City Witchery

Accessible Rituals, Practices & Prompts for Conjuring and Creating in a Magical Metropolis

City Witchery
Lisa Marie Basile
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NZ$ 27.99
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Paperback
h145 x 195mm - 144pg
14 Sep 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780760370810
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City Witchery is an accessible and intuitive guide to making and finding magic as a city dweller, traveler, or someone living in a small apartment. In this gorgeous book, author of Light Magic for Dark Times and The Magical Writing Grimoire, Lisa Marie Basile, shows how you can maintain a practical, potent, and poetic practice when nature, time, space, and resources are scarce. City Witchery invites you to step into your own power through poetic writing prompts, reflections, and practical rituals-so that you can find the sacred in your city. In these pages, you will:tap into your inner magic-within the context of a city environment or while travelingshadow work with your citytune into city astrologyembrace the enchantment of city streets and the power of wanderinghonor the dead in your city through graveyard ritualmake kitchen witchery and find ways to make your apartment magicaldisconnect from digital and sensory overloadreframe city limitations to reveal potential and inspirationlearn to tap into energieswrite magical poetry inspired by your cityhonor the people and cultures that came before you From constructing portable or permanent altars and working with herbs in apartment magic to performing bibliomancy in your city library and working with nature and the moon in city spaces, City Witchery offers a new, attainable way to live intentionally in a city.
Lisa Marie Basile (she/her) is a poet, essayist, editor, and chronic illness awareness advocate living in New York City. She' s the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine and its online community, and the creator of Ritual Poetica, a curiosity project dedicated to exploring the intersection of writing, creativity, healing, and sacredness. She regularly creates dialogue and writes about intentionality and ritual, accessibility, creativity, poetry, foster care, mental health, family trauma, healing, and chronic illness. She is the author of The Magical Writing Grimoire, Light Magic for Dark Times, City Witches, and a few poetry collections, including the recent Nympholepsy, which is excerpted in Best American Experimental Writing 2020. Her essays and other work can be found in The New York Times, Narratively, Sabat Magazine, We Are Grimoire, Witch Craft Magazine, Refinery 29, Self, Healthline, Entropy, On Loan From The Cosmos, Chakrubs, Catapult, BUST, Bustle, and more. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes (most recently for her work in Narratively). Lisa Marie has led poetry, writing, and ritual workshops-at HausWitch in Salem, Massachusetts; Manhattanville College; and Pace University-and she' s led ritual and writing events, like Atlas Obscura' s renowned Into The Veil. She is also a chronic illness advocate, keeping columns at several chronic illness patient websites. She earned a master' s degree in writing from The New School and studied literature and psychology as an undergraduate at Pace University. You can follow her at @lisamariebasile and @Ritual_Poetica.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780760370810
Published: 14 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Voyageur Press
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 145mm
Width: 195mm
Pages: 144

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