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For those seeking connection and meaning in their everyday lives, an easy-to-follow, beautiful, and inspiring manual on performing ceremonies for all occasions and milestones, from life transitions and family gatherings to holidays and seasonal changes.

 For as long as humans have existed, we have performed ceremonies to mark occasions and personal transitions to create meaning and connect with the world, ourselves, and each other.

Though ceremony is still a cornerstone of many cultures around the globe, modern rituals are largely confined to just three events: birth, marriage, and death. Without our ancestors’ sense of frequent and intentional ceremony, we have lost the power to bring meaning to our everyday lives. The Book of Modern Ceremony is here to change that. Written by sociologist and ceremonialist Shari Dunbar Boyer, this book shares more than 30 ceremonies that can be easily incorporated into contemporary life. 

There are rituals for life transitions, calendar changes, and personal growth. Some celebrate familiar events, like the Untraditional Birthday or Vow Renewal ceremonies, but others mark important milestones that we often neglect, such as moving to a new home or entering menopause. And of course, there are seasonal rituals for every solstice, equinox, and moon cycle. Presented in easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, The Book of Modern Ceremony encourages readers to leave behind the daily stressors of life and connect more deeply with themselves, their loved ones, and their own spirituality.

A gorgeously designed, comprehensive guide to uncovering and interpreting the unique energy fields that surround us, harnessing them for growth, healing, and shaping our realities, from aura photographer Eileen Lee. Your energy introduces you before you even speak. Our physical bodies exist within larger energy fields known as our “auras,” each with a unique shape, size, and frequency that reflect our individual mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual states, connecting our chakras and radiating from and through us. This complex system of electromagnetic energy acts as a prism, reflecting vibrations from our thoughts, feelings, and experiences back to us as the colors of the rainbow. Understanding the aura and its chakras and colors can provide profound insight that leads to growth, healing, and expanded possibilities. This stunningly illustrated guide unlocks the secrets to using your aura as your personal energetic blueprint through the journey of the human experience—one that you can use to mold and shape your reality.

Pendulums are a fixture in the metaphysical world. They are tools for decision making, but they can be so much more. Pendulums are a physics equation made magic. Pendulums allow bodies and other realms to communicate through otherwise indiscernible vibrations. These are magical tools that hold massive potential for how to divine information and connect on a deeper level. Pendulum Craft is an expansive, useful guide to using pendulums not just for divination, but for introspection, experimentation, and channeling messages from the beyond. In addition to a deep dive into the history and usage of pendulums--from "water witching" to folk healing, from the science of ideomotor reactions to the pendulum's function as a tool of the occult--author Fox Taylor covers different types of pendulums, including how to make a pendulum or select one at the store.

They also cover how to connect with and calibrate a pendulum, how to trust "inner knowing," and finally how to work with a pendulum board and ask the right questions that will produce desired information. 

Taylor's fascinating black-and-white art illustrates the fundamentals of the pendulum and how it has been used throughout history. This book also includes a selection of pendulum boards for different kinds of questions, which can be pulled out of the book.

A practical, accessible miniature hardcover introduction to the ancient art of divination--a wonderful primer or palm-sized gift for the mystical tea-lover in all of us. Read your future in tea leaves with this miniature guide to the ancient art of tea leaf reading. Every aspect is made easy, with instructions for picking out the correct utensils, dividing your cup, and even an in-depth glossary of symbols. Find all the secrets at the bottom of your teacup and enjoy with friends.

Get ready for a purr-fectly hilarious and therapeutic coloring experience with this book, where cute cats express your innermost frustrations in a uniquely colorful way.Unleash your creativity with this hilarious coloring book, filled with the cutest cats saying the rudest swear words.

Stressed out after a long day? Wish you could release a volley of swear words at the world? Channel your frustrations through coloring in and let your creativity loose in this funny adult coloring book.Combining the therapeutic benefits of coloring with colorful language, this sweary book turns purr-fectly innocent cats and kittens into feisty foul-mouthed furballs.

What the world needs now is this inspiring poetry anthology—featuring poems from today's most renowned poets. More and more, people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others.

These poets capture the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere.

A funny, inviting, full-color book about art for people who dont know about artfeaturing new artworks by David Shrigley. What is art, where do I find it, and once Im in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it? Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for over twenty years. But before she studied art history at university, shed visited a gallery just twice in her life and had no idea she was entering an elitist world.

Now, shes on a mission to help everybody come to art. Like playing or listening to music, or cooking and eating great food, reading or watching films, making art or looking at other peoples deserves to be an enriching part of all our lives. How to Art provides a nifty way to ingest art on your own terms.

