The Real Witches Craft: Magical Techniques and Guidance for a Full Year of Practising the Craft

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A follow-up to the best selling The Real Witches' Handbook. The book includes more practical advice on becoming a Wiccan and teaches the skills and techniques necessary for celebrating this craft. The contents of the book enables you to take your magic on to the next level and provides the further skills and techniques for powerful magic making. It provides the sort of guidance and development usually found in the first year of Coven life. The Real Witches' Craft moves on from the simple spells and rituals of The Real Witches' Handbook to more advanced magic, teaching the skills and techniques of practising magic. This book will teach you how to: - Balance the elements to create effective magic. - Raise, focus and direct magical energy to powerful effect. - Strengthen the five senses in order to help towards developing the 6th sense. - Use divination and scrying - tarot, runes, fire, etc. - Design your own spells - Use the Moon's phases for magic.

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Kate West has been a practicing Witch for over 30 years. She is High Priestess of The Hearth of Hecate, an established Coven with groups around the country. She is Media officer for the Children of Artemis, the UKs foremost, and fastest growing Witchcraft and Wiccan organization, and previously served terms of office as both Vice President and Media Co-ordinator of The Pagan Federation. Kate is a respected and sought after speaker on Witchcraft, appearing at Pagan conferences, as well as non-Pagan and interfaith events. She has an extensive list of TV and media credits, being the subject of a BBC Everyman documentary, and appearing several times on The Heaven and Earth show, as well as doing numerous radio and press interviews. Kate is the author of the Real Witches books which reveal the Craft for those who live in the real world. The Real Witches Handbook and The Real Witches Kitchen being Witchcraft bestsellers in the UK and the USA. A Spell in Your Pocket, a small gift book, will be published towards the end of 2002. She has just finished The Real Witches Coven (due out Feb. 2003) which explores group working from both the perspective of running a Coven and being a Coven member. And is currently working on a collection of spells and rituals, to see the practicing Witch through the whole of the Wheel of the Year.