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Modern magic is all about self-care and using your inner powers to make positive changes in your life—and that’s what Cosmopolitan has always been about. Now the authority on love and sex provides readers with a clear path to navigate their amorous adventures by casting simple and  effective spells. These powerful incantations include charms for turning lust into love, recovering from a bad breakup, or increasing intimacy between you and your bae in the bedroom. You’ll also learn how to craft your own spells, set up an altar, source popular spell ingredients, and more.

You’ll get spells for:

• Attraction: red candle carving and vision board manifestation
• Communication: a lapis lazuli charm and color magick
• Sweetening the environment for affection and gentleness: honey jar and sugar lip scrub
• Passion and desire: a Venus invocation
• Healing a broken heart with black salt or a cord-cutting obsidian blade

Bring peace and calm to your busy-mama days with these inspiring meditations and mantras.

Becoming a new parent can be an overwhelming experience, presenting significant challenges to mental health and wellbeing. The powerful techniques offered in this book are intended to boost psychological health, help you navigate the ups and downs of motherhood, and help you be the mother—and the YOU—that you want to be. Sarah Rudell Beach offers a rich compendium of practical advice on how to be present in the moment, and how to live with curiosity and without judgement, and offers powerful tools that can transforms how you relate to your own life, and how you engage with the world. There is a growing body of research that tells us that when mothers practice self-care they experience less stress and anxiety, build stronger relationships with their children, and feel less overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood. Their children experience less stress and anxiety, too. In this beautifully illustrated book, Sarah Rudell Beach introduces the basics of self-care and offers a collection of meditations and affirmations. From dealing with tantrums and your patience being tested to making time for yourself and practicing self-compassion, you’ll discover how being present in the moment can lead to greater calm, balance, and ease in your daily life.

Process your grief, protect your mental health, and find moments of happiness with these 100 self-care activities specifically designed for difficult and distressing situations.

When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during hard times is the perfect time to look inwards for support and practice self-care. Tuning in to your personal needs and taking the time to create a thoughtful self-care practice can make all the difference in moving forward in a healthy way.

In Self-Care for Grief, you’ll find 100 self-care activities that are specifically designed to help you protect your mental health, even while grieving.

You’ll find useful activities like:
-Cooking to honor your loss
-Practicing saying “No”
-Naming your emotions
-And many more

No matter what the circumstances are, Self-Care for Grief has the activities you need to de-stress, stay calm, and even find moments of joy in the most challenging of times.

From the author of Moon Spells comes a beginner’s book about the moon’s energy and how you can harness that lunar power in your everyday life.

From new moons and eclipses to blue moons and the super moon, there are ample opportunities for the moon to influence our emotions and thoughts. Many believe our emotional potency is heightened during a super moon, while a new moon can bring change and new perspectives. Knowing when and how to use that power is key.

In Moon Magic, you’ll learn how the lunar phases influence our emotions and well-being differently and how to harness that power for healing, emotional strength, and physical and mental wellness. 

Third-generation intuitive Diane Ahlquist helps guide those new to the power of the moon through lunar recipes and simple exercises, such as intention setting and moon meditation to help you capitalize on the moon’s inherent power and channel the moon’s energy whenever you need it most.

A decadent collection of magical dishes and feasts created by the herbalist, witch, chef and co-owner of Catland Books, Melissa Madara.

The feast is a meeting place between family and friends, between humans and gods.
 
This decadent collection of enchanting dishes is an indispensable companion to kitchen witchcraft, revealing the storied history and seductive art of magical cooking. With witch, herbalist and chef Melissa Jayne Madara as your guide, explore five facets of the occult through food: traditional recipes, the wheel of the zodiac, devotional meals to the planets, seasonal feasts to celebrate solstices and equinoxes, and practical spellwork.
 
Recreate a pagan feast of lamb roasted with milk and honey, with cheesecake baked in fig leaves for dessert.
 
Celebrate a Gemini birthday with herbed fondue, followed by lemongrass pavlova.
 
Align with the poetic pleasures of Venus with edible flower dumplings, or commune with Saturn over blackberry pulled pork sandwiches.
 
Enjoy the vibrancy of the spring equinox with herb and allium quiche with a potato crust, radish salad with cherry blossom vinaigrette and jasmine tea shortbread.
 
Share an evening of storytelling over mugwort and catnip divination tea, or embody an otherworldly spirit with ritual bread masks.
 
Packed with ancient knowledge, practical advice and witchcraft expertise, this book will help you develop your craft through culinary creativity. Gather, share, and rediscover the most fundamental of human rituals: the divine indulgence of the senses and the soul.

Year-over-year reflection made simple, in a beautiful keepsake package.

This display-worthy journal invites reflection on the past and intention-setting for the future through approachable prompting. Whether you're working on a big creative project, learning a skill, starting a routine, or putting new habits into practice, this journal is a place to begin the next chapter of your journey. Divided into three sections to be filled out over three years, this journal offers annually repeating questions that ask you to assess progress and highlights over the past year and to thoughtfully approach goals and dreams for the year ahead. Begin at any point in the year when you feel most reflective.

