Summer Book Haul

Well, as the leaves are falling and the sporadic showers of unpredictable weather have begun, I am taking stock of my summer retail therapy. I have brought so many books over the summer season that my book shelf is bowing in the middle. Here come the titles:

 

Green Witchcraft II, Balancing Light & Shadow – Ann Moura

Green Witchcraft III, The Manual – Ann Moura

Pagan Christmas – Christian Ratsch & Claudia Muller-Ebeling

The Magickal Retreat – Susan Pesznecker

Making Magick – Edain McCoy

Solitary Wicca for Life – Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Spells for Sweet Revenge – Lauren White

From the Cauldron Born – Kristoffer Hughes

Earthing – Clinton Ober, Stephen Sinatra & Martin Zucker

The Wheel of the Wiccan Year – Gail Duff

 

Pathworking Through Poetry – Fiona Tinker

Moon Magic – Rachel Patterson

Spirituality Without Structure – Nimue Brown

Elen of the Ways – Elen Sentier

Fairy Witchcraft – Morgan Daimler

Kitchen Witchcraft – Rachel Patterson

 Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic – Scott Cunningham

Wicca – Vivianne Crowley

Hedge Witchcraft – Harmonia Saille

The Reflexology Bible – Louise Keet

Book of Shadows Tarot – Barbara Moore (Art by Gabrielli, Krysinski & Rivolli)

Spring Haul 2014

Book Swap with Mum

The Magic of Crystals, Colour & Chakra

By Sue & Simon Lillly, Stella Martin, Josephine de Winter & Gill Hale

Simply Fairies

By Ralph Harvey

Astral Doorways

By J. H. Brennan

Celtic Inspirations

By Lyn Webster Wilde

Informational Buys

Nature Spirits and what they say

Edited by Wolfgang Weirauch

The Encyclopaedia of Magickal Ingredients

Lexa Roséan

A Practical Guide to The Runes

By Lisa Peschel

Inspirational Buys

The Real Witches’ Craft

By Kate West

Whispers of the Woods

By Sandra Kynes

Natural Magic

By Doreen Valiente

Tarot Deck

Mystic Dreamer Tarot

By Heidi Darras

Text by Barbara Moore

Includes Major & Minor Arcana

And a Journal

  

If you would like the ISBN number for any of these books please email me at: acantha.rayne.81@gmail.com

Stocking Up

2 bird- decorated glass bottles 

for Full Moon Water and Full Moon oil

2 pink taper candles

15mm Ribbons

Red, Purple, Light Blue, Cream, Pink, Brown, Yellow

Orange, Baby Pink, Blue, Green, Black, White, Lilac, Aqua

7.5mm ribbons

Gold, Silver

Book Haul Jan/Feb

Recommended by Friends

WITCHCRAFT & PRACTICAL MAGIC

by Susan Greenwood & Raje Airey 

THE CRAFT

by Dorothy Morrison

CELEBRATING WICCAN SPIRITUALITY

by Lady Sabrina

Informational Buys

HERB MAGIC for BEGINNERS 

 by Ellen Dugan

HERBAL MAGICK

by Gerina Dunwich

ASTRAL PROJECTION

 by Denning & Phillips

 RUNES

by Soraya

Wanted for Ages

ZILLIONZ - TITANIA'S BOOK OF NUMEROLOGY

by Titania Hardie

EVERYDAY SUN MAGIC

by Dorothy Morrison

EVERYDAY MOON MAGIC

by Dorothy Morrison 

Wittering On 04/01/2014 - Sabbat Haul

Well, after 5 days in Yorkshire with +Shiann Raven Moon and +Tiger ShadowRaine  and her family, I am home now looking over my sabbat gifts (I say sabbat rather than Imbolc because Shiann has given me my gifts for the whole wheel.. It's been so much fun to catch up and share Imbolc celebrations but I am looking forward to my own bed tonight.

Well I should get started as this is a haul post, so off we go...

