Magic Witchcraft Religion

Crafting your own magic is a personal and fluid journey, and you won’t find scripted spells and rituals within these pages. Instead, you’ll find a collection of pathways to a magical practice rooted in your lived experience and the relationships you form in seen and unseen realms. Here, witch, intuitive energy healer, and death-worker Cassie Uhl will share techniques to hone your inherent intuitive abilities, personal experiences, and practices—all of which she encourages you to modify to suit your needs.

Everything you need to know about working with the magic of the elements. Created for both beginners and more experienced Witches alike, this guide is a comprehensive yet concise treatment of one of the core aspects of Wiccan and other Pagan practices. Lisa covers the basics of incorporating the elements into your rituals, as well as less-often discussed topics like animism, elemental personalities, and using these forces of nature to help you enhance your magical perception.

As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to its rightful place among powerful forces for social, personal, and political transformation, more people than ever are claiming the identity of "witch". But our knowledge of witchcraft and magic has been marred by erasure, sensationalism, and sterilization, the true stories of history's witches left untold. Through meditations, stories, and practices, authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer an intersectional, contemporary lens for uncovering and reconnecting with feminist witch history.

In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, the artist, the Christian humanist, and the religious reformer.

This practical guide to Witchcraft both embraces and celebrates queer men through an impressive collection of spells, rituals, and exercises. The Satyr's Kiss empowers everyone who identifies as male to take his rightful place at the center of his own universe, honoring the unique qualities that set him apart from the mainstream. Emphasizing the importance of sexuality in Witchcraft, this book features a variety of methods for celebrating sex in a magical way. Join Storm Faerywolf on a queer-centered exploration of magical philosophy, history, rites of passage, and sex magic.

An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia's mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old, Amanda's real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own.

We're all seeking inner peace and ways to make meaningful change in our lives. But during troubled times, how can we find a way out of overwhelming stress and negativity? Allow leading Wiccan priestess Phyllis Curott to open the door to the realms of real, life-changing magic. Spells for Living Well is an essential guide to the empowering magic of spells. Working with the elements, the natural world and your own inner magic, Phyllis guides you through each spell with clear, vivid explanations.

Discover the power of sigils and use them to change your life forever! A fascinating amalgam of spirituality, language, intellect, and creativity, the sigil is a manifestation of humanity’s eternal search for connection with the unseen and unexplored world - some of which is right in our unconscious mind. Crafted by various methods, sigils have captured the imagination since time began and continue to do so. These mysterious glyphs draw us in, inviting our interpretations and, of course, our desire to make our own versions of them.

The yearning to slow down and simplify, return to the earth, and maybe even “rewild” what has been tamed in ourselves persists even though that dream may seem ever more remote in contemporary life. Danielle Dulsky shows that even in our high-tech and high-pressure lives, it is possible to manifest your own “year of the wild” and to tap into often-forgotten holy wisdom. Seasons of Moon and Flame guides you to live cyclically while working with the archetype of the Sacred Hag, or wild grandmother, who appears in various guises.

Relying on wits, intelligence, integrity, and strength, the hedge witch walks a simple and solitary path that requires few tools or complex rituals. This path teaches you how to create a more beneficial life for all beings through traditional folkloric knowledge, a relationship with nature, and the art of hedge riding (trance work). Joanna van der Hoeven shows you how to work with the elements, harmonize with the cycles of the moon, walk between worlds, and establish an ever-growing relationship with the Fair Folk.

Originally released in 1999, this best-selling guide to magickal practices - based on the experiences and successes of a third-degree working witch - has been revised and updated! Written for today's seeker, To Light a Sacred Flame contains techniques that unite divinity with magick, knowledge, and humor.

As witchcraft grows ever more popular, there are countless introductions and paths into magical practice to choose from—so many that you might not know where to begin. When you’re just getting started, it’s easy to be intimidated or discouraged or to feel that there’s no place for you in the craft.

Learn everything you need to know about Hekate, the goddess of magic, darkness, and the moon. Have you ever wondered why Hekate is one of the most important figures in the world of witchcraft? Are you interested in establishing a connection with this goddess? Do you want to learn all about Hekatean spellwork? Hekate is among the most significant figures in the worlds of witchcraft and ancient Greek mythology.

The Elements of Ritual now features updates throughout on gender and polarity as well as all-new sections on the history of elemental associations and raising the cone of power. This edition also includes alternate orders for the traditional steps of ritual. You will learn how to write your own rituals, discover new ideas on magical tools, and use meditations to deepen your understanding of Wicca's most enduring rite.

Embrace the healing practices of herbalism practiced by witches through the ages and experience the magic yourself. It is not as complex as you may have assumed, and with this guide, it gets even easier.

Moon Spells is packed with all of the knowledge, spells, and essential information that you need to quickly become acquainted with this interesting, exciting, and fun topic. This the complete guide when it comes to unearthing the hidden power of lunar phases, the details of Wiccan magic, a range of rituals, and witchcraft. Not many people are aware or truly understand the moon and its power, but this audiobook will show you just how great it can be, if it is harnessed correctly.

Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it, including Italians who want to regain their magical heritage. Containing magical and religious rituals and prayers, this book explores divination techniques, crafting, blessing rituals, witchcraft, and, of course, the evil eye.

American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic currently used by those living in the US but whose roots are steeped in Mexican culture. This type of Mexican American folk magic, which the author calls “American brujeria”, features its own unique saints and spirits as well as familiar ones, such as the infamous Santa Muerte.

Mesopotamian Witchcraft Unveiled: Rituals, Sigils, and the Power of Ancient Magic by Thaddeus Shade is an in-depth exploration of one of the earliest and most powerful magical traditions known to humankind. This comprehensive book takes readers on a mystical journey into the heart of Mesopotamian spirituality, revealing the esoteric practices, symbols, and ancient spells that shaped the magical life of the region’s powerful civilizations—Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.

Broth from the Cauldron is a collection of "teaching stories", a literary Wiccan soup for the soul. It is a distillation of the wisdom Cerridwen Fallingstar has gathered from her journey through life, and from her 40 years as a Shamanic teacher and Wiccan priestess. At turns poignant and humorous, it chronicles her trajectory from a Republican Cold War upbringing to a Pagan priestess, offering a portrait of a cultural growing from denial to awareness.