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"Amythyst Raine is an author known for her work in the realm of spirituality, witchcraft, and the metaphysical. Her books often explore themes related to paganism, tarot, and spiritual practices. On Amazon, you can find a variety of her published works, including titles like "Tarot: A Witch's Journey", where she combines personal experiences with tarot wisdom, and "The Spiritual Feminist", which delves into the empowerment of women through spiritual practices. Raine's books are often praised for their accessible writing style and insightful perspectives, making them popular among those interested in exploring spiritual paths and the divine feminine. If you're curious about these topics, her works can serve as a thoughtful guide on your journey."
This is one of my personal favorites, a book that I experienced and wrote at the same time. I languished delightfully in all the possiblities of this spiritual realm, and the possiblities that I wanted to tell you about. Let's just say it's a journey that we'll take together, and it's a journey that I've been working on for six decades. This is a book that will help you explore a segment of spirituality that you might not have even realized exists. This book will lift the veil, exposing ancient secrets and remarkable choices that are yours to make. It also does something that is often overlooked for pagan and occult paths, it puts a spotlight on just how normal and beautiful, enjoyable and uplifting this ancient of ancient spiritualities can be. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you'll find this book at Amazon, in print and kindle. The print edition is in full color and is gorgeous, and you'll find lined pages so you can add your own notes.
The Little Handbook of Spiritual Awakening includes:
The Spiritual Journey
Exercises, activities, & explorations: creating your personal journal; exploring gods and goddesses; reconnecting with animals and trees; taking a spiritual nature walk
The Witch's Spirit
Exercises, activities, & explorations: exploring earth, air, fire, and water; how to write your own spell; creating a magical recipe; a look at neo-pagan founders
Preparing for Your New Spiritual Life
Exercises, activities & explorations: getting rid of baggage; drawing positive energy to you; forgiving yourself with a blessing; opening your energy centers
Botanicals and Pagan Spiritualism
Exercises, activities, & explorations: making four thieves vinegar; making black cat oil; growing your own herbs; blessing your garden
Pagan Spiritual Practices
Exercises, activities, & explorations: house cleansing; a basic candle spell; how to use a pendulum; setting up your personal altar
Introduction:
Everyone’s spiritual journey is unique unto them. My grandmother had me secretly baptized in the Catholic Church, against my parents’ wishes, when I was seven years old. I remember the pink frothy party dress, standing at the fountain and bending over so a robed man could sprinkle salt on my tongue and pour water over my head.
This baptism would herald an on again off again connection with the Catholic Church at my grandmother’s whim, including a 7th and 8th grade stint in a Catholic Parochial school.
At thirteen, I wanted to be a Jew.
Every Friday evening, I secretly lit a brass candelabra of white birthday cake candles in my bedroom and recited words of my own design, in order to honor the Sabbat (is that the right word?)
At seventeen, consumed with romantic revenge, I cast a nasty magic spell in secret in my grandmother’s basement. It involved red candles, red ink, and a photograph of the boy. It involved some emotional words, spitting, and a dramatic moment when I drew a large red X over the midsection of the image.
It worked.
And with this spell I felt, for the first time, total satisfaction with a spiritual path, a spiritual experience, and all the fallout that followed.
It scared me silly at the time, but it also reinforced in me that I was cut from a different spiritual cloth than most people in my circles. I was certainly different, although it would take years of reading, learning, and practicing to realize just how different.
What did I learn from my experiences?
I learned that, spiritually, there are a lot of options out there. I learned that it’s fun to explore. I learned that it doesn’t matter what other people believe, or how they choose to practice their spirituality, even if they think it’s the only way. I learned that you never stop learning, and the paths you can take are endless, amazing, surprising, unpredictable, and life altering.
Now it’s time for you to explore your spiritual path. This book will help you do that.
Keep an open mind, believe in the unbelievable and the unseen. Don’t be afraid to tread where other people fear to go. Don’t be afraid to explore the deepest parts of yourself. Believe me, when you finally find your ground, the journey will have been well worth it.
I forget how jam-packed this book is until I go back and revisit it, which I'm inexplicably drawn to do from time to time. The oddest thing about writing books is that when you go back and re-read them, you don't remember where these thoughts and ideas and words all came from. (Did I say that?) Writing a book is kind of like being momentarily possessed. Below, you'll find the Table of Contents to Natural Magick the Gray Witch Way, and maybe you too will be inexplicably drawn to this book.
