From a variety of spells and rituals to methods for making your own wand, master wandmaker Alferian Gwydion MacLir presents a wealth of knowledge that witches of all levels can use. It also features nuggets of wisdom written by well-known witches that show how the wand is a constant companion and source of inspiration in the magical life. Moon Spell Magic is intended to be a practical and inspirational handbook to making magic from spells for each day of the week: rituals for romance seasonal sacred energy altars secrets for money magic and, everything in between The wisdom of Wiccan religion: Moon Spells Magic contains an abundance of folk wisdom as well as many modern pagan practices that will help you learn the necessary lore and background information for creating the life of your dreams.
Rituals and incantations can lead to great personal growth. Witches are the among the most devoted spiritual seekers. This book can be an important tool for gaining a deep grounding in magical correspondences, astrological associations, and the myths behind the magic. Whether you are looking to conjure up a supernatural Saturday for your coven or rid your home of negative energy and blocks to happiness, this numinous guide can help you turn your home into a personal pagan power center and have fun in the process.
The moon has enormous power and celestial energy; by harnessing that, you can improve your life every day with the spells in this book. Whenever and wherever you are, word magic is with you. During times of chaos or pain, or simply when you need a cosmic boost, writing can help. In fact, healers, therapists, and magical practitioners have long incorporated writing in their practices.
From letter writing for creating closure to dream diaries, writing is a powerful process for moving your dreams into manifestation. The Magical Writing Grimoire approaches writing as a self-actualizing, intentional, and healing act. You will learn how to combine writing with ritual and magic for self-discovery, clarifying intentions, creating and making things happen, and manifestation.
You will also be guided in how to create a personal grimoire—a magical book of self rituals, spells, and intentions. Each chapter contains writing prompts that also incorporate magical ritual and tools including working with crystals, spell incantation, or candle alchemy. Other rituals and prompts may be set up for certain moon phases or ask you to bury or burn a piece of paper. Equal parts practical and inspiring, The Magical Writing Grimoire shows you how to wield your word as your wand.
Tens of thousands of individuals and groups have used this course as their primary instruction manual. Now, greatly revised and expanded, this set of lessons is more complete and relevant to your life than ever. Written with respect for the student, Modern Magick will safely guide you—even if you know little or nothing—through a progressive series of practical exercises and rituals, complemented by the knowledge, history, insights, and theory you need to become a successful ceremonial magician.
Firmly rooted in the Western magickal tradition yet designed to be fully compatible with your contemporary practice, this book will help you attain full mastery of all core topics in magick: The inner mysteries of the Kabalah The most powerful rituals of magick How to create and perform your own rituals True meditation Magickal ethics Astral projection Tools of magick Evocation of spirits Pathworking Tantra and sex magick The importance of the Tarot Talismans and amulets Secrets of visualization Alchemy Psychic self-defense Healing rituals Filled with personal stories and helpful illustrations, along with updated and brand-new material, this new edition of Modern Magick features a completely new lesson that reveals the concepts, techniques, and rituals of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Chaos Magick, and Postmodern Magick.
Ideal for beginning, intermediate, or advanced students, and perfect as a manual for magickal temples, this is essential reading for every true magician. You can take that, and walk out in the open with a bunch of people who have no ethical or moral qualms about cursing. I also have some serious issue with the victim blaming in this book basically saying that you invited all your bad shit to happen to you through the philosophy which is in this book about selves.
That is absolutely not going to fly with me as victims are NOT responsible for what happens to them. People are not in control of every little bit of their lives. Absolutely not fucking okay to blame victims. Also, spells in paragraph form. But the author definitely makes up for that was the disability shaming and racism, because it seemed like every two chapters one or the other would pop up here and there. Which was so enjoyable, right?
All in all, this book is not worth, in my opinion, going through at all. But you are more than welcome to view it on your own obviously. View all 6 comments. I loved the appendices, exercises, and further reading sections! Everything was sourced and there was a clear path to follow if you wanted more information on what Amber K discussed. The way some things were presented did seem rather rigid and inflexible to me, though.
