Self-Love Potions: Herbal Recipes & Rituals to Make You Fall in Love with You

Artist Valeria (Moon Witch Oracle) offers an eclectic mix of recipes, spells, and rituals intended to “heal your body and mind” in this fun compendium. Entries range from garden-variety tips, including using an aloe mask “for an extra glow,” to the less expected, such as healing spiritual and emotional issues with the help of elderflower ice pops. Elsewhere, she prescribes a nasturtium pesto “for manifestation” and recommends readers “write what you would like to attract” on the leaves before adding them to the food processor with basil leaves and pine nuts, and promises a shortbread cookie recipe can restore one’s “zest for life” thanks to its inclusion of bright blue cornflowers, which symbolize the “passion of youth.” Despite a few weaker entries—among them an “energy bath for empaths” that essentially entails getting into a tub with a crystal and letting the water work its healing “magic”—Valeria’s voice is chummy and lighthearted (of the pesto: “If making your own pasta sauce from scratch using flowers isn’t an act of self-love, I don’t know what is”), and readers will appreciate how her modern approach casts self-love rituals as an opportunity to “carve some time out just for yourself.” This is delightful. (July)