Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences is a clear, straightforward companion for Pagan and Wiccan ritual and spellwork. Entries are cross-referenced, indexed, and organized by categories and subcategories, making it easy to find what you need.
This comprehensive reference provides a fascinating look at why correspondences are more than just lists of objects to focus intent on--they are fundamental to how we think. When we use correspondences, we weave together our ideas, beliefs, and energy, creating deeper meaning in our rituals and spellwork as we unite our individuality with a larger purpose.
The use of correspondences embodies both physical and symbolic energy and provides the means for uniting the seen and unseen worlds. Packed with content yet easy to use, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences covers traditional correspondences and also provides instruction for forging new ones that hold special meaning for you.
An indispensable resource for magical practitioners, this illustrated encyclopedia offers detailed profiles of all the herbs, houseplants, fruits, vegetables, trees, and flowers you could ever need.
This comprehensive reference guide is packed with familiar favorites, like apple and lemongrass, alongside lesser-known options, like moonwort and pignut. With hundreds of plants to choose from, you are sure to find the best botanical partners for raising healing energy, communing with your ancestors, increasing psychic abilities, manifesting your dreams, and more.
Reflecting herbal traditions from around the world, the meticulously researched profiles include:
Botanical, common, and folk names - Description and attributesWith the option to look up entries by name, magical use, zodiac sign, planetary association, or element, this book makes it easy to find the right plant for the job. The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants will support all your botanical needs along your unique spiritual path, making it an essential addition to your home library.
Quick and Easy Remedies for Holistic Health
This impressive book contains almost 200 recipes for herbal remedies that anyone can use, even if you've never worked with herbs. Expert Sandra Kynes shows how herbal remedies can treat everything from the flu to kidney stones and can be made from ingredients commonly stocked in your kitchen.
Herbal Remedies for Beginners is cleverly organized and cross-referenced so you can look up remedies by ailment or by herb, making it easy to find what you need. You'll discover how to make the remedies and a wide variety of application methods from teas and oils to balms and gels. With everything from a basil and lemongrass salve for soothing insect bites to a ginger and turmeric syrup for alleviating motion sickness, this is the perfect beginner's guide to natural wellness.
Discover the Most Effective Essential Oils and Remedies for Healing, Emotional Support, Aromatherapy & Self-Care
Recognized throughout history for their spiritual power, healing effects, and pleasing aromas, essential oils are must-have tools on the journey to wellness in mind, body, and spirit. Filled with tips, techniques, and hundreds of recipes, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Essential Oils shares the most important and up-to-date information about essential oils, including extraction methods, blending, perfume notes, medicinal remedies, personal care products, aromatherapy, spiritual and magical uses, chakras, feng shui, and much, much more.
Detailed profiles for 68 essential oils, including:
Amyris - Angelica - Basil - Bay Laurel - Cajeput - Caraway Seed - Cypress - Elemi - Eucalyptus - Fir Needle - Frankincense - Geranium - Ginger - Hyssop - Juniper Berry - Lavender - Lime - Mandarin - Marjoram - Myrrh - Niaouli - Orange - Palmarosa - Patchouli - Peppermint - Petitgrain - Rose - Rosemary - Sage - Sandalwood - Spearmint - Tea Tree - Thyme - Vetiver - Ylang-Ylang
Descriptions of 12 carrier oils and 2 infused oils:
Almond - Apricot - Avocado - Borage - Calendula - Coconut - Evening Primrose - Hazelnut - Jojoba - Olive - Rosehip Seed - Sesame - St. John's Wort - Sunflower
Remedies for 75 common ailments, including:
Acne - Arthritis - Athlete's Foot - Blisters - Bronchitis - Bruises - Chapped Skin - Colds - Corns - Dermatitis - Eczema - Fever - Flu - Hay Fever - Headaches - Inflammation - Insomnia - Jet Lag - Migraines - Muscle Aches - Nausea - Psoriasis - Sinus Infection - Sprains - Stress - Tendonitis
Recipes for 100 personal and home care products, including:
Birthday Perfume Blends - Bath Bombs - Bath Oils & Salts - Facial & Hand Scrubs - Hair Conditioner - Massage Oils - Moisturizers - Scented Candles - Shower Melts - Toners & Astringents - Aromatherapy Room Spray - Carpet Powder - Fridge Freshener - Furniture Polish - Glass Cleaner - Microwave Cleaner - Mold Inhibitor - Natural Pest Control - Surface Cleaners
Build Relationships with Faeries and Connect with Nature on a Deep, Soul Level
The natural world is integral to our spiritual and magical lives and the lives of faeries and nature spirits. With this book, you'll discover how plants bridge the worlds and help us work with these extraordinary beings. Drawing from folklore, history, and personal experience, Sandra Kynes teaches you all about faery magic and the unique ways that plants enhance your connection to the fae.
This comprehensive guide presents over one hundred profiles of common and obscure plants associated with faeries and nature spirits. Grow bracken fern to attract faeries to your property. Hold a small bundle of vervain to help you communicate with nature spirits. Set out a bowl of blackberries as a token of friendship. With hands-on activities and exercises, this book shows you how to journey to faeryland, conduct dreamwork, and heal both yourself and the planet.
Quick and Easy Crystal Magic for Every Day
Deepen your awareness, relieve your stress, and reach your goals with daily crystal magic. This fun, approachable book features simple and effective ways to use crystals throughout the wheel of the year. You can even incorporate them into your sabbat, full moon, historical, and special occasion celebrations.
Perfect for any age or interest level, 365 Days of Crystal Magic provides indispensable knowledge on a variety of topics, including prepping and cleaning crystals, utilizing birthstones, and working magic according to the astrological bodies. Every calendar date features a practical idea for using crystals to find love and community, improve your divination, strengthen your willpower, lift your mood, and much more.
