The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year

The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year

Author: Judy Ann Nock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-06-04

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1605508519

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In The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year, Judy Ann Nock offers you a definitive guide to "the wheel of the year." Capturing the essence of the major and lesser holidays, this complete and practical reference will appeal to Wiccans of all levels of experience. The handbook offers something for everyone: recipes, crafts, activities, spells, rituals, and meditations. In these pages, Wiccans will find several appropriate cyclic activities. Written to inspire and expand the practice as a reader moves through the eight sabbats, Nock provides the practitioner with the astrological and astronomical influences that govern the seasons, meditations that reflect timely themes, and rituals and crafts that anyone may enact in order to enhance spiritual expression.


A Witch's Grimoire

A Witch's Grimoire

Author: Judy Ann Nock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1440518521

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Creating and keeping of a book of shadows is an instrumental step in the study of magick and witchcraft. A Witch's Grimoire helps serious practitioners explore their love of the Craft, deepen their study of magick and walk their personal pathway to the Divine. It is part workbook, part guidebook—an essential reference as well as a personal recording of original spells. The book includes: A brief history of the grimoire Options for the creation of a grimoire Special book blessings Traditional and personal invocations Commonly used gemstones and magickal herbs/herb blends Spells, recipes and rituals for every holiday Writing space for readers to keep their own records A Witch's Grimoire encourages readers to create unique personalized journals that will last for generations to come.


The Modern Witchcraft Guide to the Wheel of the Year

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to the Wheel of the Year

Author: Judy Ann Nock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1507205384

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From the Modern Witchcraft series comes a complete guide to all of the sacred days and holidays of the Wiccan calendar—with spells, rituals, and other tips to celebrate. In The Modern Witchcraft Guide to the Wheel of the Year, you’ll learn about the most celebrated days in the Wheel of the Year—Samhain, the end of the harvest season; Yule, the celebration of the New Year; Imbolc, the celebration of rebirth; Ostara, the arrival of Spring; Beltane, the celebration of Earth’s fertility; Litha, the song of the summer; Lughnasad, the halfway point between Summer and Autumn; and Mabon, the festival of home and harvest. For each of these special days, there will be information about the history and its meaning, and the ways you can fully celebrate. Each chapter describes the celestial events associated with the sabbat, astrological influences during that time, meditation rituals, and charms to perform. It also includes a practical craft, such as candle making, that you can create to celebrate each day. The Modern Witchcraft Guide to the Wheel of the Year is your complete guide to everything you need to know to celebrate the Wheel of the Year and the Wiccan sabbats, from Yule to Samhain, as part of your own spiritual practice.


The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs

Author: Judy Ann Nock

Publisher: Adams Media

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1507211481

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Incorporate herbs into spells, rituals, and divination with this all-inclusive guide to the benefits of using herbal magic in witchcraft. From creating potions to using dried herbs in rituals, herbal magic is a natural way to practice witchcraft. Herbs can be used in many different ways to help set the intention through every part of a witch’s process. In The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs, learn everything you need to use the most powerful herbs and use them as an essential part of your practice. Including information on which herbs are best for what kinds of spells, how to use herbs in divination and rituals, and step-by-step guides to making herbal bundles, potions, and sprays, this guidebook has all the important facts to make your herbal witchcraft a success. Jam-packed with herbal ideas, this guide is perfect for both beginners and experienced witches looking to incorporate more herbs into their practice. Beautiful and functional, it is easy to navigate and offers a detailed guide to herbal magic!


Wicca Year of Magic

Wicca Year of Magic

Author: Lisa Chamberlain

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1454941103

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Make your year a magical one with this beginner’s guide to the eight Wiccan Sabbats held throughout the year, along with an exploration of lunar magic. Many Wiccans follow the Wheel of the Year, honoring eight Sabbats, or days of power, and Esbats, ritual occasions usually held at each Full Moon. In this handy guide, bestselling Wiccan author Lisa Chamberlain helps practitioners experience the magic of the turning seasons and the lunar cycle. She explores the spiritual themes of each Sabbat and shares spells aligned with the seasonal and divine energies of each holiday. You’ll find fun ideas for celebrating these magical occasions, whether you’re a solitary practitioner or a coven member. The book also takes an in-depth look at magical timing and the lunar cycle alongside spells you can incorporate into Esbat celebrations.


