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| From the Mary-El Tarot, by Marie White |
WELCOME
to the 68th edition of
the Edge of the Circle Newsletter. This newsletter has come about as
an effort to reach out to the Pagan/ Occult community (particularly
in Seattle where we are based) to inform the community of what events
are happening at our store. I've got great plans for this newsletter.
Hopefully, as time goes by, it will only get bigger and better.
Without further ado, welcome, and enjoy.
Regards, Erica (Raven)
Branch-Butler, Editrix
WHO
WE ARE:
Edge of the Circle Books is Seattle's
resource for Paganism & the Occult. This
newsletter seeks to provide the Seattle
community with a place to list events,
post articles, and do a bit of
networking.
We are located at: 701 E. Pike St,
corner of Boylston Ave., just two blocks west of Broadway, on Capitol Hill.
Edge of the Circle Books strives to be
your ideal Magical Pagan store.
Open 7 days a week, Noon 'till 9pm.
Call: 206-PAN-1999
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REMINDER: We buy used Occult
Books! Our buyer is in on Wednesdays, Thursdays,
Saturdays, and Sundays!
Classroom/Ritual Space is
available-- please call for details!
NEW
BOOKS
DILOGGÚN TALES OF
THE NATURAL WORLD:
HOW THE MOON FOOLED
THE SUN AND OTHER SANTERÍA STORIES
By Ócha'ni Lele
Paperback: 240
pages
Publisher: Destiny
Books (September 21, 2011)
List Price: $16.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
“With brilliant and beautiful
narratives, Ócha’ni Lele skillfully navigates the complex stories
of the ancient Yoruba people. The myths presented in Diloggún Tales
of the Natural World are eternal; equally as profound as those of the
Greeks and Romans. With a compelling power akin to the I Ching, this
work is well overdue. Finally, we have an author willing to serve up
the spiritual beauty of ancient Africa at the table of the modern
world. Clearly, there is a legacy beginning to unfold. What a
blessing!” --Iyanla Vanzant,
founder of Inner Visions Spiritual Institute and author of Peace from
Broken Pieces
Since ancient times
the Yoruba of West Africa created sacred stories--patakís--to make
sense of the world around them. Upon arrival in the New World, the
Yoruba religion began to incorporate elements from Catholic and
Native traditions, evolving into Santería, and new patakís were
born, adding to the many chapters already found in the odu of the
diloggún--the sacred oral teachings and divination system of the
Yoruba, or Lucumí, faith. Comparable to the myths of ancient Greece
and Rome and rich with jewels of wisdom like the I Ching, these
Santería stories are as vast as the Hindu Vedas and as culturally
significant as the parables in the Torah, Talmud, and Christian
Bible.
Diloggún Tales of
the Natural World presents more than 40 patakís that shed light upon
the worldview of Santería. Each story in this collection,
reassembled from the oral tradition of the African diaspora, is
centered on a spiritual principle in nature: the waxing and waning of
the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, the phenomenon of shooting stars,
the separation of sky and earth, and the origins of the animals and
birds who play key roles in Santería symbology. Revealing the
metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of the Yoruba people, this
volume shows these stories to be as powerful and relevant today as
they were to the ancient Yoruba who once safeguarded them.
ÓCHA’NI LELE has
been immersed in the underground culture of orisha worship since
1989. He made Ocha in 2000 and was crowned a priest of Oya. His other
books include Teachings of the Santería Gods, The Secrets of
Afro-Cuban Divination, Obí: Oracle of Cuban Santería, and The
Diloggún: The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of
Cuban Santería. He lives in Winter Park, Florida.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ócha’ni Lele has
been immersed in the underground culture of orisha worship since
1989. He made Ocha in 2000 and was crowned a priest of Oya. His other
books include Teachings of the Santería Gods, The Secrets of
Afro-Cuban Divination, Obí: Oracle of Cuban Santería, and The
Diloggún: The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of
Cuban Santería. He lives in Winter Park, Florida.
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CELTIC VISIONS:
SEERSHIP, OMENS AND
DREAMS OF THE OTHERWORLD
By Caitlin Matthews
Hardcover: 256
pages
Publisher: Watkins
(March 6, 2012)
List Price: $14.95
Through prayers, chants, and practical
exercises, Celtic Visions teaches readers how to tap into their inner
spiritual power, enabling them to experience heightened perception
and open portals to other realms of existence. Drawn from ancient
Gaelic and Welsh sources, this visionary guide reveals the truth
behind the prophetic visions of the druids and seers. It explains
their methods for communicating with the Otherworld through omens and
fairy lore and explores the Celtic gift of “second sight”--the
ability to perceive both the visible and the invisible aspects of
reality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Caitlín Matthews is a co-founder of
the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies, and has
written more than 60 books, including The Celtic Wisdom Oracle and
The Celtic Book of the Dead, and co-authored The Encyclopedia of
Celtic Wisdom.
