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by Morpheus Ravenna (Author), River Devora (Foreword by)
Build Your Own Magical Practice Rooted in Celtic Traditions
Shaped by ancient and mythological texts, this book introduces you to a wellspring of Celtic magic and demonstrates how to apply these deep traditions to your unique, contemporary practice. Morpheus Ravenna helps you develop your skills from the ground up through rituals and deity work for healing, empowerment, justice, and more. With hands-on activities woven alongside history and lore from all over the Celtic world, you will master spiritual hygiene practices, protection methods, conflict magic, and a variety of other topics.
Drawing upon polytheism, animism, and a connection to the Otherworld, Morpheus provides instructions for blessing water, conducting an ancestor elevation rite, beginning a spirit alliance, and creating a curse tablet. You will advance your sorcery through divination, sigil work, necromancy, and other techniques, developing more powerful expertise every step of the way.
Includes a foreword by River Devora, a multi-traditional spirit worker, healer, clergyperson, and teacher
Author Biography
Morpheus Ravenna (pronouns: sí/hir) is a genderfluid tattoo artist, sorcerer, and writer residing in the East Bay Area of California. Sí specializes in ritual tattooing as well as Celtic and medieval styles, creating artworks and sorcerous crafts in a variety of media inspired by history, myth, and the otherworldly. Sí is a witch, animist, and dedicant of the Morrígan, serving as priest in the Coru Cathubodua Priesthood. Sí also enjoys medieval reenactment in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Morpheus is the author of The Magic of the Otherworld and The Book of the Great Queen, and sí can be reached at BansheeArts.com.
River Devora is a multi-traditional spirit worker, healer, clergyperson, and Santera. She has been an active member of the Bay Area Pagan and polytheist communities since the early 1990s, and she has led classes, rituals, workshops, and other programs locally and nationally. She was initiated as a community priestess with Waxing Muse Coven in 1996 and was crowned to Ochun in 2011. She teaches the Strong Roots and Wide Branches Polytheist class series and interfaith community, and she provides spiritual counseling, somatic coaching, divination, and other magic and healing services. Learn more at RiverDevora.com.
