Anybody here into Foraging for Magick?

[TheMindfulHerbalist]

Hello community,

I was wondering if many of you do foraging here. Me and my wife love to go out in the forest surrounding our house and find medicinal herbs or herbs that can be used in rituals / magick. My personal favorite is the pine tree. It stands for rebirth and protection, specifically the resin I love to collect and use it as incense for my rituals.

Let me know how you guys like to connect to nature for your practices!

 

[NecromanticFox]

Sometimes when I’m able to do so! But definitely not as much as I would love to! I haven’t tried to collect resin before, but I would often use pine needles from the trees at my mom’s house when I lived there! When we would visit my boyfriend’s family’s house, we would collect plantain and raspberry leaves, and sometimes leaves from the black walnut trees. I am also guilty of taking some of my mom’s flowers that she would grow… oops.. but she could at least keep some fox glove plants alive for me.

 

[ArchonLynx]

I do the same it saves money & the herbs/roots are pure & fresh plus if you forage based off astrological times with a sacred knife you can harvest it best for each type of ritual, offering, ceremony, use.

Buying dried herbs is the least useful option cause you don't know what the energies of the person harvesting them are or if there treated with pesticides.

Some people even resell herbs previously used in rituals so it's not the best option

 

[Hermetika]

Most of my foraging is for my altar, and the energies I am working with during the season. I'm mostly drawn towards discarded bird feathers, dead insects, oddly shaped stones, leaves and twisted twigs, when my family visits, they usually take a peek at it all then step away bewildered. When doing deep shadow work, I do gravitate towards collecting the gifts from the coniferous trees as they are strong allies of mine and the local region. The coast salish indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest have revered the cedar tree for generations, and this tree spirit enjoys being part of any land based workings, like an elder and honored guest.

 

[Accipeveldare]

Hello community,

I was wondering if many of you do foraging here. Me and my wife love to go out in the forest surrounding our house and find medicinal herbs or herbs that can be used in rituals / magick. My personal favorite is the pine tree. It stands for rebirth and protection, specifically the resin I love to collect and use it as incense for my rituals.

Let me know how you guys like to connect to nature for your practices!

I would forage for herbs. In fact, i would love to. But i live in a city. This is unfortunate because i prefer nature, but i cant afford anywhere deep in nature.

 

[Veracity]

I’ve foraged for various items I use in my works, I found a horseshoe crab tail on the beach that I now use as my wand

 

[Grayhoss]

For ages, growing up, I'd try and gather things on vacation trips to use in later workings: River stones, sand from particular beaches, crystals found when 'panning' in the Georgia mountains, blackberry thorns from Vermont for protective workings.
Any thorn or burr or barb wildgathered is a shoe-in for warding and protection magic, as are acorns and hollyberries. Seashells are excellent for water magics and make a good basis for warding amulets meant to ward off ill by washing it away.
Crystal 'mining' concessions where one sieves crystal-laden dirt can be a godsend for inexpensive crystals for assorted uses too.

 

[beardedeldridge]

Never herbs but growing up on our family land, I used to search the surrounding woods, abandoned farms and log cabins for old farm equipment, bones, stones, etc…

Then as an adult I lived on a hill overlooking a ravine where I used to search for quartz for use in my practice.

Lived in a few cities and suburbs 0/10 would not recommend lol.

Now we just recently moved into a tiny little town but haven’t even tried yet since moving here.

By far one of my favorite things to do tho.

-Eld

 

[Asteriskos]

We live adjacent to a large expanse of unincorporated county woods. I get a lot of stuff from the woods both flora and fauna. There's also a creek that runs through near our house that provides pristine clear "creek water". The "damnedest" thing though is for a long time I still haven't been able to find the perfect "Stang"! ( I have made a few though ). Nothing but the best natural one will do, so the search continues!

 

[Diamond-otherkin]

specifically the resin I love to collect and use it as incense for my rituals.

Unfortunately where I live few things I could forage, but I can think of a park where I could find these, any pine tree incense recipee?

 

[Asteriskos]

Lots of pine and fir trees, red maple and several different oaks and elm grow here, lesser amounts of others like poplar and cedar too. In this day and age we're damn lucky to have this natural paradise close enough to throw a rock into. I have sometimes collected large bags 13 - 30 gallon yard bags of cones for various reasons, the ones with a lot of resin smell pretty good when burned in the fireplace or fire pit outdoors, resinous woods and cones pop and spark and smoke though, best to have a good screen. If you've ever thought of invoking Pan, Cernnunos or any form of "Dominus Umbrarum" this is the place to do it!