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Book Review-The Tradition of Natural Taoism: The Way of Free and Easy Wandering in Oneness by Jason Gregory
Book Review The Tradition of Natural Taoism: The Way of Free and Easy Wandering in Oneness By Jason Gregory Publisher: Inner Traditions 224 page E-Book Release Date: September 9th, 2025 After a short winter break, I’m back at it tons of reviews to get out to you all! First up, The Tradition of Natural Taoism. For those who have been following my articles, I’m sure this is no surprise, as I spent much of the summer working with Taoism and Buddhism. This book introduces the reader to applicable, easy practices to be at one with the all. The way of nature, or Tao, is distilled into modern concepts, and modern life is applied…
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Book Review: Dream Sorcery by Nikki Wardwell Sleath
Title: Dream Sorcery Author: Nikki Wardwell Sleath Published by: LLEWELLYN Pages: 358 Have you wanted to improve, explore or even learn a new way to perform your magick? Ever thought about the possibility of it being done with your literal dreams? Or maybe help with that upcoming presentation at work? This is where you should begin if you’ve already learned how to lucid dream as it would be easier to do but can be helpful for those of us new to lucid dreaming. Open your psyche and the answers are here for us to find and utilize. Nikki proverbially grabs our hands through the pages, taking us on an adventure…
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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 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-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-The Green Witch Illustrated: An Enchanting Immersion Into the Magic of Natural Witchcraft by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Illustrated by Sara Richard
Book Review The Green Witch Illustrated: An Enchanting Immersion Into the Magic of Natural Witchcraft By Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Illustrated by Sara Richard Publisher: Adams Media 256 Page Full-Color, Fully Illustrated Hardcover Release Date: November 26th, 2024 The Green Witch Illustrated has been a companion over this past Summer for me, guiding me to natural magicks to be in touch with the Earth around me during the blooming season. To say that this book influenced a lot of my summer magicks is an understatement. Not only does it avoid so many common trappings specific to traditions (such as Wicca, traditional craft, etc)., making it accessible and usable to any kind of witch.…
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Book Review — The Tarot Spreads Yearbook
Book Review — The Tarot Spreads Yearbook Publisher: David & Charles 144 Pages Release Date: 11th April 2023 This beautifully presented book is billed as “52 Tarot Spreads for Getting to Know Yourself.” In our modern, fast-paced life, isn’t that something we’re all trying to do a little more? It’s so easy to get bogged down in our routines, work, and trying to make ends meet that we can lose sight of our inner selves and what nourishes us. With that in mind, I opened this book with an optimistic frame of mind. At first glance, it’s clear that, like the year, this book is split into four seasons: Growth,…
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Book Review-This is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Chaos Magic: 13 Essays on Chaos MAgic for Modern Practitioners compiled and edited by Peter J. Carroll
Book Review This is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Chaos Magic: 13 Essays on Chaos Magic for Modern Practitioners Compiled and Edited by Peter J. Carroll Publisher: Weiser Books 274 Page Paperback Release Date: June 2nd, 2025 This is Chaos is a must-have for the modern Magus or Wizard, Occultist or Witch, Sorcerer and Warlock, or whatever you want to identify as. It presents not only Chaos Magick at its’ roots, and even provides a brief history given directly from one of its most influential figures himself-Peter J. Carroll, but also goes into the current of Chaos Magic-both past, and present, and even has ideas for where the current of chaos…