Also, because of the state of the world, I'll leave a warning here for quite a few mentions of the Harry Potter books. Jan 04, Sara rated it liked it. Some very basic information about magical energy and such. But a little too "new-age-y" for me. Plus, I just can't spell magic with a k and not feel a little pretentious.
View 1 comment. Jun 08, Mical rated it it was amazing Shelves: instructional-nonfiction. This was the first book I picked up when I began to explore alternative faiths and religions. The language is warm and open and the author encourages spiritual awareness and health more than anything. I highly recommend it to anyone, regardless of religion for its' insightful look at spiritual health and well being. Feb 21, M. True Magick is seriously about the practice of real life magic.
It is a book that can convince even the non-believers of magic to reconsider their position. How does Amber K achieve this seemingly impossible task?
It is the structure, content and extraordinary level of knowledge, delivered in a very well-written prose, that allow her to put the magic k into the magick.
Very few books, even amongst academic texts, nowadays possess a kind of structure that allows the reader to be clearly and g True Magick is seriously about the practice of real life magic.
Very few books, even amongst academic texts, nowadays possess a kind of structure that allows the reader to be clearly and gradually led into a topic. Amber K seems to be a master of it. First, she clearly defines magick, explaining what is magick, what is not magick and what purpose magick serves. She offers a historical lesson and properly connects magick with the disciplines of science and religion. Soon, both the possibilities and ethical boundaries become very clear to the reader.
Then, Amber K describes the types of magick a person can practice and takes the reader step by step through the safe, practical and ethical application of it. Hence, the book is so well-structured that there are no questions or puzzles left either in any area Amber K deals with, as she moves from one section to the next, or at the conclusion of the book. The structure also supports the clearly presented content. Amber K definitely wins that challenge. The language and the material are at a level that supports the understanding of the general public but still allows for complex material to be presented even about quantum physics, humanistic psychology and metaphysics.
It is a remarkable achievement that, even in the academic world of teaching books, very few professors can ever master. The proper balance between the overly technical presentation at the risk of losing the audience and the oversimplification of a topic for the sake of understanding is usually a losing battle. It is remarkable that Amber K manages—shall we say magically?
In this book, she also does something that she neglects to do in her other books. She actually shows how much knowledge she has, not just about magick, but also about other topics. It is stunning to see her high level of knowledge in the area of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, mythologies, eastern philosophies, quantum physics, chemistry, alchemy, humanistic psychology, astronomy, astrology, religion and, of course, paganism in general.
The author is so well-educated and learned that this level of knowledge is usually seen in older professors whose job is to spend their lives reading books!
It would be wonderful if she could let her readers know about her hidden knowledge in areas other than in paganism in all her books! Critics of True Magick often point out that even though she is trying to write a book about magick in general, she often falls into the trap of offering the Wiccan interpretation of the subject material.
It may be true that she falls back on her tradition when she is giving advice on the practical application of magick. However, this criticism is too harsh. Magick is not without tradition. Simply, magick does not exist in a vacuum. It is not possible to present both a theoretical and a practical application of magick without situating it into one or another tradition.
Trying to present the subject of magick without any tradition is like trying to talk about angels without any religion or trying to offer a particular quantum explanation of reality without any school of physics behind it. It just cannot be done! In fact, thinking about the impossibility of presenting without a tradition, Amber K actually does a great job keeping the topic general with her background in paganism as a Wiccan priestess.
There is just one shortcoming of this book. Amber K presents five types of magick: nature magick, intrinsic magick, ceremonial magick, hermetic magick and kitchen witch magick. She works out the first three types of magick in details, covering them in individual chapters.
Unfortunately, for an unknown reason, she refuses to work out the details of hermetic magick and kitchen witch magick. Thus, the philosophically inspired people, like me, and potential everyday kitchen magicians never learn about the source that makes them happy to get up in the morning!
Despite this small shortcoming, True Magick is truly magic k al. It is the most remarkable book anyone can read about real life magick. It is also one of the most well-designed, well-created and well-written books a person can have on the book shelf. University professors can truly be envious of this masterpiece!
