Follow Your Heart and Spirit as You Build Your Witchcraft and Intuition Skills Together
Featuring extensive exercises, examples, and rituals, this amazing book reveals how to embrace the wisdom of your inner voice as you explore the endless possibilities of witchcraft. With Astrea Taylor's guidance, you can unlock your intuitive magical potential and celebrate the truth of who you are.
Intuitive Witchcraft also offers insights from some of the best writers, thinkers, and leaders in their fields, helping you become your most empowered self. Discover how to work with energy, interact with deities and spirits, and create a personal practice that fits your beliefs and lifestyles. Learn to face your shadow side, make the mundane magical, use divination tools, and much more. Whether you're a beginner or advanced practitioner, this incredible book illuminates the path to manifesting your greatest desires in an intuitive way.
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of Exercises and Rituals xvii
Part I: The Call to Intuitive Witchcraft
Chapter 1: Listening to Your Intuition … 7
Chapter 2: Working with Energy … 29
Chapter 3: Basic Intuitive Witchcraft … 51
Intuitive Insights: The Underrated Power of Imagination by Mat Auryn 58
Chapter 4: Making Intuitive Magic Come Alive … 79
Intuitive Insights: Using Intuition to Create an Aromatherapy Concoction by Stefanie Palmer 97
Chapter 5: Intuitive Practices and Rituals … 105
Intuitive Insights: Consult the Stars and Planets by Heather Renae Horton 125
Part II: Beyond the Veil
Chapter 6: Working with the Gods … 135
Intuitive Insights: Writing Invocations and Devotional Speech by Hannah Savage 148
Chapter 7: Spirit Craft … 159
Chapter 8: Making the Mundane Magical … 177
Intuitive Insights: Intuition and Magical Activism by Michael M. Hughes 191
Chapter 9: Working with Other People's Energies … 195
Intuitive Insights: Intuitive Healing by Shringara Hasya 202
Chapter 10: Advanced Magic and Energy Work … 213
Chapter 11: Looking into the Void … 235
Intuitive Insights: Second Sight by Lisa Bland 240
Chapter 12: Living in the Spiritual Flow … 255
Chapter 13: Intuitive Witchcraft Communities … 273
Intuitive Insights: Generational Witch Legacies by Jacki Smith 277
Chapter 14: The Ever-Evolving Practice … 293
Intuitive Insights: On Becoming a Pagan Elder, Crone, Mage, or Senior by Penny Goody 302
Conclusion: Reaching for the Stars 305
Bibliography 307
Glossary 313
Essayist Biographies 321
Acknowledgments 325
Index 327
About the Author :
Astrea Taylor is an eclectic pagan witch with over two and a half decades of experience in the witching world. She's the author of Air Magic, Intuitive Witchcraft, Inspiring Creativity Through Magick, and co-author of Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods. She has a bachelor's degree in science from Antioch College and a master's degree in environmental sciences from Wright State University, which informs her scientific takes on spirituality. In her spare time, she presents workshops and rituals online and at festivals across the country, and occasionally she blogs as Starlight Witch on Patheos Pagan. Find her on Instagram @astreataylor, on Facebook at Astrea Taylor, Author, and on Twitter @AstreaWrites.
Review :
"Provides techniques for melding intuition and witchcraft in a way that is emotionally and spiritually satisfying."—Publishers Weekly
"Magick can be found on nearly every page of Intuitive Witchcraft. This is an absolutely terrific book, full of heart, practical advice, and some of the best witchcraft to make the printed page in years. Whether you are a novice or an experienced practitioner you’ll find something to love in Taylor's work."—Jason Mankey, author of Transformative Witchcraft
"A refreshing look at how everyone who feels the connection to various aspects of the Craft can reach out and connect in a real and personal way. The exercises are a great way to enhance your intuitive connection to nature, deity, and magical practice...This book has something useful for practitioners at every level."—Alfred Willowhawk, author of Manifesting True Desires and host of the podcast Up Close and Personal
"Astrea shares how to explore the hidden forest of our intuitive spirits. She offers clear and concise steps to not only deepen your intuition and hear it more clearly, but also develop a Witchcraft practice that matches who you are as an individual. From personal shadow work to rituals, to forming your own practicing groups, Astrea brings intuition to the forefront of Witchcraft."—Phoenix LeFae, author of What is Remembered Lives
