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Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This brings a unique meaning to every combination for example, the three of hearts becomes Healer s Triumph, representing gratitude, recognition, and teamwork. For each card, author Stephen Ball provides a brief imaginative story that helps you understand and remember the meaning. You will also discover examples of readings with one card, two cards, and five cards as well tips for interpreting unexpected combinations. This approach to reading playing cards is fresh and updated for today s reader. Whether you want to read for yourself and your friends or for clients, this book shows how to discover new perspectives that support positive transformation.

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Rekindle your craft and embrace a magical frame of mind with twelve amazing myths and their accompanying spells, meditations, affirmations, and hands-on activities. Mythology for a Magical Life shows you how to elevate your practice in ways you never imagined and deepen your connection to the human experience. Presenting myths, themes, and related activities, Ember Grant helps develop your skills and add new energy to your magic. Discover what the story of Cupid and Psyche can teach you about the journey of your soul. Explore how trickster folklore can inspire you to seize new opportunities in your life. Learn how to embrace your deep, primal self with the Maid-of-the-Wave s tale. This compulsively readable book enriches your craft through the power of storytelling.

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Enter the world of faery and discover the amazing possibilities that come from living and working with the Good Folk. This remarkable book is both a folkloric resource and guide to residing near our magical neighbours. Faery dives deep into the rich cultural traditions of the British Isles and provides practical advice based on local legends and real encounters. John T. Kruse reveals the symbiotic relationship between humans and fairies and invites you to explore the magic, habits, and culture of the Good Folk. You ll discover how to find fairies, how they act, and what precautions you should take when working with them. Respectful and comprehensive, this book will enrich your life and teach you how to truly feel the presence of the Good Folk.

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This book is an invitation to find the spirits that you sense around you, to connect with them, honour them, and share their stories. Within these pages, you will discover that you can interact with deities, your beloved dead, and the Fae. These spirits can provide you with myriad gifts, but the channels of communication must be open first. Learn to reach out beyond the mundane world and commune with other realms of existence. Explore hands-on techniques for working with intention, developing your own place of power, and negotiating with the spirits that you contact. With dozens of exercises as well as instructions for beginners and experienced spiritual practitioners, this book is a guide to initiating and sustaining relationships that are more powerful than you could ever imagine.

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This sacred and galvanizing book is a thunderous call to action for you, and for women all over the world, to awaken the goddess within. Discover deep wisdom, engaging exercises, and empowering insights that will help you make profound shifts in your relationships, creativity, work, and mindset. You are powerful, worthy, and capable. You are destined to rip off the false mask of societal expectations and fully occupy the space you're in. Author Rhoda Shapiro guides you through a unique exploration of wild feminine power and the ways in which it can heal, uplift, and empower the planet. Now is the time to rise up and live your truth, to reclaim ownership of your voice and body--this book contains the support you need.

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Make your sabbat celebrations more meaningful and enjoyable with this exceptional book full of unique rituals designed to perfectly fit your needs, whether you re a solitary practitioner or part of a group. Jason Mankey provides three all-new rituals for every sabbat one for solitaries, one for covens, and one for large gatherings. Each ritual is flexible enough for you to pick and choose the components that best suit your intentions. Explore the history and traditions of all eight sabbats and discover why and how rituals became such an important part of Witchcraft. Learn the ins and outs of ritual practice, including guidance on planning, decorating, presenting, and adapting. Witch s Wheel of the Year is incredibly versatile for any Witch looking to enhance their craft and their connection to the sacred sabbats.

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From Alabama to Wyoming and every state in between, the United States is crawling with monsters lurking in the dark corners, just waiting for the right moment to scare the pants off unsuspecting victims. This eye-opening book is a state-by-state guide to monsters, myths, cryptids, and things that go bump in the night. Discover Connecticut s Black Dog of Hanging Hills, the Tommyknockers of Pennsylvania, the Banshee of the South Dakota Badlands, and hundreds of other fearful figures. With more than 250 creatures covering everything from modern-day dinosaurs

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Discover how to work magic with the mighty dragon clans in this powerful book from bestselling author and dragon expert, D. J. Conway. Perfect for beginners and experienced dragon handlers alike, this book first covers the basics of dragons and magic, and then provides detailed information about the thirty-three clans. Explore each dragon's coloring, eye differences, claw, wing, and scale shape, and personality. Learn about the clans' different communication styles and how they approach honor, respect, and more. This marvelous book opens the doors to the world of dragons and allows you to soar with them to new heights of magic.

