An in\-depth exploration of the elements, their lore, history, correspondences, and use in spellwork and ritual. The four elements are the pillars that uphold the manifest world and anchor spirit to matter. They are associated with a wide range of spiritual entities, from small elementals to divine beings. This book explores the consciousness of the elements, which provides a system of understanding that supports most of the magic of the West and paganism. The use of the elements in a wide range of systems and practices will be examined. Much has been written about the four elements already; this book offers new teachings for newcomers and long\-time practitioners alike. Each of the four elements is explored in depth, including how they interact and change as they rise on the planes. Practical applications for working with the elements are also woven throughout the book. The book concludes with the union of the elements that is more than just becoming Spirit, but the completion of their Great Work.

A bird knocks insistently on your window, your cat brings you a lizard, you find yourself face to face with a spider or you dream of an elephant ... what if each animal had a message for you?

Animals have always been a source of fascination for humans–we love to watch them, learn about them and keep them as pets. But what if animals could actually communicate with us? In this complete guide, you'll find everything you need to know about the symbolism and signs of more than 150 animals, whether they appear to you in a dream or 'happen' to cross your path.

You'll learn their individual characteristics as well as the elements and seasons they're associated with. You'll also discover what these encounters mean for different aspects of your life including love, career, family and health.

Messages from the animal world are always filled with compassion but animals aren't there to flatter your ego. Rather, they aim to help you advance in consciousness in your life's journey. Sometimes you'll receive an encouraging sign that confirms you're on the right path or guidance to help you move forward. Other times, an animal will deliver a deeper lesson for you to explore, because that's how we learn. More than anything, their messages can open avenues of questioning and help to make your way forward clearer.

The animals wish you well; they want you to hear their messages.Let them become your guides!

Whether your coven consists of two or twenty, whether you want to gather on a regular basis or just occasionally, this book has rituals, spells, and advice needed to practice your Witchcraft with others. Deborah Blake draws on nearly twenty years of experience leading a coven, sharing extensive wisdom she's gained from her experiences and fellow practitioners. This book is a valuable resource for traditional Wiccans and eclectic Witches looking for a modern, free-form approach to group activities.The Everyday Witch's Coven helps you decide who to invite, where to meet, which deities to worship, and how to solve problems together. You'll explore ritual basics and etiquette, group sabbat celebrations, full moon rituals, craft projects, magic for specific goals, and more. Deborah provides everything needed to find or create the coven that's best for you.

Just as alchemists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, with this book you can transform everyday herbs and spices into effective healing herbal remedies. Rosalee de la Forêt, a clinical herbalist, examines the history and modern-day use of 29 herbs, offering clinical studies to support their healing properties. She also dives into the energetics of herbalism, teaching readers how to match the properties of each plant to their unique needs, for a truly personalized approach to health.
The recipes in this book take a variety of forms - from teas and pastilles to beauty products and delicious foods - to show how easy it is to incorporate the healing power of herbs into your everyday life. You could start your day with Spiced Cold Brew Coffee, pamper your skin with Green Tea and Rose Facial Cream, make a meal of Astragalus Bone Broth and Sage Chicken, then treat yourself to Cardamom Chocolate Mousse Cake and a Holy Basil-Ginger Julep. Beautiful photos taken by the author of the herbs and recipes complement each chapter.
This book will appeal to those interested in natural health and herbalism, and the recipes offer an easy entry for beginners. Readers will never look at cinnamon, coffee, parsley, lavender or even chocolate the same way again, as they realize the kitchen can be their medicine cabinet!

Embrace your inner shadow with Kimberly Sherman-Cook's incredible tome, In the Shadows of 13 Moons. By tapping into the power and potency of the dark moon using the rituals, exercises, and magical workings contained herein, both the experienced Witch and the newcomer to the craft, will be introduced to new and exciting paths that lead to self-discovery, fulfillment, and empowerment.

