Witchy Reads
I have been a practicing witch and pagan since 2018 when I picked up a silly little book called Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena & Jess Zimmerman.
While it is not, what I consider, a true witchcraft book, it gave me the inspiration to pursue my craft. I have read many books since and am still always looking for new, interesting witchy reads.
A book I am also recommending (though I have not read it yet) is Every Day Magic: A Pagan Book of Days by Lucy Starza.
It gives you a little spell, ritual, recipe or poem for every day of the year so you can work a little magick into your everyday. I will be using it next year as a little challenge to myself and I’m sure a few things will become tradition.
I have split my recommended witchcraft reads into categories so all levels can find something to inspire them on their path.
Beginner Witch
Inner Witch: a Modern Guide to an Ancient Craft by Gabriela Hersik - my #1 rec for witches just starting out on their journey, covering all the traditional basics
Everyday Witchcraft: Making Time for Spirit in a Too-Busy World by Deborah Blake - another great edition to a modern witch’s self, helping you bring magick and ritual into your everyday. (Also recommend one of her earlier books, The Goddess in the Details: Wisdom for the Everyday Witch, but I read Everyday Witchcraft first and found it more applicable for me)
Tarot
Tarot Elements: Five Readings to Resent Your Life by Melissa Cynova - if you are brand new to tarot, I would suggest this author’s other book Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards and Let’s Talk Tarot. I enjoyed this new, almost self-help style of witchy book that helps connect you to tarot, the elements, and yourself. The author has a good beginner witch book as well
Specialities
Bewitching the Elements: A Guide to Empowering Yourself Through Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit by Gabriela Hersik - a great way to expand and deepen your practice by connecting to the elements through rituals, tarot spreads, and more
Year of the Witch: Connecting with Nature’s Seasons Through Intuitive Magick by Temperance Alden - going beyond the traditional eight sabbets and creating your own cycle of celebration
Sex Witch: Magickal Spells for Love, Lust and Self-Protection by Sophie Saint Thomas - a great intro into incorporating your erotic side into your practice, for any sexuality or kink
Sacred Sex: the Magick and Path of the Divine Erotic by Gabriela Hersik - now you’ve got the basics of sex magick, here you deepen your understanding and find the path meant for you
This month, I have started going back and taking notes from books, revisiting bits of my craft, seeing if things need added or altered as I start to keep a record in my official grimoire. While I have had this journal for a while, I have only done the cover page because I knew I wanted to do this reflection first.
I hope you guys enjoyed an insight into my going on five years learning as a witch and that it gives you a boost to find or revise your own spiritual path.
Well met