Jane Meredith - Elements of Magic: Reclaiming Earth, Air, Fire, Water & Spirit

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Elements of Magic: Reclaiming Earth, Air, Fire, Water & Spirit 2018 by Jane Meredith & Gede Parma.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738759005

Cover design by Shira Atakpu

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Meredith, Jane, editor. | Parma, Gede, editor. | Starhawk,

author of foreword.

Title: Elements of magic : reclaiming earth, air, fire, water, and spirit /

edited by Jane Meredith & Gede Parma ; foreword by Starhawk.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications,

2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018035861 (print) | LCCN 2018046012 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738759005 () | ISBN 9780738757148 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Magic. | Witchcraft. | Four elements

(Philosophy)Miscellanea.

Classification: LCC BF1621 (ebook) | LCC BF1621 .E44 2018 (print) | DDC

133.4/3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035861

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We acknowledge and honor the traditional peoples of the lands on which we live, write, make magic, and weave community. We hope that the work of Reclaiming and our communities might help to bring healing to the earth and her peoples. We acknowledge and respect all indigenous elderspast, present, and emerging.

We honor and acknowledge the immeasurable and immense body of technique, process, lore, and ritual craft woven together into the entity that is the class known as Reclaimings Elements of Magic. We are grateful for all the classes that have existed through the years and to all who have developed and taught this content, from Diane Baker and Starhawk in 1980 in the Bay Area to Canadian feminists to WitchCamps all over the world.

We acknowledge those who have gathered to facilitate and participate in Elements of Magic in living rooms, attics, halls, paddocks, forests, and churchesincluding queer mens classes, womens classes, childrens paths in the redwoods, and teens drawn to empowerment and witchery. Elements of Magic has traveled from the United States out as far as Perth, Australia; Somerset, England; and Germany, Iceland, and Guatemala.

And we know that this work will develop, deepen, and live as it continues to be taught worldwide and with each person who takes a step into this work and who dares to open this book.

Jane Meredith & Gede Parma

Australia, 2017

Welcome to this adventure called the Elements of Magic. Ground yourself; know your body and being to be part of this beautiful earth we live on. You might like to name the sacred land you live on. Draw in a deep breath and find your center. Perhaps you are calm and settled, perhaps excited, nervous, or filled with curiosity. Know that many others share this journey with you across time and space. Our hands and voices, our stillness and silence, reach out to you from the center, from the circumferenceand we cast the circle. We step between the worlds to discover our origins, awaken to our divinity, and become the magic-weavers our ancestors and descendants know we can be.

Earth is herewe feel it under our feet, place a hand on it, or reach for it through layers of floor. Air is herewe breathe deep, maybe we sing or sigh or speak. Fire is herewe look to the sky for the sun or stars or moon; we feel the warmth of our skin. Water is herewe feel the moisture in the air, turn toward a river or ocean, feel the blood pumping in our veins. Spirit is herewe look into each others eyes, we remember our lineage, we open to the divine. Earthairfirewaterand that mysterious everything and nothing, spirit. We cherish, we adore, we welcome all the elements of life!

In this book is a depth and breadth of knowledge, experience, insight, humor, power, and presence. These pages are written for you. We invite you in. We welcome your voice, your thoughts, your experience, your magic. You are welcome here. This is your sacred space; this is our sacred space. Let it begin.

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