Whether you live in a small apartment or have a huge yard, Gardening with the Goddess provides a wealth of ideas for everything from tiny window ledge efforts to full landscaping projects... and each project can become a type of spiritual therapy where you reconnect with the sacredness of self, earth, and Spirit.

Wicca 2000 furnishes practical, easy, and effective mystical methods for living in the new millennium to our fullest potential. Additionally, it is a transformational guide: readers can learn from the past, make meaningful changes in the present, and create a future filled with everything for which they hope and dream. Within its pages are hundreds of ready-made prayers, meditations, divination methods, charms, spells, rituals, and invocations that can be used or adapted for use now or in the future. In the process, readers will discover ways of working magic on a planetary scale to allow the earth--and their spirit--to begin the healing that must continue for millenniums to come.

* Defining true awareness.
* Learning to use the senses to augment magickal processes and improve insight.
* Determining the magickal arts best suited to your goals and growth.
* Finding, connecting with, and honoring one's "Tribe" for both support and fellowship.

You'll learn how to make many of these tools in your own home, fill them with personal energy, bless them, and care for them. What about the things you can't readily make? Patricia includes a detailed list of sources known and trusted by elders and leaders in the Neo-Pagan community. In other words, this is a one-stop "shop" that you can return to again and again for information and ideas to improve the meaningfulness and potency of all your magickal tools.

Here is just a brief sampling of what's inside:

- Using animal emblems in various magickal modalities. - Making a travel amulet. - Designing a cat-friendship fetish. - Discovering elemental symbols in and around your home. - Building and designing you altar and tools. - Assemble your own drum, broom, and much more!

This book gives a clever, insightful, and practical blueprint for changing meager patterns in our lives to ones that reflect plenty.

• Presents the canine connection to magic, including amulets, charms,spells, and rituals.

• Explains how to determine your dog's personality through astrology,as well as dog symbolism in dreams.

• 120 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout make this a wonderful gift book.

In Greece the dog was a symbol for courage and devotion; in China dogs have represented good fortune and joy since Fo-Hi began encouraging their breeding in 3400 B.C. An entire volume of the sacred Zoroastrian text, the Zend Avista, is devoted to the care and breeding of dogs, and dogs were regarded as the preeminent symbol of loyalty in medieval Europe. In contrast, the dog's wild relatives, such as the much maligned wolf, have long been regarded as symbols of humanity's darker side.

Dog Spirit explores the different roles dogs and their canine relatives have played in the religious and magical traditions of societies throughout the world, emphasizing the importance of dogs as totems, companions, and even gods. Patricia Telesco provides astrological guidelines for determining your dog's personality and examines the role of dogs in dream interpretation and magic rituals. Personable, soulful, and the very spirit of loyalty, dogs have throughout history held a special place in the human heart and imagination that no other animal can claim.

As a guide for shaman wannabes, this one is multidimensional, manual-accessible, playful, rich in historical context, hands-on practical, and inspirational. All the necessary tools, meditations, totems, drumbeats, amulets, and prayers are here. Telesco has the authority of pagan and magical reverence while being able to translate it into a language that is straightforward and socially responsible. --Gail Hudson