Llewellyn's 2021 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac: Holidays & Lore, Spells, Rituals & Meditations

by Elizabeth Barrette, Blake Octavian Blair, Deborah Blake

Enjoy a new spell every day with Llewellyn's 2021 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac . Spellcasters of all levels can enhance their daily life with these easy bewitchments, recipes, rituals, and meditations. These 365 spells―supplied by popular magic practitioners like Deborah Blake, Najah Lightfoot, Devin Hunter, Thorn Mooney, James Kambos, Elizabeth Barrette, and Sapphire Moonbeam―require minimal supplies and are helpful for every occasion. For convenience, the 365 spells are cross-referenced by purpose, including love, health, money, protection, home and garden, travel, and communication. Discover beginner-friendly advice on the best time, place, and tools for performing each spell. Apply daily color and incense recommendations and astrological data to enhance each day's magic. And with space to jot down notes, this unique spell book can be used as a Book of Shadows.

Genres: Nonfiction, Witches, Witchcraft, Spirituality

264 pages, Paperback

Published July 8, 2020

About the author

Elizabeth Barrette lives in Illinois with her partner, Doug. An avid wordsmith, she works as a writer and editor, doing poetry, articles, essays, reviews, interviews, short stories, and more. Her main fields include speculative fiction, gender studies, environmental/social issues, and alternative spirituality. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Rhetoric with a Women’s Studies minor from the English Department at the University of Illinois.

Her wordsmithing work has taken many forms. She wrote the articles "Balancing Powers" in Communities, “Anthimeria: Verbing Weirds Language” in Sol Magazine, and "Appreciating Speculative Poetry" and "Do Women and Men Really Write Differently?" in Internet Review of Science Fiction. Honors include winning the Sol Magazine Poet Laureate Competition (2003), Left Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition (2009), Dwarf Stars Award (2010), and Rose & Bay Award: Poetry (2010); plus six poems nominated for the Rhysling Award (2005, 2007, 2010). Elizabeth Barrette served as Managing Editor of PanGaia for eight years and Dean of Studies at the Grey School of Wizardry for four years. She currently sits on the canon board for Torn World. She has edited over a dozen books including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction.

She has published hundreds of poems, dozens of articles, and dozens of short stories. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals including Apex, The Blessed Bee, Capper’s, Cicada, CIRCLE, Doorways, Eggplant Library, EMG-zine, Five Feathers, Fortress, Green Prints, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Horror Writers Association Newsletter, the Llewellyn annuals, The Lorelei Signal, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Mytholog, Nature’s Song, Noneuclidean Café, Passion for Poetry, SageWoman, Sol Magazine, Strong Verse, and the Wiccan/Pagan Times. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies The 2010 Rhysling Anthology, Companion for the Apprentice Wizard, [Book: Creative Community Collected Comics Pages], Genderflex, The Goddess in Each of Us, The Impossible Will Take A Little While, and Pagan Muse Short Fiction Anthology Volume 2.

Elizabeth Barrette supports small press and electronic publication, crowdfunding, and communal living. She hosts a monthly Poetry Fishbowl on her LiveJournal, The Wordsmith’s Forge. She enjoys presenting panels and workshops at science fiction conventions, Pagan festivals, and other events. Her favorite pastimes include gardening for wildlife, photography, and studying obscure languages.

Reviews

[Anna (Bananas) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good stuff and lots of meh, whatever stuff.

[Neko.ta.ta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always have to have your almanac, love to add further knowledge to my life and magick to the mundane.

[Amy Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of spells and rituals you can use any time, any day, any year … I added a ton of them to my working notebook to try. 🔮