- Paperback: 338 pages
- Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (May 8 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1567181635
- ISBN-13: 978-1567181630
- Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 18 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #908,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book tells how to reclaim your innate magical power and take control of your destiny. With this work women can regain those long-forgotten secrets and strengthen their connection with the Goddess through the array of rituals, practical exercises, guided journeys and magical techniques presented here. It focuses on magical practices geared to the special needs of women who may use the shamanic powers and magic of ancient women from the Norse regions, Middle East, Greece, India and the Celtic areas. The book reveals how to: discover why women-only groups can perform magic that male-female groups cannot; find over 50 spells specifically created to answer the needs of women; and use the runes, ogam alphabet, shamanic stones, and Egyptian hieroglyphs for divination and magic.
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3.1 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
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Loved the strength and beauty., Sep 14 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falcon Feather & Valkyrie Sword (Paperback)
I really loved this book, I felt it had a lot to offer as a modern take on ancient traditions. The feminist message was refreshing and really made me feel strengthened and heartened. I liked her prayers for strength in mind and body, as well as her discussion of a woman's different stages in life as it relates to various northern Goddesses. I just like this author a lot - I also have her Moon Magick and it's written in much the same way as this book - a lot of prayers, light history, rituals and thoughts organized in segments. This one also has simple drawings which I really enjoyed and felt were powerful for some reason. I think it's the simplicity and unpretentious flow of her thoughts that I like so much. It's an action book, and a book for thinking about your own path to strength. As a young woman who lives in a conservative rural area, I found her words to be uplifting and empowering. I see and hear a lot of prejudice and negativity directed towards women here (as well as in mainstream culture) and her prayers and rituals make me feel less alone. I wish more authors would write feminist takes on wicca and magick - they make me feel strong when I'm feeling discouraged.
I wouldn't reccommend this book to people who are looking for important works on runes or any in depth witchcraft, though it does touch on those subjects lightly. I reccommend it more for women who are looking to take action about their own paths through introspection and ritual. I think with your own imagination, you could take her ideas and run with them, creating for yourself deeper reflections on her already interesting ideas. All in all, I think this book helped me to be a stronger, and more honorable woman - so I appreciate this book a lot.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Bad Norse Dianic wicca with a pronounced female chauvenist., Sep 18 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falcon Feather & Valkyrie Sword (Paperback)
Incredibly disappointing work by DJ Conway, who normally can actually write. The bias in this book was so bad that I literally threw it across the room several times while reading it. Coming from someone who can easily stomach Z. Budapest and the ecofeminists, thats saying a lot. I was hoping to learn something about shamanism and spirtual growth from a woman's perspective. Instead, I got a hodgepodge of bad wymyn's hystory (owing entirely too much to The Chalice & the Blade) some divination techniques, some very odd meditations and a lot of anti-male propaganda. Despite the fact that she wrote another book on different belief systems, her knowledge of belief systems as used in this book is pitiful. Where is the woman who wrote _Moon Magick_? The writing was also disjointed and there were sections where it almost appeared that the polemics had been inserted after the text.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and informative...but a bit harsh..., Aug 4 1998
By Helen Clark "Red1332" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falcon Feather & Valkyrie Sword (Paperback)
While the information within about the rituals, shamanistic practices and other such things geared towards women's spirituality were most useful, and in fact a very welcomed thing, it seemed to me that Conway spent far too much time on the ills of the male species. In a religion that prizes balance, she says that women can do by themselves without men in entirety. While I do not necessarily argue with her on this, the tone suggested that one was to completely do away with their masculine side to empower themselves. As stated before, the rituals, pathworking and meditations within were very wonderful, addressing all sorts of occasions in a woman's life. However, while she covered death, perhaps it would have been better to also include a ritual for the mourning of a lost or miscarried child, as this happens to so many women. But aside from these things, the book is a good source for inspiration and a building-block for further working in feminine spirituality.
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