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How to Become a Mage is the first English translation of the enormously influential occultist Josephin Peladan. This book is a fascinating entry into nineteenth-century French thought, sharing advice on overcoming the pitfalls of status quo society while perfecting one's own soul. Josephin Peladan (1858 1918) was a flamboyant personality and controversial media celebrity as well as the author of combative art criticism and a series of novels with occult themes. Peladan also wrote influential non-fiction works on occult topics committed to the belief that the best way for modern Europeans to enter into communion with the guiding intelligences of humanity was through magic and the arts. He played a key role in reviving Rosicrucianism and provided a spiritual and intellectual backdrop to fin-de-siecle French symbolism. His ideas influenced the leading artists of the day, including composers Claude Debussy and Erik Satie and writer Antonin Artaud.

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This fun, pocket-sized book shares everything you need to know to celebrate when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. Filled with crafts, recipes, spells, tutorials, and other unique ideas, this little book will help you make the most out of this special time of year. Explore how Halloween was celebrated throughout history, from harvest festivals and the Celtic New Year through All Souls Day and trick or treating. Discover decor ideas for the home and garden, and learn how cats, bats, ghosts, skeletons, and other popular symbols became associated with Halloween. This book is a must-have for anyone who already loves Halloween or for anyone who wants to know how to mark the day with a witchy twist.

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Concise and direct, this easy-to-follow guide provides everything needed to uncover the secrets of your birth chart and reveal amazing insights about your true nature. You ll gain an incredibly expanded understanding of yourself and others with this book s extensive information and examples. Professional astrologer David Pond introduces you to the most important topics of astrology, including the zodiac signs, elements, planets, houses, and more. He then builds on the basics to teach you how to interpret your astrological chart and those of the people in your life. From angles and aspects to Sun signs and houses, this book brings the stars down to earth so you can study astrology with ease.

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Deepen your connection to the tarot cards with this book s amazing approach to pathworking. With straightforward techniques and hands-on exercises, Leeza Robertson guides you through each of the 78 cards using three pathworking styles: intentional (intentionally selecting cards based on theme), intuitive (letting the cards guide you), and wandering (combining the intentional and intuitive styles). Just as using a tarot deck is a journey through a story, so is pathworking a journey of meditation. As you progress through the cards, you ll learn how to meditate on what is discovered in your readings. This remarkable book inspires you to expand your spiritual being through your experiences with your deck.

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Discover magical wisdom that has been passed down through generations in this guide to using herbs for spiritual, emotional, and mental health and healing. Packed with natural remedies and recipes from D.J. Conway and her grandmother, this book is a magical formulary that anyone can use to make life better. Magical Folkhealing features a variety of herbs and provides their associated planet, element, deities, and zodiac signs, as well as their basic powers and specific uses. This beginner-friendly handbook also teaches you how to simplify your rituals, use special tools and tables for improved prep work, apply oils and aromatherapy for specific needs, and much more. From herbal teas and tinctures to massage oils and stones, this guide is an indispensable resource for healing

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Join regression therapist Dr. Linda Backman as she shares her fascinating work with interplanetary souls people whose previous lives were experienced on other planets in the universe. Souls on Earth explores the characteristics of interplanetary souls so that if you or someone you know is an IP, you will be able to understand more about your life purpose and cope with the special challenges that come with an incarnation on Earth. Learn how to identify IP souls and discover how they can assist humanity s evolution. Explore ways to support yourself or loved ones who may be IP souls. For many people struggling with difficult lessons or trying to find meaning, this book opens the door to new understandings and the potential for peace.

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Discovered in the stacks of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, this authentic work of 17th-century English magic has been meticulously transcribed and translated by Daniel Harms and illustrated by James R. Clark, the team that created the bestselling Book of Oberon (9780738743349). With a comprehensive introduction, annotations, and more than 100 figures and illustrations, this beautifully reconstructed historical work is filled with never-before published rituals for calling forth demons, fairies, elementals, and other spiritual beings. This elegantly bound book provides new insights into a fascinating tradition, where a sorcerer or cunning-man was paid to perform magic for uncovering theft, healing, combating witchcraft, hunting for treasure, or for having a spirit fulfil one s commands. As an additional feature, this deluxe edition retains the red type found in the original manuscript to emphasise key words.

