Magical Tarot: Your Essential Guide to Reading the Cards

Author: Madame Pamita
Foreword: Mat Auryn

A master class on the Tarot, especially the Rider-Waite-Smith, written in a fun and engaging tone, this book offers fresh insights and detailed discussions of the imagery, symbolism, meanings, and motifs of each of the 78 cards.

In Magical Tarot, Madame Pamita takes us on a joyful journey through the tarot. On the way, she explores the tarot suits, the court cards, and the distinctions between the Major and Minor Arcana. Each of the 78 tarot cards is examined in great detail with strong emphasis on imagery, symbolism, and motifs. Journal prompts and affirmations are offered for each card.

Madame Pamita’s Magical Tarot is suitable for beginners, just encountering the tarot, especially as she examines the positive aspects of each card including those that many frequently find unnerving, such as Death, The Hanged Man, and the 10 of Swords. This exploration helps readers to understand how tarot cards serve as magical tools to help us create the lives we desire. Seasoned adepts and long-time Tarot lovers will also find much that is new and insightful.

Madame Pamita demonstrates how to use the tarot as a spiritual and magical roadmap and how it may be used to attract positive people, open up opportunity, achieve success, and realize a life of fulfillment and pure happiness.

This edition replaces the previously published edition titled Madame Pamita’s Magical Tarot (978157863629) and includes a new foreword by Mat Auryn.

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Scott Cunningham: The Path Taken: Honoring the Life and Legacy of a Wiccan Trailblazer

Author: Christine Cunningham Ashworth
Foreword: Mat Auryn

A moving portrait of the iconic figure who led the way in establishing Wicca in North America—with remembrances of his life by his sister, Christine Cunningham Ashworth, and appreciations written by key figures in today’s world of witchcraft, magic, tarot, and astrology.

The iconic and renowned bestselling author Scott Cunningham (1953-1993) was the central figure in establishing Wicca in North America. His pioneering book Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner radically altered the practice of Wicca, enabling practitioners to self-initiate. Scott’s books, especially his encyclopedias, remain popular today, years after his death. In recent years, Scott has also emerged as a celebrated queer icon, especially in the witchcraft world. Although so many people have come to Wicca and Paganism through his books, little is actually known about Scott Cunningham as a person and about his spiritual life.

His little sister, Christine Cunningham Ashworth, seeks to remedy that. Since 2017, she has presented workshops devoted to Scott’s life and work. Her book is offered as a gift to all those influenced by Cunningham’s work. Christine grew up with him, laughed with him, learned with him, fought with him, and shared joys and sorrows. This book is not a biography as much as it is a memoir. The author writes about their childhood, gives a peek into their parents’ lives, and brings to life what it was like to grow up in the Cunningham household. She explores the trajectory of Scott’s magical path and affirms his legacy. She shares family photos and lifts the veil from Scott’s life.

Featuring a foreword by Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch and Mastering Magick, the book contains contributions from other key figures in today’s world of witchcraft, magic, tarot, and astrology, including:

• Stephanie Rose Bird
• Amy Blackthorn
• Storm Faerywolf
• Nancy Hendrickson
• Dorothy Morrison
• Nicholas Pearson
• Benebell Wen

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Men And The Goddess: An Anthology Revisited

Editor: Erick Dupree
Foreword: Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
Preface: Mat Auryn

Men And The Goddess: An Anthology Revisited is an updated edition of Finding The Masculine In Goddess’ Spiral with a new preface by acclaimed writers Mat Auryn and a foreword by Ivo Dominguez, Jr. available as a free digital download or paperback book. All revenue from books sales will be donated to the New Alexandria Library Project. 

Men and the Goddess: An Anthology Revisited tells the stories of men and their relationship with the divine feminine, often known as Goddess. From intimate to provocative, healing mother wounds, to expressing queer sovereignty and more, these stories empower and remind, that not only do we all come from the Goddess, but that Goddess mysteries are for all people.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: IAN ALLAN, MAT AURYN, ROBERT BAGGANI, CHRISTOPHER BLACKTHORN, BLAKE OCTAVIAN BLAIR, DUANE DANIELSON, IVO DOMINGUEZ JR., TAYLOR ELLWOOD, ELDRITCH, BART EVERSON, STORM FAERYWOLF, ORION FOXWOOD, DEVIN HUNTER, DANIEL HOLMES, PHILLIP KESSLER, DAVID OLIVER KING, FIO GEDE PARMA, CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK, GWION RAVEN, ANTHONY RELLA, GWION RAVEN, DAVID SALISBURY, MATTHEW SAWICKI, SCOTT K. SMITH, MARK TEPPO, TIM TITUS

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Consorting With Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies

Author: Jason Miller
Foreword: Mat Auryn

Spirits have power and knowledge. Learn how to summon, communicate, and negotiate with the unseen.

We are all spirits, and as such have the ability to communicate with other spirits. The physical body presents some limitations that can be overcome with training, but which can also be leveraged to give other spirits a link to the physical form that they seek. Working with spirits can enable your most powerful magickal goals. From calling on spirits to help with protection, money, and knowledge, the skills learned here will help you tap into power with your spirit allies.

