“Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling” by Nijay K. Gupta

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions of the ancient world. Award-winning author, blogger, speaker, and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context in this accessible and engaging book. Christianity would have been seen as radical in the Roman ...>>

“The Inner Tarot: A Modern Approach to Self-Compassion and Empowered Healing Using the Tarot” by Kate Van Horn

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Are you longing to rewrite your personal narrative, connect to your purpose, and pursue it with confidence? Do you seek a grounded approach to connecting to your intuition, being seen, heard, and heart-led? "Anyone interested in falling in love with their mind, body, and spirit should look to the tarot", says intuitive healer and tarot reader Kate Van Horn. "Tarot has an uncanny knack for illuminating what already exists in our energies, bodies, and intuitions. When harnessed, it can serve as a helpful tool for profound self-acceptance and healing." The Inner Tarot isn't just a book about how to read the cards. It's a guidebook for those ready to embark on a healing ...>>

“Cosmic Care: Astrology, Lunar Cycles, and Birth Charts for Self-Care and Empowerment” by Valerie Tejeda

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "An guide to describing how to align your self-care with the astrological seasons, including material on birth charts and lunar cycles. From the author of the bestselling Audible Originals Self Care by the Signs and Self Care by the Moon, Valerie Tejeda’s Cosmic Care is a guide to living well by harmonizing your self-care practice with the movement of the seasons, the stars, and the lunar cycle. Each of the 12 chapters on the zodiac signs includes to following to support your well-being: a description of that season's energy a ritual a meditation affirmations journal prompts tarot and oracle card spreads a list of correspondences crystals and herbs that support that sign's ...>>

“The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague” by Peter Marshall

"Rudolf II―Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the Romans―is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576–1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized as a sixteenth century Who's Who, Rudolf 's collection of mathematicians, alchemists, artists, philosophers and astronomers―among them the greatest and most subversive minds of the time―was no less prestigious and perhaps even more influential. Driven to understand the deepest secrets of nature and the riddle of existence, Rudolf invited to his court an endless stream of genius―Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, German mathematician Johannes Kepler, English magus John Dee, Francis ...>>

“Dragons and Serpents: Earth Mysteries and the Time of Change” by Stefan Broennle

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Explores the importance of dragon and serpent energies and symbols from prehistory to the present around the world • Explains how dragons and serpents are bearers of the elemental and archetypal energies of the Earth • Examines myths, legends, and symbols of dragons and serpents in many cultures, including their positive associations in Asia and their often misinterpreted negative meanings in Christianity • Reveals the geomantic meaning of dragon energy and how to reconnect to it for supporting the Earth in these times of change Revealing how dragons and serpents are deeply embedded in the story of humankind and the Earth itself, from prehistory to the present, Stefan Broennle takes us on a ...>>