Plant Magick is a collectors item of sublime and exquisite beauty. This is a treasury of art and plant history for lovers of nature, art history, folklore, witchcraft and magic. Psychonauts, spiritual seekers and shamanic explorers will find a lyrical home here as well.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Esoterica
Publisher: Taschen
Review in one word: Esoteric
Divided into thoughtful sections and chapters, Plant Magick features visionary and universal wisdom from a broad range of scholars, witches, sorcerers and mystics about different aspects of plant magick, lore and practice.
There’s a diverse and broad exploration of magical practices using plants and fungi and how this is reflected in art across all ages and cultures. This is an ambitious ask and Taschen have delivered 100% with this stunning book.
If you or someone you know is a gardener, plant enthusiast, hedge witch or practising pagan or you simply revere and respect nature and plants – then this book will embolden and deepen your love and respect for these other-than-human beings.
The importance of plants as a part of religious and pagan rites, ritual, medicinal and transcendental spiritual purposes is explored through eye-popping and mind-bending art.
Each artwork is tactfully placed to add colour and depth to the informative essays that make up each chapter. The essays rather than being filler or less important than the artworks are a complement to them. The words are not wasted or superfluous but are instead brimming with lush and vivid detail about artists, movements and cultural phenomena throughout the ages. These allow you to understand the artworks in a much more profound way.
The sheer range of historical context explored in this book is exciting. Even if you casually flip through it, I guarantee that the hours will melt away and you will still be sitting on your sofa eyes glued to the pages, carefully turning them savouring every detail.
Bound in high quality hardcover and featuring gold inlay, Plant Magick is a part of a larger four part series by Taschen called the Library of Esoterica. Other books that might tickle your fancy in the series include Tarot, Astrology and Witchcraft. Personally, the only other one I simply had to own was Witchcraft and the review for this one is coming up on Content Catnip very soon.
Would I recommend this book to you? If you love nature, art history, folklore, paganism…then this book is a must for your collection – 5 stars!
Do you have this book or do you plan on getting it? let me know below!
Content Catnip 
It looks so fascinating! I’m not necessarily a gardener, but my wife loves this. I would just have to translate it into German! Thank you for this beautiful introduction.
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Thank you so much for reading Aladin. Seeing as your wife is a keen gardener I think she would enjoy this book even for the images alone its worth it, quite a treasure. I’m sending you big hugs and joy for the holiday season
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Thanks a lot to make me aware of this book.
I knew Benedict Taschen quite well. He had his first bookshop in Cologne next to one of my bookshops. I will ask my editor to get me this book. It seems a-must-have to me.
Happy reading
Klausbernd
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Very welcome Klaus I am glad you liked the look of this book and will get it 😊
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