Staff Picks for the Fall

Scarlet's Recommendations: Protecting Yourself

Psychic Protection by Ted Andrews
ISBN: 1888767308 $20.95
From one of the most experienced and best teachers in the psychic/holistic field today comes a handbook for psychic self-defense that everyone can use. At a time when so much information is available and so many present themselves as experts, a down-to-earth manual of psychic principles and common sense practices has never been so needed.

Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch's Defense Manual by Jason Miller
ISBN: 1564148793 $19.50
You could be the target of a spell or a curse and not even know it! Powerful, invisible spirits may be threatening your health, relationships, or job. With Protection & Reversal Magick, you can fight back - and win the battle. Psychic, magickal, and spiritual attacks happen more often than even most Witch's and Magicians realize. The circumstances of attack vary but include: crossed conditions brought on by visiting disturbed or haunted places, aggression from spirits in retribution for human actions like pollution, experimental magick gone wrong, accidental attacks by psychics, and intentional curses by Witches and Magicians. All people, Witches or not, are susceptible to these attacks. The difference - Witches and Magicians can do something about it. Now you can too. Protection & Reversal Magick is a complete how-to manual on preventing, defending, and reversing magickal attacks of any kind.

• Evil Eye Talisman
• Uncrossing Bath Salt
• Protection Perfume Pray
• Witches Brew Votive Candle: Evil Eye
  

Robyn's Recommendations: Traditional Craft

Meaning of Witchcraft by Gerald Gardner
ISBN: 1578633095 $31.95
A sourcebook for all witches and pagans, this much sought-after volume is finally available again. First published in 1959, not long after laws punishing witches were repealed, it was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. Gardner's book opened the door for the modern revival of Wicca and neo-paganism.

Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition by Raven Grimassi
ISBN: 0738705969 $21.95
Understanding the Mystery Teachings of Witchcraft is essential for anyone wishing to enrich their Craft. World-renowned author and scholar Raven Grimassi guides readers down the well-worn path to these Mystery traditions by exploring their roots in myths, legends, verses, and lore. Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition provides a cultural and mythical context that helps readers gain insight into these Mystery themes. Drawing upon the long-standing traditional European Witchcraft and occult concepts and tenets, Grimassi constructs a cohesive mythos that supports and unifies the Sabbats and their associated deities. Also provided are techniques for aligning with the momentum of the past, a powerful current of knowledge and energy available to all Witches.

Llewellyn's Astrological Pocket Planner
ISBN: 9780738706955 $10.95Consult the stars anytime, anywhere, with this easy-to-use astrological day planner. From setting a wedding date to buying a house, you can use this essential cosmic database to plan your life according to planets. Featuring three years of ephemeris and aspectarian data (2009-2011), you'll learn the best time to plant a garden, begin new projects, conduct self-reflection, go fishing, and more. The easy-to-read retrograde and Moon void-of-course tables can help you avoid planetary pitfalls when scheduling business meetings and other activities. Comprehensive and compact, Llewellyn's 2010 Astrological Pocket Planner also contains a world map of time zones, a time zone conversion chart, and space to jot down your daily appointments.

• Small Cast Iron Cauldron with lid
• 3 Kings Charcoal Tablets
• Frankincense & Myrrh Ritual Resin
• Collectionnes Ambiances Musique: Les Chakras
  

Brenda's Recommendations: Spellcrafting

Seasons of the Witch: Poetry & Songs to the Goddess by Patricia Monaghan
ISBN: 0738701807 $31.95 (includes CD)
There are 28 pieces of prose and poetry for each of the four seasons in this publication. Each section features a song for the goddess of light, a litany for the associated elemental creature, poems inspired by tarot cards and love spells in the ancient poetic form of the charm. A four-part "Goddess Instruction Manual" is woven through the book and included is a 73-minute CD of 25 poems set to song.

Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions by Dorothy Morrison
ISBN: 0979453313 $18.95
Hexes, curses and other unsavory notions. Most magical practitioners won't even discuss them. Why? Because they'd much rather find a positive solution that benefits all concerned. And, there's nothing wrong with that. Occasionally, though, our problems are such that nothing in the positive solution arena will handle them. It's time to make a decision to stand tough, be strong, and take definitive action to defend ourselves. And, if you're ready to do that-if you're ready to own that action and take responsibility for it-then Utterly Wicked is the book for you! Jam-packed with more than one hundred rituals, incantations, hexes and curses, this book is the quintessential primer for learning all those magical tricks that no one wants to talk about. Do you know the proper way to enter a cemetery? Utterly Wicked tells you how, as well as the proper methods for collecting and using graveyard dirt. Explore the little known secrets of the 11 inch fashion doll and see why it's become such a valuable magical tool. Then learn to prepare Hot Foot Powder, Four Thieves Vinegar, Goofer Dust, and other magical components specifically designed to obliterate your toughest problems. Most important, though, you'll also find the tools to protect yourself, your family, and your home from ever being bothered with these sorts of difficulties again. A must have for any Witch's bookshelf!

• Bat's Blood Ink
• Protection Sprinkling Powder
• Black Mini Altar Candle
• Badger Balm Sore Muscle Rub
  

Samantha's Recommendations: Color Magick

Color Magic for Beginners by Richard Webster
ISBN: 0738708860 $15.95
From our clothes to the color of our bedroom walls, we are surrounded by colors that influence our mood, energy level, creativity, and overall well being. Richard Webster offers an astonishing number of ways to use stimulating reds, soothing blues, and every other color of the rainbow to our advantage. Webster begins with an overall picture of each color's major aspects-its psychological influence, healing qualities, emotional impact, and magical characteristics. From there, readers learn a multitude of color-based techniques involving astrology, the aura, candle magic, chakras, color rituals, crystals and gemstones, feng shui, flower magic, mandalas, meditation, numerology, and visualization. Webster demonstrates how color can be used to attract good luck, heal illness, reduce stress, create harmony in the home, overcome depression, solve problems, and magically enhance one's life in a variety of ways.

• Feather Quills of Dyed Turkey Feathers: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow
• Colored Velvet Pouches
  
• Green Crackle Quartz
• Chakra Pendulum
• Chakra Information Flash Cards
  

Eri's Recommendations: Faeries

Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition) by Brian Froud
ISBN: 0810932741 $39.95
It has been 25 years since Brian Froud and Alan Lee created the delightful, imaginative, and surprising Faeries -a book that quickly became a massive international bestseller and went on to sell more than a million copies. In celebration of Faeries 25th anniversary, Abrams is delighted to publish a special edition featuring eight new pages and 20 new pieces of art by Froud and Lee. The artists have also contributed new introductions. Since Faeries first appeared, both men have become tremendously successful and respected figures in the worlds of film, art, and publishing. But Faeries remains perhaps their most enduring work, a superb exploration of the myths, legends, folklore, and fantasy of the world of the faeries.

• Faery Attraction Incense
  
• Faery Protection talisman kit
• Witches Brew Votive Candle: Amber Moon
• Dumplin Drum