From where it is to what it is, to tips on how to actually enjoy famous artworks like the Mona Lisa, to how to own art and make art at home, to vital advice for making a career as an artist and even how to make your dog more cultural, How to Art gives art to everyoneand makes it fun. 

Ease your stress and finally get a good night's sleep with the help of this guide to the top herbal remedies and natural methods. A good night’s sleep is the key to good overall health—both physical and mental—but as many as a third of adults say they don’t get enough of it.

The pandemic has led to increased anxiety and stress, making it even more difficult to sleep than it was before. Over-the-counter sleep aids can be habit forming, and many people prefer a more natural approach. Herbal Remedies for Sleep introduces readers to the top 15 herbs for reducing stress and encouraging a good night’s sleep, along with recipes for using them in homemade formulas. 

The book includes three classes of herbs: those that have a general calming and relaxing effect; adaptogens, a class of herbs that has grown in popularity for its ability to balance and calm the nervous system; and sedative herbs, for those nights when you just can’t stop tossing and turning and need to go to sleep quickly. Remarkably, many of these herbs can easily be grown in an ordinary backyard, making it simple for people to grow a garden that helps promote a restful night’s sleep.

From cleansing spells to hands-on healing to the spiritual use of herbs, witches know which magickal and natural remedies work best! The Good Witch's Guide offers a treasure chest filled with holistic Wiccan magic and lore. Illustrated throughout, it teaches you which herbs and spices, oils and aromatherapy, brews, potions, spells, and more, can help you live life to the fullest.

And with spells, remedies, and recipes from a roundtable of noted witches, healers, and mystical practitioners, this "spell"-binding book is a must-read for anyone who wishes to celebrate both good health and spirituality.

In this stunning reimagining of Greek myth for fans of Circe and Lore, Nikita Gill showcases the underworld and its chthonic deities in all their glory, weaving a gripping story about the young goddess coming of age within their midst. Hekate sings the story of its eponymous heroine.

Born into a world on fire and at war, she and her mother are left behind by the menfolk of their Titan family as the battle against the new Gods–the Olympians–begins. Soon, Hekate and her mother are forced to flee their home as the Olympians overpower and enslave the Titans, including Hekate’s father, Perses, and gain dominion over the universe. In a bid to protect Hekate from the clutches of Zeus and Poseidon, her mother leaves her in the underworld with the goddess Styx and king of the underworld, Hades, where she must make a life for herself and discover her divine purpose. 

Here begins Nikita Gill’s beautiful and propulsive reimagining of Hekate’s myth which unfolds into a coming-of-age adventure story and quest in which our young protagonist – not yet a goddess – sets out to discover what has happened to her parents, heal from the trauma of her separation from them, make a new home for herself in the underworld, and, eventually, step into her true power as a woman and goddess, before it’s too late. 

From an acclaimed embroidery designer and bestselling author of Mystical Stitches, an accessible how-to guide full of original stitch designs that will inspire readers to pick up a needle and thread. Written for all levels of stitchers, The Art of Embroidery Design teaches the value of establishing a creative practice, with hands-on sketching and stitching exercises to help anyone build confidence in their design skills. Author Christi Johnson provides a workshop experience for readers looking to start from scratch. She breaks the design process down into approachable steps, including:

-developing a vision

-choosing a color palette

-using variations in line weight to create dimensionality

-achieving a range of textural effects.

Embark on your foraging journey and cultivate a more meaningful, magical relationship with nature. No matter where you live, natural resources are all around you. These pieces of nature hold inherent properties—and inherent magic—that could be useful to you, and they are often hiding in plain sight. In this book, divided into chapters by season, you'll find:

·Tips for foraging correctly, mindfully, and sustainably

·Instructions for teas, balms, decoctions, and other herbal remedies made out of foraged ingredients and materials 

·Wildcrafts for rituals that usher in the new season, inspired by mystical folk practices around the world And more!

Discover 51 of the most common and not-so-common cat gods, goddesses, deities, and demons from around the world and how to incorporate their Divine Feline Energy into your daily life. Throughout time, felines have played a sacred role in human life. Archeologists have found cat remains buried with humans as far back as the tenth millennium BCE in Cyprus, and the Greek goddess Hecate is said to have regularly assumed the form of a cat.

Hieroglyphics tell us that ancient Egyptians worshipped cat gods, and their queen Cleopatra had a kitty companion in her palace whom she called Tivali. A Chinese cat goddess called Li Shou is said to have protected farmers from mice, and Ai Apaec was a pre-Inca god with fangs and whiskers said to have descended from an even more ancient cat god. 

