Full Description
Through its five attributes of Love, Law, Wisdom, Liberty, and Knowledge, the Pearl Pentacle shows you how to engage intimately with your community. This book helps you develop a deep and dynamic connection with yourself and others through numerous hands-on activities. Featuring contributions by ten authors and teachers, including Starhawk, Irisanya Moon, and Dawn Isidora, Magic of the Pearl Pentacle is written from the Reclaiming Witchcraft perspective. This passionate collaboration between diverse voices explores each point of the pentacle in depth, delving into philosophical, magical, political, personal, and social ideas. These words invite us to take up this work; to kiss the moon, the sea, and the stars in our blood.
Contents
Contents
Foreword (Phoenix LeFae) xvii
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 9
Reclaiming's Principles of Unity 13
LOVE 17
Love Is a Revolution 18
Activity: Love Poem 31
Ritual: Opening to Love as a Current 34
Love Is Art (Pandora O'Mallory) 37
Process: Choosing Love 45
Spell: Love Potion 49
What Is Remembered Lives (Willow Kelly) 52
LAW 63
Law: That Which Must Be 64
Ritual: Lawful Boundaries 77
Process: Law Keeper, Law Breaker, Law Maker 80
My Law Is Love Unto All Beings (Starhawk) 83
Exercise: Tuning In to Land, Indigenous Communities and Teachings 93
Activity: Laws of This Land 96
A Personal Response to the Collision of Colonial and Indigenous Law 99
WISDOM 111
The Pearl of Wisdom 112
Trance: Ancestral Wisdom 125
Practice: Wisdom Altars and Shrines 129
Wisdom of Land, Lineage, and Tradition (Raven Edgewalker)132
Activity: Wisdom Conversation 140
Ritual: Wisdom of the Self 143
We Are the Wisdom of Our Living Tradition (Hilary Buffum) 146
LIBERTY 157
The Work of Liberation 158
Process Part 1: What Binds You 172
Process Part 2: Ritual of Unbinding 175
Am I Free? (Susannerae)178
Process: Allies and Witnesses 186
Ritual: Liberation Pledge with Brigid 189
Envisioning Gender Liberation (Alex Iantaffi) 192
KNOWLEDGE 203
Knowledge Rewrites Us 204
Activity: Gates of Knowledge 218
Spell: Apples and Pomegranates 221
Distilling the Knowledge of a Tradition (Irisanya Moon) 224
Process: Bringing Your Knowledge into the World 232
Activity: Divining Knowledge 236
Knowledge Is Initiation (Ravyn Stanfield) 239
A Pentacle of Bridges (Dawn Isidora) 248
Ritual Basics: Acknowledgment of Country 255
Grounding 259
Creating Magical Space 261
Honoring the Elements 263
Triple Soul Alignment 266
Pearl Pentacle Tools
The Iron and Pearl Pentacles—Running the Currents 271
Pearl in 3D and Out in the World 277
References 281
Recommended Resources 283
Contributors 287
