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Shaman-Pathways
Written by Melusine DracoBlack Horse White Horse
Publisher's Description:
The term 'power animal' was introduced into contemporary language in 1980 by anthropologist Michael Harner, in his classic work The Way of the Shaman, and refers to a broad-based animistic and shamanic concept where the animal is conceived as a tutelary spirit guide that helps or protects individuals, lineages and nations.
Horses and humans became companions a long time ago, and the horse adopted as a power or totem animal represents power, speed, courage, nobility, freedom and chthonic energy. Black Horse, White Horse: Power Animals Within Traditional Witchcraft guides your footste
Starcat's Corner
Written by N. Starcat Shields
Essays on Pagan LIving
N. Starcat Shields
Publisher's Description:
Starcat's Corner: Essays on Pagan Living is about walking a reverence-filled spiritual path in the midst of a hectic modern society. Rather than rehashing the basics of Paganism, Shields shares wisdom rooted in her own experience. She answers the often-overlooked question, "How do you live your earth-based spirituality, day in and day out, particularly in a culture that doesn't share your values?" Shields offers insights to those who wish to enhance their personal spirituality, foster loving relationships, and live in harmony with the natural world.
About the Author:
N. Starcat Shields has been actively exploring her spiritual path for more than 20 years. She is a licensed and ordained Pagan priestess. Her interests include yoga, meditation, reading, hiking, creative vegetarian cooking, transformative art, and drumming. She enjoys unschooling (also called child-led learning) with her two kids in southern Maine.
Living Shamanism
Written by Julie Dollman
Unveiling the Mystery
Julie Dollman
Publisher's Description:
De-mystify modern shamanism as we undertake an alchemical healing and transformational journey of sacred self-discovery. Julie Dollman shares her own experiences as she embarks on a difficult, challenging and wondrous journey into the world of shamanism, emerging with some amazing and simple tools, a sense of belonging and most importantly, a wondrous connection to the natural world that we all live in. Living Shamanism will appeal to those who are looking for an alternate way to tackle day-to-day issues they are experiencing and to those that are seriously considering a lifestyle change.
About the Author:
Julie Dollman is a Shamanic Healer who trained and graduated with the Four Winds Society back in 2005. She now works as a full-time shamanic practitioner in rural Ireland and has done so since leaving full-time work as a crime analyst in England in 2006.
Editor's Notes:
With the word Shamanism or Shaman floating around the New Age community and sticking to nearly every practice like burrs to shoes in an open field, it is good to read this book that addresses true shamanism and Julie's journey through it. It is clearly written and demystifies much of the mystique surrounding shamanism.
Finding our Place in our Own History
Nimue Brown
Publisher's Description:
Ancestors are part of our shared humanity, we all have them. Ancestry in the guise of race, has been used as a tool to divide. Even so, it might yet help us move in greater harmony.
Are we playing out the motifs of our family history, or making our own lives? Are we held back by the past, or empowered by it? And why does any of this matter?
Druidry and the Ancestors will take you on a journey into how you imagine yourself, and how you can take control of your identity and future.
Druid, author, bard and dreamer. Nimue Brown is OBOD trained, a founding member of Bards of The Lost Forest and Druid Network member.
About the Author:
Nimue Brown has been an active Pagan for years, having volunteered for the Pagan Federation and the Druid Network. She has run moots, a folk club, workshops, open rituals, and meditation groups, teaches privately and was a founding member of Druid Gorsedd Bards of the Lost Forest. OBOD trained, her other main influences are Emma Restall Orr, Brendan Myers and Glennie Kindred. Nimue blogs at www.druidlife.wordpress.com and wrote www.hopelessmaine.com a webcomic illustrated by her husband, artist Tom Brown, soon to be published as a graphic novel. She lives on a narrowboat in her native Gloucestershire, UK, with her family, exploring a green and creative lifestyle.
The Shaman's Quest
Written by Nevill Drury
-- Nevill Drury --
Publisher's Description:
The shaman is an enigmatic figure – a healer, magician and visionary who moves between the everyday world and the realm of gods and spirits. "The Shamans Quest" describes the spiritual journeys of four shamans from different corners of the world – the arctic snows of Canada, the central Australian desert, the sacred mountains of Japan, and the forests of north-western South America.
From the North comes a tale of the Inuit shaman Enoyuk and his magical adventures with different gods and spirit-helpers. In the South we enter the world of the Aboriginal elder Kalu, with his sacred desert Dreamings, and in the East we meet Saimei, a Japanese shamaness who lives in a world of kami spirits.
And in the West we encounter Baiya, a shaman from the Amazonian forest who undertakes visionary journeys so he may perform tasks of spiritual healing. In "The Shamans Quest" these four shamans finally come together at the mythic centre of the world, and it is a very special purpose which has brought them here – for they have come to witness the healing of the Earth. Exploring universal themes of spiritual renewal, "The Shamans Quest" shows us how we can find the Great Song of Life and learn to value the sacred qualities of Nature and the Universe.
Mrs B's Guide to Household Witchery
Written by Kris Bradley
-- Everyday Magic, Spells, and Recipes --
Kris Bradley --
Publisher's Description:
For domestic goddesses everywhere--add some magic and fun to those mundane household chores with Mrs. B.'s Guide to Household Witchery. Whether you're sweeping the floor, making a meal, or cleaning out that junk drawer, domestic witch Kris Bradley, creator of the popular blog, Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom, will show you how to create spells and magic to bring happiness and balance into your home. Bradley offers ideas and solutions to make the most out of everyday items, activities, and obligations. From Anchovies to Broccoli, and Wine to Yeast, from sweeping the floor to blow-drying your hair, you can change your outlook on life with a pinch of knowledge and a dash of magic! The book includes simple rituals, spells, and ways to connect with the spirits that watch over your home and family. Includes an appendix of herbs and a complete materia magica from the kitchen pantry.
