Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience

About this bookTable of Contents Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience (The New Aradia, Volume III) The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance and The Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance have helped to empower people with magical tools of resistance during this time of uncertainty. Within their pages are sigils, spells, recipes, essays, invocations, rituals, and more, all gathered from experienced magical practitioners from around the world. In addition to serving as a tool for inspiration, teaching, and guidance, these magical tomes have had a real world impact, helping to raise just over $6000 for organizations such as Emily’s List, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Holler Health Rising. Serpents of Circe follows in the footsteps of the first two volumes in The New Aradia series, collecting the wisdom and lived experiences of over three dozen magical practitioners, activists, and teachers worldwide to serve as inspiration and a roadmap to crafting inclusive, inspired communities. The shift from “resistance” to “resilience” in this edition is in preparation for the next step in building solidarity, enhancing awareness, fostering sustainability, and establishing long-term goals that affect us all locally and globally. So why have we chosen “Serpents of Circe” as a title? In keeping with the mythic realm of Aradia and the Gorgons, we are turning to Circe as inspiration for our third volume. Daughter of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse, Circe is a goddess of sorcery and said to be the first Witch in Greek Mythology. She was highly skilled in the magics of transmutation, herbalism and potion-making, as well as necromancy. Spiritually and metaphysically, serpents are beings of creation, renewal, and transformation as well as protectors and guides to the underworld. The combined energy of these two ideas speak to an evolving legacy of magic rooted in wisdom, sustainability, empowerment, flexibility, and practicality. Introduction Laura Tempest Zakroff    Invocation of the Dark Goddess Sawyer Massie Entering Sacred Space: An Invocation and Meditation Kerri A. Horine The Living Democracy Sigil Laura Tempest Zakroff Linkages & Materia for Political Workings Ivo Dominguez Jr. A Spell of Strength for Those Seeking Justice Luxa Strata Safety Pins Protection Magick Vittorio Benetti Braiding Spell for a Better World Claire Christine Sargenti Serpent Medicine for Personal Alchemy: A Guided Visualization Christopher Michael Circe: Witch and Weaver: A Knot Spell for Protection Emiliano Russo Kindness Revival Sigil: Laura Tempest Zakroff The Danger of Spiritual Bypassing Moss Matthey Circe’s Hibiscus Tea: An Enchanting Drink Sophia Kirke The Potions of Circe Phoenix LeFae Invoking the Gate of Reparation J.R. Mascaro Lessons of Circe: The Island of the Self Joey Morris Creatures of Resistance: Nature’s Nonbinary Spirits of Protection Elyse Welles An Accessible Nature Connection Practice: Building Resilience in Social Justice Movements Julie Nowak Serpent Stones: Earth Magic for Protection & Resilience Michelle Cunningham The Magic of Reweaving Shannon Rose Raison A Reversible Anti-Anxiety Sigil Kajira Djoumahna The Calling of the Snakes Raven Edgewalker Dedicating to the Dreadful Circe Irisanya Moon Circe: Lessons from the First Lycanthropist P. Sufenas Virius Lupus Cloak of the Silver Serpent Mat Auryn To Call upon the Family of the Sun Terrance Gamble A Spray a Day Keeps the Magic Your Way Richard Levy A Petition to Isis Victoria Raschke Shifting Perspective Sigil Laura Tempest Zakroff Dear Transphobe, Thanks for the $400 Ron Padrón Lessons from Queen Nanny: Solidarity & Mutual Aid Emma Kathryn Being Radically Resilient: A Journey of Identity and Liberation Sawyer Massie & Adam Black We Are Nothing Without our Dead Ron Padrón Ancestral Spiderweb Ward: A Spell for Resilience Elhoim Leafar Using an App to Grow Closer during Times of Adversity Enfys J. Book Where Do I Go from Here? Dave Gaddy, The Weathered Wiseman The Aequitas Sigil Laura Tempest Zakroff The Work of Us, In This Moment Alicia “Jynx” Vervain Acknowledgements Contributors Resources About the Editor Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs. Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Anatomy of a Witch Oracle and The Liminal Spirits Oracle.  Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance and the Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance from Revelore Press. Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide. www.lauratempestzakroff.com About the Editor Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small cryptid dog. He has been a member of the pagan community for nearly two decades with specific interests in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, hedge witchery, and spiritual activism. He is the creator of White Rose Witching through which he manages a blog sharing Queer Ancestor Spotlights and rituals. He has presented at gatherings such as the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Hallowed Homecoming, Free Spirit Gathering, various Pagan Pride Days, historic sites, and small museums on topics such as colonial witchcraft politics, spiritual activism, and queer-affirming spirituality.