Magick Matters

24.01.2023

“Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven” by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

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"Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven" by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman
"A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make it disappear. Want to increase your energy? Whip up a tasty herbal “potion” to rev up your stamina. DIY projects, rituals, and spells—along with fun historical sidebars—summon the best trends of the modern witchy lifestyle and the time-trusted traditions of the hell-raising women of the past. With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could...>>
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24.01.2023

“Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life” by Andreas Elpidorou

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"Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life" by Andreas Elpidorou
"Discover the value of discontent and how boredom, frustration, and anticipation make our lives better. Many of our endeavors—be it personal or communal, technological or artistic—aim at eradicating all traces of dissatisfaction from our daily lives. They seek to cure us of our discontent in order to deliver us a fuller and flourishing existence. But what if ubiquitous pleasure and instant fulfillment make our lives worse, not better? What if discontent isn't an obstacle to the good life but one of its essential ingredients? In Propelled, Andreas Elpidorou makes a lively case for the value of discontent and illustrates how boredom, frustration, and anticipation are good for us. Weaving together stories...>>
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24.01.2023

“A Pocket Guide to Tarot Card Archetypes: When You Don’t Want to Carry Around a Library” by Abbi Clark

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"A Pocket Guide to Tarot Card Archetypes: When You Don't Want to Carry Around a Library" by Abbi Clark
"As the title suggests, this pocket-sized guide to tarot archetypes will save you the difficulty of carrying around your whole library of reference texts for convenience while conducting readings on the go. With a guide to choosing the right deck for you, suggestions for when and where to perform readings, instructions for your basic three-card draw, and the commonly accepted meanings of different elements in the Major and Minor Arcana, this little zine is a perfect companion to any tarot deck, and can provide novice tarot readers and more experienced practitioners alike with a handy reference. Grab a copy to give to a friend along with a new deck, or pick one up to...>>
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24.01.2023

“Unfamiliar Familiars: Extraordinary Animal Companions for the Modern Witch” by Megan Lynn Kott and Justin DeVine

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"Unfamiliar Familiars: Extraordinary Animal Companions for the Modern Witch" by Megan Lynn Kott and Justin DeVine
"Unfamiliar Familiars is a comprehensive and humorous handbook to finding and caring for the unconventional animal companion. This guide will help you find the animal best suited to your personality and particular magical needs. Animals include a narwhal (strong in clairvoyance and fencing), an albatross (best for sea-faring witches), or an earthworm (for garden-based magic and fish summoning). • Features real-world facts with a playful, magical spin • Includes a helpful quiz for finding your own familiar • Brimming with suggested names, strengths, weaknesses, and more Forget the toads and black cats: Every witch is unique, so shouldn't you have a familiar as one-of-a-kind and extraordinary as yourself? Unfamiliar Familiars is an entertaining and educational guide to a menagerie of magical,...>>
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