The Ultimate Guide to Mixing, Matching, and Making Essential Oils
Choose the best essential oils for your creative and magical mixing with this straightforward, hands-on guide. Through step-by-step instruction on how to measure, mix, and assess blends, you'll move beyond following others' recipes and into creating your own oil combinations.
Mixing Essential Oils for Magic offers everything you need to understand not only how to blend but also why specific blends work together. Learn how to mix oils by botanical family, scent group, and perfume note. Discover an encyclopedic listing of essential and carrier oil profiles, as well as thorough cross-references for the oils and their magical associations. With guidance on the historical and present-day uses of essential oils, you'll make personal blending an integral part of your spiritual and magical practices.
Invoke the Power of the Sea and Transform Your Life
Purifying, mesmerizing, and transformative--the sea has long been celebrated for its beauty and mysterious power. By connecting to the ocean's energies, you can deepen your experience of the natural world and enrich your life.
Whether you live near or far from the coast, Sea Magic takes you on a unique voyage of spiritual rejuvenation. Explore various types of shells and sea creatures, both real and mythical. Call upon sea deities and saints to amplify your spiritual practice, and try a wide array of relaxation exercises and meditative techniques:
Dive into your inner world of emotions, imagination, and creativity--and let the sea's timeless wisdom guide you on your life path.
Symbols and Alphabets for Dynamic Magic Witchcraft
Energize your Wiccan or Pagan practice with rich symbol systems and magical alphabets. Discover how astrological symbols, zodiac signs, and the fixed stars can be used to invigorate spells and rituals. Connect with the power of the elements and explore tools like the ogham and other runes for divination and spiritual connection. Learn how to use sigils and esoteric alphabets so you can live more deeply in the powerful magical energy that is all around you.
While you can use symbols to boost the energy of spells and rituals, learning the fullness of their history will help you utilize them for the specific needs we confront today. With hands-on exercises as well as extraordinary insights into each system's history and lore, this book is an irresistible guide to integrating potent symbols into your spiritual practice.
Strengthen your connection with the natural world as you learn to incorporate the power of crystals and gemstones into your magical practice. This comprehensive, full-color book is exquisitely designed to be both user-friendly and a gorgeous addition to your bookshelf. Inside, you'll find everything you need to effectively work with crystals, from the history, science, and magic of the mineral kingdom to an encyclopedic list of nearly 200 varieties of stones.
Explore numerous ways to grow your knowledge and skills, including details on buying and preparing stones, magical associations by color, astrological influences, and how to spot fakes. Discover a new, powerful form of crystal grid and which stone is best for a specific goal. With more than 200 color photographs and convenient guides to correspondences, associated deities, and more, Crystal Magic will serve as a timeless, indispensable reference.
In this fast-paced world of over-stimulation and distraction, keeping a private space for meditative retreat and spirituality is essential. Creating an altar using the power of numbers allows you to achieve spiritual stillness in a personal and meaningful way.
The numbers one through nine each carry a profound symbolic history and significance. Harness this energy and apply it to your life by selecting the number that best resonates with your intention and using it as a guide to your altar design.
Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
With meditation techniques and many examples of prayers, practices, and rituals from all major faiths, popular author and Celtic scholar Sandra Kynes offers a new approach to altar-building. Using representations of elements from myth and nature as focal points, you can create an altar that best suits your spiritual needs.
Straightforward and practical, with easy-to-follow instructions and clear illustrations, this unique book allows you to experience the restorative benefits of altars--and ultimately reconnect with that sacred space within yourself.
Explore humanity's fascination with death through 60 poisonous plants and how they have affected history, magic, warfare, art, and more.
Dispatching people with poisonous plants isn't just an Agatha Christie plot--it began thousands of years ago and continues to this day. Deadly Fascination presents sixty profiles divided into five themes, from classic killers to frightful fungi. Each profile includes the plant's history, folklore, and medicinal uses, as well as how it may or may not be used today.
Though we fear death, we are also drawn to its mysteries. Sandra Kynes feeds our curiosity and dispels common myths, investigating witches and indigenous healers, poisons in popular media, the murky roots of toxicology, and much more. From aconite to poppy to death cap, poisonous plants can attract you like a moth to a flame...but don't get too close.
Connect to the Great Goddess through the Magic of Birds
Birds have been symbolic of the Great Goddess for millennia, representing her power and connection to the mysteries of life, death, and spirit. Bird Magic teaches you how to commune with the Goddess, incorporating her into your magical life through exercises, crafts, meditations, and more.
Working with bird magic helps awaken your intuition, tap into subtle energies around you, and strengthen your bond with the natural world. Providing an encyclopedic listing of more than sixty bird species--highlighting each one's history, folklore, location, appearance, and magical wisdom--Bird Magic shows how they can enhance your spiritual and personal life. With in-depth information, helpful illustrations, and hands-on guidance, this book will be your go-to reference for years to come.
Connect to the natural world in ways you never expected with the many magical uses of ordinary and classically witchy plants. Plant Magic presents a unique approach to working with plants in concert with the cycles of nature. Learn which ones best align with the sabbats on the Wheel of the Year and which are most useful for the time between them.
Sandra Kynes guides you through a year of plant magic, providing significant dates and detailed information on garden, wild, and household plants associated with each month. Discover activities to grow your connection with nature, such as plant-based rituals to celebrate the seasons and incense burning to attract love and prosperity. Explore ways to develop your self-expression in the craft, from placing flowers on your altar to using herbs in your divinatory practices. Featuring lore, recipes, spells, and more, Plant Magic helps you better understand and be inspired by the green world.