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MAGICAL KNOWLEDGE BOOK I FOUNDATIONS/
THE LONE PRACTITIONER
By Josephine McCarthy
Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: Mandrake (January 1, 2012)
Price: $23.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"Here you have a book that will
help you, and an author whose views you can respect. More than this,
you may safely trust her practical guidance, which is drawn from a
long and varied experience of working alone and with others. She is a
gifted teacher, perceptive and critical: perhaps more important, she
is also human . . . there is no question but that the magical path is
a hard road that requires dedication, discrimination and a solid dose
of common sense . . . if you are determined to follow the magical
path, and if you employ these three qualities, you will be hard
pressed indeed to find a better guide than Magical Knowledge."
--RA Gilbert
Magical Knowledge book I is the first
in a series of three that takes the reader through the bends and
twists of serious magical study. This book tackles some of the more
pressing issues surrounding the early quest for knowledge from the
world of magic, along with techniques, exercises and warnings for
those ready to dip their toe in the scalding hot water of power.
Using her usual no nonsense down to earth approach, McCarthy outlines
in depth some of the rarely tackled issues and problems that face a
serious modern magician, offering advice and reflections based on 30
years of practical work. The book follows no specific magical path;
rather it takes the reader to the layers of consciousness beneath
such paths and shows us the various techniques, powers and dynamics
that underpin most Western Mystery schools and lodges. The reader is
shown how ritual actually works, what an inner contact actually is,
how to make visions work, how to turn an object into a magically
charged implement, how to read tarot, how to clean and protect
yourself, and most importantly of all, how to spot the bullshit.
Josephine McCarthy is a seasoned occultist and author living in the
Dartmoor National Park in the UK. She has taught and led magical
groups in the USA and UK for many years, and has written a variety of
magical fiction and non fiction. Her more recent publications include
'The Work of the Hierophant' and 'The Exorcist's Handbook'.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
I have been teaching and writing on
Western Mystery themes, and working as a consecrator & exorcist
in the USA and UK for the last two decades. I was birthed out of the
cooking pot of my bizarre family (and trust me, by anyone's
standards, it is bizarre), and the magical city of Bradford complete
with its ritual lodges, Theosophical Society, Golden Dawn Temple and
strange population.
In the past I have been, among other
things, a classical ballet dancer, coach and choreographer, college
teacher, stand up poet, arts officer, exorcist, occultist, waitress,
cleaner, gardener, director of a federal parrot rescue, Indian Rez
bar tender, prep cook in an Haitian/Cuban cafe/bar and tree
planter/forestry worker for the Salish And Kootani tribal forestry
division in Montana. I now live back in the UK in a wee Dartmoor
village and spend my time writing and working on projects with my
partner Stuart Littlejohn.
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DEVOTIO ANTINOO:
THE DOCTOR’S
NOTES, VOLUME ONE
By P. Sufenas
Virius Lupus
Red Lotus Library
Publication Date:
Nov 27 2011
Page Count: 524
Binding Type: US
Trade Paper
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
All you’ll need
to start your own devotions to Antinous, including translated ancient
texts and modern rituals of the Ekklesía Antínoou.
Devotio Antinoo:
The Doctor’s Notes, Volume One is the culmination of nearly ten
years of research and devotion on the part of its author, presented
now for the use of anyone who wishes to develop a devotional practice
with Antinous, the gods with whom he was syncretized, Hadrian, other
Divi, and many more divine figures.
Learn the holy days
and festivals of the year, the hymns and prayers for different
occasions, the ancient texts that have survived in papyrus fragments,
literary excerpts, and inscriptions, and ideas on different
devotional activities that can be performed as well. Everything you
need to practice in the tradition of the Ekklesía Antínoou is
contained in this book, and much more!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
P. Sufenas Virius
Lupus is a founder of the Ekklesía Antínoou and a contributing
member of Neos Alexandria, as well as the author of The Phillupic
Hymns (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2008) and The Syncretisms of
Antinous (The Red Lotus Library, 2010), and many essays, poems,
and pieces of short fiction in a variety of anthologies, including
most of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina devotional anthologies, Datura:
An Anthology of Esoteric Poesis, and Etched Offerings: Voices
from the Cauldron of Story. You can find Lupus' blog at
http://aediculaantinoi.wordpress.com
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NEW
TAROT DECKS
HEXEN2.0
TAROT DECK
By
Suzanne Treister (Illustrator)
Paperback:
78 cards
Publisher:
Black Dog Publishing; Cards edition (April 17, 2012)
List
Price: $19.95
The
HEXEN 2.0 Tarot features 78 alchemical drawings depicting
interconnected histories of the computer and the Internet,
cybernetics and the counterculture, science-fiction and scientific
projections of the future, government and military research programs,
social engineering and ideas of the control society; alongside
diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to the
advance of technology including the claims of anarchoprimitivism,
technogaianism, and transhumanism.
