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Approaching Babalon presents a series of essays exploring the Goddess Babalon, the Divine Feminine, the Dark Mother, and the ever-revolving …
I love the concept of this book - a series of chapters with two sections within each, one by each author and focusing on an animal, plant, or other parts of nature with similar messages (all while focusing on the feminine in nature). In practice, the book is a mess of appropriated indigenous spirituality with a few good points in each chapter that can be detangled. There are meditation & wildnerness practices which can be salvaged and are worth the book for me, and there are chapters on entities not often found within "nature" books (banana slug & glacial silt come to mind). Overall though, I feel this could have been vastly improved.
The Modern Craft is an eclectic and radical collection of essays on witchcraft practice and …
A collection of essays that spans all of the important issues and points within current witchcraft practice - something I reccomend without question as a primer for people just starting out on reading various witchcraft & related books. My only issue is the last two essays fell flat - one felt like a sales pitch & one felt too short.
The Modern Craft is an eclectic and radical collection of essays on witchcraft practice and the ethics of magic, which …
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …
An obvious 5*, Kimmerer is an incredible author with a strong base of knowledge that spans across many fields. Her authorial voice is more like a guide, bringing you through her life and relationship with the world around her all while imparting important knowledge, advice, Native lore and experience, and political lessons. I do feel in parts it could have benefitted from longer chapters, but overall I found this to be a really brilliant read.
From the original Celtic site of the castle at Tintagel, passing through the sacred forest …
Not often is there a book on Celtic-ness that not only includes ALL of the Celtic nations (especially the often left out Kernow & Mannin), but goes into depth for each chapter on a place from each. It is also quite thoroughly grounded in Celtic reality - no appropriated indigenous spiritualities to be found, just extrapolation from historical record, folklore, and the megalithic sites themselves. I really enjoyed this book, the gazeteer in the back is a brilliant addition with a wonderful range of sites to visit. My only qualm is it could be longer to take even more time on each site and chapter.
From the original Celtic site of the castle at Tintagel, passing through the sacred forest of Brocéliande in Brittany, and …