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Activate your clairvoyant talents for unique insights, spiritual revelations, and glimpses into the past or future. With clairvoyance, you can connect with the deceased or a child yet to be born. You can attract more of what you love into your life and you can travel between lifetimes. Join Cyndi Dale as she explores future sight, empathy, healing, manifesting, clearing blocks, the types of clairvoyance, the relationship between clairvoyance and the chakras, and much more. With step-by-step instructions for six different clairvoyant styles, this book is a wonderful guide to healing and growing through the power of your energetic abilities.

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Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person along the way. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus-if you pay attention. They guide you toward the next step in your personal evolution through their unique system, and this first-of-its-kind book shows you how to understand and benefit from that system. Having worked deeply and intuitively with animals for nearly twenty years, Danielle MacKinnon has a wealth of wisdom that she shares through helpful tools and techniques, client stories, and her own step-by-step communication process.

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To truly understand the philosophy and practice of Thelema, you need to understand its charismatic and influential founder, Aleister Crowley. Thelema demystifies this enigmatic figure, providing a biography of Crowley and showing how his work evolved to become a paradigm-shifting system of magick. This book also explores the texts and writings that form the basis of Thelema, and it provides step-by-step instructions for practicing the basic rites and rituals of this misunderstood tradition. With this accessible guide, you will discover how Crowley and Thelema were influenced by Qabalah, the GoldenDawn, Egyptian deities, sex magick, tarot, Gnosticism, Eastern philosophy, yoga, and much more.

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Unlock the secrets of your past, present, and future using the power of runes. With professional fortuneteller Alexandra Chauran as your guide, you will learn how to ask for and interpret the answers to your biggest life questions involving love, career, health, and other important topics.

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Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials series explores the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones in the witch's year. A well-rounded introduction to Midsummer, this attractive book features rituals, recipes, lore, and correspondences. It includes hands-on information for modern celebrations, spells and divination, recipes and crafts, invocations and prayers, and more!

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Now available as a deck only, The Sacred Circle Tarot combines photographs, computer imaging, and traditional drawing techniques to create stunning images reminiscent of the birthplace of magic. This exceptionally popular deck draws from the sacred sites and Pagan heritage of Britain and Ireland, serving as a tool not only for divination but also for meditation, personal growth, and spiritual development.

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Take your magical work with crystals to a new level with this hands-on guide packed with spells, rituals, and methods for using stones in creative ways. Wiccan author Ember Grant explores crystal magic in depth in this practical manual. You can learn about the types of crystals, rocks, and gemstones, and get tips on purchasing, cleansing, charging, and storing them. You can explore methods of magic such as crystal grids and numerology, quartz points and clusters, metals and alchemy, glass and sand magic, magical jewellery, elixirs, personal power stones, meditation, and divination. You can find dozens of spells that you can use for home and garden, health, love, problem solving, dreams, astral travel, and much more. You can practise the exercises to expand your knowledge, and copy the grids to create your own layouts. Extensive appendices of correspondences and a glossary make this guide useful for beginners as well.

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Add power, precision, and depth to your tarot readings - this friendly guide tells you how to choose or create the perfect spread for any question or purpose. Tarot expert and author Barbara Moore explains what makes a great tarot spread and why (including how the principles of design and psychological responses play a part), how to select a spread, how to use it once you've chosen it, and how to modify spreads or create your own. Moore presents simple techniques that will make tarot readings more fun, more accurate, and even give the querent more options and control in her or his own life.

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Now with a new cover! The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Cornelius Agrippa is considered one of the foundation stones of Western magic. The grimoires it contains are among the most important that exist in the Western tradition. Occult scholar Donald Tyson presents a fully annotated, corrected, and modernised edition of this masterwork.

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Dr. Michael Newton, best-selling author of "Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls", returns with amazing case studies that highlight the profound impact of spiritual regression on people's everyday lives. These true accounts - handpicked and presented by "Life Between Lives" hypnotherapists - feature case studies of real people embarking on life-changing spiritual journeys: returning to past lives as a Viking, a German WWII soldier, a slave in the American South ...reuniting with soul mates and spirit guides ...and communing with their immortal souls. As gems of self-knowledge are revealed, dramatic epiphanies result - enabling these ordinary people to resolve illness, explain strange feelings and impulses, find emotional healing, realize their life purpose, and forever enrich their lives with new meaning.

