Books

Out of Darkness Comes the Light of Transformation

Each of us has a shadow that darkens our inner and outer lives. In Tarot for Troubled Times, Shaheen Miro and Theresa Reed show us how working with the shadow—facing it directly, leaning into it rather than away—releases power that can free ourselves from negative mental habits and destructive emotions to find healing ourselves and others. Tarot, as the authors show, offers a rich and subtle path for this profound transformation.

Through this book, you will discover a different approach to tarot, life, and self-empowerment.

• Befriend our shadow by working with the archetypes of the Major Arcana
• Discover—through affirmations, tarot prescriptions, and other healing modalities—how to empower ourselves and find our true voices
• Take our newly found powers and speak out so that we can become a helpful ally for the light and begin to do your greater work in the world

Tarot for Troubled Times is not just another book on how to read the tarot—the authors provide specialty readings and suggested practices for issues such as grief, addiction, depression, fear, anger, divorce, illness, abuse, and oppression, and provide practical suggestions for stepping up as an ally or leader so that you can shape social policies. With a selection of mindful, introspective tarot spreads, you’ll learn how the Tarot can help you rewrite your healing story and change your life, and help transform the world.

Ditch the green smoothies and reconnect with your authentic self using this wellness guide that taps into nature and helps you live your wildest, freest life.

It’s time for a new type of self-care. No bubble baths. No yoga. Just some truly wild—truly effective—ideas and activities that are good for you and your overall wellness. It’s time to get feral!

Feral Self-Care is loaded with self-care ideas that will actually help nourish your soul and make you feel good. Each entry covers an activity that reconnects you with your authentic self, helping you feel more empowered, free, and confident in embracing this human experience—in all its messy glory.

From self-care activities that will have you connecting with nature to those that have you digging deep and exploring your truest self, Feral Self-Care goes beyond the skin creams and face masks to reveal and restore your inner being.

You’ll find inspired ideas such as:
-Nature sounds ASMR
-Dancing in the rain
-Primal screaming
-Creating a chaotic symphony
-And much more!

It’s time to make self-care as wild as you are, and Feral Self-Care is here to help.

LETTING YOUR SHADOW IN a mindfulness deck for exploring big emotions

PEOPLE I'VE LOVED X Diving Deep Coaching, a collaboration with Susanne L'Heureux of Diving Deep Coaching on a deck designed to support you in feeling more authentic and whole. Letting the shadow in is about listening.

Instead of trying to overcome the parts of ourselves we deem unlovable, we welcome them so that we can transform.

Letting Your Shadow In contains 18 shadow prompts, 18 mindfulness exercises, 9 insights, and 9 affirmations to help you explore your own shadow and begin to see how it influences your life and relationships.

A room-by-room approach to increasing the positive vibes in your home—creativity, energy, inspiration, clarity—with a toolkit of techniques that will give you plenty of ideas for improving your living and working spaces.
Everyone wants a home that fills them with an all-encompassing feeling of peace: a home that fills the soul with clarity, energy, love, and safety, and supports our perfect experience here on earth. The Healing Home is a guide to designing and living that isn’t just about choosing the right throw pillows or organizing your stuff. Its bounty of energetic techniques—including Feng Shui, space clearing, crystal healing, meditation, and mindfulness—emphasizes the connection between body, mind, and spirit in the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and more.

With more in-depth explorations of nature magick and divination, this beautifully illustrated guide to witchcraft is a must for all Wiccans in search of greater knowledge. It covers everything from hedge witches to druids; working with cosmic helpers like angels, gods and goddesses, and spirit guides for a variety of spells; nature magic—from drawing down the moon to psychic plant power; tapping into cosmic power; and developing your sixth sense, mastering tarot, using angel numbers, and spiritual astrology. 

