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By the renowned Celtic and shamanic expert Caitlin Matthews, this is the only oracle that uses the archetypes of the Celtic world to connect us to our ancestors, allowing us to consult them for guidance and insight, and to respond to their questions to clarify our thinking. "Caitlin Matthews'' wisdom comes from a deep place of clarity nurtured by a lifelong dedication to the spiritual and ancestral paths ... she reveals the ways in which we all can find our own truths grounded in the ancestors, both tribal/cultural and personal." - Rachel Pollack, author of Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom and Godmother Night With an 88pp guidebook and 40 cards (beautifully illustrated by Wil Kinghan) embodying archetypes of the Celtic world, this fantastic interactive oracle offers a way of consulting and communicating with our ancestors, whatever our race or culture. Two sets of cards make up the Oracle- 1. Divine Ancestor Cards- these eight cards represent the ancestors from whom everyone is descended - the matriarch (goddess) and patriarch (god) archetypes. 2. Clan Cards- these 32 cards represent the circle of Common Ancestors, who hold a huge collective of wisdom. There are four clans- Truth, Honour, Sovereignty and Wisdom, each one based on a category of Celtic society (farmers, warriors, nobles and artists/craftspeople). Draw a single card for immediate guidance, or do spreads of three to eight cards for a more in-depth reading (these are detailed in the guidebook). The oracle given by the Clan Cards helps you make decisions, navigate challenging situations and follow your highest path, while questions posed by the Divine Ancestors question your attitude to the issue you''re asking about and help you understand your own deeper motives. These ancestor cards are also perfect for approaching problems within a family or social group, including those passed down from recent ancestors as well as those generated in the current era.

Discover a system of magical work based on the stories of Arthur and his legendary realm. With meditations, rituals, visualizations, and pioneering shamanic techniques, Arthurian Magic leads you on a profound soul journey designed to raise consciousness and unleash deep levels of wisdom. Discover dozens of exercises and a complete twelve-month course of study that will bring the mysteries alive and open your inner awareness to the mystical power of these profound legends. Dozens of magical groups and countless individuals have turned to the Arthurian tales for inspiration, instruction, and initiation. This book is a guide for beginners and experienced practitioners to cultivate the spiritual power of these influential myths. Explore the sacred sites, songs, blessings, invocations, and festivals. Create incense and oils for magical workings. Meet the most important and influential archetypal figures as you discover how to awaken the knight within.

"Overall, this is an interesting tarot, offering some insights that are both traditional and novel in their take on how we may find wisdom in the technology we surround ourselves with. --Taroflexions"

Celebrate the seasons with Thunder Bay’s Celtic Wisdom Box! Based on the best-selling Book-in-a-Box kits, his beautiful book will transport you into the world of the Celts, where celebration and ritual will keep you in touch with the rhythm of the natural world, and help you to keep your life balanced and in harmony with your environment. The Celts revered the seasons and their four main festivals mark the turning points of the year. Caitlin Matthews shows how you can now access ancient Celtic wisdom and beliefs, and through simple ceremony and celebration, feel more in touch with the world, and yourself.

Through prayers, chants, and practical exercises, Celtic Visions teaches readers how to tap into their inner spiritual power, enabling them to experience heightened perception and open portals to other realms of existence. Drawn from ancient Gaelic and Welsh sources, this visionary guide reveals the truth behind the prophetic visions of the druids and seers. It explains their methods for communicating with the Otherworld through omens and fairy lore and explores the Celtic gift of "second sight"—the ability to perceive both the visible and the invisible aspects of reality.

Tell your own festive stories with this create-a-story pack from StoryWorld. Create holiday stories with Christmas Tales. This box contains twenty-eight cards that suggest all kinds of characters, places, and objects that you can use to make up your own stories. Pick a handful of cards and use their pictures, descriptions, and questions as inspiration. Discover more ways to use the cards and read sample stories in The Storytelling Book that accompanies this set.

Tell your own scary stories with a create-a-story pack from StoryWorld. Create ghostly adventures with Tales from the Haunted House. This box contains twenty-eight cards that suggest all kinds of characters, places, and objects that you can use to make up your own stories. Pick a handful of cards and use their pictures, descriptions, and questions as inspiration. Discover more ways to use the cards and read sample stories in The Storytelling Book that accompanies this set.

"Includes 28 brand-new StoryWorld cards featuring people, places, and other story ideas from the high seas, plus a storytelling book full of suggestions for how to use the cards to write, draw, act out, and imagine thousands of stories and games"--Container

"Exploring the theme of fairy stories, this pack will help you to create stories filled with action and magic."--Publisher''s web site.

From unicorns and trolls to werewolves and griffins, this comprehensive guide is the key to discovering every magical creature from myth, folklore and legend around the world.

Addresses the kinds of psychic or soul disruption that are commonly encountered. It explains how we can become spiritually streetwise and guard our souls against such unpleasant outside disturbance with simple and commonsense strategies. Caitlin Matthews'' practical rituals and wise advice will help you to strengthen your self esteem and build your confidence, so that you cease to be affected by psychic disturbance.

Open the magical pages of this book and allow Princess Petal to guide you through her royal world and everything being a princess entails. Some girls are born princesses and others become one by marrying a prince; everyone has to start somewhere. With the expert advice of Princess Petal, assisted by the Guild of Princesses - a select club with royal members such as Cinderella and Rapunzel - this book will teach you everything you need to know, from looking beautiful to contacting your Fairy Godmother, dealing with spells, finding your ideal prince and ruling your realm wisely. Why settle for being ordinary when you can be a real princess? Every princess is a queen in waiting...