The books - as a witch, I am obsessed with books and so is Shiann - knowledge, wisdom, insight, instruction, correspondence, all gifts of the written word. Usually I buy the books for Shiann but we seem to have swapped roles for this go round on the wheel. The books pictured are those that I have received during this visit:

1. Sabbats, by Edain McCoy is a book that I have wanted forever, or at least since it was written. I celebrate the Sabbats as if my life depended on it and so I cannot wait to get my nose into this book.
2. Fragrant Magic, by Cassandra Eason. This author is a favourite of mine and I have several other books of hers; aromatherapy and scent magic is something I look forward to delving deeper into - after much more research and that is starting with this book.
3. Candleburning Rituals, by Raymond Buckland. The legend that is Raymond Buckland has had a special place on my bookcase for a long time, but now that special place is increasing and so will my candle orders.
4. Magical Aromatherapy, by the one and only Scott Cunningham. Hands down, Scott Cunningham is one of my all time favourite witchy-authors - insightful, wise and wordy - another Cunningham book in the collection - yay!

This section of the haul is for what has been brought or given from personal stock.

• The goblet belonged to Shiann and as I took a liking to it,, it was added to my gift bag.
• The runes are sodalite, which is one my favourite stones (one of the very few connections I feel to the colour blue is via sodalite).
• The incense are 'White Jasmine' and 'Love Angel'
• 2 Red Cords - one is plaited, one is not. These were gifted as I mentioned in conversation that I love knot magick.
• Spell candles  - blue and pink. So pretty.
• Dill - Home-dried and always very useful.
• Obsidian Mirror - love it, love it, love it. Scrying is my life
• Ribbons - pale green, white and brown; I will use these as part of my Beltane Pole for my altar.

The items of Section 3 of the haul are those which have been made for me (Shiann is so crafty):

• Starting with the wand as it was completely hand-made for me from a Birch twig. It's beautifully slim and spindly and has inspired me to write a Birch wand post - maybe by the weekend. The charm on the end is a sword, and shield with a red eye which was a gift from me to Shiann - which has been regifted back to me as she wasn't drawn to it.
• The two small round things on the left are Massage Lotion Bars - made with Lavender and Chamomile and will soon be available from Shiann's online store: Shiann Creations.
• The CD is a compilation of spiritual chants
• The health pillow is Lavender and Chamomile, made for me when I had a very bad flu a few months ago.
• The God's eyes were made for me because I asked for them - so pretty!
• The packet on the right of the image is a hand-made smudge stick of sage and bay. Should be very fragrant.
• Finally, on this section, what everything is laying on - the altar cloth - specifically made for Imbolc, decorated with daisies, with the dimensions of my altar in mind. Beautiful!

Now, I've saved these items for last because they were completely unexpected.

1. The charm bracelet has two charms on it - the sun and the moon - this means I can take a representation of the God & Goddess with me wherever I am.
2. The Book of Shadows is a 2-ring binder, hand decorated with green velvet on the front, purple velvet on the back, and a front page cover relating to my blog inside - made with coffee paper to energise me when I open it. Certainly need the energy tonight - lol

Much love, light and blessings to +Shiann Raven Moon for my beautiful and plentiful gifts. x)O(x

New Witchy Books #1

Spells & Charms

 by Nicola de Pulford

 Informative, Light, Natural & Easy to follow. 

ISBN: 1-899434-64-X

No spell book can ever quite give the satisfaction of a successful spell that you've written yourself but this comes quite close. Beautifully written and the photography is excellent. This was one of my very first spell books which I gave away a long time ago to someone who needed it more than I did at the time. However, I missed it and found a bargain on amazon so my witchy bookshelf feels so much more 'right' with it sitting in there. A similar to feeling to when Robbie Williams went back to Take That.

 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Witchcraft & Practical Magic

by Susan Greenwood and Raje Airey

Fact-packed, Full of History, Correspondence, Ideas and more. A real 'go-to' reference book for all things witchy.

ISBN- 13: 978-0-7548-1680-5

ISBN- 10: 0-7548-1680-X

This was not a book I found in a library or a book store, it was somewhat of a recommendation from a member of my Wiccan facebook group: Wicca UK. I've had it about a week now and still haven't got through it; there are so many wonderful references and histories I can barely put it down.

Everyday Moon Magic

by Dorothy Morrison

Inspiring, Crafts, Rituals, Spells, Astrology and much enchantment of the written word.

ISBN: 978-0-7387-0249-0

I have only recently become a fan of this author, via a recommendation from +Shiann Raven Moon. This book is jam-packed full of invocations, blessings, rituals, spells, circle castings and much more... all lunar related (of course). The rhyming of it is very 'me' too. Anyone who has read my poetry knows I love my rhyming.

The rest of this range of books include Everyday Magic and Everyday Sun Magic (all 3 are available from amazon). 

Blessed Be 

x)O(x