Consorting with Spirits is a system of practices for training the mind and energy body on three abilities: The capacity to sense spirits, the capacity to interact with spirits, and the capacity to deepen and clarify that interaction. It is this deepening and clarifying that has been missing from much of the material about spirits.

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Pure Magic: A Complete Course In Spellcasting

Author: Judika Illes
Foreword: Mat Auryn

A friendly and practical guide to spellcasting from one of today’s most trusted and beloved teachers of witchcraft.

Practical, inspirational, and comprehensive, Pure Magic is a useful tool and resource for beginners and experienced devotees of the magical arts. Here in one majestic volume is a basic introduction to magic; a psychic glossary; a primer on the four elements, colors, and magical supplies (including minerals and botanicals); and a compendium of spells for any situation you may face.

With Judika Illes as your guide, you will learn how to enhance your psychic power, cleanse your aura, protect yourself from malevolent powers, and create and use a wide variety of spells. There are spells for marriage, fertility, babies and children, money, healing, and transitioning to the next life. These are spells that will help make life easier, more productive, and stress-free.

This book was previously published as The Big Book of Practical Spells. This new Weiser Classics edition includes a foreword by Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch, and a new preface by the author.

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Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work

Author: Orion Foxwood
Foreword: Mat Auryn

Traditional Southern root magic and conjure from someone who learned the old ways growing up in rural Appalachia. Folk magic conjurer and root worker Orion Foxwood invites you to take a walk through his native Appalachia, through moonlit orchards and rural farms, to the dark of the crossroads. From the oral tradition of his ancestors to the voices of the spirits themselves, Foxwood brings readers the secrets of Southern magic:

•Working by the signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility, and orcharding)
•Faith healing
•Settling the light (candle magic)
•Doctoring the root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts for magic or for clearing, cleansing, and blessing a person)
•Praying or dreaming true (blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)
•Blessing or cursing

Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work shows how to create magic in today’s world with the old ways and traditions of Appalachia. This book was previously published as The Candle and the Crosswords. This new edition includes a foreword by Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch.

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Of Blood and Bones: Working with Shadow Magick & the Dark Moon

Author: Kate Freuler
Foreword: Mat Auryn

Shadow magick occupies a critical but often misunderstood role in the rich history of witchcraft. This book explores topics such as the ethical use of animal parts and bones, blood magick, dark moon energy, and other rarely discussed aspects of witchcraft.

With a focus on ethically sourcing materials and suggestions for plant-based substitutions, author Kate Freuler provides much-needed information and hands-on techniques to help you strengthen your witchcraft practice, connect to nature, protect yourself (and your kith and kin), and know yourself in a deep way. Within these pages, you will also discover methods for hexing, scrying, sex magick, and working with dark deities in addition to the magickal use of graveyard dirt and performing spells to assist the crossing of a dying loved one. The shadow work explored in Of Blood and Bones reminds us that not everything is love and light, and that facing the dark side supports the quest to achieve spiritual wholeness.

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Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins

Author: Cassandra Snow
Foreword: Mat Auryn

Witchcraft has always belonged to the outsiders and outcasts in society, yet so much of the practice enforces and adheres to the same hierarchy we face in the world at large—a hierarchy that isolates and hurts those living beyond society’s binaries and boundaries. While there are books that address magick for resistance and queer myth, until now there has not been one that specifically addresses the practice of queer magick from an LGBTQ+ standpoint. Queering Your Craft combines queer aesthetic and culture (like DIY culture and an emphasis on chosen family over formal covens) with pagan and metaphysical spiritual practice in a way that is commonplace but has not been written about until now. This book covers the personal, the collective, and the political, and how deeply intertwined all three are in a magickal practice for those who are LGBTQ+.

In this introduction to witchcraft, Snow presents why/how each concept is important to a queer craft, or how to approach it from a queer mindset. For example, conventional prayer, words, and symbols have always been problematic in a queer universe: How to make them work and still be true to yourself? The bulk of the book is about learning the craft. The latter portion is a grimoire of spells. While accessible to beginning witches, Queering Your Craft provides new and inspiring information for longtime practitioners interested in a pure and personal approach that avoids the baggage of history and stereotype.

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Seasons of Moon and Flame: The Wild Dreamer’s Epic Journey of Becoming

Author: Danielle Dulsky
Foreword: Mat Auryn

The yearning to slow down and simplify, return to the earth, and maybe even “rewild” what has been tamed in ourselves persists even though that dream may seem ever more remote in contemporary life. Danielle Dulsky shows that even in our high-tech and high-pressure lives, it is possible to manifest your own “year of the wild” and to tap into often-forgotten holy wisdom. Seasons of Moon and Flame guides you to live cyclically while working with the archetype of the Sacred Hag, or wild grandmother, who appears in various guises. Wonderfully inclusive, with adaptations for families, spiritual groups, and other traditions, this book is a potentially life-changing guide to living mystically, magically, and in empowering harmony with the worlds of spirit and nature.

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