Easy Enchantments: All the Spells You'll Ever Need for Any Occasion [Hardcover]

Lexa Roséan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1999

All the spells you'll ever need for any occasion.

There is always an occasion, a reason, or an event that calls for magic.

Easy Enchantments will give you the tools and the power to make things go your way. Whether you're looking for a spell to guarantee your lover's fidelity, banish negativity, make a job interview go well, find an apartment, or pick lucky lotto numbers, Lexa Roséan tells you what you need to do. Each spell calls for common items easily found in a supermarket, and has simple instructions as well as intriguing lore about the spell's origin. Simple, easy, and effective, Easy Enchantments can help you get what you want, meet who you want, and make any occasion magical.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Featured on 20/20 and CNN, and in The New York Times and USA Today, Lexa Rosean, the flamboyant author of Easy Enchantments, has been practicing witchcraft in New York City for over 16 years. Her comprehensive witch's cookbook is based on the tradition of kitchen witchery, meaning that all of the ingredients are probably sitting in your cupboard or desk. After giving readers 13 dos and don'ts for all magical procedures--e.g. "do what ye will, but harm none"--and explaining the importance of the phases of the moon, Rosean delves right into 178 pages of spells that anyone can easily accomplish. For example, to draw together two lovers living in different cities, all you need is a map, pink taper candles, white pushpins, cinnamon chewing gum, and hot chili pepper oil. But how do you get them to move to your city? --P. Randall Cohan

About the Author

From CNN to 20/20 to The New York Times to USA Today, Lexa Roséan has been featured and celebrated as one of today's most fascinating witches. Lexa is a Wiccan High Priestess who has worshipped with her coven for sixteen years in New York City. A counselor and psychic, she is on call at Enchantments, a Goddess Shop in Manhattan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312242964
• ISBN-13: 978-0312242961
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lexa Ros'an is a priestess, psychic, and leading pagan author ~ not to mention poet, playwright, and performer. Her first job was as a dancing snake charmer known as the SnakePoet. Andy Warhol photographed Lexa during this time. Along with her own poems, Lexa recited great works of poetry from the likes of Poe, Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and Coleridge while hanging from a tree across from the Delacort Theatre in Central Park. In 1982, the NYPD escorted the poet and her 13-foot python Lilith, out of the park at gunpoint thus forcing her to get a 'real' job for several subsequent years.

Thus began her formal magickal tutelage in the occult arts by Lord Hermes and Lady Rhea. Lexa was the manager of the original Enchantments in the East Village and Priestess for the Minoan Sisterhood training circle from 1982 - 2000. During those years, Lexa taught courses on Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Wicca, Astral Projection and Spellcraft in addition to giving astrology and psychic readings. She also served as the official oracle in her own coven and channeled the word of the Goddess.

Lexa Ros'an is the author of The Supermarket Sorceress, The Supermarket Sorceress's Sexy Hexes, The Supermarket Sorceress's Enchanted Evenings (St. Martins Press), Easy Enchantments, (St Martin's Press), PowerSpells, and ZodiacSpells (St Martins Press). Her newest books are TarotPower: 22 Keys to Unlocking Magick, Spellcraft, and Meditation (Citadel Press July 05) and The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients (Simon & Shuster Sep 2005) She currently writes the Celebrity Astrology Forecasts and BackPack Astrologer for CosmoGirl magazine and is the astrological advisor for Seventeen magazine.

Her plays The Prisoner, The Swim, and I Married a Lesbian Witch were produced at the WOW Caf'. Lexa has also performed her work at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, and other downtown Venues. Her writing has been included in the anthologies Celebrating the Pagan Soul (Citadel Press 2005), and Women on Women 2 (Plume 1993). A Kosher Megila, an excerpt from her soon to be published novel Spinoza's Daughter, was included in Women on Women 3 A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (Plume/Penguin1996). Her poetry is included on The Knitting Factory 100 Greatest Poets cd. Michael Musto reviewed Lexa's poetry in the Village Voice.

In addition to her many other talents, Lexa is an accomplished dancer. She studied jazz, ballet, and tap. In 1995 she discovered Argentine Tango and fell in love with the dance. Lexa taught Argentine Tango and Milonga at DanceSport in NYC and she continues to teach privately. Lexa also writes TangoStars, the astrology column for dancers for Reportango magazine and Tango Kulture, the German webzine.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magically informative, February 4, 2003

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Josephine Pizzarello (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Enchantments: All the Spells You'll Ever Need for Any Occasion (Hardcover)

Here are a variety of spells that are not only easy to put together but workable with uncomplicated ingredients. Lexa's Magical Manner's are a well thought out guideline of how to work with this book. Kitchen Witches will especially like this book and it will make a nice addition to anyone's magical library.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is........WOW!, August 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Enchantments: All the Spells You'll Ever Need for Any Occasion (Hardcover)

This book is great for a first time witch. The spells work, with easy ingredients that you can buy at any store! With everything from "Health and Beauty", to "Banashing Evil". If you are into spells that work, this book is for you!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and enjoyable resource, August 21, 2004

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Pom Lover (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Enchantments: All the Spells You'll Ever Need for Any Occasion (Hardcover)

I love this book and refer to it all the time. I'm not a Wiccan but I believe in the potency of folk and kitchen witchcraft so the spells in here really hit the spot. First of all, the book is beautifully written: the author has a knack for imbuing each instruction and description with a quality of tactility and enjoyably sensuous mystery which is magical in itself. I like that she spends a lot of time drawing connections between the historical, nutritional and "vibrational" qualities of each ingredient, as well as weaving instructions with personal anecdotes and narratives. The author's humor also adds to the book, and I appreciate her encouraging readers to choose spells whose ingredients particularly resonate with them instead of creating fixed prescriptions.

I haven't tried all the spells but most of the ones I did try worked, albeit sometimes in unexpected ways. I can see how someone interested in the more formal aspects of Wiccan ritual might find this book too "simple", but I appreciate its eclecticism and democratic use of everyday ingredients, which don't take away from the power of the spells in my opinion.