Llewellyn - Llewellyns 2011 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living

Featuring

Elizabeth Barrette, Deborah Blake, Calantirniel,
Dallas Jennifer Cobb, Ellen Dugan, Denise Dumars,
Emyme, Sybil Fogg, Abel R. Gomez,
Marcus F. Griffin, Magenta Griffith, Elizabeth Hazel, James Kambos, Deborah Lipp, Lupa, Melanie Marquis, Graham Miller, Mickie Mueller, Paniteowl,
Susan Moonwriter Pesznecker, Kelly Proudfoot,
Diana Rajchel, Raven Digitalis, Janina Rene,
Suzanne Ress, Michelle Skye, Harmony Usher, Katherine Weber-Turcotte, Tess Whitehurst, and Gail Wood

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Calendar Pages Design: Andrea Neff and Michael Fallon

Calendar Pages Illustrations: Fiona King

Interior Illustrations Carol Coogan: pages 13, 20, 22, 24, 62, 77, 135, 137, 215, 265, 269, 279, 305, 330; Chris Down: pages 27, 31, 94, 234, 237, 293, 296, 299, 335, 337, 339; Kathleen Edwards: pages 51, 53, 99, 102, 131, 216, 219, 272, 277, 317; Paul Hoffman: pages 68, 106, 258, 261, 321, 325, 326; Wen Hsu: pages 17, 71, 74, 122, 127, 249, 254, 286, 290, 342, 348; Mickie Mueller: pages 42, 47, 79, 82, 241, 246, 313; Sabrina the Ink Witch: pages 37, 57, 87, 90, 111, 117, 225, 281, 282.

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About the Authors

Elizabeth Barrette has been involved with the Pagan community for more than twenty years. She served as managing editor of PanGaia and Dean of Studies at the Grey School of Wizardry. Her Composing Magic explains how to write spells, rituals, and other Pagan material. She lives in central Illinois and enjoys magical crafts and gardening for wildlife. She has done much networking with Pagans in her area, including coffeehouse meetings and open sabbats. Other writing fields include speculative fiction and gender studies. http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/ http://gaiatribe.geekuniversalis.com http://reviewarchive.iblog.my

Deborah Blake is a Wiccan High Priestess who has been leading Blue Moon Circle for many years. She is the author of Circle, Coven and Grove , Everyday Witch A to Z , The Goddess is in the Details , and The Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook , all from Llewellyn . Deborah was a finalist in the Pagan Fiction Award Contest and her short story, Dead and (Mostly) Gone, is included in The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction . She is also working on a number of novels, most of them featuring a Witch, of course. When not writing, Deborah runs The Artisans Guild and works as a jewelry maker, a tarot reader, an ordained minister, and an Intuitive Energy Healer. She lives in a hundred-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with five cats who supervise all her activities, both magickal and mundane.

Lisa Allen/Calantirniel has been published in many Llewellyn annuals and has practiced many forms of natural spirituality since the early 1990s. She currently lives in western Montana with her husband, teenage daughter, and three young cats, while her older son is in college. She is a professional astrologer, tarot card reader, dowser, flower essence creator and practitioner, a ULC Reverend, Usui Reiki II, and a certified Master Herbalist. She has an organic garden, crochets professionally, and is co-creating Ti eldaliva, the Elven Path, a spiritual practice based on J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-Earth stories. www.myspace.com/aartiana

Raven Digitalis (Montana) is the author of Planetary Spells & Rituals , Shadow Magick Compendium , and Goth Craft , all from Llewellyn. He is a Neopagan Priest and cofounder of the disciplined eclectic tradition and training coven Opus Aima Obscur, and is a DJ . Also trained in Georgian Witchcraft and Buddhist philosophy, Raven is a Witch, Priest, and Empath. He holds a degree in anthropology and is also an animal rights activist, photographic artist, Tarot reader, and the co-owner of Twigs & Brews Herbs. www.ravendigitalis.com www.myspace.com/oakraven

Ellen Dugan , the Garden Witch, is an award-winning author and psychic-clairvoyant. A practicing Witch for more than twenty-seven years, she is the author of many Llewellyn books; her newest are A Garden Witchs Herbal and Book of Witchery . Ellen encourages folks to personalize their spellcraft, to go outside and get their hands dirty, so they can discover the wonder and magick of the natural world. Ellen and her family live in Missouri. www.ellendugan.com

Rev. Denise Dion-Isis Dumars, M.A. serves Thoth as a writer, a professor of writing, and a writers representative. She is a founder of the Iseum of Isis Paedusis, which was chartered by the Fellowship of Isis in 2001. She and the other Iseum Adepti hold seasonal rituals at Pacific Unitarian Church in beautiful Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She hopes to visit Egypt some day, but in the meantime she volunteers for the American Cinematheque at Graumans Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Emyme is a solitary practitioner who resides in a multigenerational,
multicat household in southern New Jersey. Hobbies that renew her are: gardening, sewing and crafts, and home care and repair. Emyme has self-published a childrens book about mending families after divorce and remarriage. She is an avid diarist; dabbles in poetry; creates her own blessings, incantations, and spells; and is currently writing a series of fantasy fiction stories set in the twenty-fifth century. Her personal mantra is summed up in four words: Curiosity, Objectivity, Quality, Integrity. catsmeow24@verizon.net

Sybil Fogg , also known as Sybil Wilen, has been a practicing Witch for more than twenty years. She chose to use her mothers maiden name in Pagan circles to honor her grandparents. Shes also a wife, mother, writer, teacher, and belly dancer. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and their plethora of children. www.sybilwilen.com

Abel R. Gomez is a student, writer, performer, and ritualist ecstatically devoted to Maa Kali. His practice is rooted in a deep reverence for the intricacies of Nature, a constant reminder of the mystery and wonder of humanity and the world. Abel is passionate about musical theatre, permaculture, animal rights, and social justice. He studies Shakta Tantra with SHARANYA, a local Devi Mandir (Goddess temple), and is a member of the San Francisco Reclaiming community of Witches.