Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by JD Walker, author of A Witch's Guide to Wildcraft and the new Under the Sacred Canopy. In temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, we have many harbingers of Spring in the forest. Leaves are flushing out; bulbs are in bloom and fruit trees are beginning to set fruit. One important Spring tree is the hawthorn (Crataegus). As an understory tree in the forest, you might overlook its clusters of white blossoms, but there is no doubt that the hawthorn has been important in many of our oldest traditions. From Greek deities of love and marriage to witches and fairies of all sorts, the hawthorn seems to have been beloved (or sometimes feared)

An ENORMOUS thank you to our LlewellynCon presenters today: Thorn Mooney, JD Walker, Brandon Alvis & Mustafa Gatollari, and Jason Mankey! Unable to watch their presentations live? Click on their images below to watch the recording! And, be sure to follow our YouTube channel, where we'll be sharing the recordings of each presentation! Watch Thorn Mooney: Spiritual Burnout: Falling Back in Love with Your Magic Watch JD Walker: The Dark Side of Herbal Magick: When Does White Magick Fade to Black?     Watch Brandon Alvis & Mustafa Gatollari: Ghosts or Energy: The Science of the Paranormal     Watch Jason Mankey: The Horned They:

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by JD Walker, author of the new Witch's Guide to Wildcraft. When I first came up with the idea of writing a book about the magickal uses of common plants found around almost every home in the US, I really didn't give a thought to the consideration of endangered plants. After all, dandelions, thistles, and pokeweed (to name a few) are hardly in danger of being wiped out. These plants, plus 30 or so other well-known, readily available plants, are what readers will find in A Witch's Guide to Wildcraft But the appearance of the delicate flowers of the blood root (Sanguinaria canadensis) in my natural area is a gentle reminder that not all plants