book contains extensive writing about mediumship, aka, speaking to the dead, including deceased children. If you’re a regular Pagan Pages reader, you know I love plants. I write the column Notes from the Apothecary and love to explore the ways we use plants as medicine, food, and magical companions for all sorts of everyday aspects of life. That respect for plant medicine comes from a scientific viewpoint, for example, looking at the folklore medicine of plants or what Mrs Grieve wrote in her Modern Herbal, and seeing how modern research now backs…
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Book Review – Pagan Portals Brigantia: Warrior Goddess by Pauline Breen
Book Review Brigantia: Warrior Goddess By Pauline Breen Publisher: Moon Books 112 pages, Kindle and Paperback Release Date: August 1, 2025 This book presents itself with a fascinating topic a powerful Celtic Warrior Goddess, but if this was a battle field the book falls to a sword while still in the introduction pages. The author repeatedly uses the phrases I think, I feel, In my opinion, It appears, Maybe and so forth. It becomes glaringly obvious that there sadly is not much substance to the book overall. The author while still in the introduction section admits that there is scant information upon which to draw from for the writing…
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A Final Word. A practical guided journal for you and your loved ones
My 1st impression of this book is the quality. The book has a nice weight and the cover isn’t a glossy cover, but more like a heavy weight linen which adds to the level of importance of the contents. Throughout the book there are quotes and gorgeous artwork. Each section is labeled and prompts are given to guide you in completing each prompt. The flow of the book makes sense starting with early life, moving to present time and finishing with the future. I like the fact that this book helps with the policy of if it isnt in writing it isnt enforceable. Each propmt gives the owner a good…
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Book Review-Seasons of the Witch: Yule Journal by Lorianna Anderson, Illustrated by Giada Rose
Book Review Seasons of the Witch: Yule Journal By Lorianne Anderson, Illustrated by Giada Rose Publisher: Rockpool Publishing 208 Page Full-Color, Illustrated Paperback Release Date: October 7th, 2025 Seasons of the Witch: Yule Journal is a great exercise in witchy mindfulness-especially for those like myself who aren’t big fans of Winter and Yule/Christmas. This journal has an appeal to it, partially because of the artwork, which is beautiful, but also because it contains the greatest wisdom of all within it: yours. Whether animal medicines, such as Bear, Cardinal and Deer, are prompts to look within during the dark months, or encouraging things like decorating to be witchy rituals, this journal is…
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Book Review-Earth Magic: A Grimoire of Nature Spells by Cheralyn Darcey
Book Review Earth Magic: A Grimoire of Nature Spells By Cheralyn Darcey Publisher: Rockpool Publishing 327 page, illustrated Hardcover Release Date: September 16th, 2025 Earth Magic: A Grimoire of Nature Spells is a beautifully illustrated, designed, and practical book of spells involving nature. Be it trees, flowers or herbs, this grimoire really does contain just about every (non-toxic) plant that would be common for witchcraft practitioners. The spells themselves are original to the author, with this book being a compilation of three of her previous spellbooks. I received my copy of this book a couple months ago and worked with it in the time leading up to this review. The spells…
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Book Review: Pagan Portals Nine’s a Charm
Title: Pagan Portals Nine’s a Charm: Herbs of the Anglo-Saxon Healing Poem Author: Martha Gray Publisher: Moon Books Release Date: August 1st, 2025 Pages: 144 pages There is so much packed into these 144 pages! History seekers, mythology revelers, herbalists, and healers all need to read this tome. Martha Gray wrote this while tending to her garden and cats. It couldn’t be more magical. I imagined books piled on her desk, herbs in bouquets upside down drying in the breeze while a magical candle burned spirit into her words. There is a robust Forward that sets the historical context for the book and the depth that it will explore. …
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Book Review: Tarot Card Companion
Title: Tarot Card Companion: Master the Art of Tarot Reading Author: Victoria Maxwell Publisher: Rockpool Publishing Release Date: August 12, 2025 Pages: 355 pages Victoria Maxwell packs a lot of information into “Tarot Card Companion: Master the Art of Tarot Reading.” Her deck, “Your First Tarot” was released along with this book, but is not part of this review. Because that deck closely follows the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, this guide can pair with any tarot deck based on that 78-card system. Each card has a two-page spread with a picture of the card and a description of its imagery, a short paragraph of key words and phrases, correspondences, meanings upright and…
