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The Path of Druidry
Walking the Ancient Green Way
Penny Billington
Druidry is very much alive and relevant in today’s world. Discover how to embark on this green and magical path—and enrich your life with its ancient wisdom.
British Druid Penny Billington offers a clear and structured course of study that highlights the mysteries, magic, and modern practice of this nature-based tradition. Each chapter begins with a captivating Welsh mythic tale that introduces lessons and key concepts. Practical exercises will help you internalize these truths, develop a spiritual awareness rooted in nature, connect to the multi-dimensional world, and ultimately adopt a druidic worldview to guide you in everyday life.
From joining a druidic community to beginning a solitary path, this unique spiritual guide offers advice on everything you need to know about practicing Druidry today.
978-0-7387-2346-4
71⁄2 x 91⁄8
360 pp.
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Wandlore
The Art of Crafting the Ultimate Magical Tool
Alferian Gwydion MacLir
This enchanting, one-of-a-kind guidebook is for anyone who’s ever wanted to know how magic wands work or longed to have a real magic wand of his or her own. Written by the foremost authority on the making of wands, this book is the first devoted solely to the art of wandmaking and its mysteries. It approaches the craft from its theoretical foundations, through the selection of wood and the art of carving, to the enchantment and dedication that charge a wand for magical use. Readers will discover how a tree branch is transformed into a wand of magic, gain an understanding of the tree spirits, or dryads, and learn about stones and their powers. This book reveals the true use of phoenix feathers and unicorn hair as wand cores. No magician, Witch, or Druid should be without this groundbreaking work.
978-0-7387-2002-9
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288 pp.
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Priestess of the Fire Temple
A Druid’s Tale
Ellen Evert Hopman
The Priestess of the Fire Temple follows Princess Aislinn, red-haired wild child of the High King of the Central Kingdom, as she makes her way in a world increasingly hostile to those who are not Christian. Raised in a community that observed both Pagani and Cristaidi mores, Druid-trained Aislinn is married off at age fourteen to a prince from Irardacht, the Northern Kingdom. Escaping her unhappy marriage, Aislinn finds herself engaged in a series of dangerous adventures and fateful encounters on her quest for true love. This novel explores the basic beliefs of the Indo-European Celts and the Druid path in an engaging and powerful way.
978-0-7387-2925-1
6 x 9
288 pp.
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