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March 2019

March 07, 2019

Review: Madame Pamita’s Magical Tarot

I feel this book was immediately impressive. Not because it goes into a bunch of...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Review: Keeping Her Keys

Through keeping one foot firmly planted in historical pagan context and one foot in modern...

February 06, 2019

Review: Stones of the Goddess

What's refreshing about Pearson as an author is that he doesn’t just regurgitate information because...

February 04, 2019

Review: The Witch’s Mirror

So what makes The Witch's Mirror stand out in regards to magickal mirrors? Aside from...

February 01, 2019

Review: The Witch’s Book of Mysteries

The closest any book has come to the material in this book are Sabbatic Grimoires...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

Review: Casting Sacred Space

When I think of "genius" in terms of occultism, Ivo Dominguez Jr. is usually the...

January 09, 2019

Review: Weave The Liminal

Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft will enrich not only your understanding of witchcraft,...

January 05, 2019

Review: Witchcraft Activism

David is neither an armchair occultist nor a keyboard warrior activist - he's someone who...

January 05, 2019

Review: Transformative Witchcraft

Transformative Witchcraft: The Greater Mysteries is hands-down his best work to date and is a...

December 2018

December 26, 2018

Favorite Witchy Books of 2018

These are the ten witchy books that were released in 2018 that I enjoyed the...

December 16, 2018

Review: Elfhame’s Children

The book is well balanced between how-to, poetry, research, anecdotal stories, and messages from the...

December 15, 2018

Review: Utterly Wicked

Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions by Dorothy Morrison is one of the...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

Review: The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

The book is written as a radical battle roar for self-love and feminist empowerment to...

November 12, 2018

Review: A Book of Pagan Prayer

A Book of Pagan Prayer by Ceisiwr Serith is a beautiful and inspiring collection of...

November 12, 2018

Review: The Witch’s Altar

What is great about this collaboration is that for how different their practices and beliefs...

November 08, 2018

Six Books For The Activist Witch

I have selected six of my favorite books which I feel are useful for magickal...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Review: Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft

The book explores taboo topics of witchcraft. This ranges from necromancy, working with demons (both...

October 04, 2018

Review: Llewellyn’s Little Book of Halloween

She invokes the fun of our modern secularized Halloween that we grew up with back...

October 04, 2018

Review: Besom, Stang & Sword

Besom, Stang and Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path, and the Hidden...

September 2018

September 03, 2018

Review: The Plant Spirit Familiar

If there's one book I would recommend to a witch looking to work with plants,...

September 03, 2018

Review: Silver’s Spells

The important thing to know about this spell book is that the spells work. Many...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Review: Bell, Book, And Camera

Heather Greene’s Bell, Book, and Camera: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and...

July 06, 2018

Review: The Enchanted Candle

Lady Rhea has been a Gardnerian priestess since the 1970s and co-founded the Minoan Sisterhood....

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Four Books To Learn More About Aradia

There may be no other text more debated or controversial than Aradia, or Gospel of...

June 01, 2018

My Favorite Queer Witchcraft Books

Happy Pride Month everyone! People are always asking me what are my recommendations for books...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Review: Norse Witch

Norse Witch has a strong focus on making heathenry something that is experiential, and not...

May 10, 2018

Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

If Sabrina the Teenage Witch was about as fluffy bunny as you could make Witchcraft, The...

May 05, 2018

Review: Italian Folk Magic

Italian Folk Magic: Rue’s Kitchen Witchery is a fantastic book and one I’ve really been...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

Review: Encyclopedia 5,000 Spells

Someone recently asked what everyone's favorite spell book was. This is so easy for me....

April 08, 2018

Review: Six Ways

Aidan Wachter’s Six Ways: Approaches & Entries For Practical Magic is really unique in its...