RitualCraft: Creating Rites for Transformation and Celebration

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Llewellyn Worldwide, 2006 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 624 pages

You can change yourself and your world with effective, focused rituals. This book by renowned Witches Amber K and Azrael Arynn K shows you how to craft powerful and meaningful rituals for your life, your family, and your spiritual community.

The authors share their vast knowledge of ritual planning and performance, providing a framework for creating your own successful rituals. They illustrate the principles of ritual crafting with stories from their own experiences as they explore a variety of topics, including rites of passage, esbats and sabbats, seasonal celebrations, rites for personal transformation, and rituals done simply for the fun of it.

You'll find information on all aspects of ritual including correspondences, timing, environment, attitude, music, meditation, altars, tools, costumes, and safety. This comprehensive book also offers worksheets, outlines, suggested themes, sample rituals, and a guide to teaching others.

Whether you're a beginner or seasoned practitioner, this comprehensive guide will help you take your own Witchcraft to new levels of significance, celebration, and personal transformation.

Praise:
"This is a wonderful book, and is highly recommended to anyone doing ritual."--Lisa McSherry, FacingNorth.net

Winner of the 2007 COVR Book of the Year award

 

Contents

What Is Ritual?
3
Rituals Around the World
13
Best and Worst Rituals
29
SECTION 2
41
You as Ritualist
43
The Steps of Ritual
61
Clarifying Your Purpose
85
The Ritual Mind
103
Costumes in Ritual
273
Safe and Appropriate Ritual
291
20
307
21
321
22
329
23
343
Ritual for the Moon and the Seasons
373
25
395

The Language of Correspondences
125
Participants in Ritual
135
The Environment of Ritual
154
The Timing of Ritual
163
The Visual Aspects of Ritual
177
Speech and Sound in Ritual
194
Music in Ritual
207
The Feel of Ritual
221
Guided Meditation in Ritual
235
Altars and Ritual Tools
253
26
404
27
421
28
431
Appendices
447
A12
484
A14
490
Glossary
505
Bibliography
523
Index
531
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Amber K is a third degree priestess of the Wiccan faith. She was initiated at the Temple of the Pagan Way in Chicago and served on the Council of Elders there. Her books on magick and the Craft have been widely circulated in the United States and Europe, and for nearly 25 years she has traveled across the U.S. teaching the Craft. She has worked with Circle and the Re-Formed Congregation of the Goddess, and served as National First Officer of the Covenant of the Goddess for three terms. She is a founder of Our Lady of the Woods and the Ladywood Tradition of Wicca, and currently is Executive Director of Ardantane, a Wiccan/Pagan seminary is northern New Mexico.

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