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Who said magical training had to be so dry and complicated? In this instructional text, Andrieh Vitimus banishes the severe tone of other esoteric orders and instead proposes a more accessible and practical approach - a course of study for the average Joe. From discovering new meditation positions through random dance to sculpting energy into playful balls, puppets, and form - fitting body suits, Vitimus' exercises are fun and irreverent while still imparting the skills needed for serious self-study."Hands-On Chaos Magic" emphasizes experimentation and finding out what works for you, and Vitimus makes it clear that pop magic is allowed. So you may want to try a spell from Harry Potter while assuming a Dragon Ball Z stance. Or maybe you'd like to bribe yourself into daily practice by 'kicking your mind's ass and then giving it candy'. By adopting a practical understanding of magical theory, readers will find magic easier to perform - and they'll achieve results more in line with their own notions of success.

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Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot - one of the most popular and enigmatic tarot decks - offers rich rewards for those who can penetrate its complex symbolism. Written by a ceremonial magician and tarot expert, "The Thoth Companion" is a comprehensive guide to understanding and using this fundamental deck. All seventy-eight cards are examined through the lens of Thelema, Qabala, and ceremonial magic - the spiritual foundations upon which it was built. These detailed interpretations reveal valuable insights, significant correspondences, and Crowley's encoded secrets. Once you've mastered the meaning behind this legendary deck, this user-friendly guide can help you use it for divination, developing intuition, meditation, and pathworking.Ceremonial magician and professional tarot reader Michael Osiris Snuffin has been studying the Thoth tarot for over a decade. He joined the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis) in 1996. Seven years later he founded the Temple of Light and Darkness, a group dedicated to performing Golden Dawn initiations in accordance with the Law of Thelema.

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These 840+ magical tables are the most complete set of tabular correspondences covering magic, astrology, divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels, demons, Graeco-Egyptian magic, pagan pantheons, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist and mystical correspondences ever printed. It is over five times larger and more wide ranging than Crowleys Liber 777. New columns include the spirits from Fausts Höllenzwang and Trithemius Steganographia. Types of magic and their Greek identification headwords; the meanings of a wide range of nomina magica; planetary incenses; and the secret names for ingredients, all from the Greek magical papyri. Also the names of the gods of the hours and the months which must be used for successful evocation. The source of the data in these tables ranges over 2000 years, from the Graeco-Egyptian papyri, Byzantine Solomonike, unpublished manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano, Abbott Trithemius, Albertus Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers (and the editors of Mathers work, Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie), to the mage of classical geometric shapes, modern theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the Lemegeton (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the 20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon. All this material has been grouped and presented in a consistent and logical way covering the whole Western Mystery tradition and some relevant parts of the Eastern tradition. This is the final update of this volume.

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Each of us can benefit from contact with the spiritual realm, and we often do so without realizing it. Spirit guides serve many roles and take many forms of expression within our lives. They inspire creativity and insight, help open us to abundance, protect us, and serve as our companions. In How To Meet and Work with Spirit Guides, popular author Ted Andrews teaches you simple and effective techniques for establishing rapport with your angels and guides. Explore meditation, divination, fragrance, crystals, and other ways to connect with spirit helpers, and enjoy the many gifts and learning opportunities gained by working with: Guardian angels, Spirit guides, Loved ones in spirit, Animal totems, Nature spirits, Fairies

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Emphasising patience and practice, the author insists that clairvoyance is possible for everyone. She explains many forms of clairvoyance (psychometry, clairsentience, clairaudience, and so on), and offers examples based on her own experiences and those of six other Spiritualist mediums. Exercises in meditation, memory development, visualization, and symbol interpretation progressively help readers enhance and cultivate their own innate gift of the "sixth sense."

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Natural magic is the ancient and powerful art of using material substances - herbs, stones, incenses, oils, and much more - to tap into the hidden magical powers of nature, transforming your surroundings and yourself. Not just a cookbook of spells, the Encyclopedia of Natural Magic provides an introduction to the philosophy and ways of thought underlying this system. It also gives detailed information on 176 different herbs, trees, stones, metals, oils, incenses, and other substances.

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Readers are treated to a detailed introduction to Michael and his many appearances. The rest of this practical guide provides a variety of methods for connecting with Michael, petitioning his help, and creating a lasting bond.

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If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study. PAGANISM presents the basic fundamentals: what Pagans are like; how the Pagan sacred year is arranged; what Pagans do in ritual; what magic is; what Pagans believe about God, worship, human nature, and ethics.

