Magick Matters

“Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies” by Aidan Wachter (Kindle ebook version)

"Weaving Fate presents tools to help restore our connection to the Field, the Others, and our own intrinsic natures. These practices can help us to re-imagine the possibilities available to us and to shift our lives into more beneficial forms. The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a long-form written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being. The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Through it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire. The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in...>>

“Rise and Shine: An Astrological Guide to How You Show Up in the World” by Christopher Renstrom

"Unlock the secrets of who you are–as written in the stars. Astrology offers us a blueprint of our true selves, captured in the sky at the time we were born. Your rising sign is the face you show to others—not a mask, a persona, or a role that you play. Understanding your rising sign will help explain why you are sometimes misunderstood, and will help you direct the first impression you make on others in order to convey the real you. In Rise and Shine, veteran astrologer and columnist Christopher Renstrom unpacks all 144 Rising Sign/Sun sign combinations. This illuminating and engaging guide will help you navigate every relationship in your life—with a little help from...>>

“Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice” by Janet Boyer

"Spiritual adventurers are burning for truth, hungry for ways to affect and improve their destiny. Tarot can deliver, but most books offer impractical, confusing, irrelevant and regurgitated card interpretations, causing seekers to throw up their hands to say "I just don't get it!" The good news? No Golden Dawn snooze-fest or Crowley catatonia in the book you're holding. With raw simplicity and outrageous honesty, author Janet Boyer presents helpful, hilarious and relevant advice that will forever change how you see the cards, and finally equip you to understand, and read, the Tarot. No punches pulled. No sugarcoating. It's time to be forearmed, forewarned and foresighted. It's time to get...naked. Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice...>>

“Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema” edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen

"Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction). The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in film. Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting moviegoers’ collective conceptions of good and evil, right and wrong, sin and salvation. Giving the Devil His Due is the first book of its kind to examine the history and significance of Satan onscreen. This collection explores how the devil is not just one monster among many, nor is he the “prince of darkness” merely because he has repeatedly...>>

“Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories” edited by Alistair W.J. Kerr

"Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it’s because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with supernatural themes. The golden age was during the Victorian and Edwardian period, but the ghost story has continued to evolve and remains popular to this day. Includes stories from Sir Walter Scott, George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Boothby, Algernon Blackwood, Eileen Bigland, Ronald Duncan, James Robertson...>>