For many contemporary witchcraft traditions, the art of magic is intertwined with the energy of the elements. With brilliant contributions from members of the international Reclaiming community, this book shares spells, exercises, and practices designed to help you find the magic within yourself and renew your connection to the source of your power. Deeply poetic and rich with passion, this book helps you expand your relationship with earth, air, fire, water, and spirit through personal reflections and hands-on explorations. Discover practical techniques for grounding, casting a circle, trance, and visualization, as well as guidance for working with breath, raising energy, and charging an intention. If you long to learn what magic is and how it works, Elements of Magic is for you.

"Gede Parma and Jane Meredith have excelled themselves in putting together one of the most comprehensive compilations of practices found in the Reclaiming Tradition. This will not only be useful for anyone who is following the Reclaiming path, but also those who are solitary or want to build on their coven practices."—Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone, teachers and authors of The Inner Mysteries and Lifting the Veil

"Elements of Magic is a soulful and grounded offering that honors the past while inviting the future."—Ivo Dominguez Jr., author and elder in the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel

"In this approachable, engaging guide, Jane Meredith and Gede Parma seamlessly weave together an introduction to Reclaiming and a course in the foundations of natural magic. With brilliant contributions by more than a dozen witches, activists, priestesses, and storytellers, there is something here for you...You'll experience the Craft as practiced by one of its most longstanding and entrenched traditions."—Thorn Mooney, Gardnerian priestess and author of Traditional Wicca

"Reclaiming has so much to offer with its insights into community work, activist magic, and bringing healing to this planet...This book is like a dandelion seed-head, spreading wild wisdom and ecstatic practice."—Tony Rella, author of Circling the Star

"This array of essays, exercises, and rituals at once honors the practices from which our knowledge of the elements comes and explores the depth and richness that the Reclaiming movement has developed over the years. Elements of Magic will be a valuable resource for those who seek a spiritual connection to our world, whatever their tradition."—Diana L. Paxson, author of Trance-Portation

 

JANE MEREDITH (Katoomba, Australia) is a writer and a priestess of the Goddess. She has been presenting workshops and rituals internationally for more than sixteen years. Jane is the author of Rituals of Celebration and Circle of Eight (Llewellyn). GEDE PARMA (Australia) is an initiate and teacher of the WildWood tradition of witchcraft and a hereditary healer and seer with Balinese-Celtic ancestry. Gede is the author of Spirited; By Land, Sea and Sky; and Ecstatic Witchcraft (Llewellyn).