Oct 07, Kathryn rated it really liked it. I read this book when it was first published. It is the perfect book for a beginner. I hope that I saved my copy because my granddaughter wants to follow this path. The book emphasizes magic's spiritual potential over its practical application. I'm guessing this is why the book isn't much of a magical "cookbook"—the author hasn't spent much time writing up one-size-fits-all spells for you to chant thoughtlessly.
But over the course of the entire book, this left me wishing Amber K would slow down on discussing ethics, improving your health, the three-part model of the self, balancing the elemental star, etc. Dec 07, Sara rated it it was ok.
I did not like the way this book was written, at all. It was very jumbled and jumped around quite a bit. Also, the author says without outright saying it that anyone with mental illness cannot practice magick because of various reasons. So where does that leave someone who may have picked this book up as their first book to read, and are immediately told they aren't "good enough?
That alone makes me quest I did not like the way this book was written, at all. That alone makes me question anything the author wrote. Jan 11, Kerr Cuhulain rated it it was amazing Shelves: wicca-and-pagan-spirituality. An excellent book for those staring out in Pagan spirituality. I highly recommend it. The results never seemed supernatural; that is, they did not flout gravity or produce something from nothing.
Often they seemed synchronistic, almost coincidental, but the excuse of coincidence only stretches so far. The subtlety. Chapter 2 -- A Brief History of Magick.
I had a freaky nightmare which I -- perhaps incorrectly -- associated with reading this part of the book. I'm not sure I can explain why. But I'm clearly most comfortable with the theoretical at the moment, at least when it comes to me personally. I think this is tied into the fact that my soul type is the scholar. I'm more comfortable learning and advising as opposed to doing personally.
Details like magick may fuck with electronics or disturb pets made me uncomfortable. I don't want to scare my kitties. But ultimately my fear is separating the will towards good things vs unconscious fears being manifest. But writing this down after reading the chapter on the 3 aspects of self, I realize those fears are what you are expected to work on when becoming better aquainted with your younger self.
Most of the individual premises resound with the possible exception of needing to witness an event for it to be real. I mean I get half way there with the idea that an observer changes what they are observing by their presence, but there is still the tree falling in the forest metaphor to account for.
The "laws" of nature are not universal -- ex: life on anther planet may not be carbon based. There are an infinite number of kinds of particles -- protons, neutrons, electrons, and the infinite number below that level as proposed by superstring theory. There is no difference between matter and energy -- things sometimes act like particles of matter and other times act like waves of energy.
Mostly, everything is empty space -- in the sense that an atom is more empty space than particles. The world is only real because we are watching it.
There is not one universe, there are infinite universes -- aka parallel universes. Time isn't real -- or rather, time isn't linear. The universe is not predictable. The speed of light is no limit. Energy is abundant. Everything is connected. Possibilities are infinite. They use the terms middle self, younger self, and higher self. But they roughly correspond to Freud's ego, id, and superego.
Without the negative implications of the id. Or simply the conscious mind, the subsconscious, and the superconscious. Or tying it to the biology, the frontal lobe, the animal brain, and the soul.
Actually, this chapter feels less like magick and more like self-actualization. But they propose that you should get to know your inner child or the animal representation of your younger self. The younger self holds all the self incriminations for past wrong doings, in childhood, in adulthood, and perhaps in past lives.
Healing those wounds connects you more closely to your younger self. And you must go through your younger self to reach your higher self. Their description of the Lovers card in the tarot serves as a nice visual model. They propose that your higher self is a pair of spirits, male and female. Like guardian angels, but within, not without. They represent our conscience, our intuition, and our connection to the divine.
As to how this connects to magick: "Effective magick works like this: the Middle Self chooses a purpose in harmony with its True Will; it communicates this purpose to the Younger Self, triggering emotion and physical activity to raise power; the Younger Self boosts the power and channels it to the Higher Self, along with a clear image of the goal; and the Higher Self uses the power to manifest the desired result. Middle Self experiences the result, and the circle is complete.
