Plant integrated Magic?

Recently I always wondered at the mortar and pestle, but it's quite ignored and unmentioned and neglected in many books and "basics" discussions. Sure, there's the athame and pentacle, but what about plant spirits and the path of roses and thorns?

I'm getting into reading Raven Grimassi's Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded WItch, and it reminded me about the mortar and pestle, and he's right when he says there is not much mention of it while doing magic.

Do any of you guys have strong interest in botany, herbalism, and plant spirits? Or even gardening? (I don't know many details about this) And what kinds of paths are there available to more of the natural witch?

I like to pick herbs to use in teas although I'm no great herbalist. Most of the herbs I use are for their magical properties rather than their medicinal ones.

On the topic of nature, when I first started I would actually burry my feet in the forest to do spells. Although after a close encounter of a worm kind I gave that up.

Just paths as in spiritual practices and traditions is all, for Voo.

And I get that Dillon, it's really unfortunate that the original Celtic Druids didn't really keep much record of their practices and so on. It's all mostly speculation and like you said...

LOL Tom cat, same. As a child I used to sleep on the grass during midday when the dogs also used to just lay down on a cool patch of grass but when I'd wake up, worms would be at my fingers and toes, probabaly wondering what was there and if it was dead or not.

This has been an area I've been slowly dipping my toe into the past year. I work with the landvaettir so I work with plant spirits on occassion but have yet to get very indepth with it. I've been slowly trying to learn about different types of plants and their associations. In the future, when I move out of the current place I am in, I intend to start gardening and attempting to grow my own herbs for the workings I need them for. I'm very interested in plant spirits in general, especially for a few specific plants, but I need to spend more time working in that area. I feel plant spirits are different in some ways and harder for me to connect to than other kinds of wights.