#BookReview: Wild Magic: Celtic Folk Traditions for the Solitary Practitioner by Danu Forest @LlewellynBooks @Netgalley

Synopsis: Shake off the energy of our frenetic modern-day life and reconnect to the wild magic of your heart. This book is an immersive guide to creating deep relationships with faerie folk, green kin, the ancestors, and the spirits of the land. Explore dozens of meditations and exercises based on Celtic lore that serve as energetic keys for accessing levels of reality and spiritual destinations that will forever transform your relationship to the here and now. Learn how to work with animal spirits, the powers of place, and the tides. Discover the magic of the elements and attune your soul to the sun, the moon, and the cycles of the seasons.

Connecting to nature in a magical way opens our awareness to a wider deeper source than anything we can comprehend. Wild Magic is all about sensing subtle energies, starting fires traditionally, practicing herbal magic, making a divnination kit, and so much more. This is a book drawn from country wisdom and Celtic tradition, with spells and rituals designed to channel your own modern wildness for the benefit of all.

#BookReview: Enchanted Herbal: Connect to Nature & Celebrate the Seasons by Gail Bussi @LlewellynBooks @Netgalley

Synopsis: Written around the natural rhythm of the year, Enchanted Herbal shows you how to use the gifts, lessons, and opportunities of each season to grow into a healthier and more authentic version of yourself. Gail Bussi invites you on an herbal journey of self-care and healing for both your body and your spirit. 

This nurturing and practical book helps you connect with nature and use each season's herbs and flowers to their fullest potential. Discover recipes, meditations, rituals, and journaling prompts. Explore ways to grow your own herbs, use essential oils, and celebrate nature's changes throughout the year. From creation and renewal remedies in spring to peace and reflection exercises in winter, Enchanted Herbal guides you in becoming a more magical and joyful person. 

#BookReview: The Art of Lucid Dreaming: Over 60 Powerful Practices to Help You Wake Up in Your Dreams by Clare R. Johnson

Synopsis: Learn how to wake up in your dreams for creative insights and beautiful spiritual adventures 

The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a quick and easy guide to help you get lucid fast. Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips and a unique Lucidity Quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the techniques that work best for you. When you are lucid in a dream, you can choose to ask your unconscious mind for guidance, perform healing magic, seek creative solutions to problems, and explore the dream realm more profoundly than ever before.

With over sixty practices and fifteen tailor-made lucidity programs to get you started, this hands-on guide helps you set up your own custom program for achieving lucidity as quickly as possible. Focusing on how to get lucid, stay lucid, and guide your dreams, this book shows how to transform your nightly slumber into an exciting spiritual adventure that fills your life with meaning.

#BookReview: Llewellyn's Complete Book of Reiki Melissa Tipton

Synopsis: TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE WITH REIKI

Discover the deep healing benefits of reiki and learn how to begin or advance your own practice. Llewellyn's Complete Book of Reiki shares the many ways reiki can uplift your spirit and restore your well-being. With dozens of exercises and more than 100 illustrations showing hand positions, symbols, and more, this thorough reference book is ideal for students and practitioners of every level. Within these pages, you will find helpful information and practical tips on the most important topics in reiki, including:

- Vibrational Healing - Sensing Energy - Hand Positions - Symbols - Mantras - Traditional and Non-Traditional Techniques - Reiki Self-Practice - Professional Practice - Conducting Sessions - Teaching Reiki - Reiki Attunements - Reiki for Children and Pets - And More

Reiki has the power to change your life from the inside out, and the more you interact with this energy, the more profound and far reaching the changes will be. This book shares insights into the many branches of reiki, helping you unlock your inner gifts for improved physical health, emotional balance, and spiritual vitality.

#BookReview: Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch by @diana_rajchel

Synopsis: Uncover the Magick Hidden Between the Sidewalk Cracks

Engage with the urban landscape around you and harness its boundless possibilities for a thriving magickal practice. 

Urban Magick shows you how to connect with your city's diverse spiritual ecosystem and channel the powerful energy running through it.

