Jacki Smith - Do It Yourself Akashic Wisdom: Access the Library of Your Soul

We love Jacki and we love this book! She is the real deal and makes candle rituals fun, meaningful, and magical. Her play on words, recipes for change, advice, and down-to-earth spirituality are a joy to read.

AMY ZERNER & MONTE FARBER, authors of The Enchanted Tarot and The Soulmate Path

From self-understanding to healing and transformation, Jacki prepares us to be creators and channels of powerful magic in our own lives. She makes both magical theory and practical application accessible and effective and fun.

BARBARA MOORE, author of The Mystic Faerie Tarot and Tarot for Beginners

Jacki Smith's Coventry Magic is a comprehensive book of very practical magic that can be donewith a little practiceby anyone. And it is effective magic... it works! A very worthwhile book that I have no hesitation in recommending.

RAYMOND BUCKLAND, author of Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK, co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft and author of The Plant Spirit Familiar

This book puts Jacki Smith in a category of her own. Coventry Magic is much more than a run-of-the-mill magic book; it is a tome of powerful inner transformation!

STORM CESTAVANI, host of Psychic Friends Live

Coventry Magic isn't just another good book outlining magical practice. It's the best damned self-help book on the marketbar none!

DOROTHY MORRISON, author of Utterly Wicked and Everyday Magic

Genuineness, applicability, practicality, and power (the ability to affect change) are qualities that are imperative in magical techniques and lore that meet the needs of today's modern magic worker. In this book, Jacki Smith exemplifies all of these qualities. Not only does she provide practical and understandable information, she invites us into her process of discovery, application, and direct results.

ORION FOXWOOD, author of The Tree of Enchantment

Coventry Magic is more than just a book on practical magic, it is a source book on how to become your magic. This book captures her sassy wisdom, grounded love of the human condition, and magic that actually works.

IVO DOMINGUEZ, JR., author of Spirit Speak and Casting Sacred Space

Jacki Smith provides us with enormous insights, understanding, and wisdom. Reading this feels like sitting with a cup of your favorite beverage and chatting with your favorite feisty, audacious girlfriend as she imparts her knowledge with wicked wit and compassionate humor.

GAIL WOOD, author of The Shamanic Witch

Written in a casual, conversational style, Jacki offers not only powerful recipes and spellsincluding candle magic, spiritual baths, oils, and morebut also the life lessons, guidance, and rituals by which we can use them most effectively!

CHRISTIAN DAY, author of The Witches' Book of the Dead

I was delighted to read Jacki Smith's Coventry Magic! I have carried her line of magickal candles at my store for years and use them myself with great success. Jacki's humorous and entertaining writing style makes her book completely down-to-earth and accessible, inspiring the reader to experiment with candle magick and understand exactly why the many methods she explains so well work.

KAREN HARRISON, author of The Herbal Alchemist's Handbook

I highly recommend the journey that the Healers Almanac will take you on. An individual experience you won't want to miss!

DANA M. HAAN, director of The Cincinnati Tarot Guild

Patty Shaw has a unique voice, perspective, and is a gifted spiritualist unlike any other. You'll learn more than you ever thought possible, and through her meditations, create the life you want most.

DONNA SAUL, business strategist & consultant

I make sure I find a quiet moment to read the Healers Almanac at the beginning of each month. I love how it follows the cycles of the moon and the natural year. But it is so helpful to have the wisdom of the 21st century goddesses so powerfully written that it inspires me as I read the stories, poems, and the helpful suggestions.

BRENDA NICKOLAUS, life coach

First published in 2013 by Weiser Books, an imprint of

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

With offices at:

665 Third Street, Suite 400

San Francisco, CA 94107

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Copyright 2013 by Jacki Smith and Patty Shaw

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-540-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request

Cover design by Jim Warner

Cover images: Cosmos sky Igor Zh / shutterstock;

Magic book Vadim Georgie / shutterstock

Interior by Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Typeset in Celeste with Franklin Gothic and Futura

Printed in the United States of America

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T here have been many people who have traveled with us on this journey, or, more appropriately, pushed us down the Akashic path and helped make this book not only a reality, but also helped us sound awesome and smart. From personal friends to authors and clients, this has been a path of discovery and experience. We will never be able to remember and list everyone, and if we've missed you, please accept our apologies.

Thanks to our personal friends who have helped us along this journey: Storm Cestavani, Rhys Hunter, Eve Wilson, Nancy Smith, Diana Mundy, Sue Ustes of Zuzu's Healing Arts, and all of our students and clients.

To our professional guides who we now consider old friends (even if we have never met you); the editors at Red Wheel Weiser, especially Amber Guetebier, who loves us; Robert Taylor, Ted Andrews, Denise Linn, Barbara Y. Martin, Dimitri Moraitis, Amethyst Wyldfyre, Doreen Virtue, Caitlin Matthews, Eckhart Tolle, Linda Howe, Wayne Muller, and all of the authors who have guided our paths.

To our understanding family, who has not only put up the shhh, they are writing signs, but also starred in many of our personal Akashic healing sessions. To our parents, Jim and Yvonne Smith, and to all of our siblings. Thanks to Patty's crew, David Shaw, Monica Batsford, Alan Batsford, and to Jacki's crew, the Phoenixes, Tony and Rebecca, and Mary Gilliam.

Everyone wants to claim that they are a natural born psychic who comes from a long line of psychics or witches. Well, the only thing I was naturally born with is my red hair (and dammit, I remain a redhead). I can't say that I was a gifted child, or that I saw spirits, or that I could predict plane crashes. However, I can say that I love the spiritual, and I love people. People have always fascinated me; why they do what they do, how they get stuck in their own way, why they love who they love. I consider myself a psychic voyeur; I like to see what makes people tick.