A hands-on guide to protection magic using essential oils, incense, spells, and tarot from a beloved and trusted authority.

Blackthorn's Protection Magic guides readers through the realm of the green witch to a glade filled with options for your protection. Amy Blackthorn discusses spiritual, emotional, and physical security in an easy-to-understand way. The book provides an overview of what protection means to witches and then explores practices in more depth, including:

• Essential oils for protection magic
• The role plant allies play in both protecting and healing
• What tarot can teach us about our strengths and weaknesses
• Oracle spell work as a potent source of protection

As a witch who has worked in executive security for nearly fifteen years, Amy possesses the botanical spirit of an animist witch, able to see the inherent spirit in plants, as well as a keen eye on ways to make a home feel safer and more secure, on the magical and the mundane levels. For example, holly trees provide magical protection from lightning, but also make a prickly barrier outside the home to keep burglars from lurking in the shadows.

An exploration, a new kind of journey, connecting two powerful spiritual disciplines, with enchanting effects! Yoga for Witches shares exercises, poses and the knowledge you need to connect to your own special magic and inner power.

• Find out what the word yoga really means.
• Explore how ancient yogis sought out magic.
• Discover some of the goddesses and gods of yogic and witch culture.
• Weave magic through spells, mantra, meditation and yoga practice.
• Explore the magic of the chakras.
• Connect to the power of the Sun, Moon and Earth via witchcraft and yoga.

A practical guide to the ancient magical tradition of Russian sorcery and Eastern Slavic magical rites

• Offers step-by-step instructions for more than 300 spells, incantations, charms, amulets, and practical rituals for love, career success, protection, healing, divination, communicating with spirits and ancestors, and other challenges and situations

• Reveals specific places of magical power in the natural world as well as the profound power of graveyards and churches for casting spells

• Explores the folk history of this ancient magical tradition, including how the pagan gods gained new life as Eastern Orthodox saints, and shares folktales of magical beings, including sorceresses shapeshifting into animals and household objects

Passed down through generations, the Slavic practice of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery is still alive and well in Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as the Balkans and the Baltic states. There are still witches who whisper upon tied knots to curse or heal, sorceresses who shapeshift into animals or household objects, magicians who cast spells for love or good fortune, and common folk who seek their aid for daily problems big and small.

Sharing the extensive knowledge she inherited from her mother and grandmother, including spells of the “Old Believers” previously unknown to outsiders, Natasha Helvin explores in detail the folk history and practice of Russian sorcery and Eastern Slavic magical rites, offering a rich compendium of more than 300 spells, incantations, charms, and practical rituals for love, relationships, career success, protection, healing, divination, averting the evil eye, communicating with spirits and ancestors, and a host of other life challenges and daily situations, with complete step-by-step instructions to ensure your magical goals are realized. She explains how this tradition has only a thin Christian veneer over its pagan origins and how the Slavic pagan gods and goddesses acquired new lives as the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She details how the magical energy for these spells and rituals is drawn from the forces of nature, revealing specific places of power in the natural world as well as the profound power of graveyards and churches for casting spells. She explores the creation of amulets and talismans, the importance of icons, and the proper recital of magical language and actions during spells, as well as how one becomes a witch or sorceress.

Offering a close examination of these two-thousand-year-old occult practices, Helvin also includes Slavic folk advice, adapted for the modern era. Revealing what it means to be a Slavic witch or sorceress, and how this vocation pervades all aspects of life, she shows that each of us has magic within that we can use to take control of our own destiny.

Explore postpartum self-care strategies for eating, body image, emotions, nursing and milk production, sex, and so much more!
 
The role of motherhood is one where women are continuously asked to focus on the needs of everyone else but themselves. This is a significant issue in the arena of self-care, where we often ignore our own hunger, energy levels, and emotions in the pursuit of taking care of others.

Written from the perspectives of both therapist and busy mom, Self-Care for New Moms features several eye-opening exercises, interviews from a village of experts (who also happen to be moms), and helpful interventions to help you get through the chronic depletion common to the postpartum year.
 
Self-care strategies include:

• Exercise and yoga
• Pelvic floor recovery work
• Psychotherapy
• Self-compassion techniques
• Complementary and alternative methods (massage, chiropractic, or acupuncture)
• Simple recipes
• Methods for reconnecting with your partner
• And so much more 

The practical exercises and comforting techniques in this book will help you manage one of motherhood’s biggest challenges: self-care.

Protect yourself, your friends, and your family with these 366 spells to keep you safe from harm.   In just a single day, there are a million opportunities for negative energies to infiltrate your consciousness—so keep this essential collection handy to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Renowned author Cassandra Eason collects 366 spells that ensure strong emotional and magical boundaries; she covers every possible situation, from the inadvertent absorption of a fellow commuter's sadness to an outright psychic attack by an enemy. Protect yourself from social media bullying and workplace ill will; your possessions from theft and natural disaster; your pets from illness and harm; and much more! 

Hardcover Book with Printed Laminated Cover; 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 384 pages.