Diana Rajchel invites you on an in-depth exploration of what it means to work with urban energies, providing a variety of spells for city life, techniques for working with spirits and elements, and exercises for boosting your creativity and energy.

You'll also learn the purpose behind both ancient and modern cities, how architecture and population affect your magick, and how nature figures into city life.

 This remarkable book is your guide to not only the energetic and sacred pathways within your city, but also to your full magickal potential.

#BookReview: Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition @LlewellynBooks

Synopsis: This book features the greatest minds of magic assembled in one place, available as a limited-edition hardcover. Compiled by two of the leading figures in the magick community, this new title in Llewellyn's Complete Book series includes more than 500 pages of fascinating insights into the history and contemporary practice of ritual magick. With contributions from dozens of top authors, this book brings the practices, theories, and historical understanding of magick into the 21st century, including in-depth chapters on:

Foundations of Western Magick Qabalah Demonology Spirit Evocation Alchemy Planetary Magick Enochian Magick & Mysticism The Magick of Abra-Melin The Golden Dawn Thelema & Aleister Crowley Polytheistic Ceremonial Magic Magician's Tables The Future of Ceremonial Magick

#BookReview: Essential Oils for Beginners by Kac Young @LlewellynBooks

Synopsis: This approachable guide makes it easy to achieve vibrant health and wellness through the use of twenty essential oils specifically chosen for their versatility and practicality. Author Kac Young shows you how these oils can be made into cleaning products, massage oils, aromatics, aphrodisiacs, magical formulas, and more.

Discover the many ways essential oils can be used for personal empowerment and wellbeing, like lavender for stress relief or peppermint for pain relief. Designed to help you enjoy essential oils throughout your life, this impressive book provides profiles for each oil, application and safety guidelines, diffusing and pairing insights, recipes, and more. A must-have resource for both beginners and experienced practitioners, Essential Oils for Beginners enhances your spirituality, happiness, beauty, and fortitude.

#BookReview: Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn @LlewellynBooks

Synopsis: Discover how to be a powerful psychic witch with this book on wielding energy and awakening your psychic senses. Psychic Witch explores the relationship between psychic ability and magick, interweaving them to create a strong foundation for accessing the full potential of your mind, body, and spirit.

Mat Auryn reveals some of his most closely guarded tips, secrets, practices, and meditations so that you can master the perception and manipulation of energy. Featuring over ninety exercises and the inner tools you need to perform magick anywhere and at any time, Psychic Witch helps you tune in to yourself and the subtle energies of the world. 

#BookReview: Tarot Inspired Life: Use the Cards to Enhance Your Life by Jaymi Elford #NetGalley

About the Book:

Make tarot the centerpiece of your spirituality with this inspiring, insightful guide to incorporating the cards into your daily life. 

Designed to help you apply the cards to your spiritual and everyday practices, Tarot Inspired Life is the perfect workbook for anyone who wants to make their tarot practice deeper and more meaningful.

This is not another tarot book filled with keywords, descriptions, or correspondences. This book encourages you to befriend your deck, personalize your spreads, and keep a tarot personal assistant. 

Discover how to use the cards for creative writing, meditation, and connecting to spirit guides. Learn how your deck can be an agent of change through invocations, seasonal rituals, and more. Jaymi Elford offers guidance in following your own path, honoring your own messages and interpretations of tarot.

#BookReview: Magical Folkhealing: Herbs, Oils, and Recipes for Health, Healing, and Magic by D.J. Conway

About the Book:

Discover Authentic Folk Magic Passed Down through Generations

Packed with natural remedies and recipes from bestselling author D. J. Conway and her grandmother, this book is a magical formulary that everyone--from beginners to established practitioners--can use to make life better. 

You'll learn how to use a wide variety of herbs and oils for spiritual, emotional, and mental health and healing.

Magical Folkhealing provides more than one hundred commonly known herbs and their associated planets, elements, deities, and zodiac signs, as well as their basic powers and specific uses. This user-friendly guide also teaches you how to simplify your rituals, use special tools and tables for improved prep work, apply oils and aromatherapy for specific needs, and much more. Featuring everything from herbal teas and tinctures to massage oils and stones, this book is an indispensable resource for healing. 

