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Book Review: Plant Magick: The Library of Esoterica by Taschen

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!

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #160

This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu's monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don't get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/08/10/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-160/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #160

This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu's monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don't get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/08/10/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-160/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #160

This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu's monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don't get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/08/10/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-160/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #160

This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu's monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don't get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/08/10/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-160/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #160

This week, #alien enigmas in ancient #Japan, Tiny Yu's monstrous #fish #sculptures, tips to avoid bad decisions, #chickpea and potato stew recipe, #Rothko explained for those who don't get it and much more! #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/08/10/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-160/

Adorable blobby #sculptures, Kagurazaka street after rain, tips to become a better #storyteller and #writer, hand building a tiny house in the woods in 3 months, baked sweet potato #recipe and much more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/07/27/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-159/

Coldness as a melody, gliding through a river with a magnificent #cat and #fox, why people give up and how to overcome it, #ambient music, #vegan shepherd's pie #recipe, building a pond for local #wildlife and more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/07/13/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-158/

This week, a 4.5 billion year old #meteorite that glows eerily under light, evolution of the world's alphabets in a cool #infographic, #chocolate brownies, honest #brand slogans, different kinds of #futurism and more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/06/29/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-157/

How to retrain your #brain after #trauma, the coolest surnames in the world, #vegan french toast #recipe, legendary erotica writer Anaïs Nin's amazing #midcentury home, pimped up cars and loads more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip #interiors

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/06/15/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-156/

#Vegan almond butter date latte #recipe, things you can control, gigantic ancient #sloths, a quote from #Thoreau, walking with #dinosaurs #art by Kristen Eisenbraun and much more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/06/01/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-155/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #154

Eye-popping art by Joel Rea and Ed Binkly, ultra satisfying #vegan white bean #soup, a summary 50 #interiordesign styles, a cottage made of mud, how to get various stains out of different materials. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/05/18/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-154/

Macabre and unsettling furry #puppets, the #psychology of #colour in popular #films, British seaside simulator app, neon #art by AK Berlin that are a blast from the 80's, eerie and strange portals and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/05/04/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-153/

Iconic photos, ancient Egyptian bread recipe, popular #culture and #childhood for different generations, stained glass #owls, surfing the great wave off #Kanagawa, #cats by #LeonorFini and loads more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/27/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-152/

Simple rules for living a great #life, St Giles Cathedral #Edinburgh at sunset, classic Siouxie and the Banshees, sea cucumber skin under the microscope, Yasui Sotaro's #art and loads more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/13/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-151/

This week: 90's Grrl #Grunge, #cat goddess #Bastet, 8 factors for #happiness in one helpful #infographic, mythical #beasts of #Scandinavia, #soups and stews from around the world and much more. #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/03/30/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-150/

This week, ancient #forest restoration in #Ireland, a grid of #emotions, funky #house music, #Greenland's long-living #sharks, exotic roast #potatoes, giant #cats colliding with tiny #trains and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/03/16/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-149/

Floaty #Japanese environmental #ambient #music, the #etymology of #bread, ancient manuscripts of #alchemy, poisonous snakes in an infographic, Strasbourg, #fantasy #art and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/03/02/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-148/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148

Floaty #Japanese environmental #ambient #music, the #etymology of #bread, ancient manuscripts of #alchemy, poisonous snakes in an infographic, Strasbourg, #fantasy #art and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

Osaki Seiichi – The Tale Of A Long Forgotten Sunken City

https://youtu.be/dQDU02JYuMI?feature=shared

‘Give us this day our daily bread’ has a whole new meaning now

The words “lord” and “lady” descend from old english words that mean “bread-guardian” and “bread-kneader”, respectively!

Flying Foxes are Important

These flying cuties are extremely silent and haunt riversides throughout Australia. I love them and I’m a bit obsessed.

https://youtu.be/_5SaGn9wEsE?si=FHFIVKIbUCgPVn0w

Ask Reddit: What’s the weakest compliment you have ever heard?

How to give some a back-handed compliment about their appearance. I have heard some of these in the past myself, which always made me feel weird like the person actually secretly hated me. Reading some of these from Reddit I chuckled a bit and felt a bit relieved other people get these kinds of comments as well.

• You’re not as ugly as I thought you would be.
• You’re attractive for a fat person.
• I like your ears/ you’ve got small ears, they look nice.
• You look good for your age.
• For a nerd you’re pretty beautiful. I bet you don’t hear that very often.
• You’re very clean.
• You smell good today.
• You’ve got nice ankles.
• You’re ranking among my better looking friends.
• You look better than you do in photos.
• You’re not as fat as you used to be.

Music for Resilience 3 “One Spirit” Meditative Music on Arabic Oud – Nao Sogabe

Arabic oud by Japanese artist Nao Sogabe, click image to go to video.

