Archive for the 'Witchcraft' Category

Celebrating Wicca Every Day

Times have changed dramatically since Pagans were country folk. How do city Wiccans combine a nature philosophy with the concrete jungle? The author of Cat Magic, Dancing with Devas, Victorian Grimoire and many others is back with a transformational book that offers spells, rituals, prayers, incantations, family activities, and all manner of helpful hints for [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

J.K. Rowling Pulls a Muggle’s Move with Punitive Lawsuit

J.K. Rowling Pulls a Muggle’s Move with Punitive Lawsuit

Okay, we’re not what you’d call fans of the Harry Potter books here at Easy Witchcraft. Never mind that the series, which has enjoyed unprecedented marketing and therefore sales, is little more than rehashed old fantasy standbys peppered with embarrassingly awkward proper nouns. We’ll also set [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Drawing Down the Moon : Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America Today

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
The only detailed history of a little-known and widely misunderstood movement. Drawing Down the Moon provides a fascinating look at the religious experiences, beliefs, and lifestyles of the Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce

Trickster’s Choice
Your mother is the King’s Champion; your father is second in command of the realm’s spies.
Your godfathers are the King and one of his advisers.
Your godmothers are the Queen and her governess.
Your adoptive uncle is the realm’s most powerful mage who is married to your adoptive aunt who is also a mage as [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Ariadne’s Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic

Ariadne’s Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic
Using the figure of the ancient goddess Ariadne as a metaphor, Mountainwater unravels the mysteries of a woman-centered spirituality. She offers gentle guidance through the cycles of a woman’s life; the phases of the moon; the yearly nature holidays; and the aspects of divination. She concludes each chapter [...]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Astrology & Horoscopes

Astrology literally translates to mean “the study of stars”. The word comes from Greek: ἄστρον (astron), “star”, and λόγος (logos), “theory”, “study”.
The zodiac is the belt or band of constellations through which the Sun, Moon, and planets transit across the sky.
Star-gazers of every sort have long been fascinated by these constellations and the easy [...]

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

12 Steps to Finding a Spiritual Teacher You Can Trust

Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole (Folk Art and Artists Series)
Books abound on the array of neo-pagan faiths and Wiccan traditions, but after reading all we can, it is common to desire a teacher to inspire and guide us along our chosen path. Unfortunately, the world is full of hucksters eager to cash [...]

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Goddess™: On the Proliferation of Goddess Imagery in Popular Culture

Change happens slowly, but when it finally hits, the years of individual strides and steps culminate in a burst of change. Trouble is, change doesn’t always take effect in the ways we’d hoped.
When the “goddess movement” was birthed out of feminism in the early seventies by groups of women passionate about both political and [...]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008
What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes.