28.06.2023

“Walking with Elemental Spirits: How to Work with Elemental Spirits and get Consistent Results” by Taylor Ellwood

Magick Matters

"In Walking with Elemental Spirits I share the modern system I’ve developed for working with elemental spirits that gets you consistent results while helping you build collaborative relationships with the elemental spirits. The elemental spirits can be potent allies to work with and in this book you’ll learn how the practical magic skills that you can use to forge strong relationships with the elemental spirits that allow you to work with them as allies. In this book you will also learn the following: The classic Hermetic and Taoist systems of the 5 elements, and my modernized system of elemental magic. How to connect with elemental spirits using evocation portals...>>

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28.06.2023

“The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You” by Karla McLaren (2023 edition, revised and updated)

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Featuring significant updates, the new edition of this beloved book takes readers to the heart of each emotion’s powerful gifts and messages. Every emotion―even shame, anger, and anxiety―brings us vital information and wisdom. Emotions―especially the unwanted and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy. "Too often, we either repress our feelings or let them run wild", says researcher and educator Karla McLaren. "What many of us were never taught are the fundamental skills for honoring and understanding our profound, powerful emotions". In this new edition of The Language of Emotions, McLaren takes us much deeper than naming or managing our feelings―she teaches us to listen to the messages within each emotion, reflect on their...>>

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27.06.2023

“Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Classic Collection of Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural” by Pu Songling (newer translation by Herbert Giles, 164 stories)

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"Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and...>>

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27.06.2023

“Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” by Pu Songling (translated by John Minford, 104 stories)

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"Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the...>>

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27.06.2023

“The Hermetic Marriage of Art and Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work” by Marlene Seven Bremner

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy • Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operations • Explains how to work with and transmute alchemical energies for increased levels of insight, intuition, and imaginative expression • Explores the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and complicated symbolism of alchemical art In this initiatory guide to the Hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveals how the alchemical opus, the Great Work, offers a practical means for liberating the authentic creator within and attaining gnosis, or true self-knowledge. Exploring the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and...>>

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