This book is more than a guide to ancient cat gods. It’s an exploration of the way humans have observed, interacted with, learned from, and revered another species who share the Earth with us. Ancient folklore is rife with examples of animal cunning and compassion, and many humans invoked other species as spiritual guides or flat out worshipped them as gods. Arguably, cats are the most intriguing of animals because of how we can relate to them. 

Much like us, they are free spirits and adaptable survivors. We admire them for their dignity, independence, and ferocity. In this gorgeously illustrated guidebook, you’ll meet 51 feline deities and demons from four geographical families around the world—Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. You’ll also encounter mystical cats who work in alliance with human gods and goddesses. The feline entities come from different eras and cultures all over the world. Some are angelic guides, and others, demonic adversaries, but all play a role in our understanding of feline deities and why they became to be so. Learn all about these sacred godlike creatures, including what they look like, what they symbolize, and how you can use their spirit and ancient wisdom to tap into your own Divine Feline Energy.

Wake up and dream. Imagine experiencing all the things that happen in dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are “lucid”––consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge. This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here’s how to reconnect with dreams, and the importance of keeping a journal and timing REM cycles. How to use simple reality checks to differentiate between waking and sleeping states. How to incubate a dream to solve a problem.

Spanning the globe and thousands of years, Queer Mythology highlights the legends and tales of LGBTQIA+ gods, heroes, spirits and more. Myths and legends tell our stories. They connect us and show us not only who we are, but also reflect the people during the time the stories were first told. And LGBTQIA+ people have been a part of every community since the dawn of storytelling.

From Tu’er Shen, the Chinese rabbit god who protected those yearning to come out in an unaccepting world, to Ghede Nibo, the Haitian spirit who performed drag in the realm of the dead, the twenty myths told in this collection capture one irrefutable fact—even as labels, language, and definitions have changed, LGBTQIA+ people have always existed.

A rich, colorful compendium of crafts, cooking, gardening, and nature exploration activities introduces kids ages 7 and up to the versatility and creative fun of working and playing with herbs.

From dandelions to lavender, chamomile, turmeric, and lemon balm, herbs include a wonderfully diverse range of plants for crafting, cooking, and gardening. Kids will love exploring the world of herbs with this lively and colorful collection of 50 nature-based activities created by Molly Meehan Brown and the global community of herbalists who contribute to the Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center.

 Filled with photos and the whimsical art of Madison Safer, this eclectic and colorful compilation volume features easy-to-follow projects that engage all five senses.

Includes activities for different ages and interests such as:

How to make a pressed flower and herb collage Tie-dye fabric with turmeric

Make elderberry syrup

Plant a pollinator garden

Make wild berry crumble

Craft an herbal wreath or a flower bracelet

Write a nature haiku

Make lemon balm lip balm, and more!

With bits of lore about herbs and herbalism sprinkled throughout, this is the perfect introduction to the versatility and usefulness of herbs for kids ages 7 and up.

Unplug. Take a walk. Let your mind wander to spark creativity. With easy suggestions for refocusing and reigniting your imagination, this thoughtfully designed journal from Poketo is the perfect place to doodle, brainstorm, and generate bright ideas.

• Flexible cover for durability

• 6 x 8 inches—the perfect size for taking on the go

• 176 dotted pages with colorful page borders

• Gusseted interior pocket for stashing cards or notes

 • Elastic closure to keep everything together

• Perfect for fans of the Wreck This Journal series

• The thoughtful package and playful design also makes an easy, attractive gift for design aficionados, creatives, stationery enthusiasts, or fans of the Poketo brand or the book Creative Spaces.

The ancient goddess Hekate offers her keys of magick and mystery in the revised second edition of the internationally bestselling introduction to Hekate’s Modern Witchcraft, Keeping Her Keys. Designed as a program of self-study for deepening knowledge, strengthening practice, and discovering your own unique power, chapters cover the fundamentals from Hekate’s history to self-initiation. Animals, green witchcraft, meditations, reflective writing and more fill the pages, empowering the reader with the skills for claiming, and keeping, these keys offered by Hekate. Written by Cyndi Brannen, PhD, this book abides at the crossroads of the deeper world of Hekate and contemporary life. Through the lessons, readers are guided through exercises, rituals, and practices merging personal development with spirituality and magick.

Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect gift for every magical parent-to-be in your life—guiding them through the history, mystery, and ritual that is both tarot and pregnancy.

Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks is for par­ents-to-be who want to tap into internal and ancestral wisdom on the journey to and through parent­hood.

Brittany Carmona-Holt is an intuitive tarot reader as well as a full-spectrum doula, marrying her two passions to offer a rare un­derstanding of the birth journey and an esoteric guide to the life-altering experience of giving life.

Filled with incredible artwork by Kimberly Rodriguez (IG: Poetagoddess), Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect book for any soon-to-be (or already) parent—and a sure-to-be staple at every baby shower in the future!

Written for both the amateur tarot fan and the initiated birth activist, Tarot for Pregnancy offers a rare tour-de-force, opening up the tarot as both a guide to the future and a handbook for the important activism that modern birthing requires.

Carmona-Holt's book offers tactical guidance and rituals to guide the reader's birthing experience, empowering them to connect to their ancestral truths in order greet their baby on their own terms.

Grounded by two critical essays, History [Mystery] of the Tarot by Sanyu Estelle Nagenda, “The Word Witch,” and The History of Birth in the United States by Dr. Stephanie Mitchell, “Doctor Midwife,” Tarot for Pregnancy guides readers to better understand the history, mystery, and ritual of both Tarot and pregnancy.

Throughout the book, Carmona-Holt helps reader to better understand, experience, and advocate for their soon-to-be baby by utilizing the magic of the tarot to guide and empower them.

Filled with illustrated pearls of wisdom, Tarot for Pregnancy offers a trauma-informed, antirac­ist, and evidence-based spiritual resource for folks wanting to make intuition-led decisions about their care during pregnan­cy and birth.

Tarot for Pregnancy aims to inspire and ignite those who wish to utilize their journeys to birth as a means of activism, personal empowerment, and magical parenting.

Brittany Carmona-Holt (aka The Birth Witch) is a full spec­trum doula and instructor, community midwife's assistant, tarot reader, poet, reproductive justice advocate, partner to Alex, and parent to Kahlo Sol. She received her education and from Mama Glow and is still constantly continuing her education on all experi­ences along the reproduc­tive continuum. Her purpose is to help reignite the cellular wisdom in pregnant, birthing, and post­partum folks so they may reconnect with their innate power.

Kimberly Rodriguez is a first-generation Xicana Indigena artist and the eldest daughter of two undocumented parents who occupies so-called Oakland, CA, land to the Ohlone peoples. Kimberly's art, inclusive of different body types, is rooted in her culture and her decolonizing journey.

Be present in the journey and give purpose to your travels both near and far with this travel-friendly journal.

• Acid-free paper and ink
• Lay-flat binding, Smythe sewn
• Premium, thick, non-bleed paper
• Lightly ruled space for lists, dreams, plans
• Presentation page for personalization
• Ribbon marker
• Full-color interior design
• Expandable back pocket

An Immersive Guide to Celtic Magic and the Wild Wisdom of Your Heart

This book is a storehouse of magical and spiritual lore as well as practical knowledge based on age-old Celtic traditions. Filled with hands-on exercises and deep meditations, Wild Magic will show you how to access the Otherworld and come into a profound connection with the divine in nature. Author Danu Forest explores the timeless animistic practices of the Celtic faerie faith, creating relationships with the faerie folk, green kin, the ancestors, and the spirits of the land. You will learn to call on your spirit cousins for protection, and practice magical techniques based on the elements, such as fire scrying and spells to raise the wind.

Discover the secrets of ley lines, dragon lines, faery roads, and spirit paths that will transform your life in the here and now. Work with Danu’s tips for wildcrafting and her unique recipes for making magical oils, salves, bundles, and ointments with common herbs. Drawn from authentic country wisdom and the folk traditions of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the spells and rituals within are designed to channel your own modern wildness for the benefit of all.

A practical guide to prosperity magic using amulets, talismans, and rituals.

Elhoim Leafar, author of The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags, offers a clear, basic treatise on the magic of prosperity and manifesting positive abundance. No prior magical experience is required, although the material is also suitable for adepts.

The book is divided into two sections: The first section guides the reader through some basic, if simultaneously sophisticated, magical theory including the power of attraction. Readers are encouraged to develop a magical mindset. The second section puts theory into practice. Leafar features 21 (3 x 7, a very magical and auspicious number, as adepts will immediately recognize) rituals, amulets, and talismans for creating and living the life you desire.

Techniques are derived from diverse influences blending modern paganism with Afro-Caribbean and Latin American magic, reflecting the author’s background and making the material accessible to readers walking a variety of magical paths.