Ep. 6 - Practical Greenwitching; Herbal Preparations, and Tarot as a Sacred Text

✨🌱🌳🌬Happy 420, Witches!🌬🌳🌱✨ 🏳️‍🌈🍄Support and Share my Pride Mushroom Fundraising Project! Full Show Notes at TheRestlessWitch.com This is a re-release of a previous Patreon-Exclusive from a couple years ago! In this episode, we'll chat about quite a few topics related to cannabis. All the way from the more scientific and 'mundane' side in the muggle/nerd segment,  to the spiritual and very magical side in the spiritual segment. And then we have our recurring segments. In the coven corner, I answer two messages sent in from you guys, and then in podcast community I'll talk to you about some more harry potter podcasts, and of course my favourite canna-centric podcasts. You can submit more questions for the coven corner, or request a tarot reading, or a custom crocheted item either through my blog’s ask box, or email me at [email protected] All the links mentioned in the show are below, including a great page from some of my favourite herbalists. Have a magical 420! ✨🌱🌳🌔🌕🌖🌳🌱✨ Patreon.com/therestlesswitch ko-fi.com/therestlesswitch Send a  voice message to the show for Rustlings from the Grove [email protected] Tumblr Instagram Twitter TheRestlessWitch's Shop

In this short episode, I talk through coming up the card placements for this month's Patreon tarot spread. It's  early spring, which means it's Spring ephemeral time! Spring ephemerals bring out a LOT of foragers, new and experienced alike. And with the huge spike in popularity this year, it got me thinking about responsible foraging and how we might apply the same lessons to our own lives. Full show notes at TheRestlessWitch.com 00:00 - Intro - Tarot Reading Preamble - Concept to Cards 00:55 - Trendy Foraging and how it inspired this spread 01:45 - Hi Ladybug! How do I begin creating a tarot spread. 02:10 - First things first, what's happening in nature? 02:59 - Foraging as a Trend 03:45 - Foraging and Plant ID facebook Groups - Plant Identification and Education Plant Identification, In all likelihood, your local area or state probably has a dedicated plant facebook group! Here's one for my area, Southwestern Ontario! Here's iNaturalist and Seek! 04:35 - Alexis Nikole/BlackForager Instagram, TikTok -  ChaoticForager/Gabrielle Cerberville Instagram, TikTok 06:30 - Turning the lens on yourself and turning that into card placements. 08:52 - Card Placements in this Spread 12:29 - Patreon.com/therestlesswitch 13:36 - Thank you for Listening! Links and Socials! Patreon.com/therestlesswitch ko-fi.com/therestlesswitch Send a  voice message to the show for Rustlings from the Grove [email protected] Tumblr Instagram Twitter TheRestlessWitch's Shop Written, produced edited, hosted, etc by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch Music: Harvest by Those of Willow

In this episode of Witchcraft for the Restless, we take a walk through a series of exercises inspired by this blog post by AppleAndElder. I use White Pine as an example, and you can follow along with any plant of your choosing! We'll go through 7 exercises to get closer acquainted with your plant ally; 1) Identification and Preliminary Research. 2) Sight 3) Scent 4)Touch 5)Taste 6)Create 7)Hearing Find my sketches for exercise 2 and the full show notes and timeline at TheRestlessWitch.  Thank you for listening! - Links and Socials Patreon.com/therestlesswitch ko-fi.com/therestlesswitch Send a  voice message to the show for Rustlings from the Grove [email protected] Tumblr Instagram Twitter TheRestlessWitch's Shop

This episode is all about a universal favourite food: bread! And lots of kitchen witchery goodness! This was originally a Patreon exclusive, so here's the link to the original Show Notes! Stay curious, witches! Things I mentioned in this episode: - Living Homegrown - ep. 126 - Making Sourdough Starter and Heirloom Flours  - Secret Feminist Agenda episode 2.26 Getting Deeply into Sourdough with Emily Hoven  Intro - Magical Bread Wild Yeast Starter as House Spirit Preheating the Oven - Start from where you're at Combining your Ingredient - Building your Spell Kneading - Ancestor Work Rising/Proofing - Something from Nothing Slashing Sigils - Control and Growth Baking - Elemental Alchemy Closing - Manifestation Here's some more bread resources that I didn't mention in the episode! Cooked ep. 3, Air on Netflix  A fantastic show, that is basically elemental kitchen witchery without meaning to be. This episode is all about bread and air! This is the recipe I use for my basic white loaves, except I use traditional dry yeast instead of instant, and just activate the yeast beforehand. I haven't tried it with wild yeast though! Paul Hollywood's White Bread Recipe Credits Written, recorded, edited, produced, etc: Kai, TheRestlessWitch Music: Let the Gold Flow by Birds of Paradise More Episodes  Get in Touch or Follow me: Send a voice message to the show and it might be featured in a future segment of Rustlings from the Grove! [email protected] Witchcraft for the Restless on anchor.fm Patreon Etsy Shop: TheRestlessWitch Tumblr Twitter Instagram Buy me a coffee - Ko-fi

