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WELCOME
to 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. Without further ado,
welcome, and enjoy.
Regards,
Erica (Raven) Branch-Butler, Editrix- golanv1@yahoo.com
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.
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UNDER
THE BRAMBLE ARCH:
A Folk
Grimoire of Wayside Plant Lore and Practicum
by
Corinne Boyer
Troy Books,
2019
Royal
format 234 x 156mm. 258 pages with 24 pages of black and white photo
plates.
Paperback
Edition; Gloss laminated cover.
List Price:
$26.50
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Under the
Bramble Arch is the second offering in a trilogy of books by Corinne
Boyer following on from Under the Witching Tree, Corinne is a
folk-herbalist known for her work exploring both the traditional and
personal medicinal and magical applications of plants and trees
which, as Corinne explains in her video introducing the trilogy, are
often revealed through their accumulated folklore.
This is a
trilogy that guides us into the realms of plant lore, folk magic and
folk medicine. The second book, Under the Bramble Arch, explores the
magical and medicinal applications of the plants of the wayside;
those liminal places where the wild meets those unkempt and forgotten
landscapes of humankind.
Corinne’s
work, backed up by nearly twenty years of experience in the field, is
full of information that is today little known, particularly within
modern herbalism. This is a book which presents the reader with a
wealth of home-spun and very hands-on practices exploring tales,
charms, spells, recipes and rites focusing on twenty different
plants.
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SOUTHERN
CUNNING:
Folkloric
Witchcraft In The American South
by
Aaron Oberon
Paperback:
152 pages
Publisher:
Moon Books (August 1, 2019)
List Price:
$11.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Southern
Cunning is a journey through the folklore of the American South and a
look at the power these stories hold for modern witches. Through the
lens of folklore, animism, and bioregionalism the book shows how to
bring rituals in folklore into the modern day and presents a uniquely
American approach to witchcraft born out of the land and practical
application.
About the
Author:
Aaron
Oberon is a Southern folk witch with a passion for bringing
witchcraft to people from different roots. Aaron writes about queer
magic, bioregionalism, and witchcraft that gets down in the dirt. It
is deeply important to Aaron that he helps to make witchcraft and
magic more accessible to those from underprivileged areas. His goal
in writing is to demonstrate that there is power in the stories of
families and local land. Aaron lives in Southwest Florida.
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FAMILIARS
IN WITCHCRAFT:
Supernatural
Guardians in the Magical Traditions of the World~1st Edition
by
Maja D'Aoust
Paperback:
160 pages
Publisher:
Destiny Books; 1 edition (July 16, 2019)
List Price:
$16.99
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
~A
comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and
powers~
• Explores
witch’s familiars in folklore, shamanic, and magical traditions
around the world, including Africa, India, Scandinavia, ancient
Greece, and China
• Explains
how familiars are related to shamanic power animals and how the witch
draws on her personal sexual energy to give this creature its power
• Examines
the familiar in alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical
literature, including instructions for procuring a supernatural
assistant
Exploring
the history and creation of a “witch’s familiar,” also known as
a spirit double or guardian spirit, Maja D’Aoust shows how there is
much more to these supernatural servant spirits and guardians than
meets the eye. She reveals how witches are not the only ones to lay
claim to this magician’s “assistant” and examines how the many
forms of witch’s familiars are well known in folklore throughout
Europe and America as well as in shamanic and magical traditions
around the world, including Africa, India, and China.
The author
explains how familiars are connected with shapeshifting and how the
classic familiars of medieval witchcraft tradition are related to the
power animals and allies of shamanic practices worldwide, including
animal guardian spirits of Native American traditions and the daimons
of the ancient Greeks and Romans. She examines the fetch spirit, also
known as the fylgia in Scandinavian tradition, and how the witch or
sorcerer draws on their personal sexual energy to give this creature
its power to magnetize and attract what it was sent to retrieve. She
looks at incubus, succubus, doubles, doppelgangers, and soul mates,
showing how familiars can also adopt human forms and sometimes form
romantic or erotic attachments with the witch or shaman.
Reviewing
alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature, including the
nearly forgotten alchemical works of Anna Kingsford, D’Aoust
explores their instructions for procuring the attention of a
supernatural assistant as well as an extensive description of the
alchemical wedding and how this ritual joins the magician and
familiar spirit into a single unified consciousness. Exploring fairy
familiars, she reveals how a practitioner can establish a “marriage”
with a totemic plant or tree spirit, who, in return, would offer
teachings about its medicinal and visionary powers.