Through
representing and re-examining these subjects and histories through
the lens of occult belief systems and ideas of the supernatural, the
HEXEN 2.0 Tarot takes us to a hypnotic, mesmerizing space from where
one may imagine and construct possible alternative futures.
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Acknowledging
precedents such as the traditional tarot deck, The Rider-Waite Tarot
Deck and Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Deck, Suzanne Treister has
here produced a new Tarot, that allows a reader, or a group of
readers working collaboratively, to use the cards to reconfigure
history and/or map out hypothetical future narratives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Suzanne Treister
studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art and
currently lives and works in London. She is the author of NATO: The
Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the
World and Hexen 2039: New Military-Occult Technologies for
Psychological Warfare, a Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme both
published by Black Dog Publishing London UK.
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THE MARY-EL TAROT
BOOK AND DECK SET
By Marie White
Paperback: 192
pages
Publisher: Schiffer
Publishing, Ltd.; Crds edition (February 28, 2012)
List Price: $39.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Exquisite and
powerful, if there is a theme in The Mary-el Tarot, it is one of the
alchemy of the soul; of finding balance, symmetry, mastery of the
self, and becoming your own genius. This long-awaited 78-card deck is
stunningly illustrated with traditional oil paints and a depth of
symbolism found in the old classics. The accompanying guide,
Landscapes of the Abyss, takes the reader through the meanings of
each card via the landscape of the Moon and the High Priestess,
through the geometry of the temple and the Tree of Life, the
Merkabah, and the caduceus! Enter a doorway between heaven and earth,
between microcosm and macrocosm, between the world of eternity and
infinity. A rare gem suitable for all levels of tarot experience.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marie White was
compelled to create art from a very early age and thought of it as
something akin to breathing or water. She grew up with a pencil in
hand recording the substance of dreams, visions, nature, and the
human form. In 1997 her love of mysticism, symbolism, words, and art
collided naturally and she began the Mary-el Tarot which ended up
taking over a decade to complete.
Her favorite medium
is oil paint used in a method called grisaille, a technique also
favored by the old masters where thin layers of color are slowly
built up bringing out the natural depth and luminosity of the paint.
Born and raised in Southern California, she presently lives with her
three children in the sultry piedmont forest of North Carolina where
she can paint under the rolling thunder and
the moving shadows of
trees.
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OSWALD WIRTH TAROT
US GAMES
Only Authorized
Deck
List Price: $24.00
The Major Arcana
cards contain French titles and Hebrew letters originally attributed
to each card by Eliphas Levi.
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THE ZOMBIE TAROT:
AN ORACLE OF THE UNDEAD
With Deck And
Instructions
By Paul Kepple and
Stacey Graham
Publisher: Quirk
Publishing
Publication date:
6/5/2012
Pages: 96
List Price: $16.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"One of the coolest, most
unique tarot decks you can find... We can pretty much guarantee
you've never seen a deck like this." --DreadCentral.com
You’ve never seen
tarot cards quite like these. Imagine the celebrated “Rider Deck”
infused with the horrors of Night of the Living Dead, and the result
is The Zombie Tarot—a crazy, campy interpretation of a classic
divination system.
In this zombified
parallel universe, wands become limbs, pentacles are biohazard
symbols, and the Major Arcana is full of shambling corpses. Along
with the 78-card deck, readers will receive instructions in a 96-page
full-color book; its contents explain how to survive the zombie
apocalypse and forecast your future using one of three different card
layouts.
The secrets of The
Zombie Tarot await you!
PAUL KEPPLE is the
creator and illustrator of the award-winning Housewives Tarot (Quirk,
2004). STACEY GRAHAM has read tarot cards professionally for more
than ten years. She is a writer based in Washington, D.C.
CALENDAR:
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(first Sunday of each month)
SEATTLE CHAOS MAGIC
We meet at 3:33 pm. on the first Sunday
of each month, at Edge of the Circle
Books, 701 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA
98122.
Anyone practicing, curious about, or
otherwise interested in Chaos magic is
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We also have classroom/ritual space--
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TAROT
READINGS / SPIRITUAL ADVICE
UNCOMMONSENSE
TAROT
Tarot readings
by Erica (Raven) Branch-Butler
" I've been reading Tarot for
more than thirty years, and reading professionally
at the Edge for a decade. My belief
is that Tarot is best used for putting you in touch with your own
subconscious, allowing you to make healthy
decisions that can change your life
for the better. My readings tend to be rather commonsensical (hence the
name) and are geared toward helping the client circumvent the often self-imposed
obstacles in their lives, so that they can
achieve their goals and fully enjoy
the fruits that life has to bring."
Please inquire about Tarot Parties,
classes and other events.
Available every day except THURSDAYS--
12:30-8.30PM.
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Daughter of the Ancients
Psychic, Healer, Muse...
Thursdays at Edge of the Circle Books
2-8:30pm
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This concludes our Newsletter for
this month.
Look for us again AUGUST 1st
, 2012!
Raven, Editrix, Edge of the Circle
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