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Divorcing a Real Witch: for Pagans and the People that Used to Love Them
Divorcing a Real Witch addresses the painful emotional journey of divorce from a Wiccan perspective. Along with sharing her own experience, author Diana Rajchel solicits the experiences and advice of other Pagans on how to handle this life passage.
209 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2014
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Diana Rajchel
39 books75 followersDiana Rajchel is the author of Urban Magick, a Guide for the City Witch, Hex Twisting: Counter Magick Spells for the Irritated Witch, and a few other books some magical folk might know.
She specializes in writing about witchcraft from a practical perspective and innovates on spells and folk practices, sometimes including explosives in her formulas.
She has 25 years of experience as a spirit worker, and her views on the paranormal often annoy ghost-hunters. ("The orbs are over there. No, THERE! ..that's not haunted, it's just a 7-11." etc.)
Diana is an avid reader, gardener, herbalist, and ghost-scolder. She also enjoys writing poetry designed to disturb most people at an open-mic event and spending time with her life partner and kids. A dog named Nora also believes that Diana is her very own pet DragonCat.
She specializes in writing about witchcraft from a practical perspective and innovates on spells and folk practices, sometimes including explosives in her formulas.
She has 25 years of experience as a spirit worker, and her views on the paranormal often annoy ghost-hunters. ("The orbs are over there. No, THERE! ..that's not haunted, it's just a 7-11." etc.)
Diana is an avid reader, gardener, herbalist, and ghost-scolder. She also enjoys writing poetry designed to disturb most people at an open-mic event and spending time with her life partner and kids. A dog named Nora also believes that Diana is her very own pet DragonCat.
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June 18, 2014
I’ve just read an unusual book, but it’s one we need. Divorcing a Real Witch by Diana Rajchel addresses a real need not just in the Pagan community but in the world at large. As progressive and modern as we think we are, many people still find divorce to be an awkward, uncomfortable subject, whether they’re the ones experiencing it themselves or whether they’re trying to deal with the event in a friend or family member. This book helps the reader work their way through the issues divorce brings up, both practical and spiritual.
Nowhere does Ms. Rajchel condescend or preach. This is a book about making it through a difficult time and healing from it. She is very right to point out that people, especially women, feel a great deal of pressure to get married and provide their parents with grandchildren, among other requirements. To this end, many people view divorce as a failure. It is not. It is often the best solution to a bad situation.
Ms. Rajchel walks the reader through several different approaches to dealing with divorce, from handling the inevitable feelings of shame and failure, to finding a life for yourself outside a relationship. I am especially impressed by her handparting ritual. I included such a ritual in my recent book Ariadne’s Thread and I honestly felt a little awkward doing so. We are so well trained to believe that the breakup of a marriage is a failure that acknowledging it with a ritual seems almost inappropriate. Well, it’s not. We need to recognize the changes in our lives, the shifts from one stage of existence to another. We also need to admit that no one is perfect and that people change over time, two facts that often lead to the end of a relationship.
I wish I had read this book twenty years ago, when I went through a divorce. It probably wouldn’t have lessened my pain, but it would have given me the tools to deal with it and move forward in my life more easily. If you or someone you know is dealing with the collapse of a marriage, this book is definitely worth your time.
Nowhere does Ms. Rajchel condescend or preach. This is a book about making it through a difficult time and healing from it. She is very right to point out that people, especially women, feel a great deal of pressure to get married and provide their parents with grandchildren, among other requirements. To this end, many people view divorce as a failure. It is not. It is often the best solution to a bad situation.
Ms. Rajchel walks the reader through several different approaches to dealing with divorce, from handling the inevitable feelings of shame and failure, to finding a life for yourself outside a relationship. I am especially impressed by her handparting ritual. I included such a ritual in my recent book Ariadne’s Thread and I honestly felt a little awkward doing so. We are so well trained to believe that the breakup of a marriage is a failure that acknowledging it with a ritual seems almost inappropriate. Well, it’s not. We need to recognize the changes in our lives, the shifts from one stage of existence to another. We also need to admit that no one is perfect and that people change over time, two facts that often lead to the end of a relationship.
I wish I had read this book twenty years ago, when I went through a divorce. It probably wouldn’t have lessened my pain, but it would have given me the tools to deal with it and move forward in my life more easily. If you or someone you know is dealing with the collapse of a marriage, this book is definitely worth your time.
May 23, 2014
In this book, Diana explores the topic of divorce and what t do when you are a Pagan (or married to one) and are about to go through the process of divorce. She walks readers through that process as well as exploring how people come to that decision. What I like in particular about the book are the rituals she shares and ideas she has for how to make a clean break of it, and make the divorce as easy as it possibly can be. I wish I'd had this book when I had my divorce. Reading this book will help you make sense of your divorce, find empowerment, and move on from the relationship you are leaving. And it can also be a good book for couples to read, to help them have some conversations that may need to occur, especially if you are in a rocky phase of your relationship.
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