Light Magic for Dark Times

More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis
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Light Magic for Dark Times by Lisa Marie Basile is a practical guide offering rituals, spells, and practices intended to help individuals navigate life's challenges. Focused on self-care and personal development, it provides tools for emotional healing, self-empowerment, and finding light in difficult periods. The book emphasizes accessible and modern spirituality, encouraging readers to create their own rituals to nurture resilience and emotional well-being.
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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking guidance and solace during challenging periods. Filled with rituals and creative practices, it offers a unique blend of self-care and empowerment to help you navigate life's darker moments with a sense of light and hope.

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Light Magic for Dark Times

Offers inspired, easy-to-do spells to be cast when your world is descending into chaos and darkness, or to help prevent it.

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Light Magic for Dark Times offers inspired, easy-to-do spells to be cast when your world is descending into chaos and darkness, or to help prevent it. Having a hard time finding that light? Need to manifest strength or conviction in the face of trauma and division? Want to send healing vibes to a friend or a group of people who need it? Lisa Marie Basile shares inspired spells to be cast during a crisis or to help prevent one.

Spells and practices in this book include:

  • A binding spell to combat social burnout
  • A seashell spell to protect a loved one or a group
  • A lunar light ritual to welcome new beginnings
  • A bathing ritual to heal from grief
  • A three-candle spell to find strength in the face of trauma

Accompanying the spells are informative sidebars about the cultural and historical background of witchcraft and spellcraft.

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Light Magic for Dark Times by Lisa Marie Basile is praised for blending self-care with magic and providing readers with spells and rituals aimed at activism and personal development. Reviews highlight the book's soothing tone and its focus on contemporary spirituality, while appreciating the balance of ancient wisdom with a modern touch. Readers commend its ability to make witchcraft relevant to everyday challenges and consider it an encouraging guide for those new to nature-based practices.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592338535

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 September 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Fair Winds Press

Illustration: color illustrations

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Kristen J. Sollee

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Lisa Marie Basile is the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine (an online magazine & community dedicated to the occult, arts, and women) and the author of a few books of poetry. Her book Nympholepsy will be published by Inside the Castle in November 2018, and she is working on her first novella, to be released by Clash Books in 2019. Her work as a writer and editor has been profiled in Buzzfeed, The New York Daily News and Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. She has been profiled in Elle Australia's Season of the Witch feature.

Kristen J. Sollee is a writer, curator, and educator exploring the electric intersections of art, sex, and culture. She has written for mainstream and academic publications including The Huffington Post, VICE, NYLON, The Journal of Fashion, and lectured at colleges and conferences across the U.S. and Europe. She is also the founding editrix of Slutist, a sex positive feminist website, and a lecturer at The New School. Her critically-acclaimed book inspired by the course, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive, was published in 2017.

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