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A Year of Ritual
By Sandra Kynes
Publisher: Llewellyn
This is our ritual "textbook" that will guide our esbats for every month of the year.
It's easy to lose ourselves in the everyday business of life. One way to bring our bodies, minds, and spirits into alignment is through ritual celebrations. A vital part of Wicca and Paganism, ritual strengthens our connection to nature and helps us enter the realm of the Divine.
For Witches and Pagans of all levels, A Year of Ritual provides ready-made rituals for a full year of Sabbats and Esbats. Groups or solitary participants can use these easy-to-follow rituals straight from the book. Ideas, words, and directions for each ritual are included along with background information, preparation requirements, and themes. This unique sourcebook also explains basic formats and components for creating your own rituals.
Wicca: The Complete Craft
by DJ Conway
Publisher: Llewellyn
Popular pagan author D. J. Conway introduces readers to the religion of Wicca, or witchcraft, and dispels many common misconceptions about it. Conway offers a comprehensive overview of Wiccan philosophy and tenets and provides a useful primer for practicing Wicca as a spiritual guide. Wicca is an ancient nature religion that teaches respect for others as well as responsibility for one's actions. Conway emphasizes that it is not associated with cults, devil worship, or animal sacrifice. Wiccans believe in the sanctity of all life and recognize a dual deity, both a goddess and a god. Included are chapters on sacred space, ritual tools, holy days, meditations and visualizations, spells and the art of spell casting, as well as terms used in Wicca.
Wicca Covens
by Judy Harrow
Publisher: Citadel Press
A wiccan high priestess with a master's degree in counseling offers real-life case studies and examples of what has worked--and what hasn't--in forming a coven.
The Elements of Ritual
by Deborah Lipp
Publisher: Llewellyn
Wicca 202: Advanced training by an experienced High Priestess
Many books may tell you how to cast a Wiccan circle, but none really bother to explain why. When you finish reading The Elements of Ritual, you'll know what each step of the circle-casting ceremony means, why it's there, and what it accomplishes. You'll learn several alternative approaches to each step, and you'll be empowered to write your own effective ceremonies using sound magical, theological, and pragmatic principles.
The Way of Four
by Deborah Lipp
What is the dominant element in your life—Earth, Air, Fire or Water? It matters, says Wiccan high priestess Lipp, because the dominant element affects "how you relate to the elements" and "your perceptions of the world"—and also has ramifications for work, love and other aspects of daily life. Lipp explores the meaning of the elements and offers easy-to-do quizzes, exercises and rituals to determine your dominant element and create the elemental balance needed for self-actualization. An Air personality, for instance, might have creative ideas, but needs some fire to be able to execute them. In Water people, on the other hand, emotions rule, and they can be "strikingly magical." Rituals involve chanting, visualization and the use of easy-to-find objects that represent the elements. Lipp also provides simple and practical tips on how to bring the elements into your daily life (adding pillows for Earth; put seashells in a vase for Water, etc.). For those with an interest in Wicca and the influence of nature on people’s personalities and lives, Lipp offers a pleasant and positive-toned handbook to achieving balance. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Way of Four Spellbook
by Deborah Lipp
Publisher: Llewellyn
My apartment is clean. My apartment is clean. My apartment is clean.... So mote it be!" Who knew that a traditional elementary school punishment such as writing lines was really an "Air Spell" in disguise? Readers will find such tidbits galore in this hands-on spell book, a follow-up companion to Lipp's earlier The Way of Four. Both volumes use the four elements—air, fire, water, earth—as the primary foundations for beginning spell casters to learn and practice their art. A high priestess in the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition, Lipp likens this elementary spell book to a "cookbook," and indeed, readers will find spells structured like recipes, with lists of "needed tools" replacing ingredients sections and clear sets of instructions for whipping up each spell. Lipp's prose style is easy to follow, though so casual as to be almost annoying at points. While the book includes many essentials commonly found across the vast array of available spell books, it also offers less typical guidance, such as a helpful warning against practicing spells while pregnant. As well, readers are sure to enjoy some of the more unusually pleasurable spells, including a wonderful-sounding bath spell to alleviate writer's block; cookie spells; sex spells; and many others. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
By Sandra Kynes
Publisher: Llewellyn
This is our ritual "textbook" that will guide our esbats for every month of the year.
