Bethany van Rijswijk

The Flower Oracle is launching soon! Sign up to the wait list to be notified as soon as it blooms. 🌷💦 Stroll through a blossoming garden. Which flowers do you long to pick? Which ones will you leave to bloom? The Flower Oracle is a guide to unfurling the past, reveling in the beauty of the present, and blossoming into the future. These 44 cards (plus a guidebook for their interpretation) are tools for tending your own garden—revealing nature’s gifts, soils that need amending, and the seasons of life. With original collages made from vintage botanical illustrations by artist Bethany van Rijswijk and words by Ellen Freeman @e____l_____f______ 🧚🏻‍♀️ Packaged in a beautiful box, with the booklet and cards nested inside. Box measures 5.3″ x 3.8″ x 1.3″, shrink-wrapped. Stunning design by @jjwri , editorial support by @evencleveland and @anjalouise . Published by the wonderful @broccoli_mag 🌼✨ #oraclecards #oracledeck #floraloracle #botanicaloracle #thefloweroracle #botanicalart #botanicalcollage #collage #bethanyvanrijswijk #broccolimagazine #broccolipublishing

My deepest gratitude to Anja, Stephanie, Ellen, Jennifer and the whole @broccoli_mag team for bringing this new edition of The Invisible Harvest into the world. I can't think of a publisher more generous, more magical, or more in keeping with the histories of heretical plants and people. 🌿🔥 Many thanks to @contemporaryarttasmania for supporting the original manuscript through their Cobra program. 🐍 Reposted from @broccoli_mag ✨New book!✨ The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs. In this intoxicating collection of five essays on poisonous and psychoactive plants and fungi, @flower_lore gathers hidden histories overlooked in the scholar’s harvest. Through otherworldly original collages and deep critical engagement with obscure tales of visionary sacraments, owl-chemists, fairy forts, forking paths, vermicular angels, dancing plagues, mushroom cults, and shamanic remnants, she reveals a magic that opens passageways to contrary states of being and thinking—if only we are bold enough to embrace them. 🍄 Edited by @evencleveland , designed by @jjwri , published by @broccoli_publishing . ❤️ #theinvisibleharvest #amicrohistoryofhereticalherbs #handcutcollage #collage #bethanyvanrijswijk #broccolipublishing #broccolimagazine #foxglove #mandrake #belladonna #ergotfungus #flyagaric #botanicalfolklore #herballore #hereticalhistories #flowerlorelibrary

I'm so excited to share with you The Mushroom Oracle! It's an absolute dream come true to create the artworks for this magical, mycelial deck. Now available in the @broccoli_mag shop! ✨ Reposted from @mushroompeople.co Introducing The Mushroom Oracle, now in our shop! This 🍄 deck with magical art by @flower_lore guides mycelial thinking about the past, present, and future through 44 cards and an accompanying booklet representing mushrooms, the forest, mushroom people, and fungal structures—and the multitudes, layers, and connections each contains. Consult the Mushroom Oracle by pulling a card at new beginnings, forks in the path, closings, and seasonal transitions. The reader is encouraged to consider their connections to others, their environment, and themselves. Words by @e____l_____f______ , edited by @evencleveland , design by @jjwri with assistance from @kristenkyleginn and @alicemaydu #themushroomoracle #oraclecards #oracledeck #collage #handcutcollage #bethanyvanrijswijk #broccolimagazine #mushroompeople

FERTILIZING Enrichment 🌸 Replenishment 🌸 Thriving A card from The Garden Oracle, out now @broccoli_mag 🐑

The Garden Oracle, out now @broccoli_mag 🥦🍅 Photo by @stephaniegonot and @amsies ✨

SLUG Adversaries 🍑 Hunger 🍑 Vulnerability A card from The Garden Oracle, out now @broccoli_mag

ANNUALS Completion 🌼 Starting Over 🌼 Hedonism A card from The Garden Oracle, out now @broccoli_mag 🌾

The Garden Oracle is here! 🌱 Dig deep. Scatter seeds. Water shoots. What will your garden grow? Every card in the Garden Oracle represents an action, a type of plant, a garden feature, or a creature—and the multitudes, layers, and connections each contains. Use these 44 cards and the accompanying guidebook as a tool for nourishing roots, understanding seasons and cycles, cultivating sprouts, pruning excess, and harvesting nature’s gifts. With original collages made from vintage illustrations by artist Bethany van Rijswijk and words by Ellen Freeman. Packaged in a beautiful box, with booklet and cards nested inside. Art by @flower_lore , text by @e____l_____f______ , design by @jjwri & @emprestridge , editorial by @evencleveland , creative direction by @anjalouise . Published by @broccoli_mag . 🌿⛲🍓

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Many thanks to Talitha May for the thoughtful review of my book, The Invisible Harvest, in Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. Such a wonderful publication and some of my fairy tale heroines are on the board: Terri Windling, Maria Tatar, and Marina Warner to name a few! 🧚 Abstract: “The article focuses on The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs, a work by Bethany van Rijswijk that examines the relationships between five poisonous and psychoactive plants and fungi and various heretical practices throughout history. The author explores Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Digitalis purpurea (foxglove), Mandragora officinarum (mandrake), Claviceps purpurea (ergot fungus), and Amanita muscaria (fly agaric mushroom), highlighting how these plants have been associated with marginalized voices and alternative knowledge systems that challenge oppressive cultural norms. Van Rijswijk's methodology emphasizes the active role of these plants in shaping human experiences and understanding, while her collages complement the text by inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world.”

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