The Path of Elemental Witchcraft
A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice
• Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment
• Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld
A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore.
For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals.
Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.
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Witch Salicrow (Jump Girl) delivers a meandering handbook for practicing witchcraft with the four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. The author discusses her personal experiences with each element and covers the basics of engaging them with magic, including how to communicate safely with "elemental beings," make offerings to spirits and places, and build altars outdoors and at home. For instance, Salicrow describes when she encountered water spirits known as undines in a stream, and provides instructions for receiving supernatural messages by dripping food dye into a bowl filled with water as one gazes at it and asks questions of the "spirit of Water." Other rituals teach how to cleanse one's "energetic body" by burning herbs, create a "magical hearth" by requesting protection from the "spirit of Fire," and welcome land spirits known as devas by praising plants in one's garden. While Salicrow's exploration of the temperaments of the elements enlightens, the surfeit of superfluous personal anecdotes tends to distract, and cursory explanations of magical concepts, often relegated to footnotes, will leave novices in the cold. Seasoned practitioners will find this fitfully illuminating.