Mystic Medusa
Mystic Medusa

Author: Mystic Medusa

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1489245448

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Your awesome year ahead - Align with the astral vibe to maximise your prospects and minimise the downside. Always chic and precise, Virgo can feel like the unsung hero of the Zodiac. But in 2018, with the celestial backdrop increasingly favouring the Earth element, you are the It–People to know. You need to align with the astral vibe to maximise your prospects and minimise the downside. Presented month by month for easy reference, your sun sign horoscope for 2018 serves as a timing guide, inspiration and your source of cosmic 'insider info'. Explore your prospects for Vitality, Prosperity and Romance. Plan your year ahead with the ultra–useful Strategic Dates Scheduler. Use the Power Moons section to collaborate with the celestial vibes of New Moons, Full Moons and Eclipses. Mystic Medusa is a unique astrologer and writer with a global following of people who want to self–actualise–not stagnate–in 2018. Her horoscopes are pragmatic and informed by her fresh take on the natural genius of each Sun Sign.

Mystic Medusa's Sun Signs and Soul Mating
Mystic Medusa's Sun Signs and Soul Mating

Author: Mystic Medusa

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592233465

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Astrology should be fun to explore, easy to access, and useful for gaining deeper insight into human dynamics. The Mystic Medusa fervently believes in both the accuracy of astrology and the fun we can have with its principles in these post-modern times. Learn all the personality cliche s-positive and decidedly negative-of every sign of the zodiac. Use the knowledge to get ahead at work, find a soul mate, or better understand crazy family dynamics. It's all fun, informative, and amazingly enlightening. Make astrology work for you with this witty new illustrated guide to the sun signs and their influence on your life."

No One Tells You This
No One Tells You This

Author: Glynnis MacNicol

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1501163140

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Featured in multiple “must-read” lists, No One Tells You This is “sharp, intimate…A funny, frank, and fearless memoir…and a refreshing view of the possibilities—and pitfalls—personal freedom can offer modern women” (Kirkus Reviews). If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her fortieth birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves. Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles, and yet the question remained: What now? There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. It was time to create one. Over the course of her fortieth year, which this ​“beguiling” (The Washington Post) memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect. Through the trials of family illness and turmoil, and the thrills of far-flung travel and adventures with men, young and old (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she wrestles with her biggest hopes and fears about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness. In doing so, she discovers that holding the power to determine her own fate requires a resilience and courage that no one talks about, and is more rewarding than anyone imagines. “Amid the raft of motherhood memoirs out this summer, it’s refreshing to read a book unapologetically dedicated to the fulfillment of single life” (Vogue). No One Tells You This is an “honest” (Huffington Post) reckoning with modern womanhood and “a perfect balance between edgy and poignant” (People)—an exhilarating journey that will resonate with anyone determined to live by their own rules.

Medusa
Medusa

Author: David Leeming

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1780231334

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With her repulsive face and head full of living, venomous snakes, Medusa is petrifying—quite literally, since looking directly at her turned people to stone. Ever since Perseus cut off her head and presented it to Athena, she has been a woman of many forms: a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed, an erotic power that could annihilate men, and, thanks to Freud, a woman whose hair was a nest of terrifying penises that signaled castration. She has been immortalized by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dalí and was the emblem of the Jacobins after the French Revolution. Today, she’s viewed by feminists as a noble victim of patriarchy and used by Versace in the designer’s logo for men’s underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. She even gives her name to a sushi roll on a Disney resort menu. Why does Medusa continue to have this power to transfix us? David Leeming seeks to answer this question in Medusa, a biography of the mythical creature. Searching for the origins of Medusa’s myth in cultures that predate ancient Greece, Leeming explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history. From an oil painting by Caravaggio to Clash of the Titans and Dungeons and Dragons, he delves into the many depictions of Medusa, ultimately revealing that her story is a cultural dream that continues to change and develop with each new era. Asking what the evolution of the Medusa myth discloses about our culture and ourselves, this book paints an illuminating portrait of a woman who has never ceased to enthrall.

The Light of the Midnight Stars
The Light of the Midnight Stars

Author: Rena Rossner

Publisher: Redhook

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 031648363X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Experience an evocative combination of fantasy, history, and Jewish folklore in this lush and lyrical fairytale-inspired novel from the author of The Sisters of the Winter Wood. Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. Hannah, bookish and calm, can coax plants to grow even when the weather is bitterly cold. Sarah, defiant and strong, can control the impulsive nature of fire. And Levana, the fey one, can read the path of the stars to decipher their secrets. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive—and change the fate of their family forever. Praise for The Light of the Midnight Stars: "Storytelling as spellcasting. Rossner has conjured something vivid and wild and true."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies "Rossner creates a lush, immersive world through which the sprawling plot meanders, punctuated by moments of intense grief. The result is as lovely as it is heartbreaking." —Publishers Weekly "Rossner's tale is as lyrical as the slow growth of roots, the quick dance of fire, and the stately procession of the stars. Blending folktale with history, hope with tragedy, its touch will linger on your heart long after you put it down."—Marie Brennan For more from Rena Rossner, check out The Sisters of the Winter Wood.

Journey by Night
Journey by Night

Author: Kim Falconer

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 073049778X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A fast-paced story of fantasy and occult adventure, astrology and martial arts ... this trilogy tells past and future stories of characters we met in the Quantum Enchantment trilogy. Desperation leads Nellion Paree to the forbidden spell ... but she accidentally awakens a power that could destroy the many-worlds forever.Rosette and her familiar Drayco return to Corsanon to face an invasion. they soon join the temple cats and shape-shifting wolves to make a final stand against their enemies.On a future Earth, Kreshkali uncovers a portal built by the allied states. Now the survival of both worlds is in her hands ... but the only way out is straight through the armies of ASSISt.Praise for Kim Falconer:'an epic story that seamlessly mingles science and technology with sociology, philosophy, and magic. A unique series that must be read' ***** GOOD READS on PAtH OF tHE StRAY'another searing and imaginative journey of intimacy and adventure, magic and technology' Mystic Medusa on ROAD tO tHE SOUL

Big Book of Adventure Mazes
Big Book of Adventure Mazes

Author: Dave Phillips

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-04-25

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0486429008

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Thrill-seekers will love this giant book of labyrinths. More than 90 mazes await in a compilation of 3 books by a maze master: Monster Mazes, Pirate Treasure Mazes, and Wizards and Dragons Mazes. Solutions.

The White Dominican
The White Dominican

Author: Gustav Meyrink

Publisher: Dedalus European Classics

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9781912868384

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in a mystical version of the Bavarian town of Wassserburg which sits on a promontory surrounded on three sides by the river Inn. The novel describes the spiritual journey of the simple hero, who, guided by a number of figures including his eccentric father, the spirit of of a distant ancestor, the protecting presence of his dead lover and the mysterious figure of the White Dominican, escapes the 'Medusa head' of the world to a transfiguration, through which he joins the 'living chain that stretches to infinity'.

Women Who Fly
Women Who Fly

Author: Serinity Young

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 019065970X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.