Books

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.” —Anne Lamott

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

“I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.” —Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

Celebrate the phases of the moon in every season with The Lunar Year. Discover the transformative power of the lunar cycle with this year-round companion to moon magic. Learn spells and rituals to practise under each phase of the moon, be inspired by lunar gods and goddesses from traditions past, and harness the power of your emotions by getting in touch with your moon sign.

Featuring voices from the contemporary witchcraft community, A Confluence of Witches is an invitation to explore the authentic intersections of magic, spirituality, personal development, and social justice.

A Confluence of Witches aims to highlight how witchcraft has always been a diverse, constantly evolving, culturally specific practice with many lineages and rich traditions. It features essays, spells, and reflections from witches, traditional healers, herbalists, and artists on themes of magical activism, animism, and merging ancient practices with modern technologies, among other mystical subjects. The diverse representation of contributors will honor and celebrate the multicultural and multivalent ways that the witch operates within our society.
 
With an increased interest in and practice of witchcraft comes a greater need for authentic sources of wisdom that are culturally relevant and sensitive to the many lineages and traditions of witchcraft, healing work, and magic. A Confluence of Witches provides insights and perspectives from a diverse range of people who in one form or another identify as a “witch.” The anthology’s contributors are diverse, representing the African diaspora, Indigenous, Latine, and Romani traditions, as well as voices from the LGBTQ witch community—each with their own sacred blend of spirituality to share. These voices come together to illuminate the multitude of ways one can practice.
 
Contributors to this anthology include: adrienne maree brown, Aja Daashuur, Alejandra Luisa León, Amanda Yates Garcia, Angela Mary Magick, Ariella Daly, Aurora Luna (aka)Baby Reckless, Damiana Calvario, Dori Midnight, Edgar Fabián Frías, Eliza Swann, Jessie Susannah Karnatz, Jezmina Von Thiele, Kiki Robinson, Kimberly Rodriguez, Liz Migliorelli, Madre Jaguar, Maria Minnis, Olivia Ephraim Pepper, Rachel Howe, Sanyu Estelle, Star Feliz

Add a little magic to every element of your life—from food to beauty to healthcare.

Respectful of natural elements and cycles, the modern witch (men included) makes every effort to find the benefits in each ingredient he or she uses. In this magical recipe book, you can find natural recipes for delicious foods, tonics, masks, and ointments. These recipes are not only fantastic and fun to eat and use, but also boost immunity, longevity, energy, and even fertility. Each ingredient is used to its full potential to help you achieve optimal health, prevent pains, fight blue days, boost energy, purify the body, cleanse skin, and more! Included are recipes such as:

• Mushroom Quiche for Immunity
• Comfort Chicken with Sweet Potato Mash
• Scallops for Fertility
• Mini Parmentiers for Vitality
• Moon Macarons for Dreaming
• Anti-Inflammatory Golden Milk
• Antioxidant Mask for Eternal Youth
• And chapters devoted to healing potions, sweet spells, natural beauty products, culinary secrets and so much more!

This fantastical collection combines a respect for nature with indulgent (and healing) pleasures. With generous recipes, healing potion-drinks, natural skin and other beauty cares, you can learn how to imbue every day, and recipe, with magic in The Natural Witch's Cookbook.!

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.

Journey Through Aromatherapy is a comprehensive guide to the healing and therapeutic use of essential oils on a physical and psychological level. Drawing on 28 years of experience, Dr. Ratan combines ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern aromatherapy principles in Vedic Aromatherapy, creating unique blends for holistic health and healing. This unique, beautifully illustrated guide explains the active ingredients, properties, and uses for over 90 remarkable essential oils, and the ways they affect our physical and emotional well-being.

This book will help you: •Understand the secrets of blends and applications, whether healing, relaxing, uplifting, or sensual •Choose the right base oils to enhance your blends •Discover chakra healing with essential oils •Find out 50 easy ways to use aromatherapy and essential oils •Learn aromatherapy and beauty therapy for every body part •Benefit from the wonders of evening primrose oil •Make feel-good fragrances for the body & home

Explains how ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers

Shares ancient and modern rituals, ceremonies, and practices to connect with the seasons, the lunar cycles, and the five elements, as well as open your heart, dance with your shadow self, grow your intuition, and connect with your body

Offers detailed instructions for each ritual, ceremony, and transformative healing practice

HEALING BALM for psyche and soul, ritual invokes a unique magic that allows us to step beyond the mundane and touch base with the sacred turning points in our life and the truth of our soul’s calling.

In this evocative guide, Mara Branscombe offers potent soul-care rituals and ceremonies to purify and strengthen minds, hearts, and bodies, so as to enable us to activate our inner power. Connecting with the pagan wheel of the year, the five elements, and the lunar cycle, soul-stirring rituals and step-by-step healing protocols show a path towards a deeper, heart-centered living. Transformative practices such as guided meditations and visualizations, breathwork, altar creation, and discovery of our personal empowerment mantras facilitate our healing journey. Ancient and modern ceremonies and specific spiritual formulas help us embody a loving existence, dance with our shadow self, engage with grief, grow our intuition, dismantle limiting beliefs, and heal toxic patterns to find inner strength and peace.

