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The Urban Pagan: Magical Living in a 9-to-5 World (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series)

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Let's face it: many of us in the modern world have a hard time telling which direction north is, let alone finding enough sacred space to cast a circle in the city without your neighbors calling the cops to report you as a satanic worshiper. This is a lovely, down-to-earth guide for those of us who wish to live in touch with ourselves and the natural world while living in the 9-to-5 "mundane" city.

This isn't a guide to "how to ignore reality and technology around you." This is a guide to how to find magic, both old and new. My favorites are using a television screen (turned off) as a scrying mirror and zapping magickal ingrediants in the microwave to charge them with power.

Paganism grows and changes with the people who celebrate it. This book is an excellent and entertaining guide to that growth. Blessed be!

Books about Paganism should be *more* than just spells, rituals, and tradition--and this book is definitely more! Without any condescension, Ms. Telesco manages to explore some pretty complicated topics (such as the psychology, ethics, and imagery of magick) in simplified yet meaningful ways. And that's just the first few chapters! With handy tips and lots of factual information, this book shows you how to blend both the art and science of magickal living.

If you are looking for a good general book on Paganism, you could do worse than "The Urban Pagan". Over all, it's a little rambling and to be blunt, rather dull in places, but it's still a useful collection of issues to consider, points to ponder and more than a few lists of common correspondences / associations. Of course the downside to this is that there is more than a hint of 'One True Wayism' here. There're not nearly enough disclaimers about the associations being commonly held ones only instead of stressing the fact that not everyone uses the same ones. (Fire is south for you? That's nice. It's east for me. Etc.) All in all, a good book to give you something to think about when forming your own beliefs, but not as good if you're looking for deep meaning.

For urban pagans who aren't sure how to build a spiritual life in the concrete jungle, this book will help you a lot. Simple, pragmatic, and fun.

While going through the everyday hum-drum of life, this book can make you change your perspective. It helps you feel your "inner Witch" while doing your everyday things. Improves concentration levels, helps to guide you through new experiences and as always...gives us knowledge. What more can a Witch want?

This is an excellent overall introduction into a pagan lifestyle. It shows you, how important a positive attitude is, to live a life full of spirituality. It makes you familiar with the craft, with divination, herbalism, ritual and other aspects of paganism. Trish may not go to deep into the various aspects of each subject, but I guess that was not her goal anyway. It provides you with the tools to build your own spirituality in this hectic world.Its a great guide for pagans, but it provides EVERYONE with enough information to shape his/her attitude and take a small step closer to nature. Even if youre in the middle of NYC....

Urban Pagan is filled with valuable exercises which challenge and encourage you to try to see the magic and the mystery in the world around you, even if that world is the mundane world of 9-5 jobs and asphalt playgrounds. For a person just starting out on the Pagan Path, it is a wonderful source of new and different ways of looking at the normal things that shape and make up our lives.

Though some may think that this is a flighty book w/lightweight ideas and scornfully say it's a "beginners" book..that is it's strength! We are all beginners at one time or another..and this book helps you when you are floundering as a beginner or someone who has been on the path for awhile and needs to refresh their ideas.. I don't solely depend on it...nor should you on any book..but it is clearly written and does provide good solid ideas for keeping the magick alive where ever you live!

I first read this book for myself when I had just found Wicca. After reading it I have to now say that it is simple and straight forward which I really appreciated at the time. Even now I recommend it to those among my friends who are just starting to look into new ways to incorporate neo-paganism into their eberyday lives.

I think that for those who have already established their religion into their everyday lives that it is a little bit of an overkill.

Practical, informative, imaginative, and economical, this book is what every urban magicker needs to read.