Animal Magick: The Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars (Paperback)

~ (Author) "You may even have an astral-bodied animal familiar, drawn to you by your enthusiasm for that particular creature with which it is impossible to have..." (more)
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Product Description

People have requested the aid of animals in their quests for spiritual enlightenment since the days of ancient Egypt. Now you can open doors to your secret self and buried past when you find and befriend your animal familiars. Animal Magick by D. J. Conway shows you how to work with animals for your spiritual growth and increased magickal power.

Familiars are not limited to the stereotypical Witch's cat. They can be virtually any animal, real or imagined. When you commune with them, they can warn you of danger, generate healing energy, and give you unlimited, unconditional love.

As you will learn in Animal Magick, this relationship does not have to be passive. You can actively work with your familiars in meditation or when doing magick. In these pages, you will discover the secrets of over 100 animals you can work with on your spiritual path. Perform rituals that call on the fox to bring you cunning and slyness. Work with the blue jay to bring courage and to alert you, through divinations, of potential problems in your future. Calling upon the cobra can help you receive spiritual wisdom from the Goddess.

This book is filled with facts and lore for each animal, as well as meditations and rituals for peace, love, and protection. Animal Magick is not an ending, but a beginning. It will show you how to link with animals for guidance and power — which they will freely give. The first step in this new beginning is for you to read this book.

From the Publisher

Many of you reading this will have had pets for years. Some of you may consider them to be your familiars. In D. J. Conway's Animal Magick you'll discover new ways to learn from them (and other creatures) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and personal power.

The book includes explicit instructions on how to find familiars and work with them. You'll learn how to meditate and do magick with them. More than 100 animals are described and you will discover what powers and knowledge each can share with you.

Animal Magick shows you how your work with familiars can take on an even greater purpose that is true to the Pagan tradition of remembering and honoring your ancestors. That's because this is the first book to explore the subject of familiars from a European Pagan perspective. Now you can investigate ancient European Shamanic traditions — including your heritage, perhaps — that were destroyed during the Burning Times.

Another unique feature of this book is that for each animal Conway has included a special "power chant" to invoke that animal's natural and magickal attributes. This way, even if you are not meditating, doing a ritual, or going on a shamanic journey to the "otherworld," you can still call on your familiars to bring you the help and confidence you need.

Animal Magick shows you a powerful path to a more creative, more secure future. If you are looking to improve your life, you owe it to yourself to get this book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567181686
• ISBN-13: 978-1567181685
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #402,507 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for people just starting to work with familiars, March 15, 2002

By	Kayana Shintos (USA) - See all my reviews

This is the book that i first bought when i started studying more of animal magick, meditating to find animal spirits, and trying to work with familiars in general. I must say that this book was a great help. It gives examples of meditations and rituals of how to work with familiars. It also gives an index of animals and their history, and traits, so that you may find an animal that you can correspond with. It also gives a list of deites with familiars that they are portayed to be with. This book is definetly worth buying, and great for quick references.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, July 19, 2003

By	Moonbrooke (Tampa,FL) - See all my reviews

I like the meditations and rituals to give ideas and seek help from my Familiars. I like the chants to call the animals for help.this book had alot of creativity put into it from a european view D.J conway has been under alot of fire lately, Still this book has some of better medititions for beginner and advanced even thou not total complete but one of betters written about animals use book use this and Animal Speak by ted Andrews for finding and working with totems.I think the book was worth the money and one of the best.

Blessed Be;

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book For Magick and Animal Lovers!, January 30, 2001

By	DragonGalaxy "dragongalaxy" (MiddleOfNowhere, MN) - See all my reviews

This was the second D.J. Conway book I got, and I loved it from the beginning. Lots of info on animals and their magickal traits, many rituals geared toward animals, great meditations I found extremely helpful for many occasions (like the one where you transform yourself into an animal to gather certain traits for a time) and I, like another reveiwer, found the Four Corner Wolves to be a very good find! I have a kinship with wolves like you'd neve imagine. This was a great book indeed!