A Love Alchemist's Notebook: Magical Secrets for Drawing Your True Love into Your Life [Paperback]

Jessica Shepherd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 8, 2010

Would you like to know the secrets to attracting your soul mate and feeling profound love every day? With this hip and fun guide, you'll learn to use the rules of attraction, magic, astrology, and your intuition to attract the man of your dreams and experience true, soulful love.

Jessica Shepherd joyfully reveals the Nine Soul Mate Secrets, offering insight into all aspects of creating and maintaining love, such as how to focus on loving yourself, open up to love from others, and trust your intuition. You'll engage in fun, hands-on spells, rituals, and meditations to explore your heart and grow spiritually. The Nine Soul Mate Secrets will also reveal how to:

Break bad karmic patterns • Move beyond difficult relationships

Learn from past mistakes • Overcome your fears

Tap your magnetism with your Venus sign

From avoiding relationship "potholes" to understanding karmic soul mates—and the invaluable lessons that they teach us—to casting love spells under a waxing moon, this love-focused astrology book holds the key to achieving long-lasting love with your true soul mate. 

"A Love Alchemist's Notebook is a worldly and wise guide to finding a spiritual partner. Jessica Shepherd reveals in detail the practical magic that will work for anyone ready to connect with great love."—Holiday Mathis, author of Rock Your Stars 

Watch Jessica's interview on KRON Channel 4 (San Francisco).

Also watch the book trailer for A Love Alchemist's Notebook, here.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Astrologist-blogger Shepherd (of Astrology.com's Venus and Beyond: Love on the Outer Planets) offers a welcome oasis for those who feel stranded by lower-your-expectations dating guides (see He's Just Not That Into You). Rather than focus on pitfalls, Shepherd prescribes a "cosmic love adventure" utilizing the Secret-esque principle of "magnetic desire," along with a bit of magic and meditation, to conjure up one's sought-after mate. Channeling the goddess of love, Shepherd provides a range of analysis and advice, including the ways that Venus influences your astrological sign, how to develop a magical tool kit, and what's important about moon-watching. Each chapter is rich with less-than-common exercises, meditations, affirmations, love spells and rituals, along with the requisite quick tips. Her "Cookbook of Soul Mate Spells" appendix is delightfully down-to-earth, insightful, and provides hours of playtime. Despite its New Age trappings, Shepherd's approach is rooted in fundamentals-self-confidence, wisdom, and patience-and effectively makes working toward personal growth and enlightenment fun.

Review

"Shepherd's approach is rooted in fundamentals--self-confidence, wisdom, and patience--and effectively makes working toward personal growth and enlightenment fun. A welcoming oasis for those who feel stranded by lower-you-expectations dating guides."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review --February 8, 2010

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1 edition (January 8, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738719641
• ISBN-13: 978-0738719641
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jessica Shepherd lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A writer and astrologer who is influenced by beauty, truth and magic, Jessica has studied and practiced modern astrology for 18 years. She writes for various print and online publications, and publishes her own astrology blog called Moonkissd by Jessica where she animates the stars and planets through her personal experiences and stories. With a private astrology practice specializing in individual and couples counseling, her clients praise her "astro-magical style of delineating the ancient art" and "nudges to live more fully and passionately". Jessica lives and works from a funky pink cottage in Fairfax, CA with her husband, three step-daughters and five chickens. This is her first book.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charmed by this book, January 15, 2010

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Lake dweller (Geneva, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Love Alchemist's Notebook: Magical Secrets for Drawing Your True Love into Your Life (Paperback)

Jessica Shepherd's online astrology newsletter, "Moonkissd," is a delight, and her wise counsel is now turned to the one subject everyone cares about: love, and the search for the right person. What I particularly enjoy about her work is her kindness and honesty -- you know she's been there, as she reflects thoughtfully but in a most entertaining way on her own history. She knows herself, and she actually gives you the tools to care for yourself first. It doesn't stop with an airy "love yourself and all good things will follow!" Oh, not so fast -- nothing happens if you just recite a formula-- but if you are willing to listen, be playful and learn to value your spirit and accept the body you have, but also to enhance your charm (a word so little understood, and yet so powerful), _A Love Alchemist's Notebook_ will help guide you to true self-love. And confidence is one of the key elements in this alchemy. Shepherd is like a very warm, nurturing friend in her advice, and she is also quite astute:her "Venus in Aquarius" analysis is me to the life. I particularly appreciated the section on "Bad Karmic Patterns" and her discussion of the "Shadow" -- both are excellent. I recommend this book without hesitation -- I gave it to myself as an early birthday present, and it was all I'd hoped it would be.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just makes you feel GOOD., February 12, 2010

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Langdon Alger "Sofia" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: A Love Alchemist's Notebook: Magical Secrets for Drawing Your True Love into Your Life (Paperback)

On a sleepless night, I happened to come across Jessica's blog ([...]). I instantly liked what I had read. There is something truly sincere and very real about her writing that clicked with me, so I decided that I had to buy her book : A Love Alchemist's Notebook. To be honest I didn't think that the book was going to be as spiritual and simply amazing as it truly is. I basically thought it was going to be a fun read with a little magic. Well, it's that and A LOT more. I've been going through therapy since the age of twelve (I'm twenty-nine now) and I've also read my fair share of self help books, and not to come off overly dramatic, but this book kicks my heart's depressed ass with cosmic loving arms! It's very insightful, creative, therapeutic, and best of all--it sticks. The exercises are fun, fairly easy, and exceptionally helpful. This book has taught me to fully understand that the greatest love a person can have is: self-love. As of yet, I may have not found my soul mate, but with the guidance that Jessica provides in her book, I know they're just around the corner waiting for me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book for Men Too!, February 8, 2010

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Mark B (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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Gentlemen, take note of the exquisitely sassy colors and cover of this book and the charming words that follow inside! You probably want a woman like Jessica in your life! Sorry, she's taken. But you can learn from her experience.

This is a light hearted book on the very "serious" subject of attracting love, written by an intelligent and fun woman, to and for the benefit of other women. But its really for all of us. And it contains Jessica's unique and precious distillations of wisdom from the ages, all written in beautifully simple and inspiring terms. Throughout, she teaches you how to honor your own unique inventiveness.

I know Jessica as a friend within the world of astrology. The wisdom Jessica offers is a feminine wisdom, "lunar" and "venusian" and "neptunian" and it is powerful and alive. The world needs more feminine wisdom these days! Her words challenged me to be more honest with myself about what I want in my life and I'm already grateful, two short weeks later! I highly recommend this book.