An illustrated collection of tales featuring notable trickster characters such as Raven and Hare, from the folk traditions of many countries.

Every time their brother turned a cartwheel, golden oranges fell from his pockets, along with sugar sweets in gold and silver paper. Schnitzle, Schnotzle & Schnootzle

Faithful to Leonardo da Vinci's prophetic visions, this tarot set draws upon his notebooks, drawings, and ideas to enable the readers to use the included deck of tarot cards, lavishly illustrated with da Vinci's artwork, to discover fresh ways of looking at personal experience.

Mirroring the ancient formulaic prayers to the elements found in the Celtic tradition, along with the wondrous invocations and declarations of the bards of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh traditions, Celtic Devotional provides a mystical doorway through which the modern person can re-invest their life with meaning within the twilight times of dusk and dawn. Celtic spirituality emphasizes the appreciation of nature and all forms of life -- a popular and universally appealing philosophy that, along with other related pagan traditions, is having a renaissance. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this book will appeal to readers searching for ways to practice spirituality, offering blessings, prayers and devotions.

Since it was first published in 1995, this primer on practical, everyday spirituality as practiced through shamanism has become a sought after classic. Now revised and available in paperback for the first time, this attractive edition with line drawings throughout offers a wide audience ways to connect with their own shamanic power. If you feel distanced from nature, trapped in a material society without meaning or purpose, shamanic wisdom can offer you some answers. Caitlin Matthews shows how respect and wonder for nature combined with spiritual joy and healing are the essence of the shaman's holistic, vital world. In Singing the Soul Back Home she leads readers through a structured learning program of more than 80 exercises that will help them master the skills of the shaman. With practice and sensitivity, anyone can become a "walker between the worlds," aware not only of their own physical reality, but also of the subtle spiritual reality of the shaman. Following this path will stimulate your creative energies and make you more aware of your own innate healing powers.

Anyone interested in the feminine face of God throughout the ages will find Sophia an illuminating experience. Caitlin Matthews' scholarship connects us to past, present, and future in the very depths of our femininity. - - Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of Bone: Dying into Life. Sophia, or "wisdom" in Greek, has been revered in many forms throughout history - from the Dark Goddess of ancient Anatolia; to her Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, and Cabalistic manifestations; to her currentforms as Mary and the orthodox St. Sophia. In the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Sophia sits with God until the creation. Then she falls into matter and becomes manifest in every atom, permeating all things "like the sparks that run through charcoal," as Matthews says. While God is "out there," the Goddess is "in here" - the mother-wit of practical inspiration and compassion at the heart's core. This definitive work comprehensively establishes a realistic Goddess theology for Westerners in the twenty-first century: grounding spirituality in daily life and the natural world; learning to work playfully and play seriously; ending the gender war to enjoy sacred marriage.

Discover the Living Wisdom of the Ancient Celts The ancient Celts and their spiritual mediators, the Druids believed in the communion of all living things and sought harmony between nature and the human soul. Now, with this inspiring book of day-by-day mediations, renowned Celtic scholar CaitlÍn Matthews shows you how to reawaken the power of this age-old spiritual inheritance. Using poetry, myths, reflections, rituals, and visualizations, Matthews leads you on a yearlong pilgrimage that will help connect the cycles of your soul to the circle of the seasons. From the winter months of Samhain the summer months of Beltant, from mediations on the gifts and blessings of life to the insights and promises of the soul, she enables you to complete your own sacred circuit of the turning year. Brimming with the legends and lore of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Britain, The Celtic Spirit is a brilliant introduction to the sacred wisdom of the Celtic path--and a potent resource for daily spiritual renewal.

Many people long for an alternative to the commercial industry Christmas has become. This illustrated, full-color book, brimming with folklore, stories, recipes, games, activities, decorating ideas, and songs, will help families who are burned out on Christmas create celebrations more in keeping with the heartful spirit of the original Winter Solstice festivals.

When God makes the world, the first Man and Woman are amazed by the mountains and valleys, the sea and the stars, and the wonderful animals and plants with whom they share their home. But what is their task in life? To find out, they decide to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, although God has advised them not to do so before it is ripe. When God sees what they have done, he gently explains to them that it is time for them to explore the four paths: the path of wonder, the path of emptiness, the path of making and the path of coming home. With his guidance, the Man and the Woman begins to understand their place in the world, and they set out to explore it with the song of the blessing seed in their hearts. In this beautiful transformation of the traditional Biblical creation story, Caitlin Matthews has written a modern myth that will inspire both adults and children. Alison Dexter''s dramatic and exuberant illustrations celebrate the vitality and optimism of the text.

Celtic spirituality emphasizes the appreciation of nature and all forms of life--a popular and universally appealing philosophy that, along with other related pagan traditions, is having a renaissance. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this book will appeal to readers searching for ways to practice spirituality, offering blessings, prayers and devotions.

This illustrated Celtic calender features daily entries highlighting Celtic history, culture, traditions, myth, poetry, prayers, and lore.--From publisher description.

Bringing The Native Tradition and The Hermetic Tradition together for the first time in one volume, this classic text gives practical exercises to help us understand our own mystical awareness, reminding us of our connection to the Earth Mysteries.