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THE COMPLETE CONJURING SPIRITS:
A Manual of Modern Sorcery
by Michael Osiris Snuffin
Throned Eye Press
Paperback : 162 pages
List Price:$16.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Improve your life with the art and science of sorcery! The product of a decade of personal research and experimentation, The Complete Conjuring Spirits contains everything you need to know to communicate with Archangelic, Goetic, and Enochian entities. This collection of evocation manuals and essays by ceremonial magician Michael Osiris Snuffin features:
An introductory essay discussing the mechanics of the spirit world and the nature of spiritual entities~
- A brief introduction to Archangelic evocation
- Practical Goetic Magick, a New Aeon manual of Goetic evocation
- A grimoire listing the names, descriptions, and sigils of the 72 spirits of the Goetia
- The Goetic Yellow Pages, a demonic services directory
- The Watchtower System, a de-Christianized revision of the Enochian system with atheistic, gender-neutral reinterpretations of the 19 Keys
- A second grimoire listing the names and attributions of the entities of the Elemental Watchtowers
- Transcriptions of actual evocations conducted by the author
The Complete Conjuring Spirits serves as a valuable guide to evoking and harnessing spiritual entities for material gain and spiritual development. Start your adventures in etheric exploration here!
Biography:
I have studied and practiced various forms of occultism for over twenty-five years, with particular interest in the Golden Dawn, Post-OTO Thelema, the Left-Hand Path, and Chaos Magick. In 2003, I founded the Thelemic Golden Dawn group Temple of Light and Darkness and served as its Chief Adept until leaving the Temple in 2010. I've given lectures and written essays on Thelema, sorcery, tarot, and other occult subjects, and I've published some of my work at www.hermetic.com/osiris.
I have a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Communications and Media from The Evergreen State College, and I've earned a Certificate in Editing from the University of Washington. I live in Tacoma, Washington, where I work as a non-fiction book editor.
I look forward to the re-release of my second book, The Complete Conjuring Spirits, recently rewritten and expanded to include more information on the Art of Archangelic, Goetic, and Enochian Sorcery. Stay tuned for more information.
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ROOTS, BRANCHES & SPIRITS:
The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia
by H. Byron Ballard, Alex Bledsoe (Foreword)
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications (February 8, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
List Price: $16.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The Southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This book explores the region's customs and traditions for magical healing, luck, prosperity, and more. Author Byron Ballard―known as the village witch of Asheville, North Carolina―teaches you about the old ways and why they work, from dowsing to communicating with spirits.
Learn the deeper meaning of magic hands for finding, haint blue doors, and herbs and plants for healing. Discover hands-on tips for creating tinctures and salves, attuning to the phases of the moon, interpreting omens, and other folkways passed down through generations of those who call the Blue Ridge Mountains home. Part cultural journey and part magical guide, this book uncovers the authentic traditions of one of North America's most spiritually vibrant regions.
About the Author:
H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA (Asheville, NC) is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist, and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at several festivals and conferences, including the Sacred Space Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Starwood, Hexfest and many others. She serves as senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on "Wyrd Mountain Gals." Her essays are featured in several anthologies and she writes a regular column for SageWoman Magazine.
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PERSONAL MAGIC:
A Modern-Day Book of Shadows for Positive Witches
by Marion Weinstein, Steven Hanes (Foreword)
Publisher : Weiser Books (February 1, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
List Price: $16.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A classic of practical magic that presents witchcraft as a life-affirming spiritual path―from one of the grand dames of witchcraft.
Marion Weinstein was one of the founders of modern-day witchcraft. Personal Magic is her book of shadows, what they used to call a grimoire or book of spells. It presents her personal approach to witchcraft, what she learned over her many decades of practicing magic:
- How to invoke the deities or spirit powers, the gods and goddesses that inhabit our world
- The pagan holidays―what they mean and how to honor them
- Working with moon power throughout its phases
- The witch’s toolkit of spells and rituals for contacting one’s ancestors, seeking protection from malevolent forces, and practicing advanced manifestation
- An exploration of the principles of self-realization through witchcraft
“In the old days,” she writes, “a ‘Book of Shadows’ was kept for joyful reasons―to pass on the work to others. Every witch who could write had one.” During times of repression, these works were a way of preserving the religion. “Today, we are back to the original purpose of sharing the craft with others.” This book is Marion’s gift to you. It is also an invitation to start creating your own book of shadows.
