Llewellyn - Llewellyns 2014 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living

About the Authors

Barbara Ardinger, PhD, (www.barbaraardinger.com) is the author of Secret Lives , a novel about a circle of crones, mothers, and maidens, plus goddesses, a talking cat, and the Green Man. Her earlier books include Pagan Every Day , Goddess Meditations , Finding New Goddesses (a parody of goddess encyclopedias), and Quicksilver Moon (a realistic novel except for the vampire). As a freelance editor, she has edited more than 250 books of fiction and nonfiction. Barbara lives in Southern California with two rescued Maine coon cats, Heisenberg and Schroedinger.

Elizabeth Barrette was the managing editor of PanGaia and has been involved with the Pagan community for twenty-four years, actively networking via coffeehouse meetings and open sabbats. Her other writings include speculative fiction and gender studies. Her 2011 poem The Cathedral of the Michaelangelines earned a nomination for the Rhysling Award. She lives in central Illinois and enjoys herbal landscaping and gardening for wildlife.

Penny Billington is the editor of Touchstone , the monthly magazine of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. As a Druid celebrant, she has organized ritual and ceremony for over ten years, and regularly gives workshops throughout the UK. Her published work includes three Druid Detective novels, magazine articles on Druidry and Dion Fortune, contributions to the OBOD Druid grade course, and research for The Book of English Magic . Her latest book, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way, is a practical study guide published by Llewellyn. pennybillington.co.uk.

Blake Octavian Blair (Carrboro, NC) is an Eclectic Pagan Witch, ordained minister, psychic, tarot reader, freelance writer, Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, musical artist, and a devotee of Lord Ganesha. He holds a degree in English and Religion from the University of Florida. In his spare time he enjoys beading jewelry, knitting, and is an avid reader. Blake lives in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina with his beloved husband, an aquarium full of fish, and an indoor jungle of houseplants. Visit www.blakeoctavianblair.com or write him at blake@blakeoctavianblair.com.

Deborah Blake is a Wiccan High Priestess who has been leading Blue Moon Circle for many 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 , all from Llewellyn . She is also working on a number of novels. Deborah 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 all her activities, both magickal and mundane.

Lisa Allen/Calantirniel has practiced many forms of natural spirituality since the early 1990s. She is a professional astrologer, tarot card reader, dowser, flower essence creator, Usiu Reiki Master, a ULC Reverend, and a Master Herbalist. She has an organic garden, crochets professionally, and is co-creating Ti eldaliva, the Elven Path, a spiritual practice based on J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-Earth stories. http://astroherbalist.com.

Emily Carding (Cornwall, United Kingdom) is an author, priestess, and artist. An initiate of Alexandrian Wicca and a member of the Starstone network, Carding has been working with inner world Faery contacts since childhood. She has been trained in techniques of Celtic shamanism by John and Caitlin Matthews, and has worked with renowned Faery teachers R. J. Stewart and Brian and Wendy Froud. A respected and active member of the Faery and Tarot community worldwide, Cardings work has received international recognition. Visit her online at ChildOfAvalon.com.

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 paradise, in a waterfront village in rural Ontario. Contact her at jennifer.cobb@live.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 the disciplined eclectic tradition and training coven Opus Aima Obscur, and is a DJ . Also trained in Georgian Witchcraft and Buddhist philosophy, Raven is a Witch, Priest, and Empath. He 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 twenty-seven years, she is the author of many Llewellyn books; her newest are A Garden Witchs Herbal and Book of Witchery . Ellen encourages folks to personalize their spellcraft, 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. www.ellendugan.com.

Denise Dion-Isis Dumars is a writer of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and screenplays. She has authored two books on magic and spirituality, including Be Blessd: Daily Devotions for Busy Wiccans and Pagans (New Page 2006). She also wrote a book of poetry, Paranormal/Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal (Sams Dot, 2012). She is a founder of the Iseum of Isis Paedusis, which holds public rituals at Pacific Unitarian Church in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She lives in Los Angeles County, but her heart is in New Orleans.

Eli Effinger-Weintraub is a writer and editor in the Twin Cities Watershed. She writes prose fiction, stage plays, creative nonfiction, and spoken-word memoir. Eli has written for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Theatre Unbound, Patricks Cabaret, Seal Press, Alyson Books, Electric Velocipede , and Witches & Pagans magazine and blogs at No Unsacred Space and PaganSquare. She has a special interest in urban cycling, sustainable living and dying, and steampunk.

Emyme is a solitary practitioner who resides in a multigenera tional, 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 currently writing a series of fantasy fiction stories set in the twenty-fifth century. Her personal mantra is summed up in four words: Curiosity, Objectivity, Quality, Integrity. catsmeow24@verizon.net.

Sybil Fogg has been a practicing Witch for more than twenty years. She is also known as Sybil Wilen. She uses her mothers maiden name in Pagan circles to honor her grandparents. Shes also a wife, mother, writer, teacher, and belly dancer. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and children. www.sybilwilen.com.

Karen Glasgow-Follett has been practicing witchcraft since 1972. Karen lives in the Midwest with her husband. Her r sum includes Reiki healer, psychic medium, craft designer, writer, psychic develoment educator, and obstetrical nurse. Karen does spend some of her spare time trying to figure out what to be when she grows up.