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BOOKS - SABBATS AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS | |
| Beltane, Springtime Rituals | |
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By Raven Grimassi. Discover the roots of Beltane or bright fire, the ancient Pagan festival that celebrates spring and the return of nature’s season of growth and renewal. The author reveals the history behind the revelry, and shows you how to welcome this sacred season of fertility, growth, and gain. By using the symbols of May presented here, we can once again embrace the ways of Nature and move closer to living with Her in a common cause. Softcover, 165 pgs. |
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Item #: BBELTA |
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| Candlemas - Feast of Flames | |
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By Amber K and Azrael Arynn K. Known as Candlemas, Imbolg, Brigantia, or Lupercalia, it is a hope-filled celebration held in early February to welcome the returning light and the promise of spring. This book sheds light on the origins, lore, and customs of this ancient holy day with myths and stories, magick and divination, festivals and traditions, and rituals for purification, blessings, and renewal from many cultures around the world. Softcover, 244 pgs. |
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Item #: BCNDMS |
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| Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain to Ostara | |
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by Ashleen O'Gaea. Unique among books about the Wiccan Sabbats, Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain To Ostara takes a different approach to explaining the holidays by looking in-depth at half of the Wheel of the Year. Rather than dissecting each holiday, Ashleen`s goal is to take a broader look at them, explaining how and why we celebrate each, along with how the celebration of one leads to the next. Soft Cover 221 pgs. |
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Item #: CELSSO |
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| Green Wiccan Year | |
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by Silja. Designed in the traditional style of the Wiccan calendar and starting with the Witches` New Year, Samhain on October 31st, all the main festivals are detailed including Yule Lore, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, and finally Mabon, the harvest festival. For each key date, Silja explains the traditions, symbols and rituals associated with the festival, such as the magic circle, the pentagram and the importance of the sun and moon. There are spells and meditations for each day throughout the journal as well as room for a daily record of your own experiences, notes and reminders. There are even green household tips and witchery wisdom for the kitchen and garden to help you connect with the environment, the core element upon which Wiccan beliefs are formed. This is a 144 page hardcover book. |
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Item #: GRWIYR |
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| Handfasted and Heartjoined | |
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By Lady Maeve Rhea. A handfasting is a magickal rite in which two people who seek to join their lives enter into a contract before their gods and loved ones to abide together, physically and spiritually. The two join as equals (the bride is never 'given away'), celebration expenses are shared equally by all parties, and, most importantly, a handfasting union has a mutually agreed upon duration -- anywhere from 'a year and a day' to 'for as long as our love shall last.' Information provided includes: a Simple Rite of Handfasting, a High Rite of Handfasting, and the Rite of Becoming One, a ritual in which the couple magickally join their spirits after a year of physical and spiritual preparation; practical advice on planning your handfasting -- what to do and not do yourself, how to save money, time and emotional trauma, and how to explain the ceremony to non-Pagan friends and family; preparatory rituals and spiritual exercises; sample planning forms and invitations; ideas for readings and musical selections; a listing of the marriage laws in each state -- so you can find out if your handfasting will be 'legal' where you live. This book will help you and your partner to decide whether you are truly ready to take this special step. Paperback, 164 pages. |
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Item #: BHANDF |
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| Handfasting and Wedding Rituals | |
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by Kaldera/ Schwartzstein. Handfasting and Wedding Rituals has everything you need to plan the perfect Pagan wedding. You`ll find advice and examples to help you with basic wedding planning, writing vows, and ritual construction, along with practical tips and great ideas about everything from low-cost wedding favors to candle and bonfire safety. Handfasting and Wedding Rituals also includes sixteen full rites honoring a wide variety of Pagan traditions. Rituals in their full form can be used exactly as printed or modified to fit your needs. Each rite is categorized as level one, two, or three depending on their level of overt Pagan content and degree of participation expected from your guests. Paperback 320 pgs. |
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Item #: BHAND2 |
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| Ostara, Customs, Spells and Rituals | |
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By Edain McCoy. Embrace Ostara as a point of balance in your life, a moment in time where both dark and light, night and day are in harmony before the light is victorious and carries us on to the bounty of summer pleasures. 'Ostara' is packed with rituals, spells, recipes, crafts and customs to celebrate the awaking of earth. This delightful guidebook will help you deepen your understanding of the spiritual aspects of this ancient spring holiday, and discover new ideas for expressing that spirituality. 198 pages. |
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Item #: BOSTAR |
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| Pagan Mysteries of Halloween | |
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by Jean Markale. One of humanity's most enduring myths is that the dead, on certain nights of the year, can leave the Other World and move freely about the land of the living. Every year on October 31, when the children of the world parade through the streets dressed as monsters, skeletons, and witches, they reenact a sacred ceremony whose roots extend to the dawn of time. By receiving gifts of sweets from strangers, the children establish, on a symbolic plane that exceeds their understanding, a fraternal exchange between the visible world and the invisible world. Author Jean Markale meticulously examines the rituals and ceremonies of ancient festivities on this holiday and shows how they still shape the customs of today's celebration. During the night of Samhain, the Celtic precursor of today's holiday, the borders between life and death were no longer regarded as insurmountable barriers. Two-way traffic was temporarily permitted between this world and the Other World, and the wealth and wisdom of the sidhe, or fairy folk, were available to the intrepid individuals who dared to enter their realm. Markale enriches our understanding of how the transition from the light to the dark half of the year was a moment in which time stopped and allowed the participants in the week-long festival to attain a level of consciousness not possible in everyday life, an experience we honor in our modern celebrations of Halloween. Softcover, 160 pgs. |
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Item #: PGMYHA |
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| Sabbats | |
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By Edain McCoy. Mark the passing of time and honor each season with sacred ritual and seasonal craftwork, ancient stories and traditional treats. Create a colorful mask for Samhain, make a honey cake for Imbolg, fashion a chaplet of flowers for Bealtaine, bake a Brigid’s Blackberry pie for Lughnasadh, even accompany your sabbat festivities with music from eight traditional musical scores -- it’s easy with this book as your guide. Learn how to combine old customs with new expressions of your beliefs and your chosen tradition. Deepen your connection to the turning of the wheel as you celebrate the eight sacred seasons of the Witches’ year. Paperback, 355 pages. |
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Item #: BSABBA |
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| Summer Solstice: Celebrating the Journey of the Sun from May Day to Harvest | |
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by John Matthews. Wherever we are, we are under the sun. As it rises, we greet the new day; as it melts away at dusk, we return to hearth and home for rest. Its life-giving warmth undoubtedly inspired humanity's oldest rituals, especially at the winter and summer solstices in December and June, when the sun's strength begins to wax or wane as the seasons change again. Reclaiming these ancient traditions for contemporary use, this stunning new book completes the cycle John Matthews began in his 1998 award-winning The Winter Solstice. His subject is the mythic history of the sun as a source of fertility and fortune worldwide--from ancient sun gods and ceremonial dances, to the European customs of the Maypole and the love magic of Midsummer Night, to rituals for harvesting rice in the Far East. Today we can still come together at May Day, Midsummer, and Harvest-time, just as our ancestors did. Resplendent with full-color illustrations, this multicultural sourcebook helps us connect with the past and celebrate the present with stories and songs, crafts and games, and recipes for feasting to enjoy with family and friends. Hardcover, 144 pgs, 208 color illus. |
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Item #: SUSOCE |
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