Stop being taken advantage of, start taking back your own power, and get what you deserve in life.
Let Wiccan High Priestess Lexa Roséan show you how to get the upper hand in any situation with simple spells anyone can do. The author of five books, Lexa has a growing following of readers who have been helped by her commonsense advice and practical magic. The ingredients she calls for may already be in your home-- they're ordinary, readily available, and ready for you to use. PowerSpells explores the history of these spells and the intriguing background of many of the ingredients, and it gives easy instructions for putting the spells to work. In this book you will learn how to:
* Create luck using yogurt, fruit, and string * Win competitions using pancakes * Reinforce your poker face with sunglasses and black shoelaces * Solve conflicts with celery seed and lemon peel * Get a raise by baking bread * Protect your job with bell peppers * And much more!
PowerSpells will help you edge out the competition in business and life.
Hip high priestess of a New York coven and the original "Supermarket Sorceress," Ros‚an has a wicked sense of humor that makes this book much more enjoyable than the average witches' cookbook. Ros‚an's multicultural formulas have no-nonsense titles like "Catch a Rich Husband," "Spell to Kill Your Boss" and "Spell to Keep Your Pants On." Most can be executed with items readily available in the supermarket--no eye of newt here. To prove their efficacy, the author supplies anecdotes detailing outrageous (and sometimes unintended) results. A perfect guide for results-oriented weekend witches.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Lexa Roséan has been a Wiccan High Priestess and professional psychic consultant in New York City since 1982. Visit www.easyenchantments.com.
Product Details
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (July 22, 2001)
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.
This review is from: PowerSpells: Get the Magical Edge in Business, Work Relationships, and Life (Hardcover)
I also wrote a review of Easy Enchantments by the same author and some of my comments in regard to that book are repeated here. I am not Wiccan and don't purport to be especially informed about Wiccan traditions and rituals. I can see how a practised Wiccan might find some of the author's spell recipes too simplistic, but, as a lover of kitchen and folk witchcraft, I think they're both evocative and, on the whole, effective.
The author is a superb writer able to coax a quality of tactile, enjoyably sensuous mystery from her descriptions and anecdotes. As far as I'm concerned, that in itself is magical. After reading the book I became much more aware of the esoteric properties inherent in all kinds of everyday foods and products, which caused me to feel more connected with the "magically vibrational" potential of my quotidian surroundings.
I tried the Preservation Spell when I was really depressed about my future and not sure where to focus my energies or whether to give up trying to be an artist. About an hour after doing the spell I went out for a walk and found a beautiful leather bookmark lying on the sidewalk printed with the words "Man cannot exist without dreams and dies if he gives them up". I know this may not sound like much but it definitely answered my question.
I've tried quite a few of the other spells. Not all of them have worked but most of them have in some form or another.
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This review is from: PowerSpells: Get the Magical Edge in Business, Work Relationships, and Life (Hardcover)
Lexa Rosean does it again with a tried and true volume of spells designed to give the user "the magical edge" - total brilliance! She unknowingly wooed and wowed me with her Everything Bagel Spell in particular - touched my heart and soul as only she can, with her unique and down-to-earth voice that resonates with any real witch. This volume is a great addition to any Wiccan library and for those just starting to get familiar with the Craft, there can be no better guide than this third degree High Priestess that has decades of experience and perhaps more than her share of talent in communication! A wonderful book that I will never part with.
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This is a very nice Kitchen Witch book. Do not skip over the Introduction, it is excellent. The book is full of spells to assist the business person. I am particularly impressed with the history and folklore attached to many of the spells. I have tried a couple of them and they worked very well. Although I did "charge" my ingredients first with my "intent". This is not mentioned in the book. As with any spell book, one size doesn't fit all. So some of the spells may not be useful to you. Overall I rated the book a full five stars for creativity and accuracy. Kudos to the author for a job well done!
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