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Celebrate Earth's Energies with Magic for Every Month

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Discover the amazing partnership of tarot and mindfulness with this comprehensive, full-color book by European tarot authorities Johannes Fiebig and Evelin Burger. Featuring spreads, charts, and card-by-card breakdowns with color illustrations of each, this guide is the ultimate resource for finding peace and balance through your tarot practice. Cartomancy is like wakeful dreaming meditating on images that produce a sense of invigorating relaxation. That's why tarot and mindfulness go hand in hand, and this book makes it simple for you to unite these practices in fun and effective ways. Fiebig and Burger guide you through the entire deck, introducing you to the symbolic language of tarot and providing many spread suggestions. They also teach you how to best use the cards for special occasions, for answering mindfulness-related questions, and for overcoming challenges.

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The Philosopher's Stone is one of Israel Regardie's masterpieces. In it he analyzed three important alchemical treatises from the 17th century, explaining them symbolically, psychologically, and magically. Although the information is still vital to occultists, the presentation was dated. Now, famed occultists Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero bring the information up to date. The original is complete but the Hebrew transliteration has been corrected and the text is fully annotated and explained so that students in the 21st century can fully appreciate it. Also included in this third edition are new illustrations, a glossary, a biographical dictionary, a bibliography, an index, and a new introduction.

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This work explains how each of the 13 lunar months is connected with a different type of seasonal energy flow. It provides rituals and spells for tapping this energy and celebrating the phases. Chapters describe pagan rituals as well as related topics including Moon lore, spells and meditations.

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This volume is a complete resource to the study and practice of modern, non-denominational Wicca. The book is an illustrated, self-study course for the solitary or group. Included are rituals; exercises for developing psychic talents; information on all major "sects" of the craft; and sections on tools, beliefs, dreams, meditations, divination, herbal lore, healing and ritual clothing.

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Miniature Edition of the Mystical Manga Tarot. Small enough to fit in a pocket or a purse, you can carry this fun, little deck everywhere. Capturing the beautiful style and spirit of Japanese graphic, this mini tarot encourages you to step boldly onto the road of adventure and discover new opportunities. Based on the classic Rider-Waite deck but featuring Rann's gorgeous illustrations, this mini tarot has an elegance that supports the serious job of providing answers to life's tough questions. This is the mini edition of the Mystical Manga Tarot. Cards measure approximately 1.7' x 3'. Please note that this deck does not come with an instructional booklet.

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With splendid colour and exquisite detail, renowned artist Ciro Marchetti turns traditional Rider-Waite-Smith imagery into a launchpad for your creative expression.

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Treat yourself to spectacular artwork, spells, and rituals all year long with this moon-themed calendar. Featuring illustrations by renowned artists Abigail Larson, Barbara Tamilin, Sue Gent, and Mickie Mueller, Llewellyn's 2024 Magical Moon Calendar is a delightful, multi-purpose tool that will enhance your magical practice. Each stunning piece of art is accompanied by a spell, ritual, or fascinating bit of lore. In addition to standard US, UK, Canadian, and Pagan holidays, this calendar provides moon phases, eclipses, supermoons, and other astrological information related to the moon.

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The Card of the Day is the most common practice suggested to new tarot readers. Yet, it is a vague exercise that usually leaves a rookie with more confusion than clarity. Serving as both a companion and reference, this beginner's guide offers a variety of tools to help you make sense of this practice and build familiarity with the cards. Your Tarot Toolkit presents fast and effective ways to work with your single card draw. Each card entry includes an overview of its meaning, inspiring affirmations, and thought-provoking reflection questions. You will also discover engaging activities some that can be completed quickly and others that are more in-depth. This practical book makes it easy to begin a daily tarot practice and raise your confidence one card at a time.

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Expanding on techniques featured in Supercharged Self-Healing , RJ Spina shares new high-frequency metaphysics made simple and practical. This book helps you finally be free of the stress, doubts, and low energy that block your joy and quality of life. Change Your Mind uses revolutionary teachings to help rewire your subconscious mind and bring balance to your energy. Through a 14-day journaling exercise, you'll uncover the mental programming already affecting you, and then apply specialized activities to counteract it. RJ guides you every step of the way, providing meditations, mindfulness practices, and more. He demonstrates how to not only meet the real you, but also maintain and express it through numerous activities you can easily integrate into your daily life. With this book's help, you'll experience greater clarity, power, and freedom.

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