Delving
deeply into the intimate relations of humanity with the spirit world,
D’Aoust shows how forming connections with living forces other than
human enables us to move beyond the ego, expand our magical
abilities, as well as evolve our conscious awareness.
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SLAVIC
WITCHCRAFT:
Old
World Conjuring Spells and Folklore
by
Natasha Helvin
Paperback:
224 pages
Publisher:
Destiny Books (August 6, 2019)
List Price:
$16.99
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
~A
practical guide to the ancient magical tradition of Russian sorcery
and Eastern Slavic magical rites~
• Offers
step-by-step instructions for more than 300 spells, incantations,
charms, amulets, and practical rituals for love, career success,
protection, healing, divination, communicating with spirits and
ancestors, and other challenges and situations
• Reveals
specific places of magical power in the natural world as well as the
profound power of graveyards and churches for casting spells
• Explores
the folk history of this ancient magical tradition, including how the
pagan gods gained new life as Eastern Orthodox saints, and shares
folktales of magical beings, including sorceresses shapeshifting into
animals and household objects
Passed down
through generations, the Slavic practice of magic, witchcraft, and
sorcery is still alive and well in Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus,
as well as the Balkans and the Baltic states. There are still witches
who whisper upon tied knots to curse or heal, sorceresses who
shapeshift into animals or household objects, magicians who cast
spells for love or good fortune, and common folk who seek their aid
for daily problems big and small.
Sharing the
extensive knowledge she inherited from her mother and grandmother,
including spells of the “Old Believers” previously unknown to
outsiders, Natasha Helvin explores in detail the folk history and
practice of Russian sorcery and Eastern Slavic magical rites,
offering a rich compendium of more than 300 spells, incantations,
charms, and practical rituals for love, relationships, career
success, protection, healing, divination, averting the evil eye,
communicating with spirits and ancestors, and a host of other life
challenges and daily situations, with complete step-by-step
instructions to ensure your magical goals are realized. She explains
how this tradition has only a thin Christian veneer over its pagan
origins and how the Slavic pagan gods and goddesses acquired new
lives as the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She details how
the magical energy for these spells and rituals is drawn from the
forces of nature, revealing specific places of power in the natural
world as well as the profound power of graveyards and churches for
casting spells. She explores the creation of amulets and talismans,
the importance of icons, and the proper recital of magical language
and actions during spells, as well as how one becomes a witch or
sorceress.
Offering a
close examination of these two-thousand-year-old occult practices,
Helvin also includes Slavic folk advice, adapted for the modern era.
Revealing what it means to be a Slavic witch or sorceress, and how
this vocation pervades all aspects of life, she shows that each of us
has magic within that we can use to take control of our own destiny.
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SPECULUM
TERRÆ:
A
Magical Earth-Mirror from the 17th Century
by
Frater Acher
Paperback:
76 pages
Publisher:
Hadean Press (March 6, 2018)
List Price:
$14.50
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Speculum
Terræ presents a detailed analysis of one of the rarest kinds of
magical paraphernalia: an authentic magical earth-mirror from 17th
century Germany, originally used for divinatory practices as well as
folk-magical purposes such as treasure-hunting.
Frater
Acher’s explorations of the background and historic ties of this
curious little device turn into a fascinating treasure hunt in their
own right as we rediscover the original expert interpretation of the
mirror’s seal by the famous 19th century professor Richard Wünsch,
and present its first complete English translation. We excavate
previously overlooked magical seals contained in the mirror, retrace
their divine and angelic names, are led into Italian Palazzos and to
the masquerades of Swedish queens, and finally discover authentic
connections to the artefacts of the early Rosicrucian movement.
On a
magical level this study aims to help overcome the notion that
‘celestial’ and ‘chthonic’ realms of magic exist in
antithesis to each other. Rather, as we begin to see from the example
of this earth-mirror, their forces can be brought together in simple
practice — a folk-magical practice that is, which did not depend on
exquisite materials nor complex temples, but on the practitioner’s
knowledge of how to combine a handful of earth and a circle of
celestial names in their very own practice.
