Mastering Magick: A Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch

by Mat Auryn, Silver RavenWolf (Foreword by)

Overview

Create Personalized and Soul-Stirring Magick with Bestselling Author Mat Auryn

Boost your psychic ability and incorporate the greater mysteries of magick into your practice. A companion to the international bestseller Psychic Witch, this groundbreaking book features more than sixty spells and is the first of its kind to focus on casting magick to bridge the divide between the seen and unseen worlds. Mat teaches you how to enchant yourself as a powerful psychic witch by connecting with the witch's tools, the elements, the moon, the seasons, and the planets. You'll learn the mechanics of spell work and how to make your magick as effective as possible. In addition to Mat's own tried-and-true castings, Mastering Magick features more than a dozen spells from well-known witches and practitioners, including Christopher Penczak, Judika Illes, Juliet Diaz, Storm Faerywolf, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Devin Hunter, Madame Pamita, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738766041
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	10/08/2022
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	79,859
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mat Auryn is a witch, professional psychic, and occult teacher. He is also the multi-award-winning author of the international bestselling book Psychic Witch and a High Priest in the Sacred Fires Tradition of Witchcraft. He runs the blog For Puck's Sake on Patheos Pagan, is a teacher at Modern Witch University, and has a column in Witches & Pagans magazine entitled "Extra-Sensory Witchcraft." He has been featured in various magazines, radio shows, podcasts, books, anthologies, and other periodicals. To find out more about him and his work visit his website or follow him on Instagram @matauryn.

Silver RavenWolf (Pennsylvania) is a nationally recognized leader and elder of Wicca, and her writing has been instrumental in guiding the future of one of the fastest-growing faiths in America today. The author of many books, she has been interviewed by The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Bust Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, the St. Petersburg Times, the National Review, Publishers Weekly, Body & Soul Magazine, and Teen Lit Magazine.

Her titles include the bestselling Solitary Witch, Teen Witch, To Ride A Silver Broomstick, To Stir A Magick Cauldron, To Light A Sacred Flame, American Folk Magick, Angels: Companions in Magick, Silver’s Spells for Prosperity, Silver's Spells for Protection, Silver's Spells for Love, Halloween, HedgeWitch, and the Witches’ Night Out teen fiction series. 

Table of Contents

Contents

Spells, Formulas, Meditations, and Exercises … xxiii

Figure List … xxvii

Consecration … xxix

Other Acknowledgments … xxxi

Foreword by Silver RavenWolf … xxxiii

Introduction … 1

How to Use This Book … 11

Chapter 1: Embracing the Power of the Witch … 13

Chapter 2: Understanding Spellcasting … 37

Chapter 3: Approaching the Mysteries … 77

Chapter 4: Cleansing and Protection … 93

Chapter 5: Spiritual Shapes and Spiritual Spaces … 125

Chapter 6: Inner and Outer Tools … 153

Chapter 7: Synching with the Sun, Moon, and Seasons … 183

Chapter 8: The Planetary Energies … 205

Conclusion … 231

About the Contributers … 239

Bibliography … 245

Index … 253

Editorial Reviews

"Mat has made the path of developing a personal magickal practice accessible, personal, powerful, and dare I say, entertaining."—Rachel True, actress and author of the True Heart Intuitive Tarot

"Mastering Magick gives the reader clear direction on how to create the life you actually want...Here is a book that heals in a time we all need divine connection and wisdom."—Damien Echols, author of Ritual and High Magick

"Mastering Magick encourages the reader to explore their boundaries to deepen and enrich their practice...Posing questions to help us explore the energies we work with as witches, he asks us to look at them anew."—Arin Murphy-Hiscock, author of The Green Witch

"Mat Auryn provides both the backstory of his growth as a witch—at once heartrending and immediately relatable—and a wonderful bevy of spellwork that assists magickal seekers in becoming all that they can be."—Mitch Horowitz, PEN award-winning author of Occult America

"Vulnerable, raw, and unflinchingly real...Mat Auryn demonstrates not only how to perform a wide variety of useful spells, but also why such work can heal us."—M. Belanger, author of The Dictionary of Demons

"If you would reach for the stars, you need your feet planted firmly on the earth. Mat Auryn's Mastering Magick will give you a solid foundation in the dynamics of practical magic and effective spellcasting."—Phil Hine, author of Condensed Chaos

"Mastering Magick does for spellcasting what Psychic Witch did for psychic perception and energy work: present critical concepts and teach useful skills in an easy-to-follow format."—John Beckett, druid and author of The Path of Paganism

"Mat lays out a systematic training for the Witch to apply pyschic abilities to spells and rituals. This book shows how the inner actions of mind and energy are blended seamlessly with outer actions taken with candles, oils, and spoken charms."—Jason Miller, author of Consorting With Spirits

"It is a rare book that can teach you something new while being deeply vulnerable—Mastering Magick is such a book. Auryn has taken complex occult concepts that can seem opaque to even the most seasoned practitioner, and deftly rendered them accessible."—Mortellus, author of The Bones Fall In a Spiral

"Mat presents us with a rich and thoughtful tapestry of sources, ideas, and encouragement...Whether you are new to pagan magick or a long-time practitioner, Mat's step-by-step course of study is certain to deepen your sense of spirit and inevitably guide you to empowerment."—Timothy Roderick, author of Wicca: A Year and A Day

"Mat Auryn uses his experience to help the magical novice come into their own power...Auryn offers us a book full of techniques, meditations, spells, and exercises that you'll want to return to again and again."—Amanda Yates Garcia, author of Initiated and host of the Between the Worlds podcast

"Mat breaks down the powers of the witch and magick in terms any practitioner can glean wisdom from, and he does so with the utmost love and reverence for the craft."—Gabriela Herstik, author of Inner Witch

"No matter your experience level there are tips and tricks here to take your magickal practice to an even higher level...Superbly written and researched."—Jason Mankey, author of The Horned God of the Witches

"Mat encourages readers to examine techniques perhaps taken for granted and to question the why's and ways of spellcraft, enacting magick, and communing with the spirit world."—Danielle Dionne, author of Magickal Mediumship

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