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The Great Handfasting Project: Secular Wedding Planning Books
While historical sources about pre-Christian weddings and books written by modern pagans can give you a lot of good ideas for your ceremony, many of them don’t cover the most stressful part of getting married: planning, budgeting, scheduling, and managing a modern wedding. My fiance and I decided in December to move our wedding date…
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Spooky Books I’ve Been Enjoying Lately
(Yes, this is a break from witchcraft/paganism-related content. It’s been a long week and my brain is tired, so we’re going to talk about other hobbies that require less research.) Does anyone else feel like Halloween has totally crept up on them this year? This is my favorite holiday, but I feel like I just…
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Book Review: Psychic Tarot by Nancy Antenucci and Melanie Howard
Since I’ve started reading tarot for others more often, I’ve been making an effort to read more books about tarot and about different reading styles. I’m already pretty darn familiar with the cards and confident in my own reading style, but I think it’s helpful to see what other people are doing. It helps me…
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If You Have a Uterus, You Need to Read This Book
A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer was recommended to me by a friend the day after the news broke that the US Supreme Court was voting to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate federal abortion protections. She knew that, like a lot of people, I was…
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A Woman’s Book of Choices by Carol Downer and Rebecca Chalker
A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer is one of the most informative books I have ever read (and I read a lot of books). I learned more about my own reproductive organs, about abortion, and about birth control from this one book than I have from…
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Water Magic by Lilith Dorsey (Review)
This review is part of the #SeaWitchReadingChallenge, which I am co-hosting with several other creators for the month of May. If you are interested in participating, check out my announcement video on YouTube. This is the book I read for the first challenge prompt: “Read a book about the element of water and its use…
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How to Find Good Witchcraft Books (Baby Witch Bootcamp Ch. 4)
This post is loosely based on the fourth episode of my Baby Witch Bootcamp series on YouTube. In that video, I recommended some of my personal favorite books on witchcraft and spirituality. But, after some thought, I decided it would be more helpful to give y’all some guidelines for how to find worthy resources for…
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A Must-Read Book for Ex-Mormons: Recovering Agency by Luna Lindsey (Review)
I do not use the phrase “must-read” lightly. There are very few books that I think every single person — or at least every single member of a given group — can benefit from. After all, we’re all different people with different intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs. But I genuinely believe that every person who…
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Angel Magick Books: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
If you’ve seen my last YouTube video, you know that I’ve been spending a frustrating few months trying to find good books to help me make angels a bigger part of my spiritual practice. In this quest, I was hoping to find books that weren’t explicitly Christian — which was harder than you’d think. And…
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Stephen King, “Children of the Corn,” and Childhood Trauma in the Church
It seems like every few months, another religious group makes global news for their abuse of members, specifically children. Catholic priests molesting altar boys. Extremist Muslim groups in Africa mutilating little girls. Pagan teachers extorting teenaged students for sex. Every religion has its monsters. Sacred spaces are typically places where we allow ourselves to be…
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