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Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings

Celtic Devotional:
Daily Prayers and Blessings
by Caitlin Matthews
Fair Winds Press, 2004

 

Four years ago when I began my Ninth Wave studies (www.lunaea.com – see review in SageWoman #67), one of the first lessons involved discovering the power of prayer.

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The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year

The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween:  
Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year  
by Jean Markale
Inner Traditions

 

Halloween is one of America’s most popular holidays, yet many Americans remain woefully ignorant about its true origin and meaning. The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween provides a nice starting point for Halloween novices seeking a well-researched and scholarly introduction to “The Celtic Festival of Samhain” and an unraveling of the mystery and meaning of that most Christian of all holidays — All Saint’s Day, which quite literally means “eve of all the saints.”

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Goddess Initiation: A Practical Celtic Program for Soul-Healing, Self-Fulfillment & Wild Wisdom

Goddess Initiation:  
A Practical Celtic Program for Soul-Healing, Self-Fulfillment & Wild Wisdom  
by Francesca De Grandis
Harper Collins Publishers

 

The Goddess must be smiling over Francesca De Grandis’ new book, Goddess Initiation. Here is a course of inner wisdom work that is disciplined, profound, and absorbing. The straight-forward prose, the amusing and touching anecdotes, the moments of lyrical beauty, have the same power as those which made her first book, Be a Goddess, so successful.

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