This title will be released on December 8, 2018.

#BookReview: Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Laura Tempest Zakroff

About the Book:

Weave the Liminal helps you explore what it means to truly be a Witch in the contemporary world and learn how to overcome the issues that can be problematic in defining your path. 

A hands-on guide to the Modern Tradition of Witchcraft, this book is all about creating an authentic expression of Witchcraft that works for you.

Discover how to formulate a personalized working practice with RITES (Roots, Inspiration, Time, Environment, Star). Delve into spellcraft, metaphysics, and ritual, and learn how to journey into the liminal realm to meet with divinity and spirits. Modern Traditional Witchcraft is a path of experimentation. 

Let Weave the Liminal be a guide and companion as you experiment with the Craft and continue evolving the rich pattern of your magical life.

This title will be released on January 8, 2019.

#BookReview: How to Use a Crystal: 50 Practical Rituals and Spiritual Activities for Inspiration and Well-Being by Richard Webster

About the Book:

A World of Possibilities with Just One Stone

All you need is one crystal to deepen your magical practice and reach your goals. 

Bestselling author Richard Webster presents an accessible and inspiring guide filled with practical rituals and spiritual activities that can be performed with a single stone.

Discover how to choose, cleanse, and energize your crystal. 

Once you've prepared your chosen crystal, you can explore fifty ways to use it: attract love, control stress, bless your home, enhance creativity, deal with regrets, communicate with spirit guides, recall past lives, make crystal elixirs, find forgiveness, and much more. 

How to Use a Crystal is the ideal guide to greater health and happiness through crystal work. 

#BookReview: Magical Folkhealing: Herbs, Oils, and Recipes for Health, Healing, and Magic by D.J. Conway

About the Book:

Discover Authentic Folk Magic Passed Down through Generations

Packed with natural remedies and recipes from bestselling author D. J. Conway and her grandmother, this book is a magical formulary that everyone--from beginners to established practitioners--can use to make life better. 

You'll learn how to use a wide variety of herbs and oils for spiritual, emotional, and mental health and healing.

Magical Folkhealing provides more than one hundred commonly known herbs and their associated planets, elements, deities, and zodiac signs, as well as their basic powers and specific uses. This user-friendly guide also teaches you how to simplify your rituals, use special tools and tables for improved prep work, apply oils and aromatherapy for specific needs, and much more. Featuring everything from herbal teas and tinctures to massage oils and stones, this book is an indispensable resource for healing. 

This title will be released on December 8, 2018.

#BookReview: Transformative Witchcraft: The Greater Mysteries by Jason Mankey

About the Book:

Witchcraft is about more than seasonal rituals and pentacle necklaces; it's meant to be a transformative path. The rites and rituals of Witchcraft are life-changing experiences, but they are also steeped in mystery. Transformative Witchcraft delves into some of the most persistent mysteries of the Craft and provides insightful guidance for raising energy with a Cone of Power; dedications, initiations, and elevations; Drawing Down the Moon; and the Great Rite.

Direct experience with the divine and the powerful energies of magick are defining elements of Witchcraft.

Filled with powerful personal stories, a fascinating history of modern Wicca and Witchcraft, striking original rituals, and a wealth of tips and techniques, this book provides the beginning or intermediate Witch with the practical and theoretical keys they need to unlock the mysteries of the Craft. 

This title will be released on January 8, 2019.

#BookReview: Tarot Inspired Life: Use the Cards to Enhance Your Life by Jaymi Elford #NetGalley

About the Book:

Make tarot the centerpiece of your spirituality with this inspiring, insightful guide to incorporating the cards into your daily life. 

Designed to help you apply the cards to your spiritual and everyday practices, Tarot Inspired Life is the perfect workbook for anyone who wants to make their tarot practice deeper and more meaningful.

This is not another tarot book filled with keywords, descriptions, or correspondences. This book encourages you to befriend your deck, personalize your spreads, and keep a tarot personal assistant. 

