Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More
By Arin Murphy-Hiscock
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âThe way of the green witch is the path of the naturalist, the herbalist, and the healer.â
â Bustle review, quoted in The Green Witch
Welcome, root-wanderer and flower-keeper, to a lush corner of Curio Obscuraâhome to evergreen wisdom, forest-floor secrets, and the connected heart of herbal witchcraft. The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock offers a practical, heartfelt guide into the natural worldâs power. Whether you’re an herbalist, writer, GM, or seeker, this book is a tactile archive of everyday enchantment.
đ Why This Book Belongs in Your Cabinet
1. Herbalism Meets Magic
Arin, a high priestess and herbalist, draws from both ancient and contemporary traditionsâtrustworthy guides for using plants, flowers, and oils to spark healing, intention, and ritual in daily life .
2. Flexible & Accessible
This isn’t rigid ritual magicâitâs nature-based, fluid, and adaptable. Ideal if you want to work with everyday ingredients without complex tools
3. Ethical, Inclusive Pathways
Practicing green witchcraft doesnât require doctrine. Arin emphasizes respect, sustainability, and personal affinityâan ethical, land-based spiritual framework
4. Aesthetic & Practical Inspiration
Packed with recipes for herbal blends, essential oils, potion brews, and sacred foodsâplus DIY bromeliad, crystal, and healing ritualsâthis guide nourishes both the imagination and the craft.
đ Whatâs Inside the Guide
Hereâs a breakdown of the rich content youâll carry home:
đą Part One: Foundations of Green Witchcraft
- Earth-centered philosophyâconnect mind, body, community, and environment
- Living practiceâblend modern life with spiritual habit without rejection of present-day reality.
đź Part Two: Plants, Flowers, & Oils
- Detailed profiles of herbs like lavender, rosemary, mint, and jasmine.
- Step-by-step recipes: lavender healing balm, rosemary purification sprays, mugwort dream sachets.
đż Part Three: Magical Crafts & Rituals
- Potion & oil formulas for different intentions: clarity, self-love, protection.
- Crystal synergyâhow to work crystals, stones, and wood with herbal energy.
đĄ Part Four: Connecting & Creating
- Routine-based practices: garden intention rituals, woodland meditations, ritual meals.
- Journaling prompts and moon-phase taskings to anchor your path.
đ¸ Why Curio Obscura Readers Love It
- Tactile Inspiration: Visual prompts for altar layout or worldbuilding settings.
- Rustic Authenticity: Feels like a field guide written by a forest sage.
- Synthesised Reference: Combines plant lore, craft instructions, and spiritual insight.
- Flexible Design: Solo practice friendly. No coven, oath, or wand required.
The Green Witch meets our mission: “catalog strange, beautiful, and useful items” â this time, living things.
âď¸ Reader Resonance
From the (Kobo, Simon & Schuster, Everand) descriptions:
âYouâll learn how crystals, gems, stones, and even twigs can help you find balance within.â
From Simon & Schuster:
âA delightful guide to nature magic… full of ideas for healing and relaxation.â
Some reviews note simplicity:
âIt scratches the surface⌠a beautiful book but fairly hollow,â and âvery practical guide and Iâd recommend it.â
This signals a balance between aesthetic delight and practical curiosityânot a detailed botanical tome, but a living grimoire of nature magic.
đź Daily Magic: How to Use This Guide
1. Herbal Teatime Ritual
Choose a calm herbâchamomile, lavenderâand brew a tea. Use its energy to set an intention while steeping.
2. Essential Oil Morning Blend
Mix rosemary + lemon essential oil and diffuse during your morning routineâintention for clarity and focus.
3. Moonlit Crystal Grids
Place moonstone and selenite on a window sill under the next full moon. Meditate while reflecting on plant correspondences.
4. Garden Walk & Journaling
Note a plantâs blooming phase and assign personal meaningâresurrection, resilience, or transformation.
5. Intentional Cooking
Make a simple herb-infused honey (rosemary or thyme) and dedicate each spoonful to a healing, protective, or creative purpose.
đż Aesthetic & Physical Qualities
- Pocket-sized hardcover (5.7âł x 7.4âł) with textured, leafy-cover design.
- High-quality paperâdurable and herb-friendly.
- Illustrations and color-coded tables highlight correspondences and seasonal cycles.
This book feels aliveâlike a living archive of herb-lore and intention.
đŚ Ordering & Support
Your purchase supports ongoing curation. And you receive curated enchantment delivered through mailâan herbal grimoire waiting to be explored.
đ Quick Overview
| Feature | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Practical recipes | Accessible for all skill levels |
| Plant guides | Herbal, aromatic, and ritual |
| Ritual flexibility | Traditions you adapt |
| Ethical approach | Respectful of environment & heritage |
| Visual richness | Mood-boards for creative folk |
Final Reflections
The Green Witch offers a practical, aesthetic, and lyrical path into nature magic. Itâs at home on the shelf of a gardener-witch, writer, GM, or reflection-seeker. It reflects the Curio Obscura philosophy: magic is woven into the everyday.
Let this guide be your green path. Brew it, bind it, draw from itâand feel the forest in your fingertips.
đŽ From the World of Fable
Where myth walks masked and the Archive writes back.
âFable is not a story. It is the condition in which stories survive.â
â Whisper-of-Wool, Archivist, Dream-Scribe, Occasional Goat
Step through the veil into the world of Fable, where forgotten magics, masked knights, and fractured myths weave together across archives, battlefields, and banished forests. These portals lead directly into the canon and chaos of our unfolding legendarium:
- Sable Society & Dust & Dawn Collection â field notes, archive exclusives, and strange ephemera
- Footnotes from Mr. Faust â irregular dispatches from our resident fox: part gossip, part grimoire
Each is a portal to deeper study, stranger finds, and occasionally â mischief. Youâve been warned. - Curio Obscura Patreon â become a patron of the Archive: gain early relic access, downloadable grimoire pages, and marginalia not meant for mortal eyes
- Mr. Faust on Gumroad â shop the Societyâs printable prompts, artifacts, and lore-enhanced curios
- The Civic Report â Bureaucratic mysticism, metaphysical memos, and systematic investigations of governance both fictional and suspiciously familiar
đŻď¸ The Archive Extends Beyond These Walls
Curio Obscura is just one chamber in a larger constellation of curious places. If your appetite for wonder remains unsatisfied, we invite you to visit our sister sites:
- SkillScout â guides and blueprints for learning, teaching, and crafting from scratch
- RPG Inquisitor â lore-forged articles for GMs, worldbuilders, and narrative tacticians
- CleverGadgetry â tools, devices, and marvels for the magically minded tinkerer
- Beds for Floofs â creature comforts and sleep science for familiars, pets, and floofy beasts
- Gaming Graduate â deep dives into tactical game design, indie titles, and strategy through systems
- The Fortnite Society â no-build philosophy, emergent mechanics, and academic chaos
- Financial Insights â real-world coincraft: passive income, digital ventures, and economic literacy
- The Gentleman Doctor â grooming, wellness, and philosophical hygiene for the modern mystic
