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The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action
The long-awaited continuation of the bestselling classic The Spiral Dance
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 2nd 2001
by HarperOne
(first published October 1st 2000)
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"The mists part; the barge awaits."
This is the fully realized workbook from Starhawk's Reclaiming Tradition. Magic, healing, discovering the Self, discovering your Path, discovering Otherness.
I had been waiting for Starhawk to let forth this book since meeting her in 1990 and hearing her speak about Reclaiming.
This is the fully realized workbook from Starhawk's Reclaiming Tradition. Magic, healing, discovering the Self, discovering your Path, discovering Otherness.
I had been waiting for Starhawk to let forth this book since meeting her in 1990 and hearing her speak about Reclaiming.
Some realy pretty ritual ideas, meditations, energy workings, and trance inductions. It goes along with a story taught at a camp that starhawk runs, weaving in spitirual ideas and practices. It gave me a lot of cool insights and practices to incorporate into my spiritual practices.
The writers map out in detail the world of the mystical. By doing so they help the uninitiated better understand the thought behind present-day Wicca and New Age Goddess Religion.
Some wonderful exercises in here, and inspiring writing. Some of it I wasn't too nuts about, but there's plenty I thoroughly enjoyed. A must have, honestly.
Apr 17, 2008
MotherMagic
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Shelves:
ecofeminism,
earth-spirituality
As if I didn't love Starhawk's work enough already, then she came out with a book exploring magic and spirituality via my all time favorite fairy tale, The Twelve Wild Swans. As I understand it, this book is designed to be a book version of the magical work involved in a Reclaiming Witchcamp. It journeys through the tale on three levels... an introductory exploration of Earth Spirituality via the elements and other basic tools and concepts, then through deep personal work (inner path), and again...more
The perfect guide to becoming a neopagan. It has a lot of information about the goddess movement.
To learn more about the goddess go to www.yoni.com
To learn more about the goddess go to www.yoni.com
Going to be rereading and using parts of this one for as long as the library will let me keep it.
Aug 29, 2010
Sallie Baileybrown
marked it as to-read
tried to read it - couldn't get into it - might be on our shelves, still - maybe i'll read it one day...
I found this book to be a whole lotta useless verbiage, irrelevent to a Catholic Zen Witch. To be fair, I read it at a very distracted point in my life. It simply did not speak to me at all.
This is a great way to learn Reclaiming style workings and I worked with a group for over a year with this book and it is some of the best stuff i have done in years.
Great practice book in the Reclaiming Tradition. Not theory, but practice, working through the lens of a fairy tale. A bit like Witchcamp in book form.
An excellent follow-up to The Spiral Dance, with more advanced exercises along 3 "tracks". I will be using this for a long time to come!
Loved the first chapter by Starhawk. The rest of the book I couldn't get into no matter what. I even tried an on-line study group.
An interesting read. As with all books like this, there are parts I take as they make sense to me and parts I leave.
This is a helpful guide and resource for women's groups regardless of their background or spiritual tendencies.
A re-reading (and re-doing). This is one of the spiritual guides I always come back to.
This is my favorite book by my favorite writer on this subject.
Title in German:
Die zwölf wilden Schwäne
Die zwölf wilden Schwäne
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos) is an American writer, anarchist activist, and self-described witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for both Beliefnet.com and On Faith (the Newsweek online forum on religion).
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