Green Totems, Teacher and Healers on the Path of the WitchJust as many people experience wisdom and healing with animal totems and guides, a similar relationship can be cultivated with the spirits of the plant world. Witches, shamans and healers know about the intelligence, love and power found within the herbs and trees, and learn to partner with them as totems and spirits guides. Witches have called such guiding spirits familiars, as they act as intermediaries between the worlds. The Plant Spirit Familiar is filled with herbal lore, rituals, meditations and magick, but more importantly, it is an invitation to open the gateway to the Green World.
While taught from the perspective of nature based spirituality rooted in the European traditions of magick, one does not need to be a Witch or Pagan to experience the blessings of the green world or work with plant familiars. It is open to all seekers. Learn about the three types of plant allies, the healing plants known as balms, the power plants known as banes and the spirit teachers found in the wise old trees. Work with the Green Man and the Lady of Flowers and enter the Soul Garden. Create sacred space for healing, meditation and shamanic journey, calling upon the plant spirits as guardian. Seek spiritual initiation from the plant world through ritual and sacrament. Deepen your spiritual connection with the Earth by growing roots strong within the land.
The Plant Spirit Familiar includes:
- History of the Familiar Spirit
- Flower Essences Creation and Use
- Shamanic Dreaming with Plant Spirits
- The Doctrine of Signatures
- Green Blessing Oil
- Balms, Banes and Tree Teachers
- Plant Spirit Healing
- Crafting the Wand
- Ointments and Unguents
- Root Fetishes
- The Armor of Yarrow Ritual
- Floral Waters
- Creating the Herbal Homunculus
- Formulary in the Heart of the Earth
- Ritual of the Herba Alba
- Trance Incense
- Evocation of the Plant Lover
- Ritual of the Green Devil
- Gateway of the Elder Queen
- Cup of Digitalis Ritual
- The Council of Trees
“I suspect I will not be the only one gasping with recognition while reading The Plant Spirit Familiar. The Call of the Green resonates powerfully for so many of us, especially those walking the Witch’s path. As for newcomers: welcome! There is no better guide to this mysterious, magickal realm than Christopher Penczak.”
- Judika Illes, from her Forward, Author of The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Pure Magic.
” The Plant Familiar Spirit, is a fascinating journey down the shadowy green path of the occultist. Serious herbalists and magicians will find this book to be both thought provoking and provocative.”
- Ellen Dugan, author of, Garden Witch’s Herbal, Practical Protection Magick, and Natural Witchery.
“The Plant Spirit Familiar is a must read for all Green Witches and even for those not on the Wiccan path this book is chocked full of green wisdom that will inspire anyone who recognizes plants as teachers, guides and friends. Penczak fills the pages with potions, rituals and engaging exercises guiding you to respond to what he refers to as the “call of the green”. When you finish this book you will feel as if you’ve been initiated into the ancient order of the green nation.”
- Pam Montgomery author of Plant Spirit Healing and Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology
“Those who we nowadays refer to as ‘witches’ were the wise men and women who other cultures call ‘shamans’ and who had a detailed knowledge of plants, healing and ‘magic’. Penczak’s work is a wide-ranging introduction to plant magic and will be a useful guide for those who wish to expand their magical, healing or herbal knowledge and begin working in the tradition of the plant spirit shaman”.
- Ross Heaven, author of Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Hummingbird’s Journey to God and The Sin Eater’s Last Confessions
