Be A Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex [Paperback]

Francesca De Grandis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 3, 1998

Are you looking for the spell to find inner wisdom – or perhaps just a new car? Are you seeking the magic formula to turn around a run of bad luck or put romance in your life? Let Celtic Shaman Francesca De Grandis be your guide through this highly entertaining workbook of unique rites and incantations. De Grandis, a living example of the passion, sensuality, and unique individuality celebrated by the Celtic faerie tradition, believes that everyone can use a little magic in their lives. Be a Goddess! is a remarkable down-to-earth introduction to the mysticism, techniques, and integrity of this ancient religion. Humerous and illuminating, Be a Goddess! is organized into fifteen practical lessons that will lead you through the rites of the shamanic journey. De Grandis reveals Celtic rituals and spells for building your self-confidence, bringing health and wealth into your life, and expressing your own brand of bewitching sexuality. Indulge yourself and learn how to find the goddess within you.

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From the Back Cover

NEW AGE DeGrandis "knows her stuff."--Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance

"I loved it. . . . An important book. . . . A well written and superb step-by-step introduction to Celtic Shamanism."--Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon and Heretic's Heart

Mysticism can be practical: good magic gets your house cleaned, creates abundance, and helps conjure your own brand of bewitching sexuality. So says Francesca De Grandis in this down-to-earth and entertaining guide to the goddess magic of Celtic shamanism--and she should know. De Grandis has led countless students to profound personal transformation and inner wisdom through her step-by-step program of spells, rituals, and meditations. This is serious shamanic training at its playful best!

Be a Goddess! shows you how to:

cast spells for the good things in life-fun, fine food, a happy home, and romance, love your body and be cleansed in spirit, take a magical bath for the sheer pagan pleasure of it, gain the passion, sensuality, and unique individuality of Celtic shamanism, drink from The Cup of Love, a powerful love spell, and get just about anything you want--boom! flash of smoke!--by using The Spell Itself.

With this book you can gain the wild, natural power of goddess spirituality, learn to use the simple, potent magic of the Faerie folk, and become a goddess for life.

About the Author

Francesca De Grandis, daughter of a Sicilian witch, completed a rare seven-year training to become a Celtic Shaman in the Faerie tradition. She runs her own school, The Third Road, where lawyers and bike messengers alike come to learn and be enchanted by the magic and mysticism of Goddess Spirituality. She lives in San Francisco.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne; 1 edition (February 3, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062515055
• ISBN-13: 978-0062515056
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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85 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She is real, accessible, encouraging, has a great web site,, July 2, 1999

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This review is from: Be A Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex (Paperback)

Francesca De Grandis `Be a Goddess' The Third Rd tradition is an immensely transforming experience for the wayfarer, journeymen or seeker on the way to finding their initial starting point or for those with an inherent deeply resonating connection in a Celtic Shamanic Magical Discipline. Francesca brings together a broad range of powerful practises for the aspiring spirit, which is truly reaching out to be connected and transformed in a down-to-earth, practical everyday application of knowledge. She is real, accessible, encouraging, has a great web site, and `there' for you. For prospective readers, I know there is a tendency when flicking through a book to be cautious and sceptical of current works that involve the terms - magic, shaman, guides, spirits, beings and fairies. To immediately disregard that which we do not understand, because of connotations & misrepresentation in a `Oh I know here we go off with the fairies again, when will these authors get a life!' `I am looking for a real discipline not delusion!' type of inner voice.

Well I understand this, as I have been the world's greatest sceptic. But now I am the world's greatest eclectic! So, if you truly have a `desire' to reach into your `Self' and find the inherent beauty and magic of the human state, and `desire' to abide in a clarified, empowered, sacred space within you daily - this course will lay down the essential approach and inner housekeeping required for a life time discipline of worship, humility, enchantment, passion and fantastic super sweaty sex.

