Herbwise Craft
A Living Tradition of the Plant Spirit Path
What Is The Plant Spirit Path?
The Green Arte is a contemporary expression of the plant spirit path- rooted in the ancient ways of our herbwise ancestors while fruiting in the here-and-now. Our tradition is heavily informed by ancient plant lore, blessed by our cunning forebears, and nourished by the plant spirits themselves. The Plant Sprit Path is a bioregional, animist, kinship-focused expression of nature spirituality focused on cultivating harmony through wisdom, magic, medicine, and ritual.
Like all traditions and expressions of animist sorcery, craft, and spirituality, the goals of Plant Spirit Work centers personal experience, deep kinship, sacred reciprocity, and the cultivation of harmony. Just as many traditions of Paganism, Druidry, Heathenry, Sorcery, and Eco-Spirituality work to live a life of peace and plenty through right-relationships with our many kin, our path is the same. We do this by centering our deep ancestors, the plants, and working with them in powerful ways much like other traditions might work with saints, heroes, and deities.
Goals of Plant Spirit Work
Is It Witchcraft or Paganism?
As long as our definitions of Witchcraft and Paganism center animist, kinship, and reciprocity (as most of them do), then The Green Arte can easily be considered both, or neither. While we don’t package or present this as another tradition of modern Witchcraft or Paganism, there is far too much overlap to ignore. Most people who engage with deeper plant spirit work, spiritual herbalism, herb magic, and the like as we teach here are also engaged in other nature-based forms of spirituality.
The Verdant Current
Like all craft traditions, The Green Arte is a living, dynamic, and evolving way of connecting directly to the verdant current- that stream of spirited wisdom that permeates the whole of the green world. Our way of doing things comes with many idiosyncrasies, language, and approaches that at once connect us to the ancient herbwise ways of many folk while also being relevant for right here, right now.
The Green Arte tradition centers the conscious plant spirits in its approach to personal and communal harmony with various divine beings at the center who act as guides, guardians, and initiators.