The Hedgewitch's Little Book of Seasonal Magic

by Tudorbeth

Over 100 Recipes, Spells & Crafts to Connect with Seasonal Energies Plants, wildlife, the environment, and even weather phenomena are sacred to the hedgewitch. This beautiful book follows the sun around its seasonal year, providing more than a hundred recipes, spells, potions, and crafts to help you reconnect with natural and elemental energies. You'll enjoy recipes for jams, jellies, chutneys, and syrups as well as spells, Esbat rituals, and correspondences for each of the seasons. Tudorbeth shares enchantments for safe travels, luck, preventing floods, increased passion, and many other purposes. From winter spice marmalade to Mabon apple garland, this hands-on book helps strengthen your magic as you travel through the Wheel of the Year.

Genres: Magic

312 pages, Hardcover

Published March 8, 2022

Reviews

[Infinity Sisters Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tudorbeth has created a spellbinding book that features spells and recipes that make the most of every season. Summertime features the festivals of midsummer and Lammas with a list of plants to attract bees and how to cast a Lammas spell. Recipes include rose petal jam, lilac jelly, honeysuckle syrup, and eggplant chutney. The Autumn season details how hedgewitches can use mist and fog as a powerful vehicle to travel to other realms. Recipes include rosemary jelly, goddess jam, pumpkin and apple chutney, and blackberry syrup. As with the other seasons, Tudorbeth includes enchanting crafts (such as a Samhain centerpiece) and spells (such as the September storm spell and October tree ribbon magic). Winter takes you through healing days, marmalades, magic water, cloud divination, and snow bath tonic. Recipes include winter spice chutney, Winter Solstice Brew, earl grey marmalade, and cranberry jelly. Each section will have you seeing the seasons in new ways. You'll come to appreciate the cold and the heat with all that each season can bring. Tudorbeth takes this guide and uses it to inspire you to create your own connection to each season, to encourage empowerment, and to find the magic that exists all around you. The elementals you connect with each season include elves, leprechauns, and the lady of the lake in Spring, mermaids and nymphs in Summer, will-o-the-wisps, salamanders, and Our Lady of Magic in Autumn, and Jack Frost, unicorns, and pixies in Winter.

The book is well-organized by season with each section containing a variety of recipes, spells, elementals, and crafts. Springtime comes with a look at the festivals of Ostara and Beltane, recipes that include dandelion beer and rhubarb jams, and crafts that will teach you how to make Ostara centerpieces. Those needing a little luck in their lives will learn about the use of the charms that March has to offer which includes scarabs, clovers, and coins. The book serves as an introduction and guide to seasonal magic with spells, rituals, and recipes that are easy to follow. Seasonal Magic will teach you how to connect to each season and make the most of the vegetables and fruits that grow through a variety of delicious recipes that features fresh ingredients.

[Mags (mbooksbycandlelight) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I admit in the beginning I became a bit stand-offish because the author starts out by saying this book may not be for people who believe in Darwin, but I’m happy to announce that I still enjoyed reading this even though the evolution of species is something I believe in. I really liked the format of this. I felt like the chapters and sections weren’t too long and had just enough information. I also really enjoyed all the design details on the pages. This book comes with a bunch of recipes and crafts, which I thought made it a pretty unique mix between a cookbook and an all-around manual of how to bring more magic into your life. Basically, if you enjoy cooking, crafting, magic and nature, maybe a little gardening too, even if just in theory, I think you’ll enjoy this book.

I received an eArc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Sarah Ryan (sarahs_reads) · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are my favorite types of nonfiction to read. Quick, easy, "get to the point" books all about magic and hedge witchery - SIGN ME UP!

Here you can learn all about the the moon phases, seasonal tonics, spell essentials, crafts for all four seasons, and so much more! If you are into magic, history of witches, or spell making in general, add this to your TBR list immediately.

My personal grimoire gets larger and larger everything I read anything from Llewelyn due to their informative authors and note worthy information. Will definitely be purcahsing a hard copy once released, next month!

[Mandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Hedgewitch's Little Book of Seasonal Magic is the perfect addition to my shelf. As someone who has read a number of different books in this subgenre of Wicca and Pagan books, I appreciate that Tudorbeth concentrated more on the what to do, rather than explaining the why as many other authors are bound to do. This is a book that welcomes both newcomers and seasoned (ha!) witches to the table as I feel like anyone could find something useful in this book. It is an easy read and I would highly recommend having some post its available to bookmark your favorite recipes and craft instructions to use throughout the year. Keep it on a nearby shelf as you'll be reaching for it!

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this book. Recipes for the different seasons. Ways to connect with the energies of certain times of the year Taking time to remember what each season means. It's information that that is meaningful to every witch.

[Annarella · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting book full of ideas, recipes and things to do. I loved how it's organised and how easy is to follow the recipes.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great book full of lots of information laid out in a really easy way to read and understand.
I absolutely love this book and will definitely be buying it in book form so that I can add it to my magical library

[Danni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this eARC to review.

I could have sworn I reviewed this last year! This was very nice book to read with how informative it was about ingredietns and how easy it was to follow the recipes.

[Cilicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book. I want to try several recipes in it.

[Jenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Hedgewitch’s Little Book of Seasonal Magic is the 2nd in a series of books about hedgewitchery by author Tudorbeth. This little book is packed with information and is easy to read. Tudorbeth starts with some basic information about who a hedgewitch is and how she practices. She goes over supplies a hedgewitch would have in her cabinet as well as ingredients and herbs. Next, she gives a breakdown of Sabbats and Esbats, before we get into the four sections breaking up the seasons, starting with Spring. In each seasonal section the author includes recipes for using the bounty of each season, including jams and jellies, teas, syrups, etc. She then discusses crafts to make each season, followed by spells, elementals, rituals and correspondences.

I love this book because the recipes and crafts are unique. I love that she uses seasonal plants in her tonics and recipes. She gives a list of seasonal foods and herbs at the beginning of every section, and she incorporates those into her food and drink, crafts and medicine. At the start of the summer season, she gives info on edible flowers. I love the taste of flowers. Violets are my favorite, but I also love rose, hibiscus, lavender and jasmine. I love foods and drinks that combine a fruit with a flower or herb. It’s such an interesting flavor profile when you have blackberry hibiscus or even blackberry basil.

The craft projects included are actual crafts or activities I would be into and want to keep. It seems like a lot of books suggest crafts that are papery or chintzy or something that I would make in grade school. I love that she gives instructions for making bath products, pressing flowers, making altar pieces, wands and mobiles. These are things I would treasure and use regularly or at least bring out for every Sabbat – rather than paper crafts that would get thrown away after a single use.

Overall, this book ties everyday activities and special activities into the changing seasons in a way that for me is special because I love working with herbs. I think that her spells and rituals are very meaningful and would help the reader connect with the seasons in a natural way. I look forward to reading more books by Tudorbeth as well as trying out many more of the recipes include in this book.