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THE NEW
EQUINOX:
The
British Journal of Magick
by
James Lees (Author), Cath Thompson (Compiler)
Paperback:
88 pages
Publisher:
Hadean Press (January 23, 2018)
List Price:
$17.50
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
The
worrying fact of a genuine Qaballa in English was first put to the
occult reading public in 1979, in the Editorial of the final issue of
Ray Sherwin’s periodical The New Equinox. The “order & value
of the English Alphabet,” predicted in Liber AL vel Legis, had been
obtained in the English Midlands by a magickian named James Lees in
November 1976, and with the members of his occult group he had
researched, experimented, and proved the new system to the point
where the first conclusions and propositions could be shared.
Lees took
over the publication of The New Equinox with the subtitle “British
Journal of Magick” and published several articles about the English
Qaballa in 1980-81, in five issues. In the 1980’s occultism was a
basis for an undercover kind of lifestyle without fashionable
accessories, a far cry from the present climate of academic
indulgence and establishment-led tolerance, and only just emerging
from the shadow cast by the Golden Dawn and the “Great Revival”
to formulate new answers to the old questions. English Qaballa has
not only withstood the tests of Time, but expanded from the first
hypotheses into a complete coherent and harmonious initiatory system
of alpha-numeric symbol correspondences, a viable alternative to the
non-English systems which have dominated occult publication for
decades. The reproduction of its advent and early development should
therefore be of interest to a new generation of enquiring minds as
well as to those who may be renewing an old familiarity.
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TRUE
MAGIC:
Spells
That Really Work
by
Draja Mickaharic, Judika Illes (Foreword)
Hardcover:
192 pages
Publisher:
Weiser Books (August 1, 2019)
List Price:
$14.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Written by
renowned master of witchcraft Draja Mickaharic, author of Spiritual
Cleansing, this book provides an introduction to natural magic as
well as a practical reference for simple, everyday spells that really
work. Included is an eclectic collection of over 100 spells,
including water spells, spoken spells, spells passed down over
generations, and spells developed by the author himself.
Learn how
to cast spells with water, incense, oils, and common kitchen herbs
and with spoken and written words.
Included
are recipes and instructions on how to:
- Cast protection spells for reversal spells that may be cast on you
- Make baths for spiritual cleansing, growth, beauty, and harmony
- Cast spells for beginning and ending relationships
About the
Author:
Draja
Mickaharic was born in Bosnia and has been practicing magic in the
U.S. for more than 45 years. He is the author of A Century of Spells
and The Practice of Magic. He lives in Philadelphia.
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LLE QUI
(SHE WHO) ORACLE
by
Arwen Lynch (Editor), Melanie Delon (Illustrator)
Publisher:
U.S. Games Systems Inc. (June 26, 2019)
44 cards
and 80-page guidebook.
List Price:
$22.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Elle Qui
(She Who) Oracle features 44 magnificent female warriors and women of
great compassion and wisdom. After experiencing everything from fear
to freedom and hardship to hope, they now share all their powerful
life lessons with you.
Each card presents someone who will challenge
and inspire you in unique ways. Elle Qui Oracle will help you
discover layers of forgotten selves and new insights.
Includes 44
cards and 80-page guidebook.
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TAROT
GRAND LUXE
by
Ciro Marchetti
Publisher:
U.S. Games Systems (June 15, 2015)
78 Cards,
56-Page Illustrated Booklet
List Price:
$22.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Popular
digital artist Ciro Marchetti has crafted the evocative Tarot Grand
Luxe out of his own creative imaginings. Based primarily on the
Rider-Waite-SmithTM tarot system, the lavish details in Tarot Grand
Luxe also incorporate references to the Tarot de Marseilles, as well
as other historic symbols and archetypes.
In the 56-page illustrated
booklet, Ciro briefly describes the ideas and personal perspectives
that inspired each card.
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TAROT OF
THE GOLDEN WHEEL
by
Mila Losenko
Publisher:
U.S. Games Systems (June 15, 2019)
78 cards,
84-Page Guidebook
List Price:
$22.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Inspired by
the magic and wisdom of Russian fairy tales, Tarot of the Golden
Wheel interprets traditional tarot through the prism of colorful
Slavic folk culture.
In this radiant deck the Golden Wheel, a sacred
symbol of karma, the sun, and the infinite cycles of life conveys the
Fool on his journey through the Major and Minor Arcana.
Includes 78
cards and 84-page guidebook.
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This
concludes our Newsletter for this month.
Look For
Us Again, SEPTEMBER 1ST , 2019!!!
Raven,
Editrix, Edge of the Circle Books Newsletter
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