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We had our first Wicca 101 class last night, on Mabon, the Equinox.  Along with the Priestess who is co-teaching, we had five students: two with previous experience, the others without.  A sixth, also a newbie, will join us at our second meeting.  After that, the class will be closed.  It’s a nice size: big enough to have some coven type experiences later on and small enough for us to attend to every one individually.  Plus we fit comfortably into my living room.

Even more admirable are the recipes throughout the book that discuss how to harvest and prepare the plants for use as medicine — too many publications lack these important how-to details. For mullein, the instructions include detailed descriptions of how to make dried mullein tea for coughs and colds. It challenges the reader with the more complex recipe of mullein-flower oil as an earache remedy. There’s also a how-to on making and using a mullein poultice to draw out splinters.