Discover how to use the cards for creative writing, meditation, and connecting to spirit guides. Learn how your deck can be an agent of change through invocations, seasonal rituals, and more. Jaymi Elford offers guidance in following your own path, honoring your own messages and interpretations of tarot.

#BookReview: Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols by Laura Tempest Zakroff

 Sigils are powerful magical marks, designed to invoke spirits and deities, influence people, provide instructions, or designate sacred places. This book breathes fresh life into the contemporary practice of sigil magick, showing you an innovative approach to using marks, lines, dots, and colors for manifesting your will in the world.

Learn how to create designs that best support your intention by exploring the traditional and contemporary meanings of shapes, the power of numbers in creating motifs and patterns, the meaning of letters and language, and the use of color. Sigil Witchery includes tips for choosing locations, materials, and surfaces, as well as important considerations for permanent, temporary, and wearable sigils. Sample scenarios, exercises, examples, and techniques for hand-drawing lines will help you build skills and insights as you develop your own style of sigil magick. 

#BookReview: 365 Days of Crystal Magic: Simple Practices with Gemstones & Minerals by Sandra Kynes

 Journey through the wheel of the year with daily crystal magic. This fun, approachable book features quick and easy ways to use crystals every day, even incorporating them into your sabbat, full moon, historical, and special occasion celebrations. Perfect for any age or interest level, 365 Days of Crystal Magic provides valuable information on various topics, including prepping and cleaning crystals, understanding birthstones, and working magic according to the astrological bodies and the zodiac signs. For every calendar date, you'll discover ways to use crystals to deepen awareness, lift your mood, improve your divination, reduce stress, reach your goals, find love and community, strengthen your willpower, and much more.

Blessed Are the Wicked: The Terrifying Sequel to the Uninvited (The Uninvited #2) by Steven A. LaChance #BookReview

  Living with a paranormal storm looming on the horizon, constantly feeling the darkness trying to penetrate his soul, Steven LaChance has discovered that the aftershocks of a demonic possession can be more dangerous than the initial haunting itself. Marked by the supernatural trauma inflicted by the Union Screaming House--as chronicled in his first book, The Uninvited--Steven and his family find that no matter where they move, no matter what they do, they are still vulnerable to otherworldly attacks.

As malevolent forces continue their relentless assaults, violent outbursts erupt among the close-knit community that has been touched by unspeakable evil. Fighting for his sanity and his life, Steven records in Blessed Are the Wicked how repressed horror and pain nearly tore his world apart.

In the Presence of Spirits by Barbara Parks #BookReview

 

Traumatized by vicious poltergeist attacks that lasted five years, Barbara Parks never imagined that her deep-rooted fear of ghosts would disappear. A momentous turning point occurs when, still mourning the sudden death of a beloved friend, she receives a miraculous visit from him. This joyous experience marks her first step toward healing—and opening up to the world of spirit.

In the Presence of Spirits chronicles Barbara’s uplifting journey of gradually accepting the clairvoyant gifts that allow her to see spirits. She shares dramatic and heartwarming stories of spirits who turn up everywhere: at home, on vacation, and accompanying her patients. From the departed uncle who protects Barbara’s young children to the child spirits who bring comfort to their parents, these amazing true tales are convincing reminders that our loved ones are never far away.

The Magickal Union of East and West: The Spiritual Path to New Aeon Tantra by Gregory H. Peters #BookReview

  Can Eastern and Western magickal systems be merged? The magickal order, the Ordo Sunyata Vajra, successfully did so by eliminating the cultural trappings and unnecessary mystery surrounding Hindu and Buddhist Tantric magick and filtering it through the Western Thelemic tradition. This book reveals their secrets, providing exercises for integrating mind and body with the universal energy of the cosmos. It culminates with instructions for their ultimate magickal ritual, the Diamond Sapphire Gem of Radiant Light. Unlike traditional methods where years of study and practice are required before learning such advanced material, these practices are immediately accessible to students of all levels. Also used is a more universal Thelema that transcends the Crowley-centric view, resulting in a New Aeon of magickal possibility and potential for all spiritual seekers.