How does real magick work?...10
Forms of Magick...13
The Mysteries of Magickal
Manifestation...19
Creating Magickal Space...26
A Checklist of Magickal
Supplies…53
Charging your Magickal Tools...65
Twelve Months of Magick...72
Seven Days of Magick…104
Animal Magick...115
Magick for Love n’ Money...144
·Love
Spells...151
·Love
Potion #9
·Rose
Spell
·Smooth
Marital Turmoil
·Hot Sex
Spell
·Makin’
Tracks
·Love
Spells for Men...157
·Make
Her Behave: Pubic Hair Spell
·Magickal
Male Enhancement
·Love
Spells for Women...161
·Keep
Him Faithful Spell
·Attract
Your Man
·Irresistibly
Spell
Money…166
·Money
Spells...169
·Silver
Coin Spell
·Loose
the Miser Spell
·New
Business Money Mojo
·Sugar
Honey Jar Spell
·Home
Money Spell
·Pocket
Money Spell
Mojo Magick...182
·Poppets...184
·Mojo
Bags...207
Magick Oils/Potions/Powders...226
Crystal Magick...270
Candle Magick...297
Magickal Alphabets and
Symbols...314
·Runes…316
·Witch’s
Alphabet…325
·The
Pentagram…329
·The
Elements…334
·Planets…341
·Astrological
Symbols…354
Witches’ Bottles...366
Essential Oils…386
Kitchen Magick…392
·Recipes...405
·Strawberry
Love Salad
·Lady
Amythyst’s Pumpkin Pie
·Gingerbread
·Litha
Peach Cobbler
·Full
Moon Biscuits
·Deviled
Eostre Eggs
·Lammas
Loaf
·Midsummer’s
Night Tea
·Garden
Magick Soup
·Green
Man Cake
·Beltane
Bean Dish
Good Luck Charms…439
Questions and Answers...447
·What is
the difference between white and black magick?
·Is it
possible to dwell too much on a spell you’ve cast & ruin it?
·Who can
do magick?
·What is
a familiar?
·What is
neo-paganism?
·Do All
witches practice their religion the same way?
The Divine Me: Embracing Your Inner Goddess... [excerpt]
• Dance
Long, long ago, I would dance. I would put on several layers of the large discarded house dresses, party dresses, and petticoats of my grandmother and my aunts, slip my small feet into their oversized high heels, and spin in the middle of my bedroom, making the long skirts fan out around me.
This was my dance...
[page 169, from the chapter: "Facing the Mirror: How do you connect with the physical you?]
Purchase your copy of The Divine Me at Amazon, in print and kindle:
Heads up!! I received an email from the Amazon KDP program (Kindle Direct Publishing) that coming June 20th the cost of printing is going to go up and authors are advised to adjust the prices on their paperback books to insure that they receive a royalty. If there's any of my books that you were planning on ordering, now's the time to do it. June 1st I'll be going into the Amazon program to adjust book prices accordingly.
Before I started writing this book, Natural Magick the Gray Witch Way, I had just finished and sent off for publication, "The Gray Witch's Grimoire". On completion of the "Natural Magick..." manuscript, I thought to myself, "Damn, I should have combined these two books for one great big fat volume." But I didn't, and I don't know if that can be rectified someday, or whether it's too late. We'll see. However, these two books together make great companions, as they are two separate books pining to be one:
This book is available @ Amazon in print and kindle
·What is
the difference between white and black magick?
·Is it
possible to dwell too much on a spell you’ve cast & ruin it?
·Who can
do magick?
·What is
a familiar?
·What is
neo-paganism?
·Do All
witches practice their religion the same way?
·Who is
the Wiccan Goddess?
·When
did you first know you were a witch?
Magickal Substitutions...467
Terms and Lingo...473
Book Trailer
[Excerpt, from Forms of Magick, page 13]
Sympathetic Magick
This is that.
A specific object is chosen to represent the target of a spell.
Through sympathetic magick, this object actually ‘becomes’ the target. Whatever
happens to this object, happens to the target.
