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Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond
Paige Vanderbeck - 2020
Open yourself up to everything from growing herbs and plants for magic and medicine, to honoring the spirits of trees and animals, and using crystals for power and healing.Put natural magic into practice, with spells and rituals that harness the natural, plentiful energy and power of herbs, plants, stones, crystals, wood, and more. Green Witchcraft makes it easy, with practical tips and instructions on everything from using honeysuckle to attract wealth, quartz to direct energy, and moonlight for cleansing your tools.Inside Green Witchcraft you’ll find:
Anyone can be a witch—Expand your witch library with this craft book that will empower both new witches and experienced practitioners.
Creating a green space—Your home is a sanctuary. Learn how to arrange your space to serve as a place of green power and a source of your magical energy.
Real witchcraft—Learn what words like “magic” and “energy” really mean to witches, and some of the common misconceptions about magic and the people who believe in it.
Discover the power of the natural world with hands-on spells for green witches.
HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft
Erica Feldmann - 2019
Harness the power of magic to create a beautiful, healing living space with this unique illustrated guide from the founder of HausWitch, the popular Salem, Massachusetts, store and online lifestyle brand.Anyone looking to put together their ideal home—full of beauty, comfort, protection, and positive energy—will gravitate to HausMagick, a simple and striking modern handbook for using witchcraft to bring divine wellbeing into every dwelling.Author and HausWitch founder Erica Feldman teaches you how to transform any space into a sacred sanctuary using the principles of the HausWitch brand, which brings together earth magic, meditation, herbalism, Jungian psychology, tarot, astrology, feminist spirituality, and interior decoration.Organized by six fundamental elements—Manifestation, Clearing, Protection, Comfort, Harmony, and Balance—HausMagick includes herbal recipes for clearing sprays and bath salts, folklore-inspired decorating tips, an overview of tarot, advice on crystals, ancient home healing spells and meditations, and more.Featuring a sophisticated and inviting layout, filled with more than 100 inspiring colorful photographs, HausMagick is the cool modern guide to a transformed living space.
How to Deal: Tarot for Everyday Life
Sami Main - 2018
Sami Main breaks down how the cards relate to one another, explaining spreads for future readings and questions to ask the cards. And she takes you through all the Major and Minor Arcana, with colorful illustrations of the cards and detailed descriptions of what they mean.As Sami will teach you: The cards are here to guide you through life’s ups and downs—you just have to understand what they’re trying to say.
Crystal Grids Power: Harness The Power of Crystals and Sacred Geometry for Manifesting Abundance, Healing and Protection
Ethan Lazzerini - 2017
In this comprehensive and practical guide, you will learn how to make and activate Crystal Grids for yourself, others and your home. Explore the fascinating history and symbolism behind Crystal Grids. Learn how and why Crystal Grids work. Ethan Lazzerini uses over 20 years experience with crystals to formulate 34 intention based Crystal Grids for every purpose. No more secrets, this No.1 Amazon Bestselling book will demystify the world of Crystal Grids. Learn exactly why each different crystal is used and the reason every geometric shape was chosen for each grid. Crystal Grids Power is filled with tips and techniques to supercharge your grids. Access simple to advanced Crystal Grids and learn how to create your own. Includes Powerful Crystal Grids for: Abundance & Prosperity, Psychic Protection, Personal & Distant Healing, Success, Relationships, Increased Energy, Motivation, Angels, Confidence, Better Sleep, Karma Releasing, Life Purpose, Stress Relief, Earth Healing, Overcoming Obstacles, Aura Clearing, Peace & Harmony, Home Protection, New Beginnings and many more... Contains 34 Crystal Grids for all areas of your life Clearly illustrated with diagrams and step-by-step instructions The meaning of Sacred Geometry shapes and symbols explained Learn three different ways to activate your Crystal Grids Helpful substitute crystals are given for every grid Includes FREE Printable Crystal Grid Templates to download Crystal Grids Power is an indispensable guide to the magical world of Crystal Grids. This enlightening book contains EVERYTHING you need to know about Crystal Grids and how to use them. Take a look inside, download a sample or buy your copy today!
Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation
Mary K. Greer - 1984
The exercises can be enjoyed by an individual or shared with others, making it a popular text for classes and study groups. It uses meditations, rituals, spreads, mandalas, visualizations, dialogues, charts, affirmations, and other activities to help you establish your own relationship with the cards. It offers the best in traditional knowledge and know-how. Learn the many variations of three card spreads and ways of moving around the cards in the Celtic Cross Spread to get far more information than you thought possible. Use Mary Greer's powerful "breakthrough process" with all your readings to turn them into truly transformative experiences.
The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual
Alexei Kondratiev - 1998
The traditions of Celtic-speaking communities in particular offer a highly effective method, expressed through mythology (as in the symbolic apple branch) and implemented through seasonal rituals.Alexi Kondratiev outlines rules for Celtic-circle membership and shows how to become conversant with Celtic culture and mythology, and at least one of the surviving Celtic languages. He also provides the actual formula of words given for each of the Celtic rituals and visualization sequences. These rituals are closely connected with the passage of time, especially the four seasons, as well as other feast days. In this book the ancient traditions of all six Celtic nations are brought to life. Alexi Kondratiev, who knows sixty-four languages well enough to teach them, conducts classes in a variety of Celtic subjects at the Irish Arts Center in New York City, and has been a contributor to a number of magazines and journals, including Keltoi, Carn, and Keltria.
The Call of the Horned Piper
Nigel Jackson - 1990
An exploration of the inner symbology, sacred cycles, working tools, incantations, spells & pathworking of the ancient Witchcraft. A practical grim
Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within
Danielle Dulsky - 2017
Author and proud witch Danielle Dulsky debunks this interpretation and reveals the true nature of Witchcraft: an ancient spiritual path that rejects religious dogma in favor of female empowerment and a deep reverence for the Earth. In a collaborative, conversational tone, Woman Most Wild reclaims the Earth-centered power of aligning with our wildest, freest selves to create an inclusive world for all. The three keys to liberating your inner witch and owning your power are:• Wild Rhythm: aligning yourself with the cycles of nature• Wild Ritual: understanding the importance of ritual and ceremony• Wild Circle: bonding with like-minded seekersDulsky’s tools for embracing and experiencing the power of these keys, including moon rituals, healing meditations, yoga postures, circle work, and Goddess encounters, will guide you toward joining the cosmic dance befitting the divine, limitless woman you are.
Whispers from the Woods: The Lore & Magic of Trees
Sandra Kynes - 2006
It speaks to something deep and primal within us-something we don't hear as often as we should.By exploring a variety of mysteries and traditions of trees, Whispers from the Woods helps readers get reacquainted with the natural world and find their place in the earth's rhythm. Covering more than just Celtic Ogham and tree calendars, this book includes meditation, shamanic journeys, feng shui, spellcraft, and ritual. In addition, it has a reference section with detailed information on fifty trees, which includes seasonal information, lore, powers, attributes, and more.Finalist for the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for Best Wiccan/Pagan Book
You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose
Chani Nicholas - 2018
Gone are the days of "on Tuesday you will meet your prince charming" horoscopes. Instead, Nicholas is spearheading a radical new approach to astrology. In her hip, inspirational weekly horoscopes, she doesn’t tell readers what will happen to them. Instead, she encourages her devotees to take control—to confront themselves, their desires, and their needs—to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars.Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist writing style, You Were Born for This explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Understanding the astrological chart can help you refine your intentions, identify your strengths, recognize areas for growth, become more connected to your core self, and steer you on your spiritual path.In an era when growing numbers of people feel a sense of meaninglessness and a desire to learn more about themselves, You Were Born for This teaches you how to harness the zodiac to help you become more in tune with yourself and your place in the universe.