Often, would-be magicians fail because they address the Higher Self directly, without going through Eve or the Younger Self. Some aspiring magicians, still more limited in their understanding, even leave out the Higher Self, believing that they can do magick through the unaided power of the intellect.
But this is simply ego talking to itself, which accomplishes nothing. A creative imagination is knowing what you want and being able to visualize it. True Will is about heart and passion.
It's about self-confidence and keeping your word. Faith is about faith in yourself and the power of magic. Silence is about that deep quiet place inside yourself. And love is the reminder to give power to things you love, not things you hate.
Sep 17, Kosjitov rated it liked it Shelves: wicca , occult-magic-pagan. Amber K's True Magic is certainly a book that I would recommend to the true beginner witch and seeker. This last is often neglected or omitted from other books and for that reason alone I felt the book was worth more than just the "It's OK" two stars.
The problems that keep it from being higher is that I don't like Amber K's True Magic is certainly a book that I would recommend to the true beginner witch and seeker. Jun 23, Jaqui rated it it was amazing Shelves: woo-esoterica. Note: I read the more recent edition of this book, the revised and expanded version. Now here is a wonderful, thorough introduction to magick. I've read many, many books about Wicca and magick, many 'for beginners' and 'introductions.
Amber K focuses on the essentials that aren't as romantic or appealing to novices and drives those points home in a clear and caring style. She covers the fun stuff, like the tools and sty Note: I read the more recent edition of this book, the revised and expanded version.
She covers the fun stuff, like the tools and styles of magick and spells, but always in a manner that brings it back to the individual. Magick IS individual, personal. Every person will have unique skills, interests, manifestations, and experiences. There is no one exact way to do it. Amber K gently reminds readers, over and over, of that. Where she does get into should and must, it's not about how to place tools and call quarters, its about the work and the ethics of magick.
She's not pulling punches here, giving leeway or quick fixes. She firmly insists that becoming an adept takes time and effort, years of study, practice and self-examination. The path of the magickal adept is not for everyone, and too often these days I see the popularization of this work making it out to be It's refreshing to read a book that takes the more unpopular stance and warning -- you don't become a Witch overnight.
You're not born a Witch. You can become one, if you're willing to do the work. True Magick gives you the tools to begin the work, with many practical exercises and huge amounts of wisdom. I particularly liked the Elemental Star Chart and the Magickal Style Aptitude Test, two tools that are illuminating and super helpful at any stage of study. I'll be going back to those again and again.
Typically beginner's guides don't talk about the differences between theurgy and thaumaturgy, what they are and what kind of work falls where and why you might choose to focus on one or the other.
I think that's important information for novices. It helps build the mental framework for the ethics of magickal work, which is so, so central.
True Magick does not gloss over ethics, another huge point in its favor. There's an entire section exploring different scenarios and the ethics of using magick in them. Highly recommended. Jun 25, Crankyfacedknitter rated it liked it Shelves: I think the thing I took most from this book is that Wicca is not a path I'm interested in pursuing. This particular representation of it is highly formalized in many aspects, and it's a description of a religion from a heavily orthodox source.
Not wrong, just That's fine. This was also written thirty years ago now, and although it's been somewhat updated, it is still heavily gendered and suffers from a lot of encouragement to just appropriate whatever you need from another c I think the thing I took most from this book is that Wicca is not a path I'm interested in pursuing. This was also written thirty years ago now, and although it's been somewhat updated, it is still heavily gendered and suffers from a lot of encouragement to just appropriate whatever you need from another culture's traditions.
So it's of its time, and many people are waking up to the realization of how inappropriate and harmful that can be, especially when we're not acknowledging that it has been happening this whole time, and why. I'm not sorry I read it; there are a lot of terms in there which I didn't know. I learned names for things which I can investigate later, and it was interesting to see some patterns for complex rituals which is far beyond my reach as a beginner, and frankly would turn me off if I thought that was the only way to witchcraft.
It's not a bad book, but it's dated, and I feel there are probably more relevant ones out there to draw from first. Mar 17, Mermaid Michelle rated it liked it.
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