Mrs. B's Guide to Household Witchery features:
Room by Room: How to create magic while you cook, set up a family altar in the living room, or do a junk drawer divination
The Elements for the Domestic Witch: a primer on the 4 elements and how to balance them in your home
The Domestic Witch's Herbal: Magical uses for every herb and food in your pantry, as well as instant magic with prepackaged spice mixes
Simple Sabbats for the Busy Witch: simple ways to celebrate the passing of the seasons
Magical Recipes: More than 100 recipes and spells.
Magic Crystals Sacred Stones
Written by Melusine Draco
-- Melusine Draco --
Publisher's Description:
Magic Crystals, Sacred Stones is aimed at those who have explored crystal working as a beginner and who
now wish to understand the mysteries of the Earth at a deeper level.
About the Author:
Mélusine Draco originally trained in the magical arts of traditional British Old Craft with Bob and Mériém Clay-Egerton.
She has been a magical and spiritual instructor for over 20 years with Arcanum and the Temple of Khem, and writer of numerous popular books including Liber Agyptius: the Book of Egyptian Magic; The Egyptian Book of Days; The Egyptian Book of Nights; The Thelemic Handbook; The Hollow Tree, an elementary guide to the Qabalah; A Witch's Treasury of the Countryside; Root & Branch: British Magical Tree Lore and Starchild: a rediscovery of stellar wisdom. Her highly individualistic teaching methods and writing draws on ancient sources, supported by academic texts and current archaeological findings. She now lives in Ireland near the Galtee Mountains. Mélusine Draco, as her name suggests, has long been plugged into the powerful currents of traditional witchcraft and ritual magic.
Pagan Portals - Hedge Witchcraft
Written by Harmonia SailleAuthor: Harmonia Saille--
Learning by experiencing is about trusting your instincts and connecting with your inner spirit.
Publisher's Description:
Hedge witchery in general is experiential and a slow and natural progression of interests and events often experienced from childhood and persisting all through your life. As Aristotle said, ‘For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.’
Learning by experiencing is about trusting your instincts and connecting with your inner spirit.
There is no dogma attached to hedge witchcraft. There are no tenets to follow. The path of a hedge witch is very much an individual one, and it is a solitary practice. In this way, this book is based on my own experiences as a hedge witch living in Ireland and following a Celtic path.
This book will guide you if you wish to read more about hedge witchcraft as a pathway, or are already following such a path and wish to progress. It only has a little about hedge riding as this book has too small a scope to include it. Please read my accompanying book in the Pagan Portal series, Hedge Riding.
Pagan Portals - Hedge Riding
Written by Harmonia SailleAuthor: Harmonia Saille--
The Hedge is the symbolic boundary between the two worlds and this book will teach how how to cross that hedge.
Publisher's Description:
One aspect of hedge witchcraft is engaging in a form of Otherworldly travel called hedge riding. The hedge is the symbolic boundary between the two worlds and this book will teach you how to cross that hedge. While hedge riding, the hedge rider's consciousness travels to another place, the otherworld, which is also the realm of the collective unconscious. There the rider guided by his or her animal and spirit guides, encounters archetypal symbols and assimilates this knowledge to help guide her or him on their pathway.
This book is an experiential guide, as Aristotle said, 'For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them'. Learning by experiencing is about trusting your instincts and connecting with your inner spirit. The hedge riding aspect of hedge witchery is perhaps the most difficult part of the hedge witch pathway. This book focuses on that aspect alone. If you want to learn more about Hedge Witchraft, there are two accompanying books in this series, Pagans Portals -- Hedge Witchcraft, and Pagans Portals -- Hedge Magic (which will follow soon).
The Gray Witch's Grimoire
Written by Amythyst Raine
Publisher's Description:
What makes this book unique? The world of the gray witch has been largely avoided, misrepresented, or glossed over with various books geared gingerly towards ‘protection magic’. These books, though informative and well written as they may be, have totally missed the spirit of the gray witch – who she really is, how she relates to the world of shadow and light, and exactly what she’s willing to do to stand her ground. In our society ‘dark’ is automatically viewed as ‘evil’; and ‘light’ is automatically viewed as ‘good’.
We’re expected to live completely within one realm and to totally avoid the other. This creates imbalance and is a great injustice to the true spirit of the ancient wise woman. This book puts matters to right and gives the public a view of just what the gray witch is – and what she isn’t. The gray witch does not live in a world of chaos or unbridled black magic. She has a code of honor, a sense of propriety, and a relevance in today’s society.
Candle Magick Simplified
Written by Anita Burns
An easy to follow, no nonsense guide to improving your life through the age-old method of candle magick. It Really Works!
A Book From the Editor: Anita Burns
As the Christian Bible says, it only takes faith the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a mustard seed, but it’s pretty small. What does this really mean? The mind is a powerful force and it can work for us or against us.
The power of focused thought has been recognized by many religions and philosophies throughout time.
Today the power of the mind is being studied and measured with some amazing results. The more scientists probe into the world of matter the more they discover what mystics have known for centuries—everything, including thought, is united as energy forces.
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