Category: Reviews
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Rodney Orpheus 🎼 The Grimoire of Aleister Crowley 🔮 Group Magick Rituals
The Witches interview musician and author, Rodney Orpheus, about his book: The Grimoire of Aleister Crowley: Group Magick Rituals. Orpheus talks about Crowley’s motivation for group rituals and debunks some of the more controversial myths about the magician. Plus, Orpheus shares some of his own personal experiences with group rituals and what to focus on…
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Review: Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman
Waking the Witch is a delightful review of the Witch archetype as it has moved through media, pop culture, and mainstream media. From our cinema beginnings with the first “Good Witch” in The Wizard of Oz through our present day Witch Revival both socially and in the media, Pam Grossman takes us on a journey…
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Review: Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards
Backwoods Witchcraft was not the book I had expected it to be. I was expecting something much more like a Witchcraft 101 book with a bit of Appalachian Charm thrown in, but this book is SO much better than that! Jake Richards, the author, shares with us an inside view of his familial and community…
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Book Review: Evil Archaeology by Heather Lynn
Evil Archaeology is a fun, archaeological perspective on those more nefarious practices and rites that humans have practiced since the beginning of civilization. The book begins with a discussion of trepanning, one of the earliest surgical processes we ever practiced – the act of drilling or creating a hole in the skull to allow various…
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Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia 🌳 Author Jake Richards [WWT]
The Witches have a conversation with Jake Richards about his awesome book, Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia. He talks about the inspiration behind the book and how his family practices folk magic in their every day lives. Jake Richards Website: Holy Stones and Iron Bones – Appalachia Folk Magic Jake Richards Shop…
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Tarot (and Oracle!) Card Apps?
Using Tarot (and Oracle) Deck Apps! Are they reliable? How do you use them? How to choose a good one? What should you look for? What are the pros vs cons?
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Tarot Readings – There’s an App for That!
In one of the groups I am in online, the topic of tarot apps (applications for your phone, tablet, or computer) with electronic card decks came up. I think everyone I knows has had the same initial reaction: “what?! no! Can’t be!? Well… maybe…?” It’s that moment of confusion, rejection, and then reconsideration. So, I…
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Review: The Awakened Aura by Kala Ambrose
I received this book to review back at the beginning of the year and, yes, it has taken me most of the year to get through it. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad book, though – to the contrary, it means that there’s a lot of stuff in here that is really important! For me,…
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Road Trip!!!!
Years and years ago, I was 17. I was young, I was graduating high school and I had an inheritance coming to me. Not huge, but maybe a year’s worth of money. I was embracing my wild self, I looked like a hippy gypsy in long skirts, crop tops, and anything that jingled. I had…
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Book Review: Spirit and Dream Animals by Richard Webster
Richard Webster’s Spirit and Dream Animals is a multidisciplinary view of modern, mythical, and shamanic practices regarding animal spirit guides (totems), power animals, and shape-shifting. For those who have studied shamanism and mysticism for awhile, this reading may be a tad on the light side, but it does discuss interesting topics such as using the…
