{"id":29444,"date":"2023-10-31T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/?p=29444"},"modified":"2023-10-31T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:10:02","slug":"book-review-interview-green-witchcraft-discover-how-to-use-herbs-flowers-woods-crystals-and-essential-oils-to-naturally-heal-increase-abundance-and-align-yourself-with-the-magic-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2023\/10\/31\/book-review-interview-green-witchcraft-discover-how-to-use-herbs-flowers-woods-crystals-and-essential-oils-to-naturally-heal-increase-abundance-and-align-yourself-with-the-magic-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review & Interview \u2013 Green Witchcraft: Discover how to use Herbs, Flowers, Woods, Crystals, and Essential Oils to Naturally Heal, Increase Abundance, and Align Yourself with the Magic of Mother Earth by Madeline Silvy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book <\/span>R<\/span>eview<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Green Witchcraft:
\nDiscover How to use Herbs, Flowers,
\nWoods, Crystals, and Essential Oils
\nto Naturally Heal, Increase Abundance,
\nand Align Yourself with
\nthe Magic of Mother Earth <\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Madeline Silvy <\/span><\/strong><\/b><\/h1>\n

Publisher: Self-Published<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

233 <\/span><\/span>P<\/span><\/span>ages<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h1>\n

Release Date: September 12, 2023<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Some books feel like a conversation and visit from an old friend, one that you enjoy very much. Green Witchcraft<\/em> by Madeline Silvy brought the comfort and companionship of sisterhood to my heart and home. Being brought up in a family of all men, it took me a while to discover the beauty and truth spoken, Women need Women. Green Witchcraft<\/em> delivered the fulfillment of that need wrapped and packaged up in a delightful book. I loved the detailed descriptions of working with the seasons, crystals, herbs, and candles, but perhaps what I appreciated the most was Madeline\u2019s thorough explanation and perspective on the often taboo and misunderstood terminology of Witch, Green Witch, and Witchcraft. These are words I rarely have identified with nor used with the fairly new recognition of \u201cWitch\u201d. However, I felt Madeline was speaking of me and my personal life, and my love and devotion for Nature. I realized how programmed we all are to believe and take as fact that Witchcraft is evil and the practitioners worship evil forces. Green Witchcraft<\/em> felt like home and was imbued with beauty and blessings. There was nothing scary written or expressed, if anything Madeline Silvy shares her devotional path as a way of living in touch and reverently with the Divine. She shares, \u201cA green witch can follow any religion and honor the divine in her way as long as she continues to keep nature sacred. The green witch sees the divine in all of nature and interprets that divinity differently. Green magic is a constant celebration of the cycle of life. It is a dialogue with nature that enriches the green witch and the Earth.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We walked barefoot on the earth, through the journey of reading Green Witchcraft, the author and I. I could feel I was in the company of a woman who walks her path and openly shares with those who have a curiosity and desire to listen. To read her life\u2019s wisdom was an honor and sheer delight, full of inspiration and heartfelt connection. I could feel Madeline Silvy has a woman rooted and sustained by her deep connection and devotional path of Green Witchcraft. She called this \u201creconnection between nature and self\u201d a \u201chomecoming\u201d. I resonate with this embodied remembrance as well. Madeline shared how, \u201cRoots are an essential concept of green magic because when something is rooted, it springs from a source, strong and anchored. We may only see the trunk and branches of a tree, but the root system develops deep and wide as its foundation, strength, and authenticity.\u201d<\/em> This whole book felt like an anchor holding me in sacred reassurance that I can trust my path, my rituals and celebrations. Not that we need validation, but it is comforting to see yourself and your practices of reverence also honored by another. You may be like me and previously not identified with the term Witchcraft, but have had a profound love and connection with nature? Or, perhaps, you have followed a Witchcraft path consciously but wish to deepen your relationship with nature? Either way, Madeline Silvy\u2019s Green Witchcraft; Discover how to use Herbs, Flowers, Woods, Crystals, and Essential Oils to Naturally Heal, Increase Abundance, and Align Yourself with the Magic of Mother Earth<\/em> will delight you. Madeline\u2019s rich wisdom and depth of compassion goes beyond labels. She simplifies the practice down to its nourishing roots for the most enriching and savory experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although rituals are fun and can help us to see the magic in the mundane and live reverently and presently, Madeline shares a passage that she says contains the essence of Green Witchcraft, \u201cAho Mitakuye Oyasin, greetings all my relatives\u201d.\u00b9 She goes on to say, \u201cThis sentence encompasses the entire perception of what you and I are creating between these pages. The expression reminds us that everything is connected and that we are all relatives – we are all one. The birds, trees, squirrels, rocks, humankind, every life form on Earth and the Earth Herself, the cosmos and everything in it – we are all relatives.\u201d This book blends the resources and knowledge of Green Witchcraft<\/em> with the often unseen and unspoken \u201croots\u201d and \u201cmycelium\u201d of Green Witchcraft<\/em>, that which connects us all. I have a deep appreciation for how this book is set up, first defining what Green Witchcraft<\/em> and being a Green Witch is to Madeline Silvy and then, going into the different chapters around all the fun ways you can grow in your own practice using the elements, chakras, astrology, gardening, herbalism, archetypes, animal symbolism, lunar cycles, and so much more. I love her story of drinking the dew during the summer solstice! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b9 Editor’s note: this is a traditional Lakota saying. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

View Nicole’s interview with Madeline Silvy on YouTube below!<\/span><\/p>\n

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