Magick Matters

“Energetic Bodywork: Practical Techniques” by Rita J. McNamara

"Finding the perfect balance between mind and body is the key to experiencing a whole, healthy, and energetic lifestyle. Haunting memories of past trauma or a major emotional change can, however, keep you from achieving this goal. Energetic Bodywork is a pioneering effort in the field of psychosomatic and alternative healing that demonstrates the links between specific body tissues and emotional stress, which ultimately leads to the solution best for you. Rita J. McNamara, a practicing counselor and therapist, explains the mechanics of the mind-body connection. She offers clear and comprehensive descriptions of various treatments that go beyond traditional massage and physical therapies to include working with the chakra system, meridians, and vibrational therapies....>>

“Gambler’s Dharma: Sports Betting with Vedic Astrology” by Simon Chokoisky

"Win bets on sporting events using the prediction system of Vedic Astrology • Describes the basics of Vedic Astrology and how it can be applied to sports betting • Outlines 5 powerful techniques for predicting the outcome of any one-on-one competition • Details how to determine the physical strength of each side, whose motivation and drive to win is strongest, and who has fate on their side Everything that is born, which has a lifespan and an ending, is a space-time event. That includes contests as well as human beings. And just as your personal astrological chart can describe success or failure in various areas of your life, so too can a contest chart created from the time,...>>

“The Cloisters: A Novel” by Katy Hays

"In this "sinister, jaw-dropping" (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary) debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity...>>

“Talking to Spirit: How to Become a Medium & Connect with the Afterlife” by Emily Stroia

"Are you curious about Spirit Communication and mediumship? Do you want to know how to talk to spirit guides, angels and passed loved ones? In this book you will discover and understand mediums and spirit communication, making contact with the Spirit World and many ways to communicate successfully with a passed loved one! Packed with exercises and ways to communicate with the Spirit World, you will learn everything there is to know on how to become a medium and spirit communication. Spirit loved ones have many ways of communicating with us. In this book you will learn the common signals and signs when a Spirit loved one is trying to communicate with you and...>>

“Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches” by Miriam Wallraven

"Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy,...>>