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The Path of Elemental Witchcraft: A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows (Sacred Planet) - Softcover

Salicrow

 
9781644113363: The Path of Elemental Witchcraft: A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows (Sacred Planet)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1644113368 ISBN 13: 9781644113363
Verlag: Destiny Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A comprehensive guide to connecting with the magic of each of the four elements: Water, Earth, Air, and Fire

• 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Salicrow is a witch, Druid, and natural psychic medium who weaves the traditions of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical techniques. With more than 30 years of professional experience in the psychic arts as a spirit channel and seer, she offers readings for individual groups and teaches workshops throughout the United States and internationally. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

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PREFACE

Welcome, Seeker

The book you are about to read is filled with magical divinations, rituals, and communications with the elemental world. I have personally experienced them or observed them in my professional role as a psychic medium and intuitive healer. While some of the stories you will read may appear fictional to your current awareness, they are indeed real in my world. Being born into a family with spiritual gifts, my introduction to spirit world began at birth. My grandmother was my first teacher. Her ways were simple and straightforward. She spoke of magic in the same way she spoke of making dinner or working in the garden; magic was simply real!

The stories I share are meant to aid the expansion of your awareness, triggering your personal memories of the unseen world. The techniques in the book are designed to be read two ways. First, it should be read from start to finish, as you will find the magical exercises at the end of each chapter work progressively. The skills learned in the beginning of the book prepare you for more advanced teachings as you proceed. Secondly, this is a reference book. It is my desire that this book become marked up and tagged, dog-eared and coffee-stained from the sheer amount of use it gets!

I invite you to begin your journey through these pages with the creation of a Book of Shadows of your own. A Book of Shadows is a magical journal in which we keep track of our experiences in the unseen world. It also is a place to track our personal growth, by reviewing our entries periodically and making note of how our workings turned out. We are living in a time of great expansion, in which we are evolving psychically as a people. There will be much for you to keep track of!

Spreading love,
Salicrow

FROM WATER WITCH:
Communication

Sea of becoming, ocean of healing,
Dreams help me see what my soul is revealing.
Water of life, essence of Love,
Rain down upon us from above
Jewels Aradia

UNDINES
Water Elementals

Undines, or Ondines as they are sometimes called, are elemental spirits of Water, often associated with rivers, streams, wells, and woodland ponds. While mythology depicts them in human form, my experience has been less fanciful and more approachable.

It is human nature to want to put intelligence into a form that resembles our own, expecting spirit to conform to our view of reality in order to communicate. This is one of the reasons so many people struggle with viewing the otherworld. This expectation limits our mind’s ability to comprehend, as we constantly tell ourselves that if something does not fit into our carefully designed blueprint of reality, then it must be imaginary.

In some ways this is true, as it is through our imagination--that fluid, ever-possible consciousness--that we enter the liminal. When we begin to see our imagination as a tool for accessing consciousness, the other world becomes a lot more real. This is clear to anyone who has begun the practice of magic, as we are often required to first imagine ourselves surrounded by the white light of protection before we can energetically sense it. It is as if the key to experiencing alternate realms lies in the ability to accept them as different from ours, yet just as real.

One of the most profound experiences I have had with an undine took place at the beginning of my Druid training with Ivan McBeth of the Green Druid School in Worcester, Vermont in 2008. It was early in the training and we, the new Bards (first-year students), were still becoming familiar with the land known as Dreamland. We were practicing “wide-angle vision,” expanding our perception by focusing on the use of our peripheral vision. It was a beautiful spring day at the convergence of two streams, and my senses were on overload as I bathed in the green light filtering through the trees and listened to the sound of the brook babbling beside me.

Getting there required scrambling down a steep bank; as many sacred places are, this one was well hidden and not easily accessed. Seclusion is often a key ingredient to sacred locations connected to Nature spirits, because they are not fond of the ways in which most humans live and treat the land. The presence of otherworldly beings was tangible within moments of climbing down the hill. The energy of the place carried a pulse of spirit that tingled in the air. As with the aftereffects of a lightning storm, the energy was palpable. (The sensation of static electricity, as well as cold, heat, or a feeling of sleepiness or “mind fog,” are commonly experienced where the veil between the worlds is thin.)

As we settled down in our individual places, I tucked myself into a little alcove where I could sit close to a small pool of flowing water. I felt a bit dizzy. I often experience a feeling of wooziness upon entering liminal space. This was something I was familiar with through my work as a spirit speaker.

Remembering the teachings of my childhood, I sang a little song, offering up my voice to the genii loci (spirits of place). I gently spit into the stream, as I remembered my grandmother’s words: “The water of our body is sacred.” Within moments I noticed the swirling pattern of the water was changing its direction, and that there was a slightly gelatinous form--a thickness in the water that seemed to move with purpose toward me. It was sinuous in its movement, undulating as it made its way in my direction (hence the name “Undines”). In this moment time was still; the world around me seemed to slide out of focus, and all that was important was the connection between the water and me. It was an introduction, for I could recognize that the structured water before me held a sentient being--or beings, for it felt as if there were more than one.

In my conceptualization of them I would consider them female, for water is inherently receptive, imprinted by whatever it comes in contact with. In truth, I believe our desire to describe an elemental being in a gendered way comes from our need to make the “wyrd” normal, and the non-human human.

As I sat entranced by the Undines, for I immediately recognized them as such, I felt a deep sleepiness come over me, while at the same time I felt a tremendous amount of love directed at me from the Water spirits. Having had experience with the spirit world in my professional career as a psychic medium, I knew that communication of this sort required an energy source (a medium), and that they were tapping into my energy in order to communicate. As this was a new experience for me, the amount of energy required was a bit exhausting. (This is why some people fall asleep when entering a “Fae’” spot in Nature.)

Communication of this kind is not always a straightforward conversation. In fact, the majority of the time information is transmitted through imagery, deep knowing, and a feeling of “download.” Just as when we’re waiting for a computer to download new programs or files, we only have knowledge of a fraction of the information being delivered. The majority of understanding will be received over a much longer period of time through a form of knowing. Just as when we open a computer file, we have what we need when we need it. With this in mind, I always recommend that people carry a journal with them when they head out on sacred travel, whether it be near or far. In a pinch, remember that most phones have a place for notes, as well as cameras to take photos that can jar our memory later.

SAMPLE TECHNIQUE FROM
"WATER WITCH: HEALING"

Activating the Water of the Body for Healing

I found myself in apprenticeship to Water shortly after returning to my home in...

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Verlag
Destiny Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1644113368
ISBN 13 
9781644113363
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
576
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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