The Path of Elemental Witchcraft: A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows

• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice • Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment • Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore. For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals. Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.

Table of Contents:
FOREWORD THE ELEMENTS OF MAGIC by Anne-Marie Keppel PREFACE WELCOME, SEEKER WATER WITCH COMMUNICATION Undines Water Altars Sacred Water from the Earth The Purple Mist Connecting with Willoughby Transmission through Seclusion DIVINATION Mirrors and Teacups Bath Bombs Ripples in the Water Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Moonlit Reflection The Drowning Pool HEALING Healing in the Soup Pot Awakening Water Blessing Sonic Waves Healing Community and Country PROTECTION Reflective Magic Anointed Protection Hall of Mirrors Irish Piss Pot Protective Spray Weather Protection GLAMOUR Fairy Glamour Accentuating the Positive Misty Camouflage Love Come to Me Becoming the Priestess Laps of Manifestation Jump Girl EARTH WITCH COMMUNICATION Gnomes and Trolls Earth Altars The Art of Listening Entering the Fairy Wood The Troll Cave Devas in the Garden DIVINATION The Wisdom of Trees Roots and Bones Working with Runes Animal Messengers Everyday Divination GEOMANCY Connected Lines Stonehenge Needle Balancing Energy Green Heart Farm Nagini, the Stone Snake Attuned to the Earth HEALING Entering the Cave Verdant Gnosis The Nest Graveyard Dirt The Wisdom of Trees Slieve Gullion PROTECTION Sacred Groves Magical Permaculture Fairy Mounds Boobie-Stones Stone Guardians Earth in My Pocket AIR WITCH COMMUNICATION Sylphs Air Altars Take Caution Spirit Chimes In Fae Contact Crow’s Calling DIVINATION Weather Sensing Cloud Augury The Voice of Remembrance Voices on the Wind Smoke on the Breeze The Way of Birds ASTRAL NAVIGATION The Astral Plane Journeying through Voice I Am Awake Storm Weaving As the Crow Flies A Voice for the Otherworld HEALING Purification through Smoke Activating the Olfactory Whistling and Blowing A Healing Voice Echoes in the Mountain Attuned to Air ENCHANTMENT Bubbles to the Moon Catching the Wind The Wyrding Way Voices on the Wind Echolocation Time Traveling in the Tor FIRE WITCH COMMUNICATION Salamanders Fire Altars The Cleverness of Jinn Honoring Fire in the Home Faces in the Fire Fire-Breathing Dragons DIVINATION Visions in Flames Ashes to Ashes Melted Wax Flaming Runes Samhain Fires Campfire Divination HEALING Light a Candle Bonfire of the Vanities Burning Bridges and Cutting Cords Attuned to Fire Internal Flame Localizing Trauma with Fire TRANSFORMATION Fire Containment Change from the Hearth Coaxing Embers Phoenix from the Fire Bonfire and Bees I Have Walked on Fire, Ho! SEX MAGIC Sacred Sexuality Steamy Offerings Object of Desire Awakening the Snake Fantasy Lover Desired by the Gods AFTERWORD CONTINUING THE JOURNEY INDEX

About the Author :
Salicrow is a witch, Druid, and natural psychic medium who weaves the traditions of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical techniques. With more than 30 years of professional experience in the psychic arts as a spirit channel and seer, she offers readings for individual groups and teaches workshops throughout the United States and internationally. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

Review :
“The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is much more than a book, it is an intimate invitation into the sacred workings of the world. Through personal stories and guided practice you can’t help but be enveloped in the unique vision of Salicrow, whose writing crystallizes the precious usefulness of elemental magic. This Book of Shadows makes a tantalizing subject accessible and beneficial to all.” “The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is abundantly filled with wisdom, heart, and deep teachings. Salicrow’s writing is authentic, passionate, and inspiring. In this wonder-full book she shares stories of her personal journey that illustrate who and what the elementals are, and she teaches us how to engage and relate with the elementals in safe and respectful ways. Each section is filled with a rich mix of practices, rituals, suggestions, and guidance for deepening our understanding and our relationship with Nature and the visible and invisible worlds around us. Each elemental section explores communication, divination, healing, protection, and magic with the beings of water, fire, air, and earth. Doing the practices will take you deep into your own experience of knowing. This book is a treasure trove that you’ll want to delve into over and over again.” “In The Path of Elemental Witchcraft, Salicrow takes readers into her cave of interconnectedness and sacred communication with a wealth of information and offerings that enable practitioners of any level to develop a richer relationship with the elements and elemental beings from many different origins. Salicrow does not simply tell you how to walk through the shadow, she teaches you how to see within the veil of its profuse darkness.” "The Path of Elemental Witchcraft is part memoir and travelogue, part ritual handbook, part metaphysical ethnography of the many types of elemental spirit beings Salicrow meets in the hidden realms. This book strikes me as a generous gift, like a gigantic buffet table onto which Salicrow has piled as many of her observations and insights as the table will hold. Reading The Path of Elemental Witchcraft feels like it might feel sitting with Salicrow over a cup of tea or a bowl of soup.This book is a magnum opus. It is a trip around the worlds."