Llewellyn's 2024 Witches' Companion: A Guide to Contemporary Living

by Llewellyn Publications, Lupa (Contributor), Melissa Tipton (Contributor)

Enhance Your Craft, Community & Quality of Life Keep up to date on the latest witchy trends, unique insights from your favorite authors, and hands-on practices that help contemporary Witches like you stay magically inspired and strong. Providing more than two dozen articles, Llewellyn's 2024 Witches' Companion showcases exciting Pagan topics and amplifies the voices of some of today's most powerful practitioners. • Post-Pandemic Witchcraft
• Clear Inner Clutter
• Practicing Magick as a Neurodivergent
• Magical Self-Care for Breakups
• Balancing Your Throat Chakra
• Practical Divination Journaling
• Channeling with Cannabis
• Untangling Magical Misfires
• Animism in the Elements
• Witchcraft While on Vacation This year's edition includes spells, rituals, projects, and advice from some of the best Witch and Pagan Autumn Damiana • Lupa • Ari & Jason Mankey • Susan Pesznecker • Melanie Marquis • Elizabeth Barrette • Deborah Castellano • Monica Crosson • Awyn Dawn • Blake Octavian Blair • Durgadas Allon Duriel& • Alise Marie • Tudorbeth • Diana Rajchel • Melissa Tipton • Madame Pamita Includes a sixteen-month calendar and lunar information for spellwork and rituals

Genres: Witchcraft, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Paganism

288 pages, Paperback

Published July 8, 2023

About the author

Llewellyn George started his publishing company in Portland, Oregon in 1901, concentrating Astrological books and annuals. In 1961, Carl L. Weschcke of St. Paul, Minnesota purchased the company and relocated it to the Midwest.

Llewellyn is the world’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books for body, mind, and spirit.

Reviews

[Matal “The Mischling Princess” Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m a great fan of the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” and have been reading it for years, so I was curious to discover what was in “Llewellyn’s 2024 Witches’ Companion: A Guide to Contemporary Living.”

This almanac was really interesting and contained numerous excellent articles. Unlike the other almanac, the “Witches’ Companion” is really article-focused, primarily on day-to-day living with magical intent. In fact, the articles included were actually more valuable than most that I’ve seen in the “Old Farmer’s Almanac.”

I really liked the lunar calendar (from September 2023 to December 2024) that was included. It would have been nice if the calendar had included the festivals in different colored ink. Overall, though, the real “meat” of this almanac are the articles.

[Claire Teets · Rating 3 out of 5]

a lot of skimming honestly, i’m always hesitant to really delve deep in spiritual books that reference smudging as a form of cleansing knowing the connection to native practices. multiple authors so definitely some really good bits of information in there or stuff you could come back to use later

[Vee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed with this book to be honest. I just struggled to find any of the articles helpful but I recognise they might be of us to someone else. The year is pretty irrelevant to the content aside from the calendars in the back so it can be re-read without it overly affecting the contents.

[SplatterGunk · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some articles in here that I enjoyed; I will list them after this blurb. This was very heavily learning toward Wicca and Animism. That is to say Animism in a much more modernized form and practice. There was also an article in here that mentioned smuding/smoke cleansing with sage. Thought it wasn’t specifically white sage, it still strikes ones as being a bit unaware and outdated for 2024.

I picked this up thinking I would be a more generalized text for all kinds of practicing witches, wizards, druids, brujeria, and others who engage in similar forms of spirituality, divination, or spell casting. Alas, it was not. Though the term Pagan was used throughout, it felt more Wiccan or Norse Pagan.

This book is still worth a read, but for those who are a bit more sensitive or more easily influenced or just beginning to delve into spell casting, this may not be the book for you as it is a bit more difficult to take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Especially if there is a lot for the newer witch who may be easily confused.

This book is exceptionally good for those who are looking for easy spells, members of covens, kitchen witches, and for those in the community who are looking for more ways to squeeze in some self care.

The articles I found to be particularly interesting were: Practicing Witchcraft on Vacation (Ari and Jason Mankey), The Controversial Pagan Issues of Ethics, Power, and Insensitivity, Part 2 (Susan Pesznecker), Practical Divination Journaling (Blake Octavian Blair), Boundary Setting for Witches (Melissa Tipton), Disposal and Cleansing of Magickal Items (Diana Rajchel), and Animism in the Elements (Kate Frueler).

I also wanted to mention a special article included, “The Sober Pagan,” by Awyn Dawn. Though this is not an article that pertained to me, I find it could be helpful for many and it is worth mentioning that Awyn Dawn has many other articles and writings on Sober Paganism as well as practicing while incarcerated. Though those are very specific and special circumstances, I wanted to highlight this writer as they are the only contributor I have ever heard of that provides information like that.

[Autumn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was torn on how to rate this. Initially, I thought I would put a 3, but upon reflection, I lowered it to a 2 as I would not seek out the 2025 Witches' Companion.

There are 25 articles or essays in this book and, as with any sort of compilation or anthology, I knew not everything would be for me. But out of 25 articles, only 9 contained anything original, beneficial, or noteworthy. The rest either did not apply to me and my practice in the slightest or covered topics (like nature and seasonal cycles) that have been done to death without adding anything new except that author's brand of spirituality.

This was my first time reading the Witches' Companion and it'll probably be the last, unless there is an author or topic in 2025 that is truly worth it. I believe you'd get the same, if not better, information reading the authors' full-length books on topics you're actually interested in or by following their newsletters/social media.

[Alex Harris · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought the book because one article in particular really spoke to me as well as the Witches calendars at the end. I ended up reading all of the articles just out of curiosity; some are pretty informative, and some are EXTREMELY subjective and ridiculous that they can't possibly be useful to anyone save the author of the respective articles.

I don't think every article is applicable to everyone, therefore you'd be better off delving into the specific topic that interests you or researching it online rather than reading a series of articles where only a handful are useful. Would not recommend.

[Mitchell Stern · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good set of essays going over relevant areas of modern witchcraft.

[Lexee · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book sucked. Had no new information and a lot of the articles came from privilege.

[Louisa Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love starting my year with the annual Llewellyn Witches' Companion! This year was a great one too - really enjoyed the animism chapter.