Danielle Blackwood - The Twelve Faces of the Goddess: Transform Your Life with Astrology, Magick, and the Sacred Feminine

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The Twelve Faces of the Goddess: Transform Your Life with Astrology, Magick, and the Sacred Feminine 2018 by Danielle Blackwood.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738756127

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Names: Blackwood, Danielle, author.

Title: The twelve faces of the goddess : transform your life with astrology,

magick, and the sacred feminine / by Danielle Blackwood.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., 2018. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017061506 (print) | LCCN 2018008497 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738756127 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738756035 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Goddesses. | Astrology. | Magic. | Goddess religion.

Classification: LCC BL473.5 (ebook) | LCC BL473.5 .B53 2018 (print) | DDC

202/.114dc23

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CONTENTS

: The Call of the Mysteries

Astrology and Magick:
A Sacred Marriage
between Heaven and Earth

HOW TO WORK
WITH THIS BOOK

THE BASICS
OF ASTROLOGY

MAGICK AND THE
WHEEL OF THE YEAR

RITUAL
BASICS

Part Two
The Heroines Journey:
Through the Signs with the
Guiding Goddess Archetypes

Dedication

For my grandmother Anna, who taught me the healing medicine of story, the near magical power of hope, and the inherent wisdom in both strength and kindnessand without whose courage, I would never have been here.

Preface

THE CALL OF
THE MYSTERIES

T he Mysteries have always called to me. I grew up in a small West Coast island village, and they whispered from the shadows of the deep green forest I had to pass through on my way to school. I could hear them from my bed at night, crashing up on the wild Pacific shore with a cadence that made my heart ache. Starting in fifth grade, while other kids played at recess, I could be found hidden in the school library, spellbound by tales of mythology and enchanted by books on world religions. When I was thirteen, I happened upon a paperback copy of Waites The Pictorial Key to the Tarot in a free-book bin in the library. I was entranced by the enigmatic images, and I knew intuitively I had opened a door that would lead to the path I didnt even know I was searching for. We were not lucky enough in our small town to have anywhere that sold actual tarot cards, so I carefully cut the black-and-white illustrations out of the book one by one and created my very first deck. I studied the pictures for hours, locked in my room, mesmerized by the mysterious symbols and the flood of impressions that arose from them. Whenever I left my room, I would hide my makeshift cards under a corner of rug I pulled up from the floor of my closet, carefully positioning a pair of shoes on top. Instinctively, I knew my conservative parents would not approve.

Thus began my lifelong study of the esoteric. When I ran away from home to the big city at seventeen, I found to my absolute amazement that there was much more to be discovered. Soon after landing in Vancouver, British Columbia, I found my way to Banyen Books, a veritable wonderland of books, crystals, tarot cards, and all manner of magickal talismans waiting to be revealed. Wide-eyed and breathless, I put my money on the counter and, feeling like an initiate come to the foot of the temple, reverently purchased my first metaphysical books: The Inner Sky, The Spiral Dance , and Positive Magic . And, as luck would have it, while leaving the shop laden with my new treasures, I noticed a community bulletin board advertising astrology classes. I was home.