Ellen Dugan - Llewellyns 2015 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living

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About the Authors

Deanna Anderson is the author of Magick for the Kitchen Witch (2009) and Magick for the Elemental Witch (2010). A third-degree progressive Pagan with a local coven, she has been practicing for almost ten years. Deanna is a certified freelance writer with Penn Foster (2010) and has been studying tarot for four years. In 2011, she created the study group STAR: Sumter Tarot and Runes.

Blake Octavian Blair is an eclectic Pagan, ordained minister, shamanic practitioner, writer, Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, tarot reader, and musical artist. Blake blends various mystical traditions from the East and West along with a reverence for the natural world into his own brand of modern Neo-Paganism and magick. Blake holds a degree in English and Religion from the University of Florida. An avid reader, crafter, and practicing vegetarian, Blake lives with his beloved husband, an aquarium full of fish, and an indoor jungle of houseplants. Visit www.blakeoctavianblair.com.

Deborah Blake is a Wiccan High Priestess who has been leading Blue Moon Circle for 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. She also runs The Artisans Guild and works as a jewelry maker, a tarot reader, and an Intuitive Energy Healer. She lives in rural upstate New York with five cats who supervise her activities, both magickal and mundane.

Boudica is best known for her professional reviews of books on paganism. She and her husband ran the Wiccan/Pagan Times website until retiring it to pursue other ventures. She also ran Zodiac Bistro, a repository of articles, commentaries, and reviews. A supporter of building Pagan community, she has worked in covens and also has a solitary practice. She also presents at events and holds public workshops in the Northeast, and now runs an online bookstore and reads tarot cards for clients. Boudica lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband of many years and her cats.

Emily Carlin is an eclectic witch, mediator, and attorney based in Seattle, Washington. She specializes in shadow work and defensive magick. Emily teaches extensively online at the Grey School and at Pagan events around the Puget Sound area. Her book Defense Against the Dark , a guide to all things that go bump in the night and what to do about them, is available online and at major retailers.

Dallas Jennifer Cobb practices gratitude magic, giving thanks for her magical life, happy and healthy family, meaningful and flexible work, and joyous life. She believes the Goddess will provide time, energy, wisdom, and money to accomplish all her deepest desires. She lives in paradisea waterfront village in rural Ontario. Contact her at jennifer.cobb@live.com.

Monica Crosson is a Master Gardener who lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest happily digging in the dirt and tending her raspberries with her husband, three kids, two goats, two dogs, three cats, a dozen chickens, and Rosetta the donkey. She has been a practicing witch for twenty years and is a member of Blue Moon Coven. Monica writes fiction for young adults and is the author of Summer Sage . Visit her website at www.monicacrosson.com.

Autumn Damiana is a writer, artist, crafter, and amateur photographer, and has been a mostly solitary eclectic Witch for fourteen years. She is passionate about eco-friendly living and writes about this and her day-to-day walk on the Pagan path in her blog Sacred Survival in a Mundane World at http://autumndamiana.blogspot
.com/. When not writing or making art, you can find her outside enjoying nature or investigating local history in her hometown of San Jose, California. Contact her at autumndamiana@gmail.com.

Raven Digitalis is the author of Planetary Spells & Rituals , Shadow Magick Compendium , and Goth Craft , all from Llewellyn. He is a Neopagan Priest, cofounder of an Eastern Hellenistic Coven and Order called Opus Aima Obscur (OAO), and a DJ . Also trained in Georgian Witchcraft and Buddhist philosophy, Raven holds a degree in anthropology and is also an animal rights activist, photographic artist, tarot reader, and co-owner of Twigs & Brews Herbs. www.ravendigitalis.com, www
.myspace.com/oakraven, www.facebook.com/ravendigitalisauthor .

Ellen Dugan , the Garden Witch, is an award-winning author and psychic-clairvoyant. A practicing Witch for more than thirty years, she is the author of many Llewellyn books; her newest are Seasons of Witchery , Witches Tarot , and Practical Prosperity Magick . Ellen encourages folks to personalize their spellcraft and 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. Visit her at www.ellendugan.blogspot.com or www.ellendugan.com.

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 writing a series of fantasy fiction stories. Her personal mantra is: Curiosity, Objectivity, Quality, Integrity. catsmeow24@verizon.net.