Volcano lightning in Guatemala

The top 30 most venomous snakes in the world

Via Cool Guides on Reddit

Lentil Bolognese recipe by Rainbow Plant Life

I originally found this amazing cook on YouTube and her recipes are delicious and use simple, low-cost ingredients. Via Rainbow Plant Life

Psychological Healing Through Celestial Art by Myriam Wares

Artist Myriam Wares creates stunning illustrations featuring celestial motifs that transport viewers to ethereal realms. Something about this image unlocks psychological healing for me. Each piece radiates an undeniable aura, with masterful use of light and shadow adding depth and life. Via Inspiration Grid

A view onto Strasbourg in springtime

It’s firmly on my bucket list this place. Via the always enjoyable travel blog Strafari.

Clavis Artis: Alchemical manuscript some say is made from ‘dragon’s skin’

The Clavis Artis, an enigmatic alchemical manuscript, dances between mystery and myth. Allegedly penned on dragon skin in the thirteenth century, it truly hails from late seventeenth-century Germany. With rare and bizarre illustrations—think interspecies kissing and moon-hovering nudes—the manuscript bewilders even the keenest minds. Held in Trieste and Rome, these images, some nearly lost to dragon’s breath in a 2004 fire, continue to intrigue and mortify people. Read more on Public Domain Review.

Some of the images from the codex are quite violent and shocking, a couple of babies being gutted (OMG) but some of the more tame ones are below, including some below of interspecies tongue kissing and two mermen holding hands inside of a mystical genie bottle…enjoy!

BRAT – Chain Pain

I was not expecting this woman to have this deep gutteral and heavy voice like a banshee from hell. I do like a bit of metal and I’m now in love with this band.

https://youtu.be/19wFCqtZqRQ?si=k6bz3VhihDpxu87P

Cerrate Octopuses: Angry Ballroom Dancers of the Ocean Floor

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/175c4ol/the_way_this_vampire_squid_moves_across_the_ocean/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

• Weird looks: They are a source of online fascination and have been likened to bell peppers, clown noses. However, to me they look like ballroom dancers having a tantrum on the ocean floor.
• Cirrate Family: They are part of the Cirroteuthidae family, a species first described in the 19th century.
• Deep-Sea Drifter: These octopuses are benthopelagic, meaning they drift within 10 meters of the seafloor.
• They grow large: They can grow up to 1.5 meters in length.
• Remote Habitat: They are found at a depth of 400 meters near Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM). This is one of the largest protected areas in the world and one of the least explored U.S. holdings in the Pacific Ocean.
• Has a Gelatinous Web like a Ballgown: The octopus fans out her arms out and opens and closes her gelatinous umbrella-like web, which connects each arm. They do this to hunt.
• Still Poorly Understood: Despite being known since the 19th century, cirrate octopuses remain poorly understood due to their deep-water habitat.

John Bauer – The Ring

John Bauer’s ‘The Ring’ transports us into a captivating world of myth and magic, set against the backdrop of ancient Nordic forests. With Bauer’s signature illustrations, the story unfolds around an enchanted ring that binds the fates of its characters in a web of adventure, love, and destiny. This beautifully illustrated book offers a glimpse into a realm where magic and mortal destinies intertwine.

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Did you enjoy this collection? let me know what you think of it below. Thank you for reading my dear friends!

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Enchanted woodland #creatures, #creative #inspiration, epic and dark #dinosaur #synth #music, uncovering your subconscious mind, wheelbarrows, a 400 year old cat door, where the wealthiest people live and loads more! It's #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/02/16/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-147/

Prog #rock from #Ukraine, a good #dog's #retirement, how #apes recognise each other, maps of #lichen in #ambient #music form and much more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

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10 #InterestingThings I Found on the Internet 143 – Content Catnip

This week’s #InterestingThings Polish #owls, old-fashioned #dog names, UK jungle and 90’s style R&B, #London’s lost #medieval bridges where people once lived, Marcin Minor’s therapeutic #surreal #art and much more #ContentCatnip Source: 10 #InterestingThings I Found on the Internet 143 – Content Catnip

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/12/21/10-interestingthings-i-found-on-the-internet-143-content-catnip/

This week's #InterestingThings Polish #owls, old-fashioned #dog names, UK jungle and 90's style R&B, #London's lost #medieval bridges where people once lived, Marcin Minor's therapeutic #surreal #art and much more #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2024/12/22/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-143/

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #142 – Content Catnip

This week’s #InterestingThings: a hearty and simple #potato soup to nourish your #soul, welcoming #jazz #music with vocals to inspire, the deepest places on #earth, #cadejos, enchanted #creatures made of #wool, deep listening, rock wrapping and more #ContentCatnip. Open This Wall – Berlioz Berlioz’s jazzy house cuts are really inspiring, warming and timeless. This album could have been made 50 years…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/12/14/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-142-content-catnip/

This week's #InterestingThings: a hearty and simple #potato soup to nourish your #soul, welcoming #jazz music with vocals to inspire, the deepest places on #earth, #cadejos, enchanted #creatures made of #wool, deep listening, rock wrapping #ContentCatnip

http://contentcatnip.com/2024/12/15/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-142/