Practical Magic: Posies and Pouches - Magic for Love and Friendship

Giving the gift of flowers and herbs, in this class, participants will look at ways of making herbal and floral charms for themselves and for others, using both fresh and dried ingredients. Learning to enchant herbs with breath, touch, written charms and sigils, in this class participants will create a herbal posey for friendship and a herbal pouch for bringing forth love.

Hannah Sanders has spent almost three decades working in initiatory witchcraft traditions – treading the path of witch, enchantress and teacher. She is an award-winning folk singer and guitarist, having recorded three albums and appeared on stages across the world, and she gained her PhD in contemporary witchcraft, authoring several books on teen culture, feminism and magic, including her monograph Children of The Green: Raising our Kids in Pagan Traditions (2014, Moon Books). She was the final apprentice of esteemed writer and tarot reader Joyce Collin-Smith, and a founding member of the Norwich Chant Collective. A lover of chanting, dancing and herbal magics when she is not travelling and singing, she makes wild wines, forages and communes with our green allies.

Participants will need: a scrap of material, green ribbon/string, rosemary (fresh sprigs), thyme (fresh sprigs), fresh rose/rose petals (pinks or reds – not yellow or white), chamomile, apple seeds, bay leaves. Optional: marigold, linden, hawthorne, and vervain.