Description
This book is an irresistible, definitive guide to the magical practices of contemporary women. Beginning with a brief history of witchcraft, it explores a huge range of beliefs, festivals, skills, and lore, including:
- Goddesses, priestesses, and witches
- Reincarnation, karma, magic, and power
- The aura, the chakras, psychic awareness, astral traveling, pathworking, dreamwork, and healing
- Covens, initiations, collectives, and lone witches
- The circle, the altar, wands, robes, chalices, incenses, oils, and candles
- The moon and the planets
- Sabbats, esbats, solstices, equinoxes, Samhain, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas
- Tarot, scrying, starcraft, and herbal lore
Gathering together all the disciplines of European witchcraft and providing rituals and spells for use in our lives, A Woman's Book of Shadows, first published in 1993, is a remarkable compendium of magical lore, psychic skills, and women's mysteries.
Author: Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 04/15/2019
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781911597216
ISBN10: 1911597213
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Witchcraft (See Also Religion | Wicca)
About the Author
Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a medical herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980 and trained as a psychosynthesis counselor at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London. She also opened and ran a training clinic for herbal students in London and worked in private practice specializing in clients from the arts. At present she divides her time between Santo Domingo and London.