Moonflower: Erotic Dreaming with the Goddess [Paperback]

Sirona Knight (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 8, 1996

Merge with the Goddess through sexual union and magical dreamwork to create a deeper spiritual relationship with your partner! Making love and dreaming are both paths to expanded awareness; they are also ways to pattern your world to manifest what you truly desire. Travel with the Goddess and her consort along the path of the 13 High Moons, where you will learn to apply magical concepts from the Gwyddonic Druid tradition.

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About the Author

For more than twenty years, Sirona Knight has been studying psychology, folklore, and religion with a personal interest in goddess tradition. She has traveled to Europe, Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska on her quest for knowledge of the goddess. She is a published poet, writer, teacher, hypnotherapist, and lecturer and holds a master's degree in psychology and leisure studies from California State University. Knight is a Third Degree Craftmaster and High Priestess of the Celtic Gywddonic Druid Tradition. She has made radio and television appearances in Northern California, has been an active workshop leader for several years, and has created a series of guided imagery self-help tapes. She lives in the Sierra Foothills with her husband and their son, two dogs, and family of cats. Her writing room is situates next to an ancient Native American site, where she devotes her time and craft to enjoying life, moment by moment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (January 8, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567183859
• ISBN-13: 978-1567183856
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,140,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Become a better love and better person., June 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonflower: Erotic Dreaming with the Goddess (Paperback)

Sirona Knight's "Moonflower: Erotic Dreaming with the Goddess" provides remarkable insights into the nature of nature religions. While masquerading as a lover's guide through the Moon's 13 cycles, it delivers much more than it promises. By book's end, you may discover you've not only become a better lover but a better person, since "Moonflower's" Merging and Dreaming techniques and insights are not only excellent ways to connect with your mate, but powerful techniques for connecting with the Other in whatever guise it presents itself-lover, friend, family, even the Goddess Herself. Based on Gwyddonic Druid Tradition, the book shows lovers how to connect with each other by deconditioning the habitual processes of the Mind. While no doubt effective for building a strong, sensual relationship, this process also happen to be the first step to all magical work. Sensually written and well-researched, Knight journeys through each of the thirteen cycles of the Moon. Her exploration of the erotic and magical significance of each cycle is broken down into three parts. First she introduces us to the Divine archetypes associated with the lunar month. The confusion of multiple gods and goddesses begins to dissove as Knight presents them, not as a pantheon, but as a looking glass into different aspects of a Divine duality. Just as you and your lover are different people in different circumstances, so is the Goddess and her consort, depending on whether you're looking at them from the prespective of the Wolf Moon, the Wort Moon, the Mead Mooon, etc. After introducing us to the archetypal imprints of the lunar month, a section called "Practical Knowledge and Useful Information" provides the real meat of the book, where magical beliefs and practices are discussed with rare lucidity. Along the way, Kight casually relates how Gwyddonic Druid Tradition dovetails with approaches as diverse as Jungian psychology, Native American and aboriginal belifs and even Neuro-Linguisitic Pro! gramming. Following the "Practical Knowledge and Useful Information" section, the reader intimately explores the sensual power of the thirteen Divine archetypal pairs in a "Guided Journey." Here the writing style shifts from communication to evocation as erotic story and symbolic imagery speak to the imagination rather than the intellect. I particularly liked this three-part approach. It provided continuity and a pace at which I could grasp the amazing amount of information contained in the book. But more than information, Knight offers a joyous celebration of life that is unabashedly spiritual: "The combined powers of female and male, joined together when making love, causes a vast surplus of light and energy. Making love implies you are making light. True sexual satisfaction comes as you freely give and receive this Divine light." (Reviewed by Jerry Snider, Editor of Magical Blend Magazine).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moonflower brings out the Magician in you., June 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonflower: Erotic Dreaming with the Goddess (Paperback)

"Moonflower" weaves together the spiritual, sexual, and your dreams. Flow with the Goddess and God whose seasonal energy enlivens each of the 13 lunar cycles. Within each of the guided journeys is a section on Practical Knowledge and Useful Information including; realms of dreaming and doubling out, healing, personal awareness, positive patterns, and more. Sirona Knight quotes Carl Jung, "Our unconscious existence is the real one and our conscious world is a kind of illusion, an apparent reality constructed for a specific purpose, like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it...Unconscious wholeness therefore seems to me the true spiritus rector of all biological and psychic events." Sirona Knight also understands the oneness of energy. "Moonflower" is a magical book that has great meaning not only for lovers but for everyone who longs to step from the illusion we call reality and into the real world of unconscious existence. It brings out the magician in you. (Reviewed by "The Tree of Life.")

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The worst bit of "Pink Feather" fluff I've ever read., July 29, 2000

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Rowan Mullen (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonflower: Erotic Dreaming with the Goddess (Paperback)

I was so disappointed with this book, I returned it and got a book on herbalism instead. I felt that the scenes described were just plain silly; they did not feel "real", and certainly did not inspire me. I read a couple of chapters and skimmed through the rest with a look of disgust on my face.

For a far superior book on sexual magic with or without a partner, try "The Art of Sexual Magic" by Margo Anand - it has much more realistic and sensual scenes, and focuses on building real energy and trust between partners, as well as honest and beautiful sensual exploration.

I gave "Moonflower" two stars because the cover art is quite lovely, which initially drove me to purchase it. However, if you are interested in making real magic and establishing a very deep sexual connection wiht your partner, or just want to learn about Tantric sex, try the other book I mentioned above. Energy is power, and desire, build-up and release are, when harnessed, conducive to real and noticable change in the world. There is so much more out there besides what is listed in this book.