Personal Magic is filled with how-tos and practical advice that shows readers how to unlock their psychic abilities to guide them in the creation of their own unique and personal magical work. Every technique is explained in detail, in keeping with Weinstein's proviso that one should never attempt to work any magic unless one understands it fully.
About the Author:
Marion Weinstein (1939–2009) was an author, teacher, media personality, and proud New York "city witch." Known as "The Ethics Witch," she is one of the founders of the modern witchcraft movement. She was the first to coin the phrase and define Positive Magic, and clearly delineate its use. Her radio show, Marion's Cauldron, was the first regularly scheduled Wiccan and psychic programming on record, and was a New York phenomenon for fourteen years.
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THE WITCH'S BOOK OF POTIONS:
The Power of Bubbling Brews, Simmering Infusions & Magical Elixirs
by Michael Furie
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications (February 8, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
List Price: $16.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Featuring more than 90 easy-to-follow recipes and detailed instructions on using potions in your practice, this fun, accessible book is a must-have for the witch's shelf. Join Michael Furie on an exploration of brews, infusions, and elixirs and how they empower your magical work. The Witch's Book of Potions provides recipes for nearly every intention, including healing, cleansing, protection, prosperity, and love.
Discover potions to raise your psychic skills, brews for the sabbats, astrological recipes, and other magical mixtures like oils and ointments. Learn how to use different kinds of cauldrons and make magical cocktails. With effective recipes, spells, and ingredient correspondences, this book brings the iconic image of a witch stirring her brew into twenty-first-century reality.
About the Author:
Michael Furie (Northern California) is the author of Supermarket Sabbats, Spellcasting for Beginners, Supermarket Magic, Spellcasting: Beyond the Basics, and more, all from Llewellyn Worldwide. A practicing Witch for more than twenty years, he is a priest of the Cailleach.
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LIFE RITUALIZED:
A Witch's Guide to Honoring Life's Important Moments
by Phoenix LeFae & Gwion Raven
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications (February 8, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
List Price: $18.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Make your experiences more sacred and meaningful with this book's guidance on ritualizing life's many transitions, no matter how big or small. Phoenix LeFae and Gwion Raven help you commemorate rites of passage, including lesser-acknowledged ones like getting a driver's license. Life Ritualized offers detailed instructions for group and solitary activities that enrich these moments for witches and Pagans.
Whether it's a weighty occasion like birth, marriage, or death, or a more private one like blessing a new house or changing jobs, this book provides everything modern witches need to make it a moment of reflection and reverence. Featuring ritual basics and guidelines for creating your own unique rites, Life Ritualized brings deeper spiritual experiences into your life.
About the Authors:
Phoenix LeFae (Sebastopol, CA) is a professional reader, rootworker, teacher, and ritualist. She has been practicing witchcraft for almost thirty years, and her teachings are connected to the Reclaiming Tradition, Druidry, and Gardnerian Wicca. She is also the owner of an esoteric Goddess shop called Milk & Honey.
Gwion Raven is a tattooed Pagan, writer, traveler, musician, cook, kitchen witch, occult shop owner, and teacher. Although initiated in three magickal traditions, Gwion describes his practice as virtually anything that celebrates the wild, sensuous, living, breathing, dancing, ecstatic, divine experiences of this lifetime.
Born and raised in London, England, he now resides in Northern California and shares space with redwood trees, the Pacific Ocean, and his beloved partner.
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SUPER TAROT:
Interpret the Cards Like a Pro
by Sasha Fenton, Theresa Reed (Foreword)
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing (February 1, 2021)
Paperback : 176 pages
(Hampton Roads) 9781642970197 ,
List Price: $16.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Skill
Building with the Whole Deck
Use your imagination. You may feel on occasion that you are simply making up a fairy tale rather than giving a reading, but don’t be put off by this feeling, as you will find to your surprise that your story will ring true to your Questioner.
Don’t try to predict the future. Concentrate on picking up the Questioner’s present situation. If the reading begins to drift into the future as you go along, that’s great, but don’t aim for it. Check your findings after the reading by asking your Questioner for some feedback.
Remember that your definition of any card is always the right one. You may begin to deviate from the standard Tarot interpretations as your readings progress. If a particular card or an accumulation of cards begins to mean something different to you than it does to everyone else, that is a good thing.
Examples to Try for Yourself
Here we find two Major Arcana cards and two Sword cards. The immediate impression is that this reading refers to something important, because the presence of more than one Major card in such a small spread suggests that the hand of fate is very strongly involved here.
