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Everyday Magic from the Herb Garden
I started Green Moon Witchery to share things that help you slow down, notice moments, notice your human-ness. To live with intention.
I’ve been a witch for two decades and realized, rather belatedly, that my scientific interests and my witchery were basically the same thing. Same decor (skulls, books, & bottles), same personal meaning (develop my strengths, be a good human, understand my place in the world), and similar problems to avoid (both can be appropriative and a bit smug about it). It turns out that integrating these two sides of myself was pretty easy. Almost like they were the same side.
My strongest values have been in having a meaningful, intentional life for me and my family, but I could not move that way in academia or in corporate.
So, I offer reminders to you intended to help you make meaning as you move through your day, which becomes your life.
These reminders have helped me too amidst the busy, often hurting world around us.
I want an oasis of meaning, but I don’t want to remove myself from the world, even though it’s hard out there. If we leave, it doesn’t get better.
With love,
Sarah
About Sarah
Sarah is an herbalist, soap maker, tarot reader, and former professor living in Portland, Oregon. She often calls herself a mud and herb witch because that’s where she feels most like herself.
Sarah has been learning and applying her knowledge of herbs and plants for 20+ years, developing relationships with individual plants through growing them and making tisanes, infusions, soaps, and salves for herself and her family. Her biggest herbal influence has come from Rosemary Gladstar’s books and teachings, but she has learned from so many others. She hopes to be learning about plants for the rest of her life.
Soap creates an easy way for the herb curious to build a relationship with herbs in a sometimes more approachable way than teas, tonics, and salves. And for those who are already well acquainted with herbs, herbal soaps can weave them even more into your daily life.
Soap is something you can reach for every time you wash your hands, every time you bathe. Handmade soap is special. It feels different on the skin and the skin responds. The herbs shape this experience from the cooling of peppermint to the soothing of calendula.
Tarot Soaps and Ritual Bath Boxes are more direct about making meaning. The ritual of handwashing and bathing can be more than simply cleansing. They’re used for many intents, often to cleanse before a tarot reading and clear after. What else could you whisper to your soap to do a working?
Sarah creates each bar of soap herself from start to finish, researching, formulating, mixing, pouring, cutting, labeling, and shipping. She invites you to add the magic of this making and the magic of herbs to your everyday routine.
Tarot & Magic
Sarah got her first tarot deck around the same time she fell in love with plants. So, of course, it was the Herbal Tarot, and it was the only deck she’s had for decades.
Making spreads and spells that reflect human cognition became a way to start bridging the witchery and the scholarly aspects of Sarah’s life. They’ve never felt separate to her and now she spends time creating tarot spreads that support self reflection.
Communicating with others has always seemed to be the important ‘underneath’ of everything else, so she went to school for a very, very long time (2001-2011) to earn her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in speech-language pathology and cognitive neurolingusitics. She went on to became a professor, teaching and researching brain injury recovery and cognitive rehabilitation, where she stayed for a decade until she quit in 2022.