“Lessons from the Empress offers a hands-on guidebook to better mental and spiritual wellness. When the world needs these lessons the most, Snow and Plouff come through for us all.” —Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot

 
The Empress tarot card is the key to understanding how creative expression is the foundation of true self-care. Our authentic self, this abundant space, is not something we go find—it’s something we create. Lessons from the Empress will guide you on an exploration of the five phases of self-care: Major Arcana—spiritual self-care; the Wands—self-awareness; the Swords—self-expression; the Cups—self-love; the Pentacles—self-confidence.
 
In Lessons from the Empress, with the Empress as your guide, you’ll learn how to practice self-care and self-discovery in several ways:

• See the Empress as a metaphor for your personal journey
• Get in touch with who you are at your core
• Take an active role in protecting your own well-being and happiness
• Use easy-to-follow magical rituals, tarot spreads, and creativity exercises to embrace your true self and express that self to the world

A practical, modern-day exploration of one of the oldest, most universal, and storied forms of folk magic.
 
Antonio Pagliarulo explores the phenomenon of the Evil Eye: what it is, its origins and causes— and, most crucially, how to avoid, repel, and remove it. Rich with cultural anecdotes and traditions, mystical lore, and modern concepts, The Evil Eye offers practical advice for shielding yourself from the destructive and lingering power of this mysterious and persistent force.
 
The book:

• Defines the Evil Eye and traces its roots into antiquity and across an extraordinary breadth of cultures and traditions
• Shows readers how to diagnose the Evil Eye, how to cure it, and how to cast it on others
• Explores the use of amulets and talismans bearing the “Evil Eye,” including its remarkable prevalence in popular jewelry designs
• Includes the history and use of various talismans such as the Hamsa; the Italian cornicello and mano figa; the azabache stone; the Kabbalah red string; mirror pendants; and many others

A thoughtful, accessible, hands-on guide to the increasingly popular practice of candle magic. Author Phillip Cooper offers techniques for training your mind and working with the energy of candles. The Power of Candle Magic shows how the magical use of candle energy can brighten your attitude, help focus your attention, create abundance, help you with healing, and draw more love into your life.
 
“The Power of Candle Magic contains practical information that can be put to excellent use by anyone. Transcending just burning candles, Cooper presents an entire system of magic with candle burning as its centerpiece. For those new to magical practice, Cooper’s system is effective, and you may find it a good place to begin. For adepts or those already on their paths, pan for the gold within these pages: take what works for you and integrate it into your magic.” —Judika Illes
 
The book explains:

• how to choose candles for magic
• the basics of creating candle rituals
• how to make and work with incense and anointing oils
• the importance of color correspondences
• how to use the planetary correspondences so you can harness the right energy for any endeavor

Previously published as Candle Magic, this new edition includes an extensive new foreword by Judika Illes, author of Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and Pure Magic.

A practical guide for bringing magic into your life using plants and herbs, the seasons, and the natural elements

A “wild witch” is someone who has discovered the true source of magic. She finds her magic in the elements of the earth, the ways of healing herbs and scented flowers, the ocean’s tides, the cycle of the moon, and the energies of the planets. By becoming intimate with nature, a wild witch comes to see the living spirits in all things—everything is alive. She learns that these spirits must be honored and then they will act as trustworthy guides. In essence a wild witch is a child of nature, a wise woman, a lore master, and a healer.

In this book you will learn how to use:

• Herbs, plants, and trees

• The element of fire through candle magic and spell casting

• The hidden spirit of water through purification, dosing, and scrying

• The language of flowers and scents

• The rhythms of nature, the seasons’ cycles, and rituals of sacred day

Embrace your wild witch and rediscover the natural magic in your life.

Unfamiliar Familiars is a comprehensive and humorous handbook to finding and caring for the unconventional animal companion.

This guide will help you find the animal best suited to your personality and particular magical needs.

Animals include a narwhal (strong in clairvoyance and fencing), an albatross (best for sea-faring witches), or an earthworm (for garden-based magic and fish summoning).

• Features real-world facts with a playful, magical spin
• Includes a helpful quiz for finding your own familiar
• Brimming with suggested names, strengths, weaknesses, and more

Forget the toads and black cats: Every witch is unique, so shouldn't you have a familiar as one-of-a-kind and extraordinary as yourself?

