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Mugwort: The Dreaming Herb and Its Ritual History

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a plant that has never quite sat comfortably within simple categories, because it has always belonged to both folk medicine and spiritual practice simultaneously. The genus name Artemisia honors the Greek goddess of the moon, of...

The Folk Magic of Flowers: May Day Herbs and Traditions

The first of May is the hinge between spring and summer in the European folk calendar, and has been for as long as there are records of folk practice in the British Isles and across Northern and Western Europe. Beltane in the Gaelic tradition, Walpurgis Night in the...

Herbs and the Solstice: Midsummer Plant Traditions

The summer solstice marks the year’s longest day and the point at which the light, having reached its peak, begins its long turn toward winter. In the folk calendars of Northern and Western Europe, this transition point was one of the most significant of the...

The Autumn Equinox in the Herb Garden

The autumn equinox arrives in late September with a quality that is different from any other moment in the garden calendar. The light is level, day and night equal, and the balance point between the expanding and contracting halves of the year is visible and felt in...

The Herbs of Samhain: Plants of the Threshold

Samhain (pronounced approximately SAH-win in Irish, or SAH-ven in Scots Gaelic) falls on October 31 and is the most significant of the four Celtic fire festivals in the folk calendar. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter: the dark half of...

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