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.
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RITUAL:
An Essential Grimoire 
By Damien Echols and Lorri Davis
Publisher : Sounds True (April 26, 2022)
Hardcover : 256 pages
List Price: $26.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Damien Echols and Lorri Davis share a beginner-friendly treasury of their most valuable practices for weaving magick into your everyday life.
The promise of magick is both simple and extraordinary: it is that magick can support you in any aspect of life, from helping you succeed in everyday tasks to enabling you to achieve your most cherished dreams. What’s more, you don’t even have to believe in magick to make it work. The only thing that’s required is regular practice―and the easiest way to practice is to make magickal rituals part of your daily life.
With Ritual: An Essential Grimoire, magicians Damien Echols and Lorri Davis share a broad selection of their most effective rituals, meditations, and prayers―presented in terms accessible to all. “You won’t find a lot of arcane terminology or lengthy ceremonies here,” says Damien. “What you will find are simple practices to develop your own connection to the energy and intelligence of the universe.” Here you’ll discover:
• Essential breath and concentration techniques for working with subtle energy
• Grounding practices to cleanse your body and environment from stagnant energies or thoughts
• Everyday meditations for improving sleep and dreams, blessing food, inviting abundance, and more
• On-the-spot practices that include invoking protection, relieving pain and anxiety, and seeing goodness in difficult situations
• Methods to amplify and reinforce your ritual work with talismans, celestial forces, and angel magick
• How ritual work can advance your spiritual evolution and openness to divine guidance
• Moving stories from Damien and Lorri about how magick changed their lives―and how it can change yours
Damien and Lorri learned magick to help them get through the most trying times―to help free Damien from his wrongful incarceration, then to help both of them heal from the traumatic aftereffects of his imprisonment. “Many of these rituals are the very same we used to rebuild our lives,” Lorri says. “We share these practices in the hopes that you will use them to survive, thrive, and create the life you desire.”
About the Authors:
Damien Echols is a bestselling author, visual artist, and practitioner of magick ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition. His story of release from a wrongful death row sentence is the subject of several documentaries. He has published six books, including two with his wife, Lorri Davis. Damien teaches classes on magick around the country. He and Lorri live in New Orleans.
LORRI DAVIS is a film producer and former landscape architect. The story of her courtship-by-mail with Damien Echols during his unjust imprisonment in the West Memphis Three case is profiled in the 2019 book Savage Appetites, and is the topic of their co-authored book, Yours for Eternity. Lorri, Damien, and their cats live in Harlem.
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THE LIMINAL SHORE Witchcraft, Mystery and Folklore
of the Essex Coast
By Alex Langstone
Paperback Edition: 228 pages, gloss laminate cover, paper stock, plus 32 pages of black and white photographic plates, plus line drawings and figures by Paul Atlas Saunders.
Publisher: Troy Books
List Price: $24.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The Liminal Shore is a brand-new work, seeking the spookiness of the isolated salt marsh and the hidden lore of the urban shore. Detailing and cataloguing some of the captivating cultural legends, myths, and folklore from the fascinating coastline of Essex and its eerie and brooding borderland. The author explores many remarkable old folk-narratives and traditional tales of marsh-wizardry, cunning magic, and sea-witchery, alongside some of the region’s most enigmatic spine-chilling ghost-lore. The peculiar calendar-customs and eccentric festivals are also investigated, bringing to life many of the old and often forgotten rituals of this interesting and enchanted coast. Discover such characters as Hoppin’ Tom, Mother Redcap, Cunning Murrell, Rollicking Bill and Jop Summers, who among many others form part of a rich and diverse folkloric history of this deliciously atmospheric, strange, and often unexpected coastline.
Alex Langstone was born and raised in the heart of Essex Witch Country, that low lying region of mysterious salt marshes, haunted byways and deeply cut estuaries. He has authored several books and essays about folklore, magic, and the spirit of place. You can contact the author via his blog at www.alexlangstone.com or find him on social media.