Here we have two Major Arcana cards that, linked together, suggest a change in relationships. The Wheel suggests change and The Lovers suggests choices that are concerned with our relationship to others. There are two Sword cards that suggest important decisions that must be taken by the Questioner. The Ace of Swords puts power in the hands of the Questioner. The Wheel suggests change while the Six of Swords denotes movement. The Lovers may indicate a new companion. Swords suggest serious matters while The Lovers suggest choices to be made.
Now go back and look at that list again and see what you can make of it for yourself.
Tarot Reading as a Profession
Some of you reading this book may be contemplating the possibility of becoming a professional Tarot Reader. This may be because you fancy the idea, or because you have been reading cards for your friends for a long time and are now being asked by strangers if you would read for them. You may decide to take up a career as a Reader because you are short of money and on the lookout for some additional form of income, or there may be any one of a number of other reasons. The first point I would like to make here is that it’s perfectly all right to offer Tarot readings in exchange for money—you won’t be punished by some kind of unseen force for doing so. However, for the sake of both your clients and yourself, you must know what you are doing, so therefore do make sure that you are as confident as possible in your reading skills and that you can cope with the people and the problems with which you will be faced. It might be helpful to take a course in counseling techniques, even if you don’t actually use these during your readings, and it’s always worth visiting a few other Readers to see how they go about things.
Responsibility
If the cards suggest that the present is all right but that there will be problems in the future, be very positive and suggest ways in which the Questioner can best handle things. Be reasonably honest, but don’t leave your Questioner feeling hopeless. A health warning may save someone’s life, but undue stress and worry can kill. Always take care and think about what you tell the client. If your Questioner is neurotic and negative by nature, it may be better to avoid the worst of the bad news, as this can prey on his or her mind and even turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Prejudices
While we must take the client’s point of view into consideration, we have to leave our own outside the door and look at each client as no more than a human being who wants help and advice at that particular moment. If you become a professional Reader, you will find yourself dealing with people from every part of the world and every possible culture and walk of life. Some of these people will be on your own personal wavelength, many of them won’t, but each client’s money is as good as the next and each needs a sensible and unbiased reading.
About the Author:
Sasha Fenton has been a professional astrologer, palmist, and tarot card reader since 1974. She has previously served as president of the British Astrological and Psychic Society (BAPS), chair for the Advisory Panel on Astrological Education, and member of the Executive Council of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. She has written 136 books, mainly on mind, body, and spirit, with translations of some titles into twelve languages.
THE ELEMENTAL TAROT:
Use the Symbology of Fire, Earth, Air and Water to Help Understand Your Life
by Caroline Smith & John Astrop
Publisher : Eddison Books/ Red Wheel (January 11, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 page Guidebook with Full-Colour Card Deck/Boxed Set
List Price: $26.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Many suggest that the tarot evolved from an ancient book containing the prototype of a perfect spiritual journey. Some see it as an extension of astrology and celestial interpretations. And still others view it as merely a game with uncanny relevance to life and life events. The Elemental Tarot is the perfect distillation of all these thoughts. An extraordinary deck of stunning cards, it revitalizes centuries of mystical ideas and generations of symbolic designs. No matter how you choose to use it, its beauty and meaning will serve to heighten your own awareness of life and its possibilities.
About the Author:
Pamela Chen (Las Vegas, NV) is the creator of the Crystal Unicorn Tarot and the cofounder of High Vibe Witchery, a 30-day program on activating inner magic.
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WITCHLING ACADEMY TAROT
by Pamela Chen & Mindy Zhang
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications (February 8, 2021)
Language : English
Cards: 100 page Guidebook and Deck
List Price: $27.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Welcome to the Witchling Academy of Magic, where you'll embark on an unforgettable adventure through the tarot. Inspired by magical girl manga series, this Rider-Waite-style deck and guidebook help you uncover the secrets of magic and divination. Learn the basics of spellwork and master the elements. Build a personal connection to the cards and help maintain the balance of light and dark. Featuring Mindy Zhang's whimsical artwork and Pamela Chen's inspiring insights, Witchling Academy Tarot unites fantastic storytelling with life-changing wisdom.
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This concludes our Newsletter for this month.
Look for us again MARCH 1st, 2021!
Erica (Raven) Branch-Butler, Editrix, Edge of the Circle Books Newsletter
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