I have researched over 50 books on magic, shamanism, witchcraft, ritual, healing, energy and pain management. All due to the need to find the essence of transpersonal medicine (Body, Mind, Emotion and Soul healing) from ancient healing arts. I have been so ill for 5 years plagued by chronic fatigue, body-wide pain, sleep deprivation, annihilated immune system, etc with no allopathic solutions available. A classic merry-go-round of symptoms with no hope or future. What I found in Francesca's book and further from daily practise over the last 12 months of the Third Rd, was the way to heal my Soul, which was so desperately devoid of spirit and required special nurturing and connected love. My mind, which was so effected by the layers of medication and the effect of being estranged from my `Self'. My body that was so physically exhausted beyond any possible energy healing, beyond all - I was lost to my `Self' completely. Believe me, this is a very dark hole and a long way to crawl back from and required enormous self-discipline, self-clarification and nurturing, not to mention some pure magic and the right teacher. The essence of `Be a Goddess! - the Third Rd' has reached deep into my (and all the other folk I have encouraged to participate) soul, psyche and connection to this life. Shifting blocks, distortions, and past hurts that live on until they are recognised, nurtured and forgiven. Techniques to assist us in becoming `whole'. There are advanced techniques when followed as directed, which have been the only true way I have been able to override my chronic fatigue and pain. I have tried and participated in many alternatives to no avail. But the most potent aspect of this training is the experience of the profound in everyday life, the connection with deity, the merging with the truly sacred, and feeling the enchantment in life. The Third Rd teaches enchantment, `magic' in everyday that we live in every moment, as a powerful extension of our existence, not an external ritualistic `hocus pocus' approach that can be more baffling than helpful. No one wants empty theatrics when searching for understanding. Once you are grounded with your understanding, you can have all the theatrics you desire!

Be a Goddess - The Third Rd integrates many aspects - energy, self-clarification, empowerment, passion, desire, love, and true worship. True worship maintains humility, which is paramount for any practitioner as we unfold on our journey. It connects us to the love of Self, then love of deity, our empowerment to enact our desires and passions and our right to profound nurturing. Self-clarification keeps clarity of purpose which helps to inhibit egoic self-righteous attitudes from arising. The shamanic training opens the consciousness to `states of change' and the inner realms of transformation, allowing one access to the archetypal teachers and to see the magnificence of creation unfolding from within. With all of these healing and empowering aspects of this course and tradition (which are quite invisible to the student at the time), individuals both male and female who have been affected by Christianity, Patriarchy, Dominator Social structures, drug addiction, self abuse, and chronic health conditions or carry scares from their past, will benefit - if they practise!

I recommend this book to interested people of many different traditions, backgrounds and views. Sceptics, The Way of the Goddess followers, neo-pagans & pagans, witches, traditional WICCA practitioners, Self Healers and Healers, Shamans, etc, but most of all to any `being' which is questing for its authentic Self. Rosey Coggins `99

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book definately changed my life!, December 1, 1999

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Beate Meiswinkel "schattenluchs" (Karlsruhe) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be A Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex (Paperback)

Yesss, "Be a Goddess" definately changed my life! I had always been longing for the presence of the loving goddess and had no idea how I could "reach" or "find" her. After starting the work in Be a Goddess I realized she had been with me all the time - was I so blind? I remember myself crying hard to feel her wrapping her arms around me and just didn't realize she did...all the time!

Working with "Be a Goddess" is highly recommended! The pace of the book is quite good. One can integrate the work on the chapters perfectly into a busy everyday life.

Thank you, Francesca de Grandis!

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to feel truly special? - then you found the right book, June 9, 2000

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This review is from: Be A Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex (Paperback)

This book is great if you have no prior experience with any kind of withcraft. I have always been interested in the supernatural, but a bit scared to practice it. Well not any more as this book has taught me a lot about ethics when using magic. This is truly good, clean and safe magic. There is nothing to be afraid of - just enjoy being special. And that is what this book does - it makes you realise that you are special in and of yourself. Furthermore, I felt like this book was written especially for me. I could just relate to so many of the things she wrotes and it often made me laugh. I am glad that my first contact with witchcraft was through "Be a Godess". I fell like it has given me a safe and solid base in withcraft and I still use the book regularly. To me this book is magic - in and of itself.