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Animal Magick: The Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars

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This is the book that i first bought when i started studying more of animal magick, meditating to find animal spirits, and trying to work with familiars in general. I must say that this book was a great help. It gives examples of meditations and rituals of how to work with familiars. It also gives an index of animals and their history, and traits, so that you may find an animal that you can correspond with. It also gives a list of deites with familiars that they are portayed to be with. This book is definetly worth buying, and great for quick references.

This book provides a solid foundation for the art/magick of working with familars. It's down to earth format provides an easy read for a beginner who has sought long and hard for a book on such a topic. The chapters are well written and organized, leaving little mystery on how to start practicing using magick based on these arts. Gives the reader ample core information, allowing the reader freedom to adapt to their own rituals while still providing a strong fall-back guide. A must read.

I like the meditations and rituals to give ideas and seek help from my Familiars. I like the chants to call the animals for help.this book had alot of creativity put into it from a european view D.J conway has been under alot of fire lately, Still this book has some of better medititions for beginner and advanced even thou not total complete but one of betters written about animals use book use this and Animal Speak by ted Andrews for finding and working with totems.I think the book was worth the money and one of the best.

Blessed Be;

This book is divided into several sections, each section contains a different class of animal. It tells about the different types of energy each animal has and how to use that energy in magickal workings as well as the messages they have for us. Sometimes we cannot work with the physical animal itself so we have to work with them on the astral plain, ie meditation. They are always there to help us out, we just have to stop and pay attention to what they have to tell us. A great book for a shaman or a witch, DJ Conway has done it again. She is such a great author.

This was the second D.J. Conway book I got, and I loved it from the beginning. Lots of info on animals and their magickal traits, many rituals geared toward animals, great meditations I found extremely helpful for many occasions (like the one where you transform yourself into an animal to gather certain traits for a time) and I, like another reveiwer, found the Four Corner Wolves to be a very good find! I have a kinship with wolves like you'd neve imagine. This was a great book indeed!

My coven and I have been researching animal familiars, guides and totems and this book is a great quick reference for just that. It had a great explanation for the different types of familiars in the front, meditation ideas, and a very comprehensive number of different animals that you might find are your spirit guides. I have found many people including myself who are not too keen on certain types of critters and she covers those as well, with reassurance and advice. Rest assured it is a good book to add to your library.

This is a nice book for learning more about animals, but that's its only benefit. The meditations and rituals, IMO, should be used only as brainstorming material for creating one's own ritual. In addition, while I have not found any blatant flaws in this book, Conway has a reputation among pagans (whom I highly respect and agree with) for passing off her personal beliefs as mythological fact. Still, I have found the book helpful and containing some good info and brainstorming material. Just be sure to question the material presented, and recognize that nothing beats hard, personal work.

The mojority of this book is telling you about each and every animal, its legends, supersition, how it is seen by some cultures, and a chant, which is a usefull starter for making your own chant, although I would recomened not useing them without your own adaptations...

I see this book as a good referance... and a good view point as many books on animal magick are from a shaman or native american view.

If anyone is thinking of buying this book is a ferret owner, don't buy this book. Conway sites the ferret as having a "keen desire to kill", which is not at all true. Animal Magick does not live up to its potential by only providing a brief synopsis of each animal and an occasional historical fact or story. Very little information is included on 'how to further develop this connection for startling magickal results.' Animals seem to be grouped as either helpful or harmful with very little indication of why this may be so.

I bought this book as something to read on the plane back to Europe. When I was done I realized that this book was what I was looking for. I already believed in animal spirits and practised what I learned from friends on meditating to my specific animal. This book really brought me into a new life and a new spirituality which is really helping me in life.