Bright Yule, witches! This episode is all about spellcraft. Forming relationships with individual spell ingredients, choosing ingredients for the desired outcome, and how much of each? We also listen to the first voicemail submission to Rustlings from the Grove, and get cozy with a Yule fire themed tarot spread. Full show notes at TheRestlessWitch.com Get in Touch or Follow me: Send a voice message to the show and it might be featured in a future segment of Rustlings from the Grove! [email protected] Witchcraft for the Restless on anchor.fm Patreon Etsy Shop: TheRestlessWitch Tumblr Twitter Instagram Ko-fi Produced, edited, written and hosted by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch Intro and Outro Music: Let the Gold Flow by Birds of Paradise Tarot Music: Meditieren by Lately Kind of Yeah 

In the Bleak Midwinter, based on the poem A Christmas Carol by Christina Rosetti, composed by Gustav Holst, lyrics adapted by Laura Deal Raeder.  In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind makes moan. Earth stands hard as iron, water like a stone. Snow has fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow. In the bleak midwinter, it is ever so. Darkness now surrounds us as the nights grow long, Yet we fill the night time with our hopeful song. Winter’s cold won’t reach us here, where we light our fire, As we burn the old year on its funeral pyre. Now the new year beckons, even in this night. Soon the days will lengthen, and our hearts grow light. Hope will grow within us as we look ahead, And we see that spring wakes out of winter’s bed. Light will follow darkness, as the earth turns round, Sunlight follows moonlight, thawing frozen ground. So our lives renew with every dawning day, And with every new year, blue skies follow gray. Intro/Outro Music: Sledging in the Forest by Borrtex  TheRestlessWitch.com [email protected] Instagram Tumblr Twitter TheRestlessWitch's Shop Patreon Produced, edited, written and hosted by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch

Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Bree and I continue our dive into the spookier corners of our witches' cupboards to chat about more spooky spell ingredients. Full Show Notes and links to everything mentioned here. Bree Nicgarran   Hex Positive October Giveaway! Hex Positive - Nerd and Tie Podcast Network Tumblr Books Twitter @BreeNicGarran and @Hex_Podcast Instagram  TheRestlessWitch.com    [email protected]     Instagram     Tumblr     Twitter     TheRestlessWitch's Shop     Patreon Grove Produced, edited,co-written and hosted by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch Co-written and guest appearance by: Bree NicGarran Music: Graveyard by Trailer Bride Play along and guess the herb for these folk names in this episode! Devil's Fruit Eerie Devil's Shoestring Bat Tree Bloody Fingers Brain Thief Witches' Weed Naughty Man

Happy Halloween, Bright Samhain and Merry Spook Season! Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Song of the Witches - Macbeth - William Shakespeare  Full Show Notes at TheRestlessWitch.com Bree NicGarran Hex Positive October Giveaway!  Hex Positive - Nerd and Tie Podcast Network  Tumblr  Books  Twitter @BreeNicGarran and @Hex_Podcast Instagram  TheRestlessWitch.com [email protected] Instagram Tumblr Twitter TheRestlessWitch's Shop Join the Patreon Grove for lots of bonus episodes, tarot readings, handmade gifts and more!  Produced, edited, co-written and hosted by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch Co-written and guest appearance by: Bree NicGarran Music: Graveyard by Trailer Bride Herbs in this episode Hells Bells Witch's Herb Lady's Meat Bulls Blood Hag Tallow

Bright Mabon, witches! I'm unreasonably excited about the very first holiday episode! (p.s. Patreon Gr This episode is about sharing how I celebrate the equinox as well as hearing from you! Personal and family traditions, celebrating the Equinox in The Restless Witch's Garden in the Shade, harvesting, baking and spellcrafting with apples in The Witch's Cupboard, we hear from you in Rustlings from the Grove, and more bits and bobs about the Autumn Equinox, followed by lectio divina with The Wild Unknown in The Tarot Study. Full Show Notes at TheRestlessWitch.com! Get in Touch or Follow me: Send a voice message to the show! You might be featured in a future segment of Rustlings from the Grove! TheRestlessWitch.com [email protected] Witchcraft for the Restless on anchor.fm Patreon TheRestlessWitch's Shop Tumblr Twitter Instagram Ko-fi 

This month, we continue looking at greenwitching through a practical lens with a chapter of The Reference Book all about ingestible herbal preparations. Teas, tinctures and elixers, oh my! And then I introduce a new kind of tarot segment, Tarot as a Sacred Text, inspired by Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. We begin with the sacred reading practice, lectio divina. There will be a longer conversation and journey through the idea process available to all patrons as a bonus episode very soon! Plus, in between the segments, I have a fun announcement of an interview I was featured on! Get in Touch or Follow me: Send a voice message to the show and it might be featured in a future segment of Rustlings from the Grove! TheRestlessWitch.com [email protected] Witchcraft for the Restless on anchor.fm Patreon Etsy Shop: TheRestlessWitch Tumblr Twitter Instagram Ko-fi  This episode is sponsored by Hex Positive. Support the show by joining Bree's Patreon page! Full Show Notes on TheRestlessWitch.com