Magical Hearth: Home for the Modern Pagan

by Janet Thompson

The kitchen has always been the center of the home. The Goddess Vesta was the goddess of the hearth. While we don't cook on hearths today, we do have kitchens where we practice our spiritual concepts, since the food that we cook, and the herbs and aromatics we use to change the consciusness are prepared herewhether we use a stove or a fireplace. This is a book about how to permeate your home with your work, and will appeal to people interested in wicca, shamanism, neopaganism, or those who practice any religion that deals with developing inner strength, love, and healing. Janet Thompson discusses medicinal and magical herbs, spells, incense, tokens, amulets, working with color, aromatherapy, crystals, purification, baths, ritual, moon phases, the pathwork to the crone, the witches wheel (the festivals), and recipes. She provides practical insights for people who are just starting to live the pagan way!

Genres: Paganism, Wicca, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

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Reviews

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Some of it was interesting but it skewed heavily into Wicca so this was not the book for me.

[Jennifer Heise · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my most treasured neopagan volumes, because it concentrates on the home, and especially the kitchen, in a way consistent with my beliefs, and unlike most modern neopaganism, deals with the goddess figure Hestia in a useful way.
If you follow a kitchen-based 'hedgewitch' belief and practice system, you may find this book helpful, especially for material on herbs, elements, and stones.

[Sarah Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finished both her books in '09 and wasn't disappointed by either one. Her other one, Of Witches, is a bit more stiff and not as easy to read as this one. In Magical Hearth, she talks like she's talking to you and has filled her book with useful, homey information. Like a conversation over tea.

[Lilla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't pertain to my path (Gaelic Polytheist) at all. Definitely one for the Wiccans/witches, and not us Reconstructionists.