Best of
Witchcraft

1998

Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners


Joan Bunning - 1998
    The 19 lessons in the course cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. Exercises and sample responses for each lesson help you learn and practice. For simplicity, only one easy layout is used throughout the course the Celtic Cross Spread. Learning the Tarot focuses in detail on the actual process of discovering meaning in the cards. Lessons cover topics such as how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading. A convenient reference section contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings.

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants


Claudia Müller-Ebeling - 1998
    It does more than make one healthy, it creates lust and knowledge, ecstasy and mythological insight. In Witchcraft Medicine the authors take the reader on a journey that examines the women who mix the potions and become the healers; the legacy of Hecate; the demonization of nature's healing powers and sensuousness; the sorceress as shaman; and the plants associated with witches and devils. They explore important seasonal festivals and the plants associated with them, such as wolf's claw and calendula as herbs of the solstice and alder as an herb of the time of the dead--Samhain or Halloween. They also look at the history of forbidden medicine from the Inquisition to current drug laws, with an eye toward how the sacred plants of our forebears can be used once again.

Embracing the Moon: A Witch's Guide to Rituals, Spellcraft and Shadow Work


Yasmine Galenorn - 1998
    You know what you want in life. You're searching for a spiritual path that is deeply meaningful. You hunger for a closer connection with the Earth, the seasons, and the shifting energies of the moon. You long to weave beneficial magick into the very fabric of your life. You can do all this and more when you embrace the moon. "Embracing the Moon" is a guidebook to following your unique spiritual path as a Witch. Based on a non-traditional, eclectic approach to Witchcraft, this system of natural magick draws on many traditions. You can use this powerful, versatile magickal system exactly as created by the author—or you can customize it as you wish. "Embracing the Moon "describes a multitude of options so you can choose those most meaningful to you: -Faerie magick -Hex work -Goddess rituals -Earth healing rituals -Elements and deities -Magickal tools -Prosperity and abundance spells -Recipes for oils and powders -Love and beauty magick -Household magick -God rituals -Shapeshifting and animal magick -Candle and herb magick -Magickal life mapping -Protection and healing spells -Rune charts and symbols The author has developed and practiced her eclectic system for over 20 years. Now you can use her insights, exercises, and magickal techniques to create a system that is both within the traditions of Witchcraft and yet uniquely your own. Get "Embracing the Moon" today.

Animal Wise Tarot Set


Ted Andrews - 1998
    The tarot's clarity and ease of use will be a refreshing surprise to the practitioner and novice alike in divining for the future and gaining insight on a single day, month, or year. Contains 78 full-color cards of actual animal photographs and a 256-page soft-cover text.

A Compendium of Herbal Magick


Paul V. Beyerl - 1998
    Devas are the radiant light of the Universal Divine which permeates all things. Since the earliest times people were aware that all of Nature is divine. Great and wondrous myths were told which explained the presence of divine energy as it exists in thunder, in trees and in sunlight. Some of this lore was the foundation of religions. But the simpler stories such as those of a plant's energy explored day-to-day matters like health and love. This understanding of the world has been preserved in folklore through poems, chants, ditties and spells. From researching the history of folklore from cultures around the world, patterns emerge which enable us to approach the true nature of plants' devas. This compendium presents the lore and the corresponding usage for 330 magickal herbs. Great care was taken only to include folklore that was documented as being authentic.You will meet many new herbs in this text and explore fascinating magickal and religious uses. But most of all we hope you come to respect the divine that surrounds your everyday life.

The Circuit of Force: Occult Dynamics of the Etheric Vehicle


Dion Fortune - 1998
    Gareth Knight provides subject commentaries on various aspects of the etheric vehicle, filling in some of the practical details and implications that she left unsaid in the more secretive esoteric climate of the times in which she wrote.

WAR GODDESS The Morrígan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts


Angelique Gulermovich Epstein - 1998
    She is a horrific goddess personifying war the way the ancient Irish saw it: loud, chaotic, glorious, bloody and heroic. She is savage and deceitful, bloodthirsty, revelling in the gore of battle. She comes as a carrion crow or a hag, portending or causing violent death. Yet she is no mere demoness. She fights for her race, the Túatha dé Danann, against the invading Fomoire. She has a strange relationship with Ireland's great warrior Cú Chulainn: by fighting him, she forces him to rise to his greatest glory. Under other names — Nemain, Macha, Fé, Badb, the Washer at the Ford — she shows aspects of motherhood, sorcery, prophecy and teaching.

A Witch's Runes: How to Make and Use Your Own Magick Stones


Susan A. Sheppard - 1998
    This creative, crafty, and spiritual book teaches witches how to create their own stones and use them for divination or to cast spells.

Palmistry: The Whole View the Whole View


Judith Hipskind - 1998
    Palmistry lets us enrich life through knowledge of our dynamics. One hundred thirty-four illustrations show every detail. This also discusses the importance of the size, shape and flexibility of all parts of the hand.

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century


Richard Kieckhefer - 1998
    Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents--prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials.With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

The Holy Books of the Devas: The Secret Mythologies of the Herbal World


Paul V. Beyerl - 1998
    Twenty years in the making, this new, fourth edition will bring you great joy as it teaches you the meaning of life from the herbal perspective.