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The Witch's Heart: The Magick of Perfect Love & Perfect Trust
Create a balanced, happy love life with the help of this book of practical love magick. Award-winning author Christopher Penczak offers a wealth of magickal workings and wisdom for everything from reclaiming sexual power and arousing passion to banishing ties to an unrequited love relationship. Written for Witches, Pagans, and other magickal people, this guide tells you how to first build self-love and self-esteem, then use that energy to find a partner or rekindle the passion in your current relationship. It offers instruction on making love spells, potions, and talismans, and features a materia magica of flowers, herbs, stones, and metals to empower them. The Witch's Heart also explores divine inner alchemy, love deities, sexual healing, fertility, the ethics of love magick, twin flames and soul mates, and how to heal a broken heart.
312 pages, Paperback
First published May 8, 2011
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About the author
Christopher Penczak
97 books435 followersChristopher Penczak is a Witch, teacher, writer and healing practitioner. His practice draws upon the foundation of both modern and traditional Witchcraft blended with the wisdom of mystical traditions from across the globe as a practitioner and teacher of shamanism, tarot, Reiki healing, herbalism, astrology and Qabalah. He is the founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and system of magickal training based upon the material of his books and classes. He is an ordained minister primarily serving the New Hampshire and Massachusetts pagan and metaphysical communities through public rituals, private counsel and teaching, though he travels extensively teaching throughout the United States.
Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on May 10, 1973, Christopher was raised in an Italian/Polish family while living in Salem, NH. After twelve years of Catholic school and becoming an avowed agnostic, he initially pursued an interest in chemistry, stemming from a childhood fascination with alchemy and herbalism. As a youth, he had an out of body experience, passing out in a fourth grade science class, but observing the whole scene in spirit, from above the room. While in high school, he was visited by an apparition of his recently deceased great aunt. These two experiences made him question his dedication to science and pursue a study of the mystical and occult, as well as his artistic pursuits. He attended the University of Massachusetts as a vocal major, earning a Bachelor of Music Performance/Music Business in 1995 and set his sights on becoming a full time performer. While studying classical voice, he founded a band called Doctor Soulshine that fused mystical imagery and shamanic concepts to traditional heavy rock music.
While in college, a long time friend and teacher introduced Christopher to the principles of witchcraft, meditation, tarot and spell work. At first he was skeptical, but his experience with a healing spell at a full Moon ritual was enough to convince him that there was truth to these ideas and he sought to understand more. He took classes with Laurie Cabot, in her Cabot Tradition with an emphasis on Witchcraft As A Science. He was fascinated with the science and philosophy of her teaching, grounding witchcraft in sound thinking and personal experience. A psychic healing experience left him with a sense of empowerment and spiritual connection. After this initial training, he studied with an assortment of witches, shamans, yogis, psychic readers and healers in the New England area, developing an eclectic path of personal witchcraft. He later focused on the healing arts, completing training as a Reiki Master (Teacher) in the Usui-Tibetan and Shamballa traditions and certification as a flower essence consultant and herbalist.
After graduation from college, Christopher began work at the A&R department of Fort Apache, a recording studio and record label in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He soon found himself leading meditations and ritual groups for friends seeking to know more about the Craft. During his time in the Boston area, Christopher experimented with the ideas he later wrote about in his book City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism. The initial ritual group formed the nucleus of the first Temple of Witchcraft series.
Although having no real interest in teaching formally, Christopher received a message during a meditation in 1998 to start teaching more and begin writing. Thinking it was his imagination, Christopher ignored it, saying to himself and the universe, “I’m too busy with my music career. If you want me to teach, give me the time.” The next week he was laid off from his job and had plenty of time. Although with a booming economy and many job opportunities, Christopher had no luck finding a position in the music industry, or a more traditional office job. When he posted a few flyers about meditation and witchcraft classes at a local shop, the response was immediate and he began teaching cla
Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on May 10, 1973, Christopher was raised in an Italian/Polish family while living in Salem, NH. After twelve years of Catholic school and becoming an avowed agnostic, he initially pursued an interest in chemistry, stemming from a childhood fascination with alchemy and herbalism. As a youth, he had an out of body experience, passing out in a fourth grade science class, but observing the whole scene in spirit, from above the room. While in high school, he was visited by an apparition of his recently deceased great aunt. These two experiences made him question his dedication to science and pursue a study of the mystical and occult, as well as his artistic pursuits. He attended the University of Massachusetts as a vocal major, earning a Bachelor of Music Performance/Music Business in 1995 and set his sights on becoming a full time performer. While studying classical voice, he founded a band called Doctor Soulshine that fused mystical imagery and shamanic concepts to traditional heavy rock music.
