Praise for Wicca Made Easy
Wicca Made Easy is pure magic. I was enchanted from the very page. Phyllis Curott has articulated the ancient language and practice of Divinity known as Wicca that speaks to our very bone marrow and welcomes us home to the Sacredness of everyday life.
CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF GODDESSES NEVER AGE AND WOMENS BODIES, WOMENS WISDOM
In this lively and engaging introduction to the rebirth of an ancient wisdom way, Phyllis Curott invites us to embrace the whole of creation as imbued with the sacred and our own bodies as boundlessly holy. This book is a call to community, an endorsement of feminine leadership, a remembrance of our birthright of mutual belonging and beautiful magic.
MIRABAI STARR, AUTHOR OF GOD OF LOVE AND CARAVAN OF NO DESPAIR
Wicca offers spiritual wisdom and wholeness that have been missing in the popular culture for millennia. Phyllis Curott takes us beyond the erroneous beliefs of a patriarchal past by embracing the Goddess and bringing forth passion, truth and healing with nature, and for all. Her gem of a book restores Wiccas potent do-able rituals in everyday practice. In co-creating with Mother Nature we can erase habits cemented by misguided history and reclaim inner harmony, grace and gratitude.
MAYA TIWARI, AYURVEDA AUTHOR, HUMANITARIAN AND PEACE LEADER
Bringing the Old Religion in tune with the modern spirits of Nature, this book is a must for anyone exploring the Craft and its more shamanic aspects and incorporating them into modern Witchcraft practice.
JANET FARRAR AND GAVIN BONE, AUTHORS OF A WITCHES BIBLE, THE WITCHES GODDESS, THE INNER MYSTERIES AND LIFTING THE VEIL
In this fresh and evolved book for newcomers as well as adepts, Phyllis shares her wisdom and life experience with writing that is cohesive, smooth and anchored in a relaxed and welcoming tone. Clear, enlightened both energetically and practically and really well organized in the way the wisdom and practices unfold. I love the strong shamanic wisdom shining through.
FIONA HORNE, AUTHOR OF POP! GOES THE WITCH AND THE NAKED WITCH
A much-needed guide in a time when humanity needs to re-learn the sacredness of all life. These pages will tune you in to the divinity within you and also the divinity within all sacred creation. A great little book for the merely curious as well as for those who want to delve deeper.
ELLEN EVERT HOPMAN, AUTHOR OF THE REAL WITCHES OF NEW ENGLAND, SECRET MEDICINES FROM YOUR GARDEN AND A LEGACY OF DRUIDS
Phyllis Curott weaves the Wiccan revival together with core shamanism, and this welcomed book provides an accessible guide for blossoming intuition into an awakened personal magic, awareness and purpose. With refreshing clarity, she conveys for people of all genders the appeal of a modern witchcraft that is capable of serving a world in need of a sanely organic and joyful re-balancing.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL YORK, BATH SPA UNIVERSITY, CONTRIBUTOR TO PAGAN ETHICS
Wicca Made Easy covers the many mysteries of Wiccan theory and practice and reveals itself as far more of an active workbook than a typical reference. Covering the fundamentals with a keen insight honed from years of practice, Phyllis pleasantly places Nature and its beauty in the forefront of her mystical practices. Wicca Made Easy would be a perfect gift for a new initiate eager to begin experiencing Natures powerful and spiritual scope and all things magical.
ANDREW THEITIC, PUBLISHER OF THE WITCHES ALMANAC AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE REDE OF THE WICCAE
Also in the Made Easy series
The Akashic Records
Animal Communication
Astrology
Chakras
Connecting with the Angels
Connecting with the Fairies
Crystals
Discovering Your Past Lives
Energy Healing
Feng Shui
Goddess Wisdom
Lucid Dreaming
Mediumship
Meditation
Mindfulness
NLP
Numerology
Qabalah
Reiki
Self-Hypnosis
Shamanism
Tantra
The Tarot
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Text Phyllis Curott, 2018
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Contents
I feel like Ive come home.
Were all on a journey, pilgrims seeking our power, our purpose and our higher selves. Were looking for inner peace and outer prosperity, the courage to face our fears and fulfill our destiny, to leave loneliness behind and find love, to change the way we think and the way we live. Were looking for Spirit and for guidance in our quest for wholeness. Were looking to awaken the magic within.
Life is complicated, but your spirituality shouldnt be. Life is also magical, and your spirituality should be.
When I discovered Wicca almost 40 years ago, there were just a few hundred people in the back of a dusty old broom closet, reviving an ancestral wisdom tradition hidden from the world after hundreds of years of persecution and negative stereotypes. Today, there are more than one million public Wiccans in the USA, and Wicca has become the fastest-growing spirituality in the British Isles, Europe and Australia and is expanding throughout the world.
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