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Trancing the Witch's Wheel: A Guide to Magickal Meditation

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This book leads you gently through meditation. A must for followers of the pagan path. But a good practice for those who aren't pagan, follow this to relax. I loved it...i could understand every word...no metaphysical jargon to confuse me. I am a pagan and follow deep workings but this was a fundamental work. I would recommmend it to anyone of all skills. You don't have to be pagan to love this book. Try it...enjoy.

This book is a wonderful addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in paganism, witchcraft, or meditation. The author leads you through a series of meditation based upon the Wheel of the Year. The meditations are well designed and certainly will help one connect with the seasonal cycles. I recommend this title!

This book is a series of guided meditations. Each of them is based on one of the main pagan Sabbats, but may be easily understood by anyone who has a basic interest in the Earth best known festivities. The meditations are thoroughly thought out, and the book includes suggestions in enhancing the experience by celebration.Also, there are a few meditations centered on Deities and there's one for each four of the elements. The only flaw I see in this book, as in most pagan oriented books, is it's heavy anglosaxon feel (but then again I suppose you can't please everyone). Also, it is such a pity that there wasn't an accompanying CD going with the book. This has been partially corrected in Yasmine Galenorn's new book "Tarot journeys". But those are minor problems, and the book is still a very good addition to any pagan library.

If you have any interest in guided meditations, this book is a must-have! With about 20 long, creative, beautiful meditations and many informative passages as well, it's perfect for Pagans or any open-minded folk. Although a few meditations are not entirely appropriate for children (the Beltane meditation has graphic sexual content), many can be adapted for family and/or coven use. This author is one to keep your eye on!

This is a wonderful book of collected mediations on the elements, the many Turns of the Wheel of the Year and some of the faces of the Goddess.

Ms Galenorn opens her book with a wonderful explanation of meditation and how its done. She is simple, clear and the material is well written, as her other books have been.

These are guided meditations, gently pulling the reader into the essence of the chosen topic.

I love her visualizations for the meditations. They are a joy to read again and again. Her style of "painting pictures with words" is well done, and beautiful to read. I will reread this book a few times more before it goes to the bookshelf.

This book I recommend to all, beginner and seasoned Path Walker alike.

Ms. Galenorn, if remembered for one book, should be remembered for this one.

If you're having trouble meditating or visualizing, pursuing a work like this is a good step in the right direction. It offers wonderful guided visualizations on the four elements and solid advice about meditation and visualization in general. The major shortcoming of this book is that it is not accompanied by a CD. Since you certainly cannot perform a guided visualization while reading it, you are forced to narrate to tape recorder and then play the tape back for yourself. One problem that can be encountered is timing. The first time I did this, I went entirely too fast, so I had to learn the art of narrating a visualization for self-use. And if you do this recording yourself, you've essentially already read the visualization, so it spoils the element of surprise such that actually going through the visualization is not doing so for the first time. The ideal situation for using these visualizations is to get a friend to record them for you and for you to then just go through them, but for many this is impractical. I'm sure you see the dilemma.

In any case, it's a good work, and I recommend buying it if money and patience permit. But if you are looking for a ready to use guided visualizations, I recommend some kind of tape or audiobook.

This work, the first of Galenorn's, is a wonderful journey through the season's and the elements. Each meditation is a lesson, an unfolding story that absorbs you in every trance. The Sabbat meditations strike an especially deep chord. Trancing the Witch's Wheel is essetial. It is especially useful to those oppressed solitaries who, living with families who wouldn't understand, can neither afford fiancially or emotinally to drag out a million different tools every time a High holiday rolls around.

This is a useful book in many different ways. It contains nicely written guided meditations for the elements, some dieties, and for each of the sabbats. The meditations are filled with sensory stimulous and if read slowly and with feeling by some helpful volunteer will transport you to places that will help in your growth and understanding as a pagan. I have used several of them with my coven and we have enjoyed them thoroughly. Sometimes I have found them a bit too wordy, sometimes they're just not my style and I don't want to use them for guided meditations, BUT they are always very innovative and they help me out when I'm preparing to write ritual because they do have such an abundance of super ideas and accurately depict so many important pagan concepts. Our coven has many new witches and so I work doubly hard to make the rituals instructional and this book has been a huge help several times by priming the creative pump, so to speak, and getting my own magickal processes flowing.

Yasmine Galenorn has done a great service for the Neo-Pagan community with this book. It's too bad it's out of print.

In _Trancing the Witch's Wheel_, Galenorn presents a set of guided meditations to connect with the four elements and several deities, and to celebrate the Wheel of the Year. The Wheel meditations take up the bulk of the book, and are beautiful and inspiring. A Witch in the broom closet can perform many of these rituals completely without props or tools. A Witch who prefers trance work to "standing at the altar chanting" sorts of rituals will find meaningful practices for the Sabbats here. And, one can easily adapt the meditations to one's own practice. For example, you can rewrite the Beltane meditation to honor the Goddess and God of your pantheon, if Aphrodite and Pan don't suit you. Her meditations can be a jumping-off point for lots of meaningful trance work. At the end of each meditation, Galenorn suggests further activities, both magical and mundane, to help you further experience the energies you are invoking.

_Trancing_ is the only book of its kind that I know of, and is a solid addition to any Witch's bookshelf.

If you're having trouble meditating or visualizing, pursuing a work like this is a good step in the right direction. It offers wonderful guided visualizations on the four elements and solid advice about meditation and visualization in general. The major shortcoming of this book is that it is not accompanied by a CD. Since you certainly cannot perform a guided visualization while reading it, you are forced to narrate to tape recorder and then play the tape back for yourself. One problem that can be encountered is timing. The first time I did this, I went entirely too fast, so I had to learn the art of narrating a visualization for self-use. And if you do this recording yourself, you've essentially already read the visualization, so it spoils the element of surprise such that actually going through the visualization is not doing so for the first time. The ideal situation for using these visualizations is to get a friend to record them for you and for you to then just go through them, but for many this is impractical. I'm sure you see the dilemma.

In any case, it's a good work, and I recommend buying it if money and patience permit. But if you are looking for a ready to use guided visualizations, I recommend some kind of tape or audiobook.