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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“
The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is much more than a book, it is an intimate invitation into the sacred workings of the world. Through personal stories and guided practice you can’t help but be enveloped in the unique vision of Salicrow, whose writing crystallizes the precious usefulness of elemental magic. This Book of Shadows makes a tantalizing subject accessible and beneficial to all.” * Stephanie Rose Bird, author of 365 Days of Hoodoo and Sticks, Stones, Roots, and Bones *
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The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is abundantly filled with wisdom, heart, and deep teachings. Salicrow’s writing is authentic, passionate, and inspiring. In this wonder-full book she shares stories of her personal journey that illustrate who and what the elementals are, and she teaches us how to engage and relate with the elementals in safe and respectful ways. Each section is filled with a rich mix of practices, rituals, suggestions, and guidance for deepening our understanding and our relationship with Nature and the visible and invisible worlds around us. Each elemental section explores communication, divination, healing, protection, and magic with the beings of water, fire, air, and earth. Doing the practices will take you deep into your own experience of knowing. This book is a treasure trove that you’ll want to delve into over and over again.” * Kathy Warner, cofounder of Heaven and Earth, LLC *
“In
The Path of Elemental Witchcraft, Salicrow takes readers into her cave of interconnectedness and sacred communication with a wealth of information and offerings that enable practitioners of any level to develop a richer relationship with the elements and elemental beings from many different origins. Salicrow does not simply tell you how to walk through the shadow, she teaches you how to see within the veil of its profuse darkness.” * Jenn LeBlanc, elemental enchantress *
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The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is part memoir and travelogue, part ritual handbook, part metaphysical ethnography of the many types of elemental spirit beings Salicrow meets in the hidden realms. This book strikes me as a generous gift, like a gigantic buffet table onto which Salicrow has piled as many of her observations and insights as the table will hold. Reading
The Path of Elemental Witchcraft feels like it might feel sitting with Salicrow over a cup of tea or a bowl of soup.This book is a magnum opus. It is a trip around the worlds." * Sara R. Diamond, FacingNorth.net *
Table of ContentsFOREWORD
THE ELEMENTS OF MAGICby Anne-Marie Keppel
PREFACE
WELCOME, SEEKER WATER WITCH
COMMUNICATIONUndines
Water Altars
Sacred Water from the Earth
The Purple Mist
Connecting with Willoughby
Transmission through Seclusion
DIVINATIONMirrors and Teacups
Bath Bombs
Ripples in the Water
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Moonlit Reflection
The Drowning Pool
HEALINGHealing in the Soup Pot
Awakening
Water Blessing
Sonic Waves
Healing Community and Country
PROTECTIONReflective Magic
Anointed Protection
Hall of Mirrors
Irish Piss Pot
Protective Spray
Weather Protection
GLAMOUR Fairy Glamour
Accentuating the Positive
Misty Camouflage
Love Come to Me
Becoming the Priestess
Laps of Manifestation
Jump Girl
EARTH WITCH
COMMUNICATION
Gnomes and Trolls
Earth Altars
The Art of Listening
Entering the Fairy Wood
The Troll Cave
Devas in the Garden
DIVINATION
The Wisdom of Trees
Roots and Bones
Working with Runes
Animal Messengers
Everyday Divination
GEOMANCY
Connected Lines
Stonehenge
Needle
Balancing Energy
Green Heart Farm
Nagini, the Stone Snake
Attuned to the Earth
HEALING Entering the Cave
Verdant Gnosis
The Nest
Graveyard Dirt
The Wisdom of Trees
Slieve Gullion
PROTECTION Sacred Groves
Magical Permaculture
Fairy Mounds
Boobie-Stones
Stone Guardians
Earth in My Pocket
AIR WITCH
COMMUNICATION Sylphs
Air Altars
Take Caution
Spirit Chimes In
Fae Contact
Crow’s Calling
DIVINATION
Weather Sensing
Cloud Augury
The Voice of Remembrance
Voices on the Wind
Smoke on the Breeze
The Way of Birds
ASTRAL NAVIGATION The Astral Plane
Journeying through Voice
I Am Awake
Storm Weaving
As the Crow Flies
A Voice for the Otherworld
HEALING
Purification through Smoke
Activating the Olfactory
Whistling and Blowing
A Healing Voice
Echoes in the Mountain
Attuned to Air
ENCHANTMENT
Bubbles to the Moon
Catching the Wind
The Wyrding Way
Voices on the Wind
Echolocation
Time Traveling in the Tor
FIRE WITCH
COMMUNICATIONSalamanders
Fire Altars
The Cleverness of Jinn
Honoring Fire in the Home
Faces in the Fire
Fire-Breathing Dragons
DIVINATION Visions in Flames
Ashes to Ashes
Melted Wax
Flaming Runes
Samhain Fires
Campfire Divination
HEALING
Light a Candle
Bonfire of the Vanities
Burning Bridges and Cutting Cords
Attuned to Fire
Internal Flame
Localizing Trauma with Fire
TRANSFORMATIONFire Containment
Change from the Hearth
Coaxing Embers
Phoenix from the Fire
Bonfire and Bees
I Have Walked on Fire, Ho!
SEX MAGICSacred Sexuality
Steamy Offerings
Object of Desire
Awakening the Snake
Fantasy
Lover
Desired by the Gods
AFTERWORD
CONTINUING THE JOURNEY
INDEX
