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Any book and/or character who mentions Austen as a favourite, Emma as their favourite Austen and Northanger Abbey as “Austen’s second-best work” will have my heart!

Delightful!!!!

“... On enormous and minute wheels of pain and beauty we have turned. The spinning wills of witches transmute our experience into worlds: dream into real, need into art, difficult fact into daily vision.Skilled in memory, muscled by quantum leaps, we return to tell and re-tell our story” (Preface)

“Female spirit, the goddess in us, is not fragile or new; not an invention of privileged women or an escapist New Age elite. We are tough and ancient: tried by a million years of ice and fire...”

Love this from the Preface!

I had strange unsettling dreams last night, I couldn’t stop thinking about the story -being so close to finishing it!! I’m really really enjoying the eccentric community evolving, developing on its own from Elizabethan origins with their extraordinary talents the beautiful ancient rites entwined with the progressed society... and getting to see the amazing story unfold through the eyes of various characters.

“Cleo Marchand?” Oh I wish you had somehow established Cleo Marchand in the reader’s awareness of the history of your world just so we recognise her. This way as a reader I feel no emotional connection to the discovery. Could have been done with just her last name, so we can’t put two and two together, but that’s what we recognise.

Notes for myself, these contain spoilers: “damp-with-sweat hair” what a strange wording! It kind of halts the magic of the story for a moment. ““You should know I’m a very patient man,” he said, stroking her cheek as he pushed aside a limp strand of her dam-with-sweat hair.” Considering the era, would “sweat dampened hair” not be just a hint more appropriate or just sound nicer?

Please note, I read the Hungarian edition: Az élet célja: IC-MC tengely és az élet értelme a horoszkópban. Published by Bioenergetik Kft.,2003

This is the most important lesson to keep; the one our Sassy Sorceress keeps referring back to, and that are the building blocks of my own practice too: you have it all in you!
You have it all in you, trust yourself and remember.

Journal prompt:
"Right now, what's your body story?"

"I don't want you to wait 'til you've 'got the answers' or you have it all 'figured out'. (And your inner perfectionist will hate me for that)

Instead, I want you to find a really sticky, uncomfortable place; and want you to explore it, right now. And even though I'm SURE you'll want to skip this or find something else to do, I urge you to set aside half an hour and show up for yourself."

I'm really enjoying it so far, I love the recounts of her personal witch-ancestry and her intuitive approach (which resonates with my own practice). This would be a fantastic introduction to witchcraft to anyone interested.