Penny Billington - Llewellyns 2017 Magical Almanac

Featuring

Peg Aloi, Elizabeth Barrette, Penny Billington,Stephanie Rose Bird, Deborah Blake, Blake Octavian Blair, Emily Carlin, Deborah Castellano, Alexandra Chauran, Dallas Jennifer Cobb, Kerri Connor, Sally Cragin, Monica Crosson, Autumn Damiana, Raven Digitalis, Denise Dumars, Ash Wennsday Everell, Michael Furie, Shawna Galvin, Magenta Griffith, Justine Holubets, Hannah E. Johnston, James Kambos, Najah Lightfoot, Lupa, Melanie Marquis, Estha K. V. McNevin, Susan Pesznecker, Suzanne Ress, Cassius Sparrow,Melissa Tipton, Charlynn Walls, Tess Whitehurst, Charlie Rainbow Wolf, and Natalie Zaman

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About the Authors

Peg Aloi is a freelance writer and media studies scholar. She has written on diverse subjects ranging from color symbolism in film to aromatherapy to womens sexual health. She is also an accomplished singer of traditional music and an award-winning poet. Her blog The Witching Hour (at Patheos) explores popular media related to Witchcraft, Paganism, and the occult.

Elizabeth Barrette has been involved with the Pagan community for more than twenty-six years. She served as managing editor of PanGaia for eight years and dean of studies at the Grey School of Wizardry for four years. She has written columns on beginning and intermediate Pagan practice, culture, and leadership. Her book Composing Magic explains how to combine writing and spirituality. She enjoys magical crafts, historic religions, and gardening for wildlife. Visit her blog, The Wordsmiths Forge (www.ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com), or website, PenUltimate Productions (www.penultimateproductions.weebly.com). Her coven site is Greenhaven Tradition(www.greenhaventradition.weebly.com).

Penny Billington is a Druid author, speaker, and ceremony and workshop leader who has had a significant role in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids for many years and has edited their magazine Touchstone for fifteen. Her published work includes The Path of Druidry, a best-selling practical Druid study course and guide, and The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew (both Llewellyn). This year she has written on Druidry, ancestral connections, and meditative practice. Visit her at www.pennybillington.co.uk.

Stephanie Rose Bird is an Eclectic Pagan practicing Hoodoo, Green Witchcraft, and shamanism. Deeply into meditation and yoga, she is a creative visionary. She has written five books: The Big Book of Soul ; A Healing Grove ; Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America ; Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones ; and Four Seasons of Mojo . Her debut novel is No Barren Life.

Deborah Blake is the author of the Baba Yaga paranormal ro-mance series (which includes Wickedly Magical, Wickedly Dangerous, Wickedly Wonderful, and Wickedly Powerful ), as well as nine books on modern Witchcraft from Llewellyn. She has an ongoing column in Witches & Pagans Magazine and was featured in The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction . When not writing, she is the manager and cofounder of the Artisans Guild, a not-for-profit artists cooperative shop where she also sells her jewelry. She can be found at www.deborahblakeauthor.com.

Blake Octavian Blair is an Eclectic Pagan, ordained minister, shamanic practitioner, writer, Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, tarot reader, and musical artist. He blends various mystical traditions from both the East and West with a reverence for the natural world into his own brand of modern Paganism and magick. Blake holds a degree in English and religion from the University of Florida. Blake lives in the New England region of the United States with his beloved husband. Visit him on the web at www.blakeoctavianblair.com or write to him at blake@blakeoctavianblair.com.

Emily Carlin is an Eclectic Witch, teacher, mediator, and ritual presenter based in Seattle, WA. She specializes in shadow magick, defensive magick, and pop culture magick. She teaches one-on-one online and in-person at events on the West Coast. For more information, go to http://about.me/ecarlin.

Deborah Castellano writes for many of Llewellyns annuals and writes a blog on PaganSquare about unsolicated opinions on glamour, the Muse, and the occult. Her shop, the Mermaid and the Crow, specializes in handmade goods. She resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jow, and two cats. She has a terrible reality television habit she cant shake and likes St. Germain liqueur, record players, and typewriters. Visit her at www.deborahmcastellano.com.

Alexandra Chauran is a second-generation fortuneteller, a third-degree elder high priestess of British Traditional Wicca, and the queen of a coven. As a professional psychic intuitive for over a decade, she serves thousands of clients in the Seattle area and globally through her website. She is certified in tarot and has been interviewed on National Public Radio and other major media outlets. Alexandra is currently pursuing a doctoral degree, lives in Issaquah, WA, and can be found online at www.SeePsychic.com.

Dallas Jennifer Cobb practices gratitude magic, giving thanks for personal happiness, health, and prosperity; meaningful, flexible and rewarding work; and a deliciously joyful life. She is accomplishing her deepest desires. She lives in paradise with her daughter in a waterfront village in rural Ontario, where she regularly swims and runs, chanting, Thank you, thank you, thank you. Contact her at jennifer.cobb@live.com or visit www.magicalliving.ca.