astrea’s books
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Astrea Taylor is the author of Inspiring Creativity Through Magick, Intuitive Witchcraft, Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods, Air Magic, Belle Dame Sans Merci, and House of Transformation.
Art is inherently magickal, and you, as an artist, are also a magician who can ritualize your creative endeavors to make them stronger than ever. Astrea Taylor offers an impressive collection of spells, rituals, deities, and lore that will help you bring to life the story, painting, sculpture, or music you've been dreaming about.
This book is designed to guide you through the entire creative process. You'll draw inspiration from spirits and the four elements to complete your rough draft, and then use the principles of alchemy to refine your piece. Astrea also shares deep insights on releasing your art into the world, resting between projects, and persevering through hard times. From handling criticism to awakening the guiding spirit of art, this book shares numerous exercises and activities to get your creativity flowing and keep it going.
You can also order it from Amazon, Llewellyn, Barnes & Noble, or Books-a-Million.
Modern Witchcraft
with the
Greek Gods
“A Witch's 21-Century Guide to Making Magick with the Greek Gods
The ancient Greek gods surround us even now in our modern world. From Aphrodite to Zeus, this book reveals the origins of more than sixty deities and other mythological figures, including the Olympians, Titans, and Primordial Forces. Explore how they've been worshipped across the centuries and how you can work with them in your own practice.
You'll meet the gods one by one, exploring their history, unique correspondences, and personal insights from contributing authors who work with them magickally. This book also provides rituals and spells to connect with each deity. Draw down the moon with Selene, cast a courage spell with Ares, and reclaim lost parts of yourself with a ritual for Persephone. By inviting these divine beings into your practice, you can cultivate a magickal life that satisfies your soul to its very core.”
Pre-orders are available on Amazon, Llewellyn, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound. It’s also up on Goodreads!
Intuitive Witchcraft
Intuitive Witchcraft provides the tools and techniques you need to build your intuition and witchcraft together, uniting them in a practice that allows you to follow your heart and spirit. Featuring exercises, examples, activities, and rituals, this book helps you find your magical path—intuitively—based on personal experience.
Celebrate the truth of who you are and embrace the wisdom of your inner voice with this inspiring guide. Beginners and advanced practitioners alike can use Intuitive Witchcraft to manifest their desires in an intuitive way and find greater energy and willpower to harness the enormous magical potential within. Featuring insights from some of the best writers, thinkers, and leaders in their fields, this book helps you become your most empowered self. Published by Llewellyn Worldwide.
Also available in French through Editions Danae and Alliance Magique. Available in Russian and Polish too!
Air Magic: Elements of Witchcraft Book 2
Filled with spells, rituals, recipes, meditations, and correspondences, this second entry in Llewellyn's new Elements of Witchcraft series strengthens your connection to the element of air. Astrea Taylor presents amazing methods for activating the air energy within you. Discover practical techniques for incorporating incense, sound, wind, voice, and smell into your practice. Explore the history, folklore, and modern uses of air magic. This enlightening book also features contributions from well-known writers, including Laura Tempest Zakroff and Phoenix LeFae. With captivating insights on air deities, animal guides, sacred sites, herbs, crystals, and more, Air Magic empowers you to master this essential element. Order Air Magic at your favorite indie bookstore or on Llewellyn Worldwide, Barnes and Noble, Indie Bound, or Amazon.
Belle Dame Sans Merci
In this Young Adult Dark Fantasy version of Beauty and the Beast, Belle’s hobbies include reading books, traveling to exotic places, and killing evil people in order to get enough karma to go to heaven. She works in hell, which is a maze of cubicles far below the earth’s surface with gossipy gargoyles, jackals, and golums.
Her best friend, Typhoid Mary from the Poisoner Division, lifts her spirits, but nothing can make up for the office politics, mismanagement, and constant stench of sulfur.
Belle is hunting down a murderer when she gets a text that Lucifer wants to meet with her. Could today be the day – could she be released to heaven? Or, if her snarky coworker Nosferatu is right, she might be in trouble. There's a rumor the Beast eats errant temps.
When Lucifer locks Belle away in a dungeon, instead of bowing down to him and getting Stockholm Syndrome, an intense rebellion is sparked within her. She vows to kill the Beast any way possible. There’s only one problem — she has nothing to rely upon but her wits.
This book is a twist on the themes in Beauty and the Beast, but there's way more fantasy, adventure, horror, and twists and turns than the original fairy tale could ever dream of! If you like gaggles of witches who fly on broomsticks, harpies, magic, monsters, Mephistopheles, sacrifices, literary references, and more, you might just love this book.
House of Transformation
In this fictional page-turner, Ananda Dawn is a bigger-than-life pop star with an addiction to prescription pills. After a mental breakdown, she goes back home to St. Paul, Minnesota, to visit an old friend, therapist Mag Woods, to ask for help. But Mag just published a scathing tell-all book about her time with Ananda.
With help from a tech-savvy assistant, they attempt to repair their relationship and get Ananda clean before a contractually obligated Grammy performance. A dual storyline shows the friendship seven years earlier, when they lived together in a place called the House of Transformation – a place of artistic ambition, love, ghosts, and a terrible tragedy that still haunts them.
With the clock ticking, will it be a breakdown, or a breakthrough?
Praise for House of Transformation
“[Taylor] writes with a punchy flair… an entertaining and thoughtful account of loss and artistic ambition.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A great debut for the author, and a biting social commentary on celebrity and pop culture.” — Ghetto Blaster Magazine
“The author does a superb job of revealing how the friendship between the two women develops, decays, then is slowly restored… [Taylor’s] literary debut is an auspicious one.” — Dayton Daily News