Melanie Marquis – författare

Combine traditional tarot symbolism and modern eclectic witchcraft for truly magickal results. Artist Scott Murphy renders the familiar elements of the Rider-Waite in a fresh style featuring ancient Pagan mythos, diverse ethnicities, and contemporary practical spellwork. Designed with both divination and tarot magick in mind, this versatile deck is appropriate for beginning and experienced witches and tarot readers alike.

The first of three harvest festivals, Lughnasadh represents the delight of seeing the first signs of effort beginning to pay off. It's the beginning of the culmination of summer-time's toil, and what you personally have sowed is now in the early stages of being reaped. This well-rounded introduction to the holiday comes complete with correspondences, rituals, recipes, and lore. Lughnasadh recipes include bean soup, baked bread, squash casserole, apple tart, and more; crafts include corn silk blessing wand, magical berry ink, and corn dolly.

Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials series explores the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones in the witch's year. A well-rounded introduction to Beltane, this attractive book features rituals, recipes, lore, and correspondences. It includes hands-on information for modern celebrations, spells and divination, recipes and crafts, invocations and prayers, and more! In agricultural societies, Beltane marked the start of the summer season. We all have something we want to harvest by the end of the year-plans we are determined to realize. Beltane is the time to put our plans into action, and this book will show you how.

Embrace the magick of cooking and become a true wizard in the kitchen with dozens of simple, delicious, and effective recipes. Featuring the magickal attributes of more than one hundred ingredients, Cookbook of Shadows teaches you how to shape reality through mindful, witchy food. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of enchanted cooking, from the metaphysical effects of common culinary items to recipes designed to attract peace, prosperity, strength, and love. You'll discover essential skills for beginners, specialized techniques to take your cooking to the next level, and much more. Whether you're looking for seasonal feast ideas or a magickal midnight snack, Melanie Marquis provides everything you need to unlock the maximum power of food.

Featuring more than fifty spells, this convenient, portable guide to solar magick offers innovative ways to connect with the sun's energies for greater success and happiness. Impassion your practice with the sun's fiery radiance and manifest your desires for more abundance, courage, and cheer. With step-by-step instructions for witches of all skill levels, this two-color book offers a wealth of solar rituals, spells, and crafts to illuminate your path. Discover seasonal activities for each month and sabbat. Create a sunset potion for closure, victory powder for luck, and suncatcher for wishes. Melanie Marquis also teaches you how to enhance your spells with solar timing and a bounty of magical correspondences. Mirroring Llewellyn's Little Book of Moon Spells, this attractive hardcover with gold foil accents offers powerful solar magick for every occasion.