When it comes to the subject of plants, people may find it boring, fascinating, or hardly a thought.
Without them, the world would just be a cold rock orbiting the Sun with frozen oceans full of minerals.
This Th-HERBS-day, we honor the power of plant magick and how it has shaped our world.
The plant kingdom has a funny way of making its way to the forefront of our lives whether we’re aware of it or not.
For some, plants serve little significance to their conscious lives and may pay little attention to the green world.
However, over time these people may take up gardening or even winemaking in their elderly years as a way to find joy and new inspiration.
This is one of the subtle ways the plant kingdom can interweave its magick into our existence and bless our daily lives.
From perfumes, dyes, food, and gifts, to medicine, war, and government, plants have heavily influenced our world.
That hardly touches the quantum ways in which plant magick has impacted the fabric of our world.
But what is this plant magick and where does it stem from?
Why are plants such a staple in so many forms of witchcraft and how does a plant have anything to do with influencing the world?
The answers are eye-opening and will hopefully shed light on how profound plants have always been in the world.
Plants-The Leaders of Evolution
The existence of plants means the existence of life as we know it.
Yet, the plant kingdom is so subtle, overlooked, and fragile that we easily take this for granted.
If it weren’t for plants, we wouldn’t have an atmosphere for life to sustain.
Without the help of plants, the evolution of land animals would never have taken place during the Ordovician period.
Plants and fungi were the revolutionary organisms that pioneered the evolution of life on land.
They led living organisms from the oceans onto the shores of bare sand and rock.
Millions of years later, the Earth became a fertile planet and was later worshipped as the Mother Goddess or Gaia.
Soon, humans emerged and evolved into hunting and gathering societies that followed plants and animals across the world.
How Plants Inspired Civilizations
Early humans observed cycles of nature and relied on the seasons and stars to lead them to the plants and animals they relied on to survive.
People then turned their attention to the way plants reproduced and were able to harness them into gardens.
This was how the plants guided our hunter-gatherer ancestors’ lives into communities, which eventually led to civilizations.
The plants blessed people with the knowledge and power to create food without the dangers of their former nomadic lives.
Even better, people began to realize the medicinal values of various plants and were able to develop early forms of medicine and treatments.
Soon plants led us to farm on grander scales for clothing, animal agriculture, alcohol, and spices.
Plants inspired creativity and led our imaginations to invent paints, paper, woven materials, and perfume.
We used them in celebrations, decor, and applied meanings and stories to their existence.
We were also inspired to structure early forms of trade and international commerce because of the demand for various plants.
Even today, plants are at the heart of the foundations of some of the most developed countries.
They serve as the backbone of the US by way of agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
The very same backbone that started great civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt thousands of years ago.
The Oldest Use of Plant Magick
What is it that fills the quiet world of plants with such power and why do we incorporate it into witchcraft and other spiritual practices?
Ancients understood the connection of the world of plants and how they bridged the energetic world to the physical world.
Early Shamans connected to the energies of the green world and learned the nature of every individual plant spirit.
They communicated to this world and gained knowledge hidden just beyond the veil of the physical plane.
Almost every early tribe across the world has used Shamanic practices to communicate with gods, entities, and ancestors.
Knowledge of and communication with plants were vital to these men and women to relay messages from spirits.
Early shamans used hallucinogenic plants and fungi to open doors to the energetic dimensions.
The use of these plants was so important that they became ritualized practices to relay messages to their tribes.
The plants assisted shamans by helping them move their consciousness to the subconscious realms.
This helped them retain the visions and messages needed to assist their people.
Many even began regularly working with specific plant spirits to help the shaman maneuver through the realms.
Observing the interaction with the plant kingdom conducted by early shamans can help us understand how plants work in witchcraft.
Astronomical Influence
Many forms of witchcraft and occult practices use plants in their craft.
Witchcraft without herbs is like physics without energy.
But what is it with plants that connect witches to their craft?
To help understand this, we can look no further than the natural source of everything alive on the planet-the Sun.
The Sun as we all know, gives everything light, life, warmth, and a sense of time and space.
Without it, nothing would be alive in our world, and there would be no seasons or structure to our planet and sky.
If we were to take the Sun out of our sky, there would be disorder among the other planets.
The planets would either collide with one another or aimlessly drift into the dark abyss of the universe.
Jupiter might be a savior and pull together most of them, but It wouldn’t have the power of the Sun’s life-giving light.
The Sun and its movements in the sky have been worshipped by many cultures and personified by various religious figures.
The pantheon of Greek gods, Egyptian gods, and Hindu gods are famous for this.
Early civilizations understood this force, and astrology was formed over centuries to explain the hierarchy of this power and how it affects us.
Astrology plus plants=Magick
The Sun’s force affects everything in its orbit and permeates its light into the other planets in the galaxy.
The planetary alignment distributes the Sun’s power from the closest planets and on.
The further its light reached and dissipated, the lesser the outer planets affected the physical realms.
The outer planets are just as important because they impact the subconscious and astral realms.
These realms remind us that there’s always an aspect of the unknown among us.
The planets were seen as gods and the lore of these gods represented how their emotions and power influenced humans.
Messages from these gods/planets were relayed by the use of angels, or “messengers.”
These angels represented pure energetic extensions from specific planets-or gods.
In astrology, the pure energy of the planets that directly influence life on earth is called “Stellar Rays.”
Stellar Rays appeared in our physical world in the form of plants, animals, and the four elements.
Early forms of magick were practiced in order to harness the power of the planetary energies and influence their lives.
This is how and why we can feel the energies of certain crystals or plants and utilize them in our craft.
How Plants Connect Us To Spirit
From the lure of plants to develop civilization to the budding of flowers to indicate a season, the magick of plants is always with us.
Both the plant and animal kingdoms are connected to human life but are part of the angelic realm.
They have served as guardians and messengers to life since the beginning of life on this planet.
The angelic realm works as messengers from the universal life force of the Sun, which connects us all.
The pure essence of each planet is concealed in each plant, mixed with the life-giving light of the Sun resulting in its own magnetic field like the Sun’s.
Much in the same way we are mixed with planetary energies in our astrology birth chart.
We conceal these energies within us while always being connected to the Sun’s life-giving light and create our own magnetic field.
With this magnetic field, we are able to attract and hold things around us like the Sun and manifest with our energy.
Using Plant Magick in Witchcraft
Plants are the purest forms of spiritual energy on our physical plane.
They do not move or speak in the way most life on the planet does.
Yet, they’re always moving and speaking to everyone by just being and permeating pure life force energy.
You can think of plants as the state of being a Tibetan Monk may strive to achieve-just connecting to the universal ALL of life and being.
If we sit with them and observe the way they maneuver in this world, we can connect to the subtle ways they operate and help us.
Their colors, climate, growing patterns, preferred seasons, food, medicine, poison, aroma-all of their traits will communicate how to work with each plant.
When a plant is picked, the Sun’s essence disconnects, but traces of their influencing planetary energy is still contained in its makeup.
Utilizing the influencing planetary energy of the plant is how we are able to connect to the magick of the plant kingdom and the universal energies.
The more you can connect to the nature of the plant kingdom, the more you can understand how to incorporate their magick into your craft and connect to the universe.
Happy Th-HERBS-day!
