Magick Matters

“Wicca Herbal Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Herbal Spellcraft” by Lisa Chamberlain (retail ebook version, alternate rip)

"Since the beginning of human history, healers and shamans have understood the nutritional, medicinal, and magical properties of herbs. Whether you’re well versed in magic but are just discovering herbs, or are new to Wicca altogether, this handy guide by popular author Lisa Chamberlain covers all the basics, from creating your own magical garden to gathering, harvesting, drying, and storing the herbs. She centers the spells around 13 herbs, most easy to find and inexpensive: basil, bay laurel, chamomile, cinnamon, dandelion, elecampane, hibiscus, lavender, mugwort, nutmeg, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Because they’re primarily culinary and/or medicinal herbs too, you’ll have plenty of options for using the leftovers from your spellwork. The spells include magical...>>

“Wicca Crystal Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Crystal Spellcraft” by Lisa Chamberlain (retail ebook version)

" How do you begin collecting crystals—even on a budget? How do you clean, clear, and charge them? And which crystals are the best and most versatile? Wicca Crystal Magic explores these gifts of the earth, providing an overview of 13 popular crystals and stones in contemporary witchcraft, along with a comprehensive look at their practical applications in everyday spellwork. Since the spells themselves use only the stones featured in the guide—amethyst, bloodstone, carnelian, citrine, hematite, jet, moonstone, jade, lapis lazuli, malachite, quartz, rose quartz, and tiger’s eye—this is perfect for beginners. The wide variety of elixirs, candle spells, and charms includes a Citrine Empowerment Elixir, Blessing for a New Home, Crystal Money Spell,...>>

“A History of the Goddess: From the Ice Age to the Bible” by Edward Dodge

"Before the rise of monotheism, the early Hebrews were pagan and God had a wife, the Mother Goddess. The Bible tells the story of their divorce. Goddess worship promoted equality for women, social justice, spiritual connection to nature and the cycles of life, cannabis, sexual freedom, celebrated transgenders, and practiced abortions. When the Goddess was thrown out of the Hebrew temple by the monotheists, so too were all of these deeply ancient traditions. Many familiar Bible stories and characters are reinterpreted by showing where the Goddess appears and the Bible is reframed by comparing it to the mythologies of neighboring cultures."...>>

“The Physics of Transfigured Light: The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science” by Leon Marvell

"Contemporary scientific disciplines such as chaos and complexity theory, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science treat themselves as new fields of inquiry, but many of these ideas can be traced back to Hermeticism, the European intellectual tradition sparked by the rediscovery of the Corpus Hermeticum and Platonic texts in the 15th century. Building a map of the progression of scientific thought across centuries and continents, Leon Marvell examines the ancient roots of Hermeticism, its rise during the Renaissance, and its suppression during the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment. He reveals how three main Hermetic ideas—the divine spark within each individual, the subtle body, and the anima mundi or world soul—have continually emerged at the cutting edge...>>