While in college, a long time friend and teacher introduced Christopher to the principles of witchcraft, meditation, tarot and spell work. At first he was skeptical, but his experience with a healing spell at a full Moon ritual was enough to convince him that there was truth to these ideas and he sought to understand more. He took classes with Laurie Cabot, in her Cabot Tradition with an emphasis on Witchcraft As A Science. He was fascinated with the science and philosophy of her teaching, grounding witchcraft in sound thinking and personal experience. A psychic healing experience left him with a sense of empowerment and spiritual connection. After this initial training, he studied with an assortment of witches, shamans, yogis, psychic readers and healers in the New England area, developing an eclectic path of personal witchcraft. He later focused on the healing arts, completing training as a Reiki Master (Teacher) in the Usui-Tibetan and Shamballa traditions and certification as a flower essence consultant and herbalist.
After graduation from college, Christopher began work at the A&R department of Fort Apache, a recording studio and record label in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He soon found himself leading meditations and ritual groups for friends seeking to know more about the Craft. During his time in the Boston area, Christopher experimented with the ideas he later wrote about in his book City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism. The initial ritual group formed the nucleus of the first Temple of Witchcraft series.
Although having no real interest in teaching formally, Christopher received a message during a meditation in 1998 to start teaching more and begin writing. Thinking it was his imagination, Christopher ignored it, saying to himself and the universe, “I’m too busy with my music career. If you want me to teach, give me the time.” The next week he was laid off from his job and had plenty of time. Although with a booming economy and many job opportunities, Christopher had no luck finding a position in the music industry, or a more traditional office job. When he posted a few flyers about meditation and witchcraft classes at a local shop, the response was immediate and he began teaching cla
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June 27, 2011
Interesting hearing Mr. Penczak's insight on love and the magic I always seem to disconnect with male authors when they write about love, it just always seems emotionally detached to me, and I mean that about all books not just this one, but, I'll give the author credit he does plead his case well...I admire that he put an emphasis on self-love and self-esteem needing to be established first before even attempting to find the love you are seeking, he has a valid point, however, most people who are out here desparate and lonely for a mate to share their life with, might not love his words so much...Unfortunately, here in America we live in a more, better, faster society where love is often overlooked as so many people are so worried about money and keeping up with the expensive lifesyle it is to live in the USA...And those of us who are still single and longing for love never can seem to find it...I don't know, love is a sketchy topic to focus on, especially in regards to romantic love, so many people have so many different opinions of what that is and who it needs to be for them...If you are a practicing wiccan than you may find this book quite resourceful, but, if you are not a pagan follower and wanted to read this in a quest to gain more insight, I don't know if you would want to read this book...It kept my attention until the end though...I will give it that...
August 1, 2022
The first couple of chapters were good and I think Penczak gave some good ideas regarding the connections between love and magick. I appreciate some of this writer's ideas, his views on love spells, etc. I also agree with his views on casual sex, which can be hard for me to find in a lot of writers. However, the rest of the book did not speak to me or show me anything that I needed to know. None of the spells included really resonated with me, and I wish there was more emphasis on self-love like he said was important. It had a good concept but could have had more to it. I'm still interested in checking out his other books, particularly in this series.
March 29, 2022
This book is part of a series of three books, the other two being The Witch's Shield (discussion and spells etc to help protect person and property from psychic attacks and theft) and The Witch's Coin (discussion and spells etc relating to finances). I think this one was the favourite of the three for me and I am not sure why I waited so long before buying and reading it! I find that Penczak has a common sense approach to matters of the heart in regards to finding and keeping love as well as breaking free of toxicity. I needed this years ago!
July 31, 2022
My copy had one spell missing from a misprint by the publisher. Other than that, a great little book. One of his best.
March 1, 2016
Before you can bring another into your life you must first learn to love yourself. Use magick wisely and understand that a relationship is not meant to be a fairy tale even with the use of magick. Relationships are something you choose to make as a new challenge and opportunity in your life and depending on your decision making and intentions it can be a blessing or it can be a curse. But if you learn from it and take away knowledge that helps you to better yourself in the future then it was always meant to happen.
I really enjoyed this book there is a lot of useful information some nicely written spells I'm excited to try and it's also very practical. I'll recommend it to any real Pagan who's ready to share their life with a life mate. It's because of magick and the help of the divine that I've found one of my life mates, he's found me and the one thing we can hope for more than anything is to make this an experience worth having.
I really enjoyed this book there is a lot of useful information some nicely written spells I'm excited to try and it's also very practical. I'll recommend it to any real Pagan who's ready to share their life with a life mate. It's because of magick and the help of the divine that I've found one of my life mates, he's found me and the one thing we can hope for more than anything is to make this an experience worth having.
February 29, 2012
This book reminds me of the one by Dorothy Morrison on the same subject. Both advise you to work on yourself first and propose exercises and rituals to do so. Then give you the means to do spells and love spells.
Those are the kind of books you need when you want to do love spells.
Those are the kind of books you need when you want to do love spells.
March 2, 2015
I enjoyed this totally, Mr Penzac explains this concept with both practical excercises as well as his own experience on the subject,
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