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The Path of Elemental Witchcraft: A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows
A comprehensive guide to connecting with the magic of each of the four Water, Earth, Air, and Fire
• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice
• Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment
• Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld
A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore.
For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals.
Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.
• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice
• Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment
• Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld
A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore.
For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals.
Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.
576 pages, Paperback
Published May 31, 2022
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October 1, 2022
If you’re looking for an informational book, this isn’t it. This is mostly a memoir of the author’s experience as a witch. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing and she does offer some advice and various bits of information. However, the majority of it is her story. The exercises are interesting, though I don’t know that I’d ever do them. It starts off strong and progressively gets lacking.
By Fire, my favorite element, it felt like the author had little to say about this element. It also seems like she hasn’t experienced it enough. She says Fire is the uncontrollable element snd consumes everything, therefore being the most destructive. Yet, wildfires are by far the easiest of the natural disasters to manage. You can’t control a tornado, you can’t control a hurricane, you can’t control an earthquake. You take shelter and wait it out. Fire? We can actually do something about (still devastating don’t get me wrong). It seemed like the author hasn’t experienced wildfires in an area where it is a yearly occurrence.
I found myself rolling my eyes at the amount of times this author is crying. It became a joke between me and my husband. Having emotions is fine but the amount of crying she’s doing gets old and is usually paired with singing. If that works for you, fine. I absolutely despise singing/toning. So because of that, I found myself bored often. Nearly everything had toning of some sort.
Overall, it’s not a terrible read if you know what you’re getting into. Don’t expect a book to guide you much. For a book telling her path, it’s interesting to say the least.
By Fire, my favorite element, it felt like the author had little to say about this element. It also seems like she hasn’t experienced it enough. She says Fire is the uncontrollable element snd consumes everything, therefore being the most destructive. Yet, wildfires are by far the easiest of the natural disasters to manage. You can’t control a tornado, you can’t control a hurricane, you can’t control an earthquake. You take shelter and wait it out. Fire? We can actually do something about (still devastating don’t get me wrong). It seemed like the author hasn’t experienced wildfires in an area where it is a yearly occurrence.
I found myself rolling my eyes at the amount of times this author is crying. It became a joke between me and my husband. Having emotions is fine but the amount of crying she’s doing gets old and is usually paired with singing. If that works for you, fine. I absolutely despise singing/toning. So because of that, I found myself bored often. Nearly everything had toning of some sort.
Overall, it’s not a terrible read if you know what you’re getting into. Don’t expect a book to guide you much. For a book telling her path, it’s interesting to say the least.
March 29, 2023
I rated this book 3.5 stars because there's a ton of information in here. How much of it will be useful in my practice remains to be seen. I feel like the author structured her presentation of the elements in the order that she is most comfortable with them: water, earth, air and fire and while I went into this most interested in working with air, I did get good resources for all four elements.
That said, the author is on a completely different plane than I am. She tones for pretty much everything and apparently thinks everyone can slip into a trance state with ease - that's not something I relate to and I kind of dislike toning, but maybe I'm misinterpreting what she means by a trance state.
Still, I applaud anyone who takes the time to freely share their knowledge. And there is certainly plenty of knowledge in this book.
That said, the author is on a completely different plane than I am. She tones for pretty much everything and apparently thinks everyone can slip into a trance state with ease - that's not something I relate to and I kind of dislike toning, but maybe I'm misinterpreting what she means by a trance state.
Still, I applaud anyone who takes the time to freely share their knowledge. And there is certainly plenty of knowledge in this book.
September 13, 2022
I was really hyped for this book, a Book of Shadows, you don't see often that an author drops their own BOS or Grimoire. So I preordered it, cuz I'm impulsive. I don't regret it, but I was wished I haven't done it. I marked a lot of interesting things such as the elemental spirits and curved sentences. But the further I read stuff the more I thought it was becoming a fantasy novel. There are a lot of techniques in the book, which I love btw, but there were sections 'What do you need'. As if those things are the only things you can use for that specific thing. I do appreciate that the Elder Futhark Runes are in it.
About the Sex magick section, Salicrow tells a lot about fire altars. You don't need to use an altar at the moment you have sex. I was hoping for a duo spell / technique you could do with your partner, but nope.
There are a good few things in the book though. Such as the runes (like I said before) and the section about animal communication is a good one.
It's a book with a lot of pages, 538 pages are about Salicrow's story. After that you have emails ect. for making contact with others. After that there's an index, which I thanked god for. Not all books have index' and this book has one.
I didn't want to give this book 2 stars nor 4. I've read worse and I've read better ones. But I did learn a few things, it's just not a book for a beginner's witch/druid/pagan ect.
- Julia
About the Sex magick section, Salicrow tells a lot about fire altars. You don't need to use an altar at the moment you have sex. I was hoping for a duo spell / technique you could do with your partner, but nope.
There are a good few things in the book though. Such as the runes (like I said before) and the section about animal communication is a good one.
It's a book with a lot of pages, 538 pages are about Salicrow's story. After that you have emails ect. for making contact with others. After that there's an index, which I thanked god for. Not all books have index' and this book has one.
I didn't want to give this book 2 stars nor 4. I've read worse and I've read better ones. But I did learn a few things, it's just not a book for a beginner's witch/druid/pagan ect.
- Julia
September 17, 2024
A perfect guide for the beginner or intermediate elemental witch. It's a pleasure following along as Salicrow explains her workings, methods, and knowledge with readers. I recommend this book to serious witches and practitioners that are ready to experience their craft outside Google or basic beginners books.
July 4, 2023
Lots of information, set up in an easy to digest format, heavy in mediumship.
August 21, 2024
Some parts not my cup of tea, but some treasures, which is really all what you can ask for in a occult book. Everyone's practices are way different
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