Plant, Stone, and Animal
Plant, Stone, and Animal

Author: Maria Yraceburu

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1387150081

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Some of our best tips for getting the most out of Maria's wisdom... Give yourself permission to do things imperfectly & get whatever meaning you get from this book. Is it likely that anyone would understand a ceremonialist from another culture on the first pass? Especially when her work is about a spiral of learning, building on experiences and wisdom as we return to receive more each time? You already know that answer. Be kind to yourself. It's time to play. Spiral through pages of this this book & come back & get more each time, perhaps adding a bit from one of the chapters when you go for the next round. Have fun with it! This book is written in layers. Entering the Silence is a powerful practice that can be enhanced with plant, stone & animal allies. The lunar cycle & daily prayer information can add to one's daily practice as well. You don't need to take it all in at once. Let the plant, stone & animal allies work with you to make this practice of life completely your own. Welcome to the family!

Hawaiʻi's Plants and Animals
Hawaiʻi's Plants and Animals

Author: Charles P. Stone

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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This volume tells the stories of some native and alien species found in the park, the largest protected area in Hawai'i managed for native species and biological communities.

Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants

Author: Wilson N. Stewart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-02-26

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780521382946

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This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.

Entering Hekate's Garden
Entering Hekate's Garden

Author: Cyndi Brannen

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1633411966

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A guide to plant spirit ritual and witchcraft, with practical instruction on the use of botanicals especially associated with the beloved goddess Hekate and her daughters Circe and Medea. Bringing pharmakeia (the practice of plant spirit witchcraft) into contemporary times, Entering Hekate’s Garden merges historical knowledge with modern techniques. In it, author Cyndi Brannen offers her extensive insight into Hekatean ritual and witchcraft and especially its application to the Green World. The book features detailed monographs dedicated to 39 plants ranging from the esoteric such as aconite, American mandrake, and damiana to the accessible including bay laurel, dandelion, fennel, garlic, juniper, and lavender. This book blends traditional methods with the author's personal approach, emphasizing her understanding of plant spirits as allies in the witch’s journey. It includes a new taxonomy for interpreting plant energies, methods for creating new correspondences, the importance of layering, using botanicals in spells, rituals, altars, and more, as well as ways to develop meaningful relationships with the pharmakoi (master plant spirits). Poetry, petitions, and musings about pharmakeia are woven throughout. Entering Hekate’s Garden takes readers deep into the mystical world of botanical witchery in a way no other book has before.

Plant Theory
Plant Theory

Author: Jeffrey T. Nealon

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0804796785

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In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.

Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondence
Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondence

Author: Eileen Holland

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2005-09-30

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1632658224

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What color candle is appropriate for a justice spell? Which herbs correspond to heart problems? What can you do to strengthen a peace ritual? How can you protect your home? When is a good time to empower a healing charm? Because of her exhaustive knowledge of this subject, Eileen Holland is the expert other witches turn to when they are seeking correspondences for magickal workings. By publishing Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondences, she at long last makes public the information she has been sharing privately with them for years (and which she began writing for herself as a way of organizing the information she needed for her own practice of the Craft). Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondences is the ultimate resource for witches, magicians and shamans, brujas and brujos, Druids, Wiccans, Asatru and Santerians. The most comprehensive book of magickal correspondences that has ever been written, it is for everyone who practices magick or creates rituals. More than 500 separate topics are covered with a sample listing as follows: ASSERTIVENESS (See also: Aggressiveness) Mars Color: red Animal: sparrow Oil: bergamot Plant: basil, cypress Goddess: Inanna, Oya God: Ares, Mars Assertive Action: (See: Action) To Learn to Assert Yourself Stone: angelite, danburite Plant: apple The correspondences included are drawn from many cultures and traditions, including Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mayan, African, Afro-Caribbean, Buddhist, Norse, Hindu, Greco-Roman, Chinese, Celtic and Native American. Whatever the subject of your working, you are likely to find it covered here. If you practice magick, this will quickly become the most useful book you own and the one to which you refer constantly.

Dancing with the Wheel
Dancing with the Wheel

Author: Sun Bear

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 143914754X

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The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal both humans and the earth. Through Dancing with the Wheel, the second book specifically devoted to the Medicine Wheel, those familiar with this vision will gain an increased understanding of the wheel and its developments over the last ten years. Those new to the Medicine Wheel will be ushered into the teachings and technique of what has come to be a source of comfort and direction for thousands of people around the world. Whether you are in the middle of the wilderness or the middle of a city, this book and its exercises will help you center yourself and establish peace with the earth and other beings.

The Art of Movement
The Art of Movement

Author: Dick Mccaw

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1003822541

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The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban’s Unpublished Writings offers new perspectives on the thinking and practice of Rudolf Laban – one of the pioneers of modern European dance and movement analysis. A wealth of Laban’s previously untranslated writings broadens our understanding of his work through new perspectives on his thinking and practice. Alongside these key primary sources, interviews with Laban’s family and colleagues and editorial commentaries shed new light on the significance of his life and career. Laban’s own texts also offer further elaboration of the key themes of his work – eukinetics, choreutics, lay dance, pedagogy and dance notation. This essential companion to The Laban Sourcebook is an ideal resource for any students or scholars of modern dance, dance studies, dance history and movement analysis looking for a deeper understanding of this seminal figure in their field.