Unfamiliar Familiars is an entertaining and educational guide to a menagerie of magical, less-appreciated creatures that may just become your ideal partner in the arcane arts.

An insider's guide for beginner mystics, How to Study Magic is your ultimate introduction to the main areas of magic—from witchcraft to grimoires—what it means to practice them, and, most of all, how to get started.

Have you ever wanted to dive into the world of magic, but weren't sure where to begin? You're not alone! Knowing where to start can be mystifying, but it doesn't have to be. In How to Study Magic, author, educator, and seasoned witch Sarah Lyons guides you through an introductory course of study, and an enchanted entry point to the wide world of magical paths.

Drawing on Sarah's own experience practicing and teaching magic for more than a decade, this interactive exploration takes novice witches through basic tools they can use in their studies—from divination and meditation to cleansing and protection—before diving into the history, lore, and modern incarnations of a wide range of magical practices. With chapters on Witchcraft, Chaos Magic, Spellbooks and Grimoires, Gods and Goddesses, and more, this dynamic guide gives readers an insider's perspective on how to craft their own, personalized practice. Each chapter also contains interactive activities, journal prompts, and suggestions for further reading, allowing baby witches to chart their own paths and explore their own power. 

For anyone who knows they want to study magic, but has no idea where to begin, How to Study Magic is the answer you've been waiting for.

Magic lives within all of us. It is our intuition, our power, our inner wisdom, and the energy we put out into the world. You don’t need to have a special gift to practice magic. You also don’t need to be defined as anything other than yourself to practice magic. Magicka demystifies the world of magic, making its concepts, terms, and practices accessible and approachable. Magicka emboldens modern mystics with ancient wisdom to embark on a journey of self-exploration by helping to connect us with our spiritual selves, and to tap into and trust our intuition in order to be confident and empowered in any situation, as well as for self-care, healing, and general wellness.

Through the guidance of author Carlota Santos, readers will discover how to harness the magic within themselves and manifest it in their lives. They will learn the energy of each astrological sign, how to set up a sacred space, and how to grow and maintain a magical garden and harness the energy properties of plants and herbs in a spell or ritual. There’s also a guide to using essential stones and crystals (for example, when the moon is in Taurus, summon the powers of rose quartz and sapphire for self-love) as well recipes and rituals of all kinds. Seeking romantic love? Try the Gaelic Beltane ritual for attracting love, which includes a flower bath and candle ceremony. Or strengthen self-reflection and inner brightness with a ritual using white candles, wooden boxes, and laurel and lion’s tooth leaves during the summer solstice celebration of Litha. Jam-packed with fun and easy-to-digest information in a beautiful, gifty package, Magicka is the ultimate resource for magic novices and experts alike.

Rest easy with this collection of over 50 powerful restorative techniques.

Good sleep—the kind that leaves you with increased mental clarity, steady energy, and excitement for the day ahead—can be elusive. But it’s within reach: vibrational energy healer and meditation instructor Valerie Oula has put together over fifty rituals for winding down, drifting off, and improving the quality of your rest. Her practice includes:

•    guided meditations and visualizations to help you center yourself 
•    breathwork for calming an anxious mind 
•    tapping, or working with meridians, to cleanse your energy centers 
•    mantras and intention-setting practices for clear focus and an easier wake up routine 
    
Rest Rituals is an easy-to-use guide for anyone who wants to sleep with tranquility and ease.

If you’ve ever gotten involved in a Twitter spat, been targeted by a nasty online troll, or worried about walking home alone late at night, this book will give you the energetic arsenal you need to align yourself with positive outcomes and ward off negativity and danger. Since time immemorial, spiritual traditions have given us tools to enhance personal protection. Here, you will learn how to work with charms, symbols, chakras, and talismans and your own energy field to empower yourself and create your own luck. Also included are comforting rituals and ideas that ensure you deal with conflict and anxiety appropriately, feel in control of your reactions, and enjoy the sense of personal power and protection that comes as a result.