Full Description
This book is an invitation to find the spirits that you sense around you, to connect with them, honour them, and share their stories. Within these pages, you will discover that you can interact with deities, your beloved dead, and the Fae. These spirits can provide you with myriad gifts, but the channels of communication must be open first. Learn to reach out beyond the mundane world and commune with other realms of existence. Explore hands-on techniques for working with intention, developing your own place of power, and negotiating with the spirits that you contact. With dozens of exercises as well as instructions for beginners and experienced spiritual practitioners, this book is a guide to initiating and sustaining relationships that are more powerful than you could ever imagine.
Contents
Contents
Exercise List XIII
Acknowledgments XV
Foreword by Gede Parma XVII
Introduction: Why This Book? 1
Chapter 1: How to Develop Relationships with the Unseen 7
A Word of Warning: Know Thyself 15
Cultural Appropriation 15
Chapter 2: Ritual Basics 21
Set Up 22
Grounding Practice 22
Creating Sacred Space 30
The "Working" 31
Releasing Sacred Space 31
Glossary of Terms 31
SECTION ONE: DEVOTION
Chapter 3: Working with Deity 37 Getting to Know a Godd 38
These Godds 40
Chapter 4: Deities of Magick 51
Baba Yaga 52
Brigid 63
Morgan LeFay 71
Other Godds of Magick 81
Chapter 5: Deities of Mystery 83
Dionysus 84
Hapi 93
Mithras 100
Other Godds of Mystery 110
Chapter 6: Deities of Revolution 111
Aradia 112
Thor 121
Lilith 130
Other Godds of Revolution 141
SECTION TWO: HONOR
Chapter 7: Ancestors 145
Chapter 8: Beloved Dead 155
Grief as a Magickal Practice 156
Chapter 9: Mighty Dead 163
Gerald Gardner 165
Dion Fortune 167
Victor and Cora Anderson 169
Margot Adler 170
Connecting to the Mighty Dead 171
Chapter 10: All the Dead 173
Ancestral Herbs and Mixes 177
Forgotten Dead 180
SECTION THREE: CONNECTION
Chapter 11: Working with the Fae 183
The Story of Your Land 188
Local Flora and Fauna 189
Fae Courtesies 190
Where Is the Fae Realm? 193
Create Space 194
Fae Attractants 197
Further Workings with Your Ally 214
Leave Offerings 214
Pay Attention 217
The Fae Realm 217
SECTION FOUR: PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
Chapter 12: The Wheel of the Year 221
January 223
February 224
March 224
April 225
May 226
June 226
July 227
August 228
September 229
October 229
November 230
December 231
Daily Practice 231
Bibliography 235
Contributor Bios 237