Ritual as Remedy is an invitation to shape-shift, heal, transform, and reclaim one’s true soul purpose through powerful self-care protocols that awaken freedom, joy, and a wild, untamed self-love.

Discover the vibrant culture of brujeria and embrace your own inner witch with this essential guide to spellcasting, spirit worship, tarot, crystals, and all the other elements of this increasingly popular lifestyle. A modern Mexican bruja is a powerful person, one who reads the tarot and performs spellwork and rituals of devotion to their spirit guides and deities. Brujeria, which translates as witchcraft in Spanish, is a unique form of spirituality that blends core elements of Afro-Indigenous beliefs.

Having originated in Mexico, brujeria is now practiced in Latinx communities across the world. Valeria Ruelas was raised living every aspect of the brujeria lifestyle. From shopping at botanicas and yerberias, to casting spells, to interpreting tarot readings, Valeria has today become one of the foremost practitioners of brujeria in the US. 

In this gorgeous, full-color illustrated guide, “fashion’s favorite healer” (Vogue) teaches you how to use baths to relieve stress and depression and soothe common aches and pains.

Ritual Baths shows you how to use common crystals, herbs, and flowers in your bathtub to achieve inner peace and spiritual wellness. A blend of ancient traditions and contemporary self-care methods, this indispensable handbook, packed with more than 250 color photographs, provides helpful advice and sixty bath recipes, organized by aura color, including:

Awareness Wolf Bath
Empath Bath
Hope Bath
I am Nature Bath
Be My Own Healer Bath
Love of My Life Bath
Ally Bath
Healthy Boundaries Bath
Warrior Bath
Find My Purpose Bath
My Gut Bath
Confidence Bath

Deborah Hanekamp leaves no crystal unturned and no restorative plant unused. She teaches you about auras, touches on phases of the moon, explains crystal and herbal magic, and provides an encyclopedia of ingredients that addresses each element’s healing properties.

We all want to achieve wellness and live our best lives. Ideal for anyone interested in natural healing and alternative medicine, as well as everyone looking to integrate beautiful and accessible self-care practices into their daily routine, Ritual Baths shows you how to create your own medicine and transform your bathroom into a unique healing space.

• Celebrating the sabbats of the wheel of the year
• Honoring the phases of the moon
• Aligning with your astrological sign
• Using crystals and sigils as part of your tea magick
• Working with everyday problems and personal aspirations

Everyone, whether they practice witchcraft or not, is susceptible to unwanted spells and curses. The difference is that witches and magicians can do something about it. Now you can too. Protection & Reversal Magick is a complete how‑to guide to prevent, defend against, and reverse magickal attacks of any kind. Here, renowned scholar and magick practitioner Jason Miller shows readers how to master these techniques: ·Setting up early‑warning systems ·Appeasing angry spirits through offerings ·Performing banishings & making amulets that will prevent most attacks ·Making magical “decoys” to absorb attacks against you ·Summoning guardian spirits or gods for help ·Binding, confusing, or expelling a persistent enemy. These are techniques for witches, wiccans, ceremonial magicians, root doctors, and anyone else who puts magick to practical use. Like the cunning men and women of old, you can now defend yourself and your loved ones against even the strongest attacks.

Flower essences are infusions, or decoctions, made from the flowering parts of plants that uniquely address emotional and mental aspects of wellness. The first 38 flower remedies were formulated by British physician Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930s, but new remedies from other plant species are always being formulated. This book provides a helpful introduction to flower essences, ―what they are and how to use them.

Topics covered include how to choose essences, how to make a bottle of essence, essences and their stories, case studies on the stories of how essences helped someone, and a glossary of more than 100 essences and their uses. This is the essential introductory guide for anyone interested in alternative health and the safe, gentle vibrational healing of flower essences.

Take a poetic journey from the Fool to the Ten of Swords in this reproduction of a revered text.  The Poet's Tarot by Josep Miquel Sobrer is a wholehearted celebration of tarot, its history, sacred geometry, symbolism, and archetypes. This book has been a steadfast source of information for the tarot community and an asset to those learning the craft, and has received positive reviews. Each card is lovingly researched and celebrated in lyrical language that reveals new ways of seeing the cards as not just cards but living stories. You will explore the characters of tarot, from their aesthetic to their personalities. Accompanied by the stunning art of the bestselling The Luna Sol Tarot, this book makes it easy to immerse yourself in the world of the Arcana.

Hardcover book with printed laminated cover; 5 x 6.625 inches; 308 pages.

As a central figure of the Craft, the moon holds a special place in any hedgewitch's practice. Through more than a hundred spells, recipes, and workings, this two-color, hardcover book shows you how to honor Our Lady of the Night and utilize her power to amplify your magic and affirmations.

Discover lunar myths and legends as well as correspondences to herbs, crystals, and deities. You will also learn how to connect with changing energies in each season and moon phase. With guidance for drawing down the moon, making moon water, creating a moon altar, and other sacred activities, The Hedgewitch's Little Book of Lunar Magic features ample inspiration for honoring and harmonizing with this revered celestial body.