Solitary Wicca For Life

Solitary Wicca For Life

Author: Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1440518580

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If you prefer a solitary approach to worship and Witchcraft, this is the book for you. You need sound guidance and tools as you work alone to deepen your knowledge and strengthen your abilities. Author Arin Murphy-Hiscock provides you with everything you need to take your spiritual practice to the next level. Solitary Wicca for Life encourages you to reach beyond the ordinary and create a unique path of worship, using techniques that go further than other texts. Solitary Wicca for Life is the essential reference handbook you need to reach deeper, go farther, and strengthen your solitary path-one day at a time.


Wicca: a Year and a Day

Wicca: a Year and a Day

Author: Timothy Roderick

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0738706213

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There are no short-cuts to becoming a Witch. Traditionally, students take a year and a day to prepare for their initiation into the Craft. Based on this age-old custom, Wicca: A Year and a Day is a one-of-a-kind daily guide that introduces Witchcraft over a 366-day cycle. Ideal for solitary students, this intensive study course teaches the core content of Wiccan practice: the tides of time, the wonders of the seasons, the ways of herbs and magic, the mysticism of the Old Ones, and the inner disciplines of seers and sages. Daily lessons include exercises, Wiccan theology and lore, and discussions relating to circle work, magical correspondences, holidays, deities, tools, healing, and divination.


The Ultimate Guide to the Witch's Wheel of the Year

The Ultimate Guide to the Witch's Wheel of the Year

Author: Anjou Kiernan

Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1631599615

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The Ultimate Guide to The Witch’s Wheel of the Year offers a complete guide to celebrating the eight Wiccan sabbats as part of your spiritual practice. Anjou Kiernan—named “One of the Magical Women You Should be Following on Instagram” by Refinery 29—guides you through the history of the holidays, their pagan roots, and how to merge these sacred cycles and celebrations with today's traditions and holidays. Lavishly illustrated and photographed, The Ultimate Guide to The Witch’s Wheel of the Year illustrates spells and practices that will help you incorporate the old magick of the seasons into your modern life. Accompanying each turn of the Wheel as it cycles through the holidays of Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon, and Samhain are: Feast recipes Fertility spells Protection amulets Home wards Divination rituals Prosperity charms And more From the bright blessings of the Yuletide solstice to the fertile flower magick of Beltane to the thinning of the veil on Samhain, each transition lends itself to a unique catalog of spells, altars, and practices that you can use all year long. The Ultimate Guide to… series offers comprehensive beginner’s guides to discovering a range of mind, body, spirit topics, including tarot, divination, crystal grids, numerology, aromatherapy, chakras, and more. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you’re looking for, each of these references provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice.


Religious Celebrations [2 volumes]

Religious Celebrations [2 volumes]

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 1077

ISBN-13: 1598842064

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This two-volume work presents a comprehensive survey of all the ways people celebrate religious life around the globe. Religious Celebrations is an alphabetically organized encyclopedia that covers more than 800 celebratory occasions from all of the world's major religious communities as well as many of the minor faith traditions. The encyclopedia provides a complete reference tool for examining the myriad ways people worldwide celebrate their religious lives across religious boundaries, providing information on numerous celebratory activities never before covered in a reference work. Offering the most comprehensive coverage of religious holidays ever assembled, this two-volume book covers festivals, commemorations, holidays, and annual religious gatherings all over the world, with special attention paid to the celebrations in larger countries. Entries written by distinguished researchers and specialists on different religious communities capture the unique intensity of each event, be it fasting or feasting, frenzied activity or the universal cessation of work, a huge gathering of the faithful en masse or a small family-centered event. The work spotlights celebrations that currently exist without overlooking now-abandoned celebrations that still impact the modern world.


The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick

The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick

Author: Judy Ann Nock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1507207212

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The magic of witchcraft never dies. Harness the power of nature-based magick, including herbal charms and remedies, cleansing rituals, crystal healing, astrology, and more with this new guide in the popular Modern Witchcraft series—perfect for millennials. Modern-day interest in witchcraft and wicca isn’t surprising—who wouldn’t want to focus their energy into rituals of change and healing in today’s troubled and chaotic times? Right now, many of the most popular types of magick are nature-based. This fun and practical book includes methods to help you connect with the Earth mother and your own natural self. Each chapter focuses on a different type of nature magick, from seed magick to the magick of the sun, of water, of the moon, and more—and every topic includes its own accompanying spells, charms, rituals, and meditations. The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick is your complete guide to everything you’ll need to know about nature-based magick to fully embrace your spiritual and natural self.