Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses [Paperback]

Michelle Skye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2008

You are a reflection of the Divine Feminine. You shine like Sunna, Norse Goddess of the Sun; take risks like Cessair, Founding Goddess of Ireland; love like Creiddylad, Welsh May Day Goddess. With this guide, you'll discover how to use spellwork and magic to make lasting changes in your life with the aid and guidance of twelve powerful Celtic and Nordic goddesses.

From creating abundance to increasing your psychic abilities to connecting to the land, you'll learn how to attune to a specific goddess and connect with her energy to manifest your dreams and desires. Through ritual, invocation, guided meditations, and magical activities, you'll explore the unique strength of each goddess and discover her gift for your life.

Arianrhod • Blodeuwedd • Cymidei Cymeinfoll
Creiddylad • Airmid • Cessair • Eriu
Macha • Frigga • Sif • Skadi • Sunna

 

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Skye's follow-up to her enthusiastically-received debut Goddess Alive! provides advanced practitioners with additional rituals, spells and guided meditations. In each of 12 chapters, she tells the story of a goddess from mythology, drawing on medieval collections of myths such as the Celtic Mabinogion and the Norse Skaldskaparmal. These are complicated texts, and Skye's introductions to each goddess can read like a doctoral dissertation. What follows, however, is worth the extra effort. As in her earlier volume, Skye demonstrates a truly inspired talent for writing guided meditations. In one, readers will confront their fear of drowning as they pursue Welsh goddess Cymidei Cymeinfoll to her lair at the bottom of a lake. In another, they will experience the sights and sounds of a medieval Viking hall in the presence of Sif, Norse goddess of family and harvest. These scenes are so vividly imagined that there may well be crossover appeal to fans of fantasy fiction. At the same time, readers may want to have a fellow practitioner at hand to read the meditations out loud, since it is nearly impossible to do them by oneself. Skye's approach remains refreshingly original.
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About the Author

Michelle Skye (Massachusetts) is a Pagan Priestess with over ten years' experience following the Path of the Wise. An active member of the Wiccan and Pagan communities, she teaches classes, leads workshops, and has founded Massachusetts Pagan Teens and Sisterhood of the Crescent Moon. Her articles have appeared in Circle Magazine and SageWoman, and she's a regular contributor to Llewellyn annuals and Renaissance Magazine.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (May 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738713317
• ISBN-13: 978-0738713311
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Goddesses
  • #57 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Celtic

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence!, December 19, 2008

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This review is from: Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses (Paperback)

Michelle Skye is the perfect example of what a pagan writer should be. She uses primary source material for her mythic information--can you imagine!?! And better than that, she is very clear in where her writing differs from the primary source, or has no basis in the source. To me this is an outstanding practice that should be adopted by all pagan authors of non-fiction.

I always tell people that there are two ways to know the goddesses--through study and through direct contact and both are totally necessary to get the whole picture. This is the approach that Skye uses in her books. The meditations, rituals and spells arise from and are complimentary to the factual information on each goddess. This being said, she is not a reconstructionist or purist in any sense, which may turn some people off to her work--for example she recommends the use of white sage in the rituals honoring European goddesses, and one ritual even uses runic yoga--but I see no harm in bringing the goddesses into our lives in ways that differ from our ancestors.

I am hard pressed to find fault with this book--but I do have two minor complaints. On page 16 Skye writes that guided meditation is also known as shamanic journeying--but the two practices share very little in common--I would have to say that statement is completely false. My other problem comes when in the chapter on Eriu, she writes about how the goddess's sons are known by the god they worship: "Mac Greine --Sethor, the sun his god" (p148) and doesn't mention that the sun "god" in Ireland is female--I find this misleading. She corrects this later in the book in the Sunna section when she writes "that the Celts and the Norse related the orb of the sun with the Goddess" (p.248), but if you are only interested in the Irish goddesses and only read their sections of the book, you will be sadly misinformed.

But those two complaints aside, I feel that this is an excellent book and I do hope that Llewellyn continues to publish books by Michele Skye and finds other authors of her caliber to publish.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Fantastic Book from Skye, June 17, 2008

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Avalonwomon "Bibliophile" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses (Paperback)

I love this book! It's a wonderful blend of information and ways of connecting with the Goddesses of the Norse and Celtic pantheons. Skye has a great writing style...knowledgeable, sassy and light.

Love the parts about the Welsh Goddesses!

Bendithion Afallon Michelle!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goddess Afoot, September 23, 2008

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This review is from: Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses (Paperback)

Michelle Skye has done it again with Goddess Afoot. Goddess Alive and the follow-up are both excellent books for learning about Celtic and Norse Goddesses and taking them into your life. The chapters have myth, history, craft, spells, path-working and guided meditations as well as a full ritual. Would recommend them to anyone wanting to welcome the Goddess into their hearts.