The Witch's Guide to Life

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Llewellyn Worldwide, 2003 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 459 pages

The Witch's Guide to Life is brimming with practical advice for every modern, magickally minded person. Author Kala Trobe explores what it really means to practice Witchcraft, including how to implement a positive metaphysical philosophy as an aid to overcoming life's many challenges--or at least facing them with courage. Covering mind, body, and spirit in its three extensive parts, The Witch's Guide to Life is an indispensable magickal reference book for novice and adept alike.

Wiccan ethics, the difference between a Wiccan and a non-Wiccan Witch, love, sex, mood swings, eating disorders, suicidal impulses, and the use of drugs are amongst the issues discussed in the first part of the book, along with wider subjects such as the witch's role in global crisis.

Part two explores the history, folklore, and mystical systems relevant to witchcraft as we know it today, including chakras, the Qabalah of the Western Mystery Tradition, and Tarot. The lives of eminent historical and contemporary occultists are outlined, and the image of the witch as reflected in art, literature, and the media is explored as an indication of the changing attitude of the general public to the arts magickal.

In part three you'll find the practical how-to of witchcraft and magick, with comprehensive sections on a witch's working tools, when to cast what, and magickal techniques and spell-casting. Also included are recipes to make every sabbat a tasty as well as magickal experience, tips on psychic self-protection, and advice for coping with adversity. The power inherent in every witch shines forth in this guide to magickal living in the modern world.

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Contents

What Makes a Witch?
3
The Witch and Morality
29
Neutralising an Aggressor
48
The Witch and Love and Sex
49
Meaning and Magick
63
Karma Drama
73
The Witch and Mental Health
79
Mood Swings Spell
80
Magickal Techniques and Spellcasting
349
Spell for Abundance
354
Visualisation for Recalling Lifes Inner Mystery
361
Washing Up Spell
365
Spell for WellBeing
369
Garment Spell
379
Simple Psychic SelfProtection Technique
383
Spell for Ridding Oneself of an Unwanted Thought Memory or Influence
386

The Witch and Drugs
91
The Ages of the Witch
99
The Wheel of Death and Life
109
Myth and Symbolism
137
The Chakra System and Auras
165
General Chakra Meditation
170
The Witch and Qabalah
177
Visualising the Qabalah as a Whole
181
The Witch and Divination
191
Justice Spell
244
A Brief History of Witchcraft
253
Who Influenced the Witching World?
260
The Witch in the Arts and Media
323
A Witchs Working Tools
335
Email Spell
388
Syds Nans Wart Spell
391
Menstrual and Menopausal Magick
393
To Define Your Psychic and Psychological Barriers
400
Exorcise Your Life of Unwanted Differences
401
To Bring an Idea1 to Fruition
402
Spell for Menstrual Strength
403
Spell for Peace of Body and Mind During a Period or at Menopause
404
The Witch and Physical Health
407
The Witch and Wealth
437
Money Tree Spell
439
Index
451
267
453
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About the author (2003)

A lifelong student of the Mysteries and practitioner of conscious connection with the Divine, Kala Trobe paints and writes on such themes as spiritual evolution, goddesses and magicks. She works as a Tarot-based counsellor, holds an MA with Distinction in Literature, and relishes languages, visual arts, Sanskrit mantras, travel, and cats. Her publications with Llewellyn include The Witch's Guide to Life and the recently revised Invoke the Goddess. She has also written the occult novels Spiritus and Ascension.

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