Product Description

It's enchanting, making magick. In "Witch: Magickal Journey", Fiona Horne reveals the intimate secrets and know-how of her spiritual calling, including rituals, spells and incantations; festivals and sacred sites; details about Goddesses, Gods and familiars; cyber-witchcraft; interviews with other witches and much more. Fiona also reveals all about the daily business of being a modern Witch at home, work and play.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #919325 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
For anyone beginning to delve into Wicca, Witch: A Magickal Journey is a marvellous introduction. Subtitled "A hip guide to modern witchcraft", it is a personal, quirky, idiosyncratic and perhaps above all both fun and informative book. For those readers still harbouring old misconceptions, the author states right at the beginning that witchcraft has nothing whatsoever to do with Satanism: "Most Witches find the idea of a God who'd create a demigod of evil with whom to play cosmic war-games a little mystifying". She also expands the well-known Wiccan Rede to "Do what you will as long as you don't interfere with anyone else's free will".

Horne covers a lot in this book: the magical correspondence of numbers, colours, crystals and herbs; herbal remedies and spells for various illnesses; animal partners (usually known as familiars); how to cast circles and make a sacred space; what's needed on a witch's altar; when to be skyclad and when to wear clothes; over 50 pages on "The Wiccan Wheel of the Year"; and a whole host of spells for all occasions. But this is a guide rather than a manual: "Witchcraft is about using your initiative and being resourceful, so learn from traditional ways of going about things but be ready to expand on that too and create the traditions of tomorrow". There's a very thoughtful section on love spells, where she stresses "not to specify one particular person as this is both manipulative and potentially disastrous". The most important love spell of all, she says, is learning to love yourself--and she includes a ritual to help with what many people find so difficult to do.

This book is a very easy read, with a chatty, informal style throughout. One word of warning: don't leave it lying around where children or your Great Aunt Maud might find it; some of Horne's language is, shall we say, forthright, and there are sections on magical sex. --David V Barrett

Review
'Rockstar, mediastar, author and activist, Fiona Horne is the hippest Witch I know. And like her, "WITCH, a Magickal Journey" is a brave, smart, inspiring and thoroughly hip guide to the magic of modern Witchcraft. Read it and be empowered!' Phyllis Curott, author of Book of Shadows

About the Author
Fiona Horne has been a committed modern Witch for 13 years. She is also a journalist, rock Goddess and media star.

Customer Reviews

Not even remotely about Witchcraft
This book is not a book on Witchcraft. It is a book about Fiona Horne, ego queen. The associations are, frankly, wrong, which can be easily verified with only a small amount of study, and the book contains infantile, made-up "spells" and naive and frankly idiotic rehashing of the worst of other authors' work on what is loosely termed "modern witchcraft". There is nothing remotely to do with genuine Witchcraft or Magick within its pages and those who have written here to the contrary are merely displaying their own ignorance of the subject. Despite her claims to have turned her back on the New Age Movement, this is a superficial "New Age" Airy-fairy nightmare. Read some of the more sensible reviews on Amazon.com. If you want to learn how to merely inflate your own ego and that of such ridiculous "media-witches" and therefore take yourself as far from true craft as possible, read on. There is no place for egotism in Craft and it is irresponsible and ignorant to play to people's egos when writing a book pretending to be about Witchcraft. Had FH not been a playboy playmate, no doubt, she would not have received any attention for her drivel. This book is beneath contempt. It's not worth the one star I had to give it.

A Must For Every Witch
Although I have been interested in witchcraft for a long time, I had only ever read about it and never cast any spells. After visiting the library the only book they had on witchcraft was this one. It was that good I had to come online and buy it!

This book is a very useful guide to wicca and witchcraft. It has details on what colour candles to use, how many, what crystals do what, what herbs and oils you will need for particular spells.

Not only that but it has personal stories from Fiona, which makes the book a very personal one. There are a few spells, but only as examples, Fiona encourages witches to invent their own spells as they are usually more effective. This book gives you the knowledge on how to do that, with guidelineson which order to do it. There are also different sorts of magic, including sex magic and a few details on that.

I hope everyone else finds this fantastic book as good as I do, its the first one i bought and the best reference one i have. I still always refer to that book first when writing a new spell.

Love and Light
LJ

A Witch 'Wonder' from 'Down Under!'
Fiona Horne's 'Magickal Journey'is a trip through her own personal Wiccan path. Australian musician, Media Star and practising Witch, Fiona combines an interesting account of her life's path and the basic elements of Wicca. She manages to do this without patronising the reader in friendly and easy to understand prose. And shows that she is more than just a 'Wannabe' and a 'Pretty Face!' Nothing basic has been left out. From 'Calling the Quaters' to 'The Wheel of the Year' Fiona Horne explains in simple terms the core beliefs and practises of being a 'Witch' in a modern age. Included are interviews with other 'Australian' witches and Occultists, interesting photographs, pictures and a brief 'Herstory' of Wicca. The 'honesty' of her path is both touching and refreshing with many personal accounts of how she uses the 'Craft' in her life and the repercussions this brings. The only minor fault is that this book seems marketed for an Australian audience and maybe Fiona could have included information on the history of Wicca in Australia itself as a point of interest for her international readers. As a 'Basic' guide to Wicca I give this book the 'Thumbs Up'. Fiona Horne's 'Magickal Journey'is a book worthy of any witch.