Highly practical and incredibly engaging, the reader will be introduced to concepts such as working within a dark circle of power, understanding elemental reversals, and channeling the power of dark deities. Also contained within this book are methods of revealing your inner shadow, navigating the inner landscapes, and a vast array of spells and rituals designed to be worked in conjunction with the dark moon. Unlike other books, the author includes a section on adapting these workings for group or coven work, making this book a wonderful working guide for groups looking to explore their shadow aspects together.

The use of castings to create the experience of sacred space is a common practice in Wiccan and Neopagan traditions. In CASTING SACRED SPACE, Neopagan practitioner, Ivo Dominguez, Jr., offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques and rituals of casting. He explains both the theory and practice to encourage the development of understanding and proficiency in the creation of sacred and magickal space. Covers: · Grounding, centering, symbols and timing · How to open up to our psychic senses to work with subtle energies · Inner preparation and how to set the stage for magickal work · Protection, symbols and meditations for maintaining sacred space. · The Circle, the Quarters and other modes of casting sacred space · Quartering, energy work and many cross-practice connections including Qabala and chakras. CASTING SACRED SPACE is a practical, accessible handbook for the beginner with cross-appeal to seasoned practitioners of ritual magic. The original self-published edition sold over 10,000 copies.

This book contains a unique blend of folklore and hands-on Witchcraft, all centered around the use of animal skulls. Contained herein are the manifestations of the author's own personal style of Witchcraft as well as methods for magically finding a skull, ways of purifying the skull, and instructions on how to imbue the skull with spirit presence for the purpose of divination, insight, and other acts of magic. Also included are rituals for the physical manifestation of the spirit and instructions for petitioning magical favors by way of spirit intervention. The Witch seeking a stronger, more intense connection with the spirit world will find good use of the rituals and methods given.

A comprehensive guide to connecting with the magic of each of the four elements: Water, Earth, Air, and Fire

• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice

• Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment

• Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld

A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore.

For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals.

Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.

Discover your authentic self and unleash the powerful witch within. This book is your guide to navigating a magical life.

It’s easy to lose your way, but The Witch’s Way Home will help you to reconnect with your heart so that you can return home to your true self.

Modern witch Emma Griffin has created a road map for personal growth, spiritual awakening and living a magical life. In this accessible book of magic, spells and rituals, you will discover:

· what makes a witch
· the witch wound and how you can heal
· how to unlock your magic
· animal guides, nature magic and the witch’s calendar
· the power of connecting with the spirit realms
· how to raise your vibration to call in your power

This is not just a spell book but a transformational journey. The Witch’s Way Homewill help you to release any limiting beliefs that hold you back from living a fulfilling life. You will find the courage to delve deep within yourself, confront your fears and finally step into your power.

Lady Stable demystifies the Eightfold Path of Witchcraft, providing powerful doorways to magical awareness using time honoured methods adapted for todays modern Witch. Witches have long used the right paths of power to pay the veil between the worlds and, through this book, Lady Sable has opened three paths anew that we may draw wisdom a road that has been well travelled by serious practitioners. Intent, Trance, The Craft, Intoxicants, Dance and Sacred Movement, Blood and Breath, The Scourge and The Great Rite. A complete course in Magick and witchcraft

This classic volume, one of the first books to explore Wicca from a solitary perspective, is back with a new introduction by Wiccan elder Raymond Buckland. Originally published in 1973, this book has everything you need to start practicing Wicca on your own. Descriptions of Saxon dirties, introduction to Saxon runes, pagan songs, initiation ceremonies, sabbats, spells and so much more. 

Store spells, rituals and incantations in this A5 notebook with lined pages and a luxe velvet black cover featuring the quote 'Everything's Better with a Little Magic' and a mystical moon and star design. Exclusive to us at Something Different and part of our 'Black Magic' collection.

