Now available: the Spellcasting Picture Book
The book will be released on Amazon later this week. I’m checking daily to see when the page goes up. What do stick figures, finger paint, markers and giggling have to do with witchcraft? Everything. Magic empowers. It enlightens. It teaches. It gives us new ways to connect to the divine, a sense of something we can do about the things in life we’re told we can do nothing about, and thanks to the likes of Joss Whedon and scores of fantasy writers, the idea that witchcraft is pretty badass. It’s also… fun. The Spellcasting Picture Book sets itself squarely in the middle of the real taboo within witchcraft: the idea that the craft itself, the magic itself speaks to our playful selves. The business of witchcraft is still quite serious – but that’s exactly why, when getting your witch on, it’s important to have fun with it. The magic is serious. A healthy, happy life – the end goal of all magical practice – is anything but. This collection of primitive drawings comes from author Diana Rajchel’s own sense of play and inner work. A culmination of spells and teachings, this spell book offers the visual lift-off to elevate your own creative, magical work. Copies are available at the following providers. In Digital Barnes and Noble Nook - Color Kindle US Kindle UK Etsy In Print CreateSpace Table of Contents: Table of Contents Preface i How to use this book ii From the author, 2nd edition iv Grounding 1 Centering 2 Purification 3 Creativity 4 Home Protection 5 Money 6 Mercury Retrograde 7 Iris 8 Reversal 9 Exorcism 10 Banishing 11 Hecate and Ghosts 12 Book of Shadows 13 Dreams 15 Fairy Tales 16 Law of 3 17 Meditation 18 Visualization 19 Labyrinths 20 Spirit 21 Psychism 22 Perspective/Perception 23 Scrying 24 Sympathetic Magic 25 Hand of Glory 26 Signs and Seals 27 Magic 28 What is this to you? 29
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Math Monday: Mailing Tubes
emth:
Speaking of office supplies, a box of mailing tubes showed up in our Museum of Mathematics office and I couldn’t resist making a geometric construction. All you need to make your own copy are thirty tubes and sixty rubber bands. All the tubes are surrounded similarly. Each touches four others, approximately outlining an icosidodecahedron.
I showed this to Keith Hoffman and he made the same structure from 510 Lego studs and 60 tiny clear rubber bands.
What can you use to make this structure?
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