Tonight’s wander through the Dark Garden brings us to Wormwood—a plant that tastes like pure bitterness and carries just as sharp a reputation. In herbal history, wormwood is known as a strong bitter and vermifuge, used to stir up sluggish digestion and help drive out intestinal worms. It’s intense, aromatic, and never something to take lightly. Its symbolism runs even deeper. In the Bible, “wormwood” is a sign of bitterness and sorrow, and in the book of Revelation a star named Wormwood falls a

The Wormwood Star is a portrait of the mysterious occult artist Marjorie Cameron