It's easy to lose ourselves in the everyday business of life. One way to bring our bodies, minds, and spirits into alignment is through ritual celebrations. A vital part of Wicca and Paganism, ritual strengthens our connection to nature and helps us enter the realm of the Divine.
For Witches and Pagans of all levels, A Year of Ritual provides ready-made rituals for a full year of Sabbats and Esbats. Groups or solitary participants can use these easy-to-follow rituals straight from the book. Ideas, words, and directions for each ritual are included along with background information, preparation requirements, and themes. This unique sourcebook also explains basic formats and components for creating your own rituals.
Wicca: The Complete Craft
by DJ Conway
Publisher: Llewellyn
Popular pagan author D. J. Conway introduces readers to the religion of Wicca, or witchcraft, and dispels many common misconceptions about it. Conway offers a comprehensive overview of Wiccan philosophy and tenets and provides a useful primer for practicing Wicca as a spiritual guide. Wicca is an ancient nature religion that teaches respect for others as well as responsibility for one's actions. Conway emphasizes that it is not associated with cults, devil worship, or animal sacrifice. Wiccans believe in the sanctity of all life and recognize a dual deity, both a goddess and a god. Included are chapters on sacred space, ritual tools, holy days, meditations and visualizations, spells and the art of spell casting, as well as terms used in Wicca.
Wicca Covens
by Judy Harrow
Publisher: Citadel Press
A wiccan high priestess with a master's degree in counseling offers real-life case studies and examples of what has worked--and what hasn't--in forming a coven.
The Elements of Ritual
by Deborah Lipp
Publisher: Llewellyn
Wicca 202: Advanced training by an experienced High Priestess
Many books may tell you how to cast a Wiccan circle, but none really bother to explain why. When you finish reading The Elements of Ritual, you'll know what each step of the circle-casting ceremony means, why it's there, and what it accomplishes. You'll learn several alternative approaches to each step, and you'll be empowered to write your own effective ceremonies using sound magical, theological, and pragmatic principles.
The Way of Four
by Deborah Lipp
What is the dominant element in your life—Earth, Air, Fire or Water? It matters, says Wiccan high priestess Lipp, because the dominant element affects "how you relate to the elements" and "your perceptions of the world"—and also has ramifications for work, love and other aspects of daily life. Lipp explores the meaning of the elements and offers easy-to-do quizzes, exercises and rituals to determine your dominant element and create the elemental balance needed for self-actualization. An Air personality, for instance, might have creative ideas, but needs some fire to be able to execute them. In Water people, on the other hand, emotions rule, and they can be "strikingly magical." Rituals involve chanting, visualization and the use of easy-to-find objects that represent the elements. Lipp also provides simple and practical tips on how to bring the elements into your daily life (adding pillows for Earth; put seashells in a vase for Water, etc.). For those with an interest in Wicca and the influence of nature on people’s personalities and lives, Lipp offers a pleasant and positive-toned handbook to achieving balance. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Way of Four Spellbook
by Deborah Lipp
Publisher: Llewellyn
My apartment is clean. My apartment is clean. My apartment is clean.... So mote it be!" Who knew that a traditional elementary school punishment such as writing lines was really an "Air Spell" in disguise? Readers will find such tidbits galore in this hands-on spell book, a follow-up companion to Lipp's earlier The Way of Four. Both volumes use the four elements—air, fire, water, earth—as the primary foundations for beginning spell casters to learn and practice their art. A high priestess in the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition, Lipp likens this elementary spell book to a "cookbook," and indeed, readers will find spells structured like recipes, with lists of "needed tools" replacing ingredients sections and clear sets of instructions for whipping up each spell. Lipp's prose style is easy to follow, though so casual as to be almost annoying at points. While the book includes many essentials commonly found across the vast array of available spell books, it also offers less typical guidance, such as a helpful warning against practicing spells while pregnant. As well, readers are sure to enjoy some of the more unusually pleasurable spells, including a wonderful-sounding bath spell to alleviate writer's block; cookie spells; sex spells; and many others. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.