Weaving Fate
Aidan Wachter - 2020
These practices can help us to re-imagine the possibilities available to us and to shift our lives into more beneficial forms.The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a long-form written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being.The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Through it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire.The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in traumatic events and ancestral pain-states. We can then transmute this energy into raw power for use in creating the internal and external changes we seek.Weaving Fate is for those willing get their hands dirty in the guts of the thoughts, memories, internal, and external forces that shape our lives. It is for those who understand that our fates are mutable and that we have great power to influence them.
The Witches' Book of the Dead
Christian Day - 2011
They cast spells, heal, and foretell the future. What you might not know is that Witches can also commune with the spirits of the dead.In The Witches' Book of the Dead, modernday Salem Warlock Christian Day shows how the spirits of our beloved dead can be summoned to perform such tasks as helping you to discover hidden opportunities, influence the minds of others, seduce the object of your affection, and even reach into the dreams of the unwary. According to legend, the Spirits of the dead can confer magical talents, fame, love, and wealth on those brave enough to summon them.The Witches' Book of the Dead explores the enduring relationship between witches and the dead and teaches rituals and incantations to help readers open doorways to the spirit world.Topics include: Legendary Witches who have raised the dead, including The Witch of Endor, Circe, and ErichthoCreating ancestral altars and building relationships with spiritsThe tools of Necromancy: the bronze dagger, yew wand, iron keys, graveyard dust, the offering cauldron, spirit powders, the human skull, and moreMethods of spirit contact, including automatic writing, scrying mirrors, spirit boards, pendulums, and spirit mediumshipThe ancient arts of necromancy as a method of conjuring the dead to assist in magicRidding yourself of unwanted spirits using rituals of cleansing, banishing and exorcismGhost hunting techniques that combine psychic wisdom with modern technologyCommuning with the dead in dreamsSacred holidays and powerful celebrations of the deadResources on where to ethically obtain the tools of the tradeAn overview of the feared deities of the UnderworldRituals, recipes, exercises, and more!Dare to walk between the worlds with Christian Day as he guides you across the River Styx into the shadowy realms where the dead long to connect with us once more!
Wicca: A Year and a Day: 366 Days of Spiritual Practice in the Craft of the Wise
Timothy Roderick - 2005
Traditionally, students take a year and a day to prepare for their initiation into the Craft. Based on this age-old custom, Wicca: A Year and a Day is a one-of-a-kind daily guide that introduces Witchcraft over a 366-day cycle.Ideal for solitary students, this intensive study course teaches the core content of Wiccan practice: the tides of time, the wonders of the seasons, the ways of herbs and magic, the mysticism of the Old Ones, and the inner disciplines of seers and sages. Daily lessons include exercises, Wiccan theology and lore, and discussions relating to circle work, magical correspondences, holidays, deities, tools, healing, and divination.
Everyday Wicca: Magickal Spells Throughout the Year
Gerina Dunwich - 2000
Everyday Wicca presents a friendly and fascinating introduction to the art of spellcasting and a thoughtful survey of the Wiccan calendar, explaining the spiritual significance of the phases of the moon, the passing seasons, and holy days.Chapters include - Lunar Spellwork -- How working in harmony with the moon is essential to successful magick. - The Wheel of the Year -- The Eight Sabbats celebrated, as well as sacred God/dess days. - The Rainbow of Magick -- The power of color in spellcasting. - The Magick of Incense -- The importance of incense in spellcasting. - An A-to-Z glossary of Wiccan terms. - The power of poetry in casting spells.Additionally, the book provides spells and magickal rites to be performed throughout the year. With Everyday Wicca in hand, readers, whether an experienced witch or an uninitiated novice, can learn to incorporate magick into all aspects of their lives.
Of Witchcraft and Whimsy: A Beginner's Guide to Basic Witchcraft
Orriculum Rose - 2017
Even google is not helpful if you don’t know the questions to ask, which can often be the case when stumbling upon something new where everyone else seems to already be in the know. So here are a few questions and answers in case you needed either of them. This is a basic overview of witchcraft, what it is, the techniques and methods commonly used in it, as well as some simple spells, intended for the beginner witch.