Store spells, rituals and incantations in this A5 Book of Shadows notebook with lined pages and a luxe velvet black cover featuring a mystical triple moon design. Exclusive to us at Something Different and part of our 'Black Magic' collection.

Store spells, rituals and incantations in this A5 Book of Spells notebook with lined pages and a luxe velvet black cover featuring a mystical pentagram design. Exclusive to us at Something Different and part of our 'Black Magic' collection.

Crystal skulls are human-skull hardstone carvings often made of clear or milky white quartz known as "rock crystal." They are allegedly pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts and can be found in the permanent collections of a number of world-class museums, including the Smithsonian and the British Museum.

In occult and metaphysical circles, the skulls have magical and healing qualities.

In this book, best-selling occultist and crystal expert Judy Hall provides a basic primer on crystal skulls including 'What they are', 'Where they are found', 'Their role in legend and lore around the world' and 'Their uses for physical and psychic healing'.

Also included here in this stunning introductory text is an examination of the prominent "skull keepers" of the past 100 years and how to use and communicate with a crystal skull.

This is a terrific book for those interested in occult and ancient mysteries and/or the power of gems and crystals.

Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Margot Adler

Now fully revised - the classic study of Neo-Paganism originally published in 1979.

Over thirty years since its original publication, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning, but still widely misunderstood, Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colourful gallery of people, people who find inspiration in ancient deities, nature, myth, even science fiction. In this new edition featuring an updated resource guide of newsletters, journals, books, groups and festivals, Margot Adler takes a fascinating and honest look at the religious experiences, beliefs and lifestyles of modern Pagan groups.

This has to now be my favourite book for the use of Sigils. Jonathon Argento explains in easy to follow examples and illustrations. Jonathon draws on his vast bank of knowledge and Scott share with us the magic of Sigils and their use in not just magical circles but in our every day life’s. 

The Western Tradition From Shaman to Magus

Caitlin & John Matthews

Beneath the orthodox religions that lay claim to the soul of Western man runs an esoteric current that has preserved the lore and hermetic traditions of our ancestors. This current has transported generations of seekers some of whom have kept alive the ancient earth wisdom of the shamans while others have tapped into the Gnostic and Egyptian mysteries of the East that allowed for the flowering of high magic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In WALKERS BETWEEN THE WORLDS the authors reveal the development of both these traditions that were never far beneath the surface of Western culture and how they complement each other. As the orthodox structures of the West appear increasingly hollow and irrelevant the Western way trod by the shaman and the magus remains vital with many practical methods for reawakening awareness and reconnecting with the earth. In addition to its in-depth theoretical analysis WALKERS BETWEEN THE WORLDS contains practical exercises drawn from traditional teaching methods used by both native and hermetic traditions to help the reader explore these mysteries. Previous edition published by Arkana. The authors live in Oxford. · Provides practical exercises to reawaken mystical awareness and reconnect with the ancient mystery traditions of our ancestors · Reveals how earth wisdom and high magic complement one another

Connecting with Nature's Seasons through Intuitive Magick

Temperance Alden

When we think of the wheel of the year, the Wiccan wheel with its celebrations of the Yule, Beltane, Mabon and Samhain come to mind. But what about a wheel of the year for the rest of us pagans and witches? As a witch living in sunny South Florida, long-time hereditary witch, Temperance Alden, has often felt at odds gearing up to celebrate Yule, for example, when it is 76 degrees and sunny outside.

YEAR OF THE WITCH will help readers create their own intuitive practices in harmony with the climate, culture and local spirits where they live. It's of interest to witches coming off the Wiccan path and looking for a more personal approach to celebrating the rhythms of nature. YEAR OF THE WITCH covers all aspects of this new, seasonal practice:

· The origins of the neo-pagan wheel of the year and why it is still so
relevant today
· Culture, historical facts and traditions associated with the major
ceremonies
· Basic principles of land-based magick
· How to intuitively connect to the nature below your feet and the local
gods
· Being a custodian to the land and its impact on our spiritual practice