Botanica Obscura 2025

March 7th to 9th 2025

2025 will be the 4th annual virtual gathering!

Tickets on sale 12/21 visit the Shop Tab to purchase your tickets.

All presentations are live and recorded and recordings will be stored on the cloud for one year.

Botanica Obscura is a space to appreciate and explore our fascination with strange and unusual plants and fungi. Hosted by Eimi OstaraMoon of Poison and Bee, and Coby Michael of Poisoner's Apothecary. Our goal is to facilitate learning and a sense of community between people and plants. We are a collection of herbalists, educators, alchemists, and spiritual practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds . Plant Spirit medicine spans across cultures and time periods, and through each of our unique areas of expertise, we can provide a uniquely magical perspective to the study of integrative plant medicine and plant-based magical practice. Botanica Obscura was created to help create space for the growing community of practitioners interested in working with our green allies. The event will host a variety of presentations including topics on ethnobotany, phytochemistry, mycology, wortcunning, plant alchemy, the poison path, plant spirit medicine, phytognosis and much more!

2025 Schedule

Friday March 7th

10 am Lilith Dorsey – Tarot Gardens: The Dark and Dirty

12 pm Brenna Lilly – Herbal Allies for the Dark Night of the Soul

2 pm Micah Nilsson – Quan Yin & the Jaguar: Lotuses & Waterlilies in Myth and Magick

2 pm  Jason Loscocco - Practical Mycelium -An Introduction to Home Cultivation & Working with Mushroom Allies

4 pm Emily Iviđja - Snatching the Wolf’s Tail: Plant Allies for Lycanthropy

6 pm Seed Sistas - Mandrake: Magic, Medicine, and Myth

8 pm Varla Ventura - The Poison Apple: The Magic, Medicine and Mayhem of a Fairy Tale Fruit

10 pm Jhenah Telyndru - The Healing Heritage of Wales: The Lady of the Lake and the Physicians of Myddfai

Saturday March 8th

10 am Ben Stimpson - The Apothecary's Notebook: Plant Lore from the Medieval Ages

12 pm Kamden Cornell - A Ladder of Thorns to Grasp the Crooked Rose: The Intersection of Lunar, Martial, and Venereal Herbs in the Extasis of Desire and Creation

2 pm Al Cummins - Herbs of Countermagic: Unbewitching Plants in Traditional English Magic

4 pm Joshua Williams –  Working with the Herbwise Ancestors

4 pm Aerik Arkadian - The Art of Spagyrics: Crafting Fluid Condensers with Alchemical Wisdom

6 pm Vex Blođstjarna – Veneficium Venatics: Pursuing the ritual herbcraft in hunting sorceries

6 pm Natalia Lopez - Entheogens on the Rise

8 pm Charly and Isaiah – Plants as Magical Allies

8pm  Phoebe Hildegard Finch - Tangled up in Blue — the Secret History of Indigo

10 pm – Plant People Discussion Group

Sunday March 9th (daylight savings time ends at 2 am on Sunday)

10 am Albert Björn - Artemisia Allies: Techniques of Exorcism, Love and Divination

12 pm Debora Greer - Storms, Spirits and Radical Independence: Herbal Preparations with the Buffalo Woman

2 pm V. Faemana – Blood for blood: Sangre de Grado or Urucuruna, The arboreous keeper of life of the Amazonian Forest

2pm Christian Rasmussen - Amanita: History, Pharmacology & Exploration

4 pm Magi Rivera - Mythos Astrology: Tales of The Ancient Sorceress with Medea of Colchis

4 pm Sean Croke - St. Peter and the Keys to Heaven: The Genus Trichocereus in Magical Practice

6 pm Amber Haase - Verdant Armour of the Hedge Witch Apotropaic folk magick: Banishing and Hexwork

8 pm Nicholas Pearson - The Fabled Toadstone: Poison, Magic, and Initiation

10 pm

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