The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year: A Year Round Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Holiday Celebrations

by Judy Ann Nock

Overview

In The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year, Judy Ann Nock offers you a definitive guide to "the wheel of the year."

Capturing the essence of the major and lesser holidays, this complete and practical reference will appeal to Wiccans of all levels of experience.

The handbook offers something for everyone: recipes, crafts, activities, spells, rituals, and meditations. In these pages, Wiccans will find several appropriate cyclic activities.

Written to inspire and expand the practice as a reader moves through the eight sabbats, Nock provides the practitioner with the astrological and astronomical influences that govern the seasons, meditations that reflect timely themes, and rituals and crafts that anyone may enact in order to enhance spiritual expression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605508511
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	06/04/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Judy Ann Nock, MS, is the bestselling author of six books on witchcraft including The Modern Witchcraft Book of Crystal Magick, The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Runes, The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs, and The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and are enjoyed throughout the world. Judy Ann Nock is a popular musician in the Hoboken supergroup Psych-O-Positive, a metalsmith, a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America, a member of Mensa, and has appeared in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Refinery29, and The Village Voice. She lives with her daughter and her cat in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Preface     ix
Introduction     xvii
Samhain: A Year Ends, a Year Begins     1
Yule: The God Is Reborn     37
Imbolc: First Light in the Dark of Winter     65
Ostara: Spring's Arrival     93
Beltane: The Fertile Earth     123
Litha: Summer's Song     147
Lughnasad: Between Hope and Fear     175
Mabon: The Harvest Is Home     203
A Lunar Year and a Day
The Esbats     227
Appendix
Table of Correspondences     240
Solstices and Equinoxes, 2007-2020     241
Astronomical Sabbats     241
Glossary of Terms     242
Bibliography     256
Index     248