CONTENTS:
Foreword
By David Southwell
Preamble
Enchanted Edgeland
Alchemists, Cunning Folk, and Witches
Part One: Tendring
Manningtree and Harwich
Witch Ghost Coast
Colne Estuary and Oldest Town
Part Two: Blackwater
Mysterious Isle
Devil Haunted Marshes
Ancient Port of Maldon
Part Three: Dengie
Sea Secrets
The Lonely Places of Marsh-Mystery
Hart Family and The Curren
Part Four: Thames
Mud Archipelago
Salt Marsh, Creek, and Riverside
Urban Shores
Index
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A BOOK OF PAGAN FAMILY PRAYER & RITUALS
By Ceisiwr Serith
Publisher : Weiser Books (June 1, 2022)
Paperback : 272 pages
List Price : $19.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Review
"A Book of Pagan Family Prayers and Rituals by Ceisiwr Serith is an amazing reference for all those interested in building a strong family practice. Serith takes the reader on a journey of interpreting and walking the family pagan path, giving pointers for adapting rituals for modern times, as well as providing many insights into areas of pagan practice in bitesize pieces. I especially appreciated that the author made a point of showing how these rituals could be adapted to any gender, cultural background, and style of pagan practice. So many parents are looking for a good book on the path of pagan parenting. If any of these parents were to ask me, from now on I’ll be recommending A Book of Pagan Family Prayers and Rituals.” -- Temperance Alden, author of The Year of the Witch
About the Author:
Ceisiwr Serith (David Fickett-Wilbar) is a writer and teacher in the Pagan community. His interest in prayers and rituals grew naturally as a result of working in the Wiccan and Druidic traditions, as well as writing books such as A Book of Pagan Prayer and Deep Ancestors: Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. He is a member of Ár nDraíocht Féin, a Druid fellowship, and is priest and liturgist for Nemos Ognios grove in Durham, NH. He has been published in the Journal of Indo-European Studies and Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.
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WILD WITCHCRAFT:
Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies
By Rebecca Beyer
Publisher : S&S/Simon Element (May 10, 2022)
Hardcover : 240 pages
List Price: $17.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Learn how to cultivate your own magical garden, begin your journey with folk herbalism, and awaken to your place in nature through practical skills from an experienced Appalachian forager and witch.
Witchcraft is wild at heart, calling us into a relationship with the untamed world around us. Through the power of developing a relationship with plants, a witch—beginner or experienced—can practice their art more deeply and authentically by interacting with the beings that grow around us all. Bridging the gap between armchair witchcraft and the hedge witches of old, Wild Witchcraft empowers you to work directly with a wide variety of plants and trees safely and sustainably.
With Wild Witchcraft, Rebecca Beyer draws from her years of experience as an Appalachian witch and forager to give you a practical guide to herbalism and natural magic that will share:
-The history of witchcraft and Western herbalism
-How to create and maintain your own herbal garden
-Recipes for tinctures, teas, salves, and other potions to use in rites and rituals
-Spells, remedies, and rituals created with the wild green world around you, covering a range of topics, from self-healing to love to celebrating the turning of the seasons
-And much more!
Wild Witchcraft welcomes us home to the natural world we all dwell in by exploring practical folk herbal and magical rites grounded in historical practices and a sustainable, green ethic.
3Review:
"Deep background on herbal uses throughout history and across Appalachian, Native American, Anglo-Saxon, and West African folk medicine traditions sets this volume apart, particularly the illuminating opening section on the history of witchcraft and folk healing. Beyer’s accessible guide bewitches and enlightens." —Publisher's Weekly starred review
About the Author:
Rebecca Beyer is the woman behind the Blood and Spicebush School of Old Craft. She lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she manages a homestead and teaches traditional witchcraft, foraging, and Appalachian folk medicine. She has a BS in Plant and Soil science from the University of Vermont and a Masters in Appalachian Studies and Sustainability, concentrating in Appalachian Ethnobotany at Appalachian State University. She is also a member of the Association of Foragers. She spends her days trying to learn what her ancestors did and finding ways to share traditional skills while tackling cultural appropriation and the complexities of living in the modern world.
