Rituals - simple & radical practices for enchantment in times of crisis

by Yarrow Magdalena

Rituals is an approachable, inclusive guidebook that will help you create meaningful rituals for everything from heartbreak to transitions and creative projects.

It explores how a sense of enchantment can strengthen our movements and offers accessible and simple practices woven together from folk magic, independent celebrancy, expressive art and queerness.

My hope is that Rituals will help you find a politicized spirituality that emerges from your own understanding and offers you comfort and resilience in difficult times.

87 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 6, 2020

About the author

I'm a writer, web designer & celebrant living on the East coast of Scotland with my two dogs.

I made weird and beautiful things from reclaimed materials, read a lot of memoirs and live a very slow and soft life.

You can find me at YarrowMagdalena.com and PinkWellStudio.com

Reviews

[Tibby]

I found Yarrow Magdalena's podcast Daydreaming Wolves last year sometime and I am so glad I did. She is such a light in this weird year of the pandemic and uprising. Her book was like a warm hug in the midwinter.

She walks you through creating rituals for yourself that celebrate and honor various aspects of your life as it is. I love especially that she is so good about encouraging you to, one, try things out and not feel bad if they don't work, and, two, find things that do work for you. It centers you and your life. She does share some personal stories and a few suggestions of how things could look, but it never felt prescriptive, just gentle suggestions or show-and-tell.

The book is broken into two sections- elements and practices- and helps you find the times and places (milestones) you may want to have a ritual practice and how to build one up. But she encourages you to make them simple and easy. This all feels like self-care not of the capitalist, you need to buy something or make it social media perfect, but real radical self-care.

Another book I have read this year that I want to return to again to think more about and work with.

[Eryn Sunnolia · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is the soft, magical book we all need for support this year (and always but especially this year!). yarrow weaves in story, support for creating your own intuitive rituals, and many beautiful rituals to inspire your practice. it's a book that can hold your hand through big feelings, grief, heartbreak, change, as well as creativity and love, in service of returning you to yourself and your heart. & it's definitely not a "love and light" only book, yarrow also speaks to cultural appropriation, systemic oppression, and justice which is so important. highly recommend getting a copy and maybe one for a friend, too!

[Dodie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rituals - simple & radical practices for enchantment in times of crisis Paper
by Yarrow Magdalena

During the pandemic I have referred back to the little book. The first chapter talks about elements of ritual. The other sections are simple rituals for heartbreak, transition, body blessing, for creativity … etc. One reason why I love this book so much is that the rituals are straight forward so they are easy to do with out a lot of time and preparation so it’s easier to ingratiate them into my life.

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[Addie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t normally write reviews but really want to share my appreciation and heartfelt gratitude to Yarrow for this book. It has felt like having a friend by my side, who gently encourages me to hold an open, beautifully vulnerable and tenderly loving space for myself, that has been so very needed. This has been a really hard year and reflecting on small rituals has been a true gift, and I am looking forward to deepening this relationship. Thank you so much.

[River Crabbe · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gorgeous book which fits perfectly with this wild changing time. I really appreciate the grounding in politics, and the practical approach to exploring and incorporating rituals in our lives in ways that are actually accessible.

[Jaime Aziraphale Winchester · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so helpful to showing the many creative ways we can build our practice with simple, meaningful rituals and inspiration for making our own.