Preface
with faith and gratitude for the charms that nature offers us and can be used in your daily rituals, helping you to discover your personal purpose and transform the reality around you. Perhaps you’ve read or heard all of this before. Perhaps you’ve even taken the first steps in some tradition of natural magic. What most people don’t know—and those who know usually don’t tell—is that each herb has within it several different powers. Precisely for that reason, there are techniques and fundamentals one should learn to awaken the desired potential of a plant, determining your magical success in every ritual. When I first realized that everything around us is made of pure energy and that it is possible to access this energy to vibrate together with it in pursuit of my biggest and best goals, I discovered the biggest secret of all: the gods and goddesses live within us and within every living being, animal or plant. More than that: each one of us is a sleeping deity waiting to wake up. That was the real turning point in my life, and as you experience the teachings in this book, I sincerely hope it becomes yours too! In Sacred Leaves we will learn how to identify and classify plants and leaves using their magical characteristics: shape, smell, color, vibration, and the ruling Orisha of each one. By understanding how and for what each of them works, we will learn to combine their powers with the elements of nature, the days of the week, the vibration of the planets, and the phases of the moon to enhance the results of your rituals. Along with this, we will learn in detail how to do the sacred harvest of the ingredients for magical rituals, entering the realm of Ossain, the Orisha’s healer, and then, returning to the city, we will learn how to create a magical garden at home and how to sing to enchant and awaken the inner secrets of the leaves by using words of power.
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