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DREAM DIVINATION PLANTS:
In Northwestern European Traditions
By Corinne Boyer
Publisher : Three Hands Press (April 19, 2022)
Paperback : 80 pages
List Price: $17.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Shamanism, religion and magic have long acknowledged the significance of dreams as a bridge to the spirit world, and over time developed practices for dream incubation. Many such practices involved plants, and were operant at the folk level, seeking to incept dreams of a prophetic nature, to obtain knowledge of future loves, fortunes, births and deaths. In Dream Divination Plants in Northwestern European Traditions, Corinne Boyer draws together many strands of plant dream-lore, focusing on dream-divination. Bringing old lore to life with modern insight and a practical approach, she examines the many ways of using flowers, fruits, branches and leaves to make contact with the oneiric realm. With original illustrations by Peter Köhler.
About the Author:
Corinne Boyer is an herbalist, teacher, and writer with a passion for traditions surrounding plants and folk magic. She has been studying and working with plants since 1998. She teaches weekly classes from her home that focus on plant lore, medicine making and traditional magic. "Plants of the Devil" was her first book for Three Hands Press. She is also the author of "The Witch's Cabinet", published by Three Hands Press in Spring 2021. She lives with her family in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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BECOMING A GARMENT OF ISIS:
A Nine-Stage Initiatory Path of Egyptian Spirituality
By Naomi Ozaniec
Publisher : Inner Traditions (May 3, 2022)
Paperback : 352 pages
List Price: $24.99 Inner Traditions 9781644113936
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A step-by-step guide to developing an embodied relationship with Egyptian divinities
• Details the nine stages of the ancient Egyptian initiatory path, describing each stage’s powers as well as the culminating ceremony called “The Crown of Isis”
• Provides profound guided meditations for each of the nine stages and illustrates the manifestation of this path’s principles through stories of awakening
• Shares the author’s personal journey as a Garment of Isis and her own powerful interactions with Isis, which culminated in her serving as Oracle of Isis at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1993
The Sacred Science of ancient Egypt was an initiatory spiritual system, a technology of consciousness designed to birth a mystical communion with the divinities, an embodied union of being between the eternal and the mortal. After initiation was completed, the re-identified being, now divinely possessed, was known as a Garment of Isis, signifying that the goddess Isis dwelt within them.
Offering a practical guide to the key principles within the Egyptian temple tradition, Naomi Ozaniec explores the process of creating and developing a personal relationship with the Neteru, the divinities and forces of creation of ancient Egypt. She details the nine stages of this initiatory path, which are divided into three phases--heartmind, spiritmind, and soulmind. This step-by-step, interactive process culminates in a ceremony called The Crown of Isis. The author provides profound guided meditations and illustrates the manifestation of the initiate’s powers through stories of awakening brought on by this spiritual path. She also shares her personal journey as a Garment of Isis and her own powerful interactions with Isis.
An accessible yet substantive guide to initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries, this book details how to gradually awaken and attune your mind to the symbolic, open access to higher realms of consciousness, and enter into a mystical marriage between personal and divine consciousness.
Review:
“Consistently with each book, Naomi Ozaniec has been called–powerfully cacalled--toemonstrate what it means to be a metaphysician, a priestess, and a living Garment of Isis. If you feel you have been called by She of 10,000 names, this book will assure you of your place in Her retinue. The work of the priestess requires an open heartmind. It is deep, both personal and transpersonal, coconscious-expanding, andntirely necessary for our planet’s transformation. This is a necessary guidebook for our Aquarian age.” ― Rev. Normandi Ellis, D.D., author of Hieroglyphic Words of Power
About the AuAuthor:aomi Ozaniec has worked within the realm of Western esotericism since the 1970s, following a Kundalini awakening experience in 1976. As a priestess of Isis, she served as the Oracle of Isis at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1993. The founder of The House of Life: Mystery School of Divine Partnership, An Aquarian Revelation, she is the author of several books on Egyptian wisdom, the tarot, the Qabalah, chakras, and meditation. She lives in Portugal.