The most common form
of this magick, and the one I have personally used the most, are poppets--
those infamous dollies of hoodoo fame. A poppet does not just represent the
target, it actually becomes
the target, with the addition of personal items and effects belonging to the
subject, secret rituals to breathe it to life, and the movement of magical
energy to manifest and transform the very being of this cloth creation into the
flesh and blood essence of your target. This is why it’s so important to keep
these poppets in secure safe locations.
Comparative Magick
·A relationship and connection between a magickal object or
objective are associated with and represented by a specific item or items.
A good example of
this type of magick would be the Witches’ Bottle. Say for instance that you
want to create a bottle to draw money and wealth. You would add to this bottle
a number of items, all designed to draw the energy of money and wealth to the
bottle, and thus to you. These items would include coins and paper money, herbs
for wealth and prosperity, stones, and personal talismans. This bottle is, in
effect, representative of your desires and your objective, which is to draw
money to yourself. And it will do just that.
Directive Magick
This affects that.
·This magick raises energy while the practitioner focuses and visualizes
their goal and uses an item or items to move this energy toward manifestation.
The most common form
of this magick, and the easiest to work, is candle magick. The candle is imbued
with the energy of your goal by carving various symbols and sigils upon it,
dressing it with oils and rolling it in herbs that carry the energy of your
intentions. As the candle is consumed by the flame, you will maintain a
visualization of the end results of this spell, so your goals and intentions
are sent out into the universe and the cosmos with lightning speed and absolute
assurance of magickal manifestation.
Transference Magick
·Transference magick moves a malevolent energy out of one object
or individual and into something or someone else.
The mildest example
of this type of magick would be protective magick utilized to block negative
energy or to send it back to its source. A more intense form of Transference
Magick would be an exorcism; and the most extreme form would be a hex or a
curse.
[Excerpt from The Infamous Vacuum, page 20]
The Infamous Vacuum
The rule is-- if you
empty a space, creating a vacuum, something else will fill this space. This is
true not only from a magickal perspective, but from a mundane vantage point as
well-- it’s called physics. The thing is that once you’ve emptied this space,
i.e. banishing something/someone, you have no control over what is going to
fill this vacuum which you have created.
I learned this
pointedly through an interesting lesson.
We used to have a
neighbor who lived behind us, a rather unusual elderly man whose behavior was
becoming consistently more erratic as time went on. Until we put a fence up
between our properties, he would set his self-propelled tractor sprinkler in
the middle of our basketball court as it’s starting point. My children didn’t
like this and neither did I. If I wanted to water my lawn, I was perfectly
capable of doing it myself. He was a cross-dresser, which is really beside the
point, but its an intriguing fact that I’m going to toss in anyway. I remember
many a morning, up early for my first cup of coffee, I’d step out onto the back
porch, and there was this man, his garage
lit up like a circus, just climbing into his car wearing a white skirt, a red
sweater and heels to match. He was off to the local café for breakfast.
It was when he began
mowing his lawn in nothing but briefs and tennis shoes that I became concerned.
“Briefs” is a generous description for what he wore. Let’s say that there was
just enough material to cover the necessities-- barely. My girls were younger
at the time, and I really didn’t feel that they needed this show, and neither
did they, it was a little too much.
I decided that it was
time for this man to take a hike. So, I rolled up my sleeves, put a whopping
banishing spell together, and gave this guy a magickal punch to his
mid-section. Within a moon phase, he was gone.
I was feeling quite
pleased with my big old powerful witchy self, when I came through the kitchen
one morning to find my husband standing at the backdoor, his nose pressed to
the glass, peering over the fence, into the ex-neighbor’s back yard.
“What are you looking
at?”, I asked.
“The new neighbor.”
he says.
I wanted to see what
was capturing his attention, so I took a look myself. There in the backyard,
bouncing merrily along on a huge riding mower, was a very petite gorgeous tanned
blonde woman in a very tiny pink bikini.
Amythyst Raine is a best selling author and happy heathen living among the ley lines of Arizona with a magickal dog and Bob. She produces podcasts at YouTube and writes books on magickal things. You can find her books at Amazon with the links below. Books by Amythyst Raine are available world-wide and can be purchased at any fine book store near you.
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