Topics of Study

What are some topics you would like to see discussed or otherwise presented here in Natural Magick? Feel free to suggest whatever you are interested in here in this thread. We will pull from this list to create lessons, activities and discussions in the future.

For instance:

• The different types of trees and their magical properties or associations.
• Connecting to nature during different times of the year.
• Learning various herbs and what they can be used for.
• Making nature-based crafts that can be included in a magical practice.

Hex signs
Wards
Frugal Witching
Regular Stones and associations

Flower associations and Astrology would be kinda cool.

In addition to everything listed so far, I think I'd like to see elemental magic and land spirits discussed.

• Herbs and Plants/uses
• Stones and Crystals
• Forms of Magick which emphasize the inclusion of Nature elements

So far our list consists of:

Trees and their magical properties

Connecting to Nature

Herbalism

Nature-based Crafts

Hex signs

Wards

Frugal Witching

Stones and Crystals

Flowers and their magical properties

Astrology

Elemental Magic

Land Spirits

I feel like this is a good starting point to build off of. It would be neat to turn some of this into a series of lessons or planned activities that we can do in order to study together as a group. What would you guys think of having a weekly topic or monthly topic?

We could, for instance, pick "land spirits" as the topic of choice. During the time we have selected that as the main topic, we can have a discussion about how we work with land spirits in our own practice. We can look up resources related to working with land spirits and share that for others. We can make some kind of posts or activity related to it, etc.

Other ideas?

A monthly topic sounds lovely, Izzy! And probably a more manageable timeline for the whole group to feel engaged. Would these be announced at the beginning of each month?

It's still just brainstorming at this point. I haven't got a lot of feedback on the idea yet. But yes, ideally at the start of each month we would announce what the monthly topic is. If we end up forming a book club, study group, etc- we could try to base activities off those topics.

For instance, say we decided to do crystals for Febuary. We could have a meeting or discussion about how we personally include crystals in our workings, our favorite crystals, and so on. We could meet on Skype for a show-and-tell kind of thing and show off our crystals, if we have any. We could try to find a book or light reading about them, and throughout the month work on reading and discussing that (like a lesson plan). And we could do some kind of group working or meditation centered around them. A bunch of activities tied in by a monthly theme.

I think a monthly theme sounds awesome! Happy for the crystals!

• Connecting with Deity and
• Living your faith every day,

The last one is kind of a big one for me, because I know a lot of people (including myself) have trouble knowing what to do when it isn't a sabbat or an esbat. Like, I really admire the people who are Witches all day and every day, the ones that make the mundane magickal, even when it's eating brussel sprouts or typing letters.