#green sorcery

Green Sorcery taps a continuum of power encompassing Healing and Harming, the Wortcunner having congress with not only the healthful powers of medicine, but also those virtues and principalities of bane and destruction. Thus this Way of Knowing is a Crooked Path; it acknowledges which Herbs may be used for weaving a strong basket, healing a fracture, easing childbirth, and also for killing an enemy, euthanasia, or varied levels of self-poisoning to bring about visionary or ecstatic states. It is a Verity of the Work: the Good Apothecary knows and accepts his children and their myriad gifts.

Thus Green Sorcery also encompasses the dynamic access to, collaboration with, and command of Spirits. Plant rites, cosmologies, dieties and artifacts comprise it's Corpus Fecundi. Embraced by this Way of Knowing are the pathways of Healing and Poisioning; Phytognosis; Chemistry andplant Alchemy; Zymurgy; Embalming; Vinology and Viticulture; Aromatics and Perfuming; Horticulture; Dyeing; Compounding Cosmetics; and the diverse, flavorful rituals of the Culinary Arts. Hylozoistic in stance, Our Arte reveres plants as peers and allies rather than as subservients or mere chymical princpiles to be manipulated, as is the dominant rationale in modern Herbalogy. It hails in each plant a wise and intelligent spirituous personality or Genius. Intimate knowledge of these genii and their personalities comprise the heart of Our Arte, in the same way congress with angels and demons was central to the magic of the medieval necromancer. Plant genii may be accessed in many of the same ways, but there are also characteristics unique unto the Vegetal Realm, such as their direct interplay with earth-powers; their shifting affinities by season, planetary motion and starlight; their spiritual amplification during blossoming the antiquity of their accumulated geomantic wisdom; and their significant alchymical interplay with the powers of the Sun and Moon.