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:	9781598691252
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	06/04/2007
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Judy Ann Nock is the international bestselling author of The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs, The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Crystal Magick, The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Runes, and The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick, among others. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and are enjoyed throughout the world. In addition to being an author, Nock is a musician, a metalsmith, a mom, and a practicing witch. She is best known for bringing modern witchcraft to the center of pop culture and high culture through a long-running series of book signings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Met Cloisters, as well as public appearances at San Diego Comic-Con International, New York Comic Con, and other festivals and conferences. She has been featured on numerous podcasts and in various media outlets including The New York Times, Country Living Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Yahoo Entertainment, Popverse, Refinery29, and The Guardian. She is a musician in St. Divine, Psych-O-Positive, and sings backup for Ivan Julian. She lives in New York City with her daughter and her cat, Annabelle.

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