Turning of the Wheel: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Moons and Festivals [Paperback]

Stanley J. A. Modrzyk (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877287678
• ISBN-13: 978-0877287674
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,556,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have reference for beginners and established groups., June 3, 1999

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J. Thomas "Girl Geek" (Cicero, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turning of the Wheel: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Moons and Festivals (Paperback)

This is one of the few books that I have returned to time and again for guidance on developing rituals for individual and group use.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not my cup of tea., October 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Turning of the Wheel: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Moons and Festivals (Paperback)

i gave this book three stars, even though i didn't like it, because there really isn't anything wrong with the book. it just didn't appeal to me, and i thought others might be turned off by the same things.the ritual in this book are supposed to come from the point of view of gender polarity. there is a strong bias toward the heterosexual point of view. the moon rituals give a good balance of the Goddess and the God, but the festivals seem to over emphasize the God.almost all the sabbat rituals revolve around the Sun King. if this aspect of the god doesn't particularly apeal to you than this book will be useless--as it is for me. this is my main problem with the book. the book stresses light, and doesn't give much attention to darkness. the rituals for winter show it as a time of despair instead of appreciating the good things about the season. i guess this path of wicca seems very unbalanced to me--all light, and god and summer.there are two sections for moon rituals. the new moon and the full moon are covered, but not the dark or waning moon. a lot of the rituals are repetitive. they also don't seem very wiccan and perhaps the book should have been subtitled a "pagan" book of shadows... in order to be more accurate.its not a bad book, and i bet a lot of people would like it. in fact the ritual following Inanna's journey to the underworld in the Samhain section was intriguing. And maybe we can afford to have a few books out the stress the masculine to balance those that stress the feminine. but the "flavor" of the rituals didn't appeal to me. if you are more earthy, and less cermonial, more goddessy, more gender-fluid, than this book probably isn't for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Step-by-Step Book, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Turning of the Wheel: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Moons and Festivals (Paperback)

This book has it all written down step by step for a coven or group on what to do for the sabbats and the moons. I thought it was great.