Gabriela Herstik - Sacred Sex: The Magick and Path of the Divine Erotic

A learned and path-opening guide to the occult dimensions of sexuality, as perfectly suited to the present generation as it is to all times and places. You will discover new folds of yourself within its pages.

Mitch Horowitz, PEN Awardwinning author of Occult America and Uncertain Places

A magickal journey into the place where we all need to exploreself-love. Whether youre in a relationship or going it on your own, to explore the secrets and divinity through the lens of our sexuality is not only fun, but healing. This book will be your guide.

Damien Echols, author of High Magick and coauthor of Ritual: An Essential Grimoire

Are you ready to reclaim your sensuality? Want to sex up your magick? Wish you could tap into your lust for life and manifest your deepest wishes? This is a modern, inclusive, and sex-positive book filled with tarot, ritual, spells, affirmations, and wisdom. Gabrielas writing is down-to-earth and practicalperfect for adepts but also sex magick newbies. With Gabrielas gentle guidance, you can explore your kinks, bring devotional practices into your bedroom, connect to your wild lust, raise your power, and turn your life into something truly magical.

Theresa Reed, author of Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology and Tarot

Gabriela Herstik bids you to leave your shame and hang-ups at the door as she escorts you through the magickal power of sensuality and pleasure in her provocative book. With a strong ethical focus on consent and boundaries, Herstik asserts that sacred sexuality begins with the self. Full of insightful journal prompts to assist the reader in evaluating and reflecting on their personal relationship with sexuality, this book also includes many great energy exercises, meditations, and rituals to tap into the powerful currents of magickal hedonism. Sacred Sex is a fantastic guide for those looking to explore themselves and spice up their magickal practice regardless of ones gender or sexual orientation.

Mat Auryn, bestselling author of Psychic Witch and Mastering Magick

Gabys juicy wisdom invites you into a new erotic relationship with yourself, and life. One youve likely always been yearning for.

Alexandra Roxo, author of F*ck Like a Goddess

A thrilling and densely informative guide to sex magick and sacred sexuality, laying out a number of paths to the Divine Erotic so every reader can find (at least) one that works for them. Herstik is a compassionate and loving guide through these paths, offering everything from history to tarot spreads to affirmations for each step of your journey.

Cassandra Snow, author of Queering the Tarot and coauthor of Lessons From the Empress

With nuance, wit, and a sparkling dedication to the healing powers of self-lust, Herstik offers up historical context, journal prompts, tarot spreads, spells, ritual guides, and interviews with seasoned practitioners to help readers navigate shame and stigma, conjure embodiment, and delve into the deliciously diverse forms of sexual and spiritual expression at our fingertips. Sacred Sex deftly undresses the juicy, transformative magick that lies in becomingas Herstik writesa priest/ess of your own pleasure.

Kristen J. Solle, author of Witches, Sluts, Feminists

Gabriela Herstik brings the magic of sexuality front and center, in what is nothing less than an expertly guided journey of personal transformation. This tome is crammed full of history, myths, and lore surrounding various practices of sacred sexuality, as well as step-by-step exercises, rituals, affirmations, divinations, and practical advice for anyone who wishes to incorporate a healthy sexuality into their spiritual practice. With discussions on boundaries, mindfulness, working with the moon, transgression, sex work, and more, spiritual practitioners both seasoned and new will find much value in these life-affirming pages.

Storm Faerywolf, author of The Satyrs Kiss

A wonderful permission slip to all who read it. It does what few spiritual or magical books achieve, which is a dissolution of the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, urging readers to both embrace their true sexuality, and discover the sacred within it. It is written with Gabriela Herstiks unabashed Aquarian authenticity and considerate and practical wisdom. This book will be medicine for many people.

Jake Kobrin, artist and wizard

A road map to living deliciously, with focused and intentional lessons on releasing shame and any other blockages that may lie deep within. Gabriela has created a book with exercises, rituals, and affirmations to inspire you to learn, laying the foundations for your very own fulfilling and sustainable self-lust and sex magick practice. The book is inclusive of dating style, sexuality, and gender, supported by interviews with people from all walks of life.

Baby Reckless, musician, mixed media artist, and occultist

The profane meets the sacred in this provocative, yet soulful, exploration of magic and personal mystery that will leave you feeling aroused, empowered, and in tune with your body like never before. This is Herstik at her finest, guiding us through the goose-fleshed terrain of sacred sexuality as she weaves a spell with every word.

Devin Hunter, bestselling author of Modern Witch

An intensely useful and pleasurable introduction to, and practical manual of, individuation and self-empowerment through the use of sexual energies. In medieval times, Ms. Herstik would have surely been burned as a witch for formulating so clearly what has been known to every genuine spiritual tradition but kept forbidden and occult by draconian forces throughout the ages. Today, she instead joyfully burns the flame of erotic enlightenment so that we can literally unite with ourselves, with others, and with the deeper layers of our psyches as well as our bodies.

Carl Abrahamsson, author of Resonances, Occulture, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, and Source Magic