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KEYMASTER TAROT
By Lorenzo Gaggiotti / booklet by Lilo Schwarz
Published by AGM-Urania
Contents: 78 tarot cards and 80-page booklet
List Price: $39.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Follow the KEYMASTER and look behind the closed doors of the mysterious house! These unique tarot cards by Lorenzo Gaggiotti lead you into the deepest rooms of your soul to hidden desires and your unconscious knowledge. The Keymaster Tarot connects the classic Tarot de Marseille with the well-known Tarot of A. E. Waite. The sensational illustrations of the Major Arcana are full of aesthetics, popower andodernity, the cards of the Minor Arcana show the symbols of the classic playing cards. Detailed instruction booklet by Lilo Schwarz..
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ORACLE OF LIGHT & DREAMS
By Scot Howden
U.S. Games Systems
Size Box measures 3.875” x 5.375”; 49 cards measure 3.5” x 5”
List Price: $22.95
U.S. Games Systems
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
English fantasy artist Scot Howden has created inspiring characters who share their bravery, strength and wisdom in this enchanting oracle deck. These charming elves, fairies and magical beings are aided in their mystical adventures by trusty animal companions including friendly dragons, wise cats, owls, kitsune, and wondrous unicorns. Let each of their stories lift your spirits, ignite your imagination and fill your dreams with hope. Includes 49 cards and 104-page illustrated guidebook.
About the Author:
Scot Howden is a professional contemporary artist from England who lives and works in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales Peak District National Park. Scot is influenced by nature, mythology, books, film and art. Inspired by the creative process as a way to express ideas and emotions, he enjoys painting fantasy and mythical pieces that enable him to be more imaginative. Scot’s artwork is popular among collectors all over the world and can be found in a variety of media.
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TAROT NEOCOLONIAL DE LAS AMERICA
By Patrick McGrath Muñiz
Publisher: U.S. Games Systems)
Size Box measures 4.68” x 7.18”; 78 cards measure 2.75” x 5.34”
List Price: $23.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
This deck explores the period when the New and Old Worlds collided, bringing about the dawn of globalization. As a Puerto Rican artist, Patrick McGrath Muñiz felt compelled to address issues of social and economic struggles within his tarot art. The result is a stunning series of visual narratives depicting 500 years of colonialization and conquests in Latin America. Includes 78 cards and 92-page book. Titles in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.
Patrick McGrath Muñiz is an artist from Puerto Rico, working primarily with oil paintings on canvas and retablos. His work is inspired after Old Master and Spanish colonial paintings while addressing issues such as colonialism, consumerism and climate change. He now lives in Texas with his family.
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By Cherie Gerhardt
U.S. Games Systems
Size Box measures 3.375” x 5.375”;
39 cards measure 3” x 5”
List Price: $22.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The Witching Hour is the time when the infinite energy of the universe is strongest and most accessible. The Witching Hour Oracle helps you tap into this magickal power that exists within all of us when we use our intentions to positively impact the world. Channel the wisdom of the Triple Goddess and the power of the lunar cycles to manifest potent outcomes. Includes 39 cards and 64-page guidebook.
About the Author:
From a young age, Cherie Gerhardt has crafted, sketched, painted, and sculpted her imaginings into existence. Her professional career began with the sacred art of tattooing, then morphed into graphic design and digital painting. In 2003, she established her business, Mystic Moon Media LLC, and started painting on a broader scale. Her art has been sold all over the globe.
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GUSTAVE DORÉ TAROT
By Pietro Alligo & Gustave Doré
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo, Llewellyn Publications.
78-card Deck.
List Price: $24.95
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THE EMPATH'S ORACLE
By Raven Digitalis & Konstantin Bax
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications (May 8, 2022)
List Price: $24.99
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