Pack your overnight bag and come with Iggy Colvin as he heads off to Ottawa Academy with his best "human" friend, Oliver Brandeis. The main reason for the trip is so Iggy, the now seven-inch preadolescent gnome, can help the nine-year-old Oliver get settled into his new school. However, Iggy is also preparing himself for another potentially dangerous situation during his short stay. Legend states that the elves inhabiting the basement of the Academy turn ill-spirited toward incoming students on the Autumnal Equinox. Iggy plans to explore the many intricate clues surrounding this fifty-year mystery before it's too late for Oliver and his friends. Iggy has a renewed sense of confidence in his ability since the infamous goblin capture over the summer. He just needs to remember to keep his eyes focused on anything that seems slightly out of the ordinary. Common objects and unsuspecting people will all offer clues if he remains open-minded. Autumn Secrets of the Equinox will take you and Iggy on a trip where you will find yourself soaring through the constellations one minute and then swimming through flooded catacombs the next. Learn more about Iggy and his upcoming adventures by visiting www.iggycolvin.com.

What we have forgotten Nature remembers. Our soul hungers for an authentic existence, living from our deep beauty and gifts, in harmony with the natural world. Here we find our home, within and without, and in the life-affirming embrace of the sacred feminine. This sacred hunger for home fuels your journey of soul in The Path of She Book of Sabbats. With the primal teachings and mythic wisdom of Nature and the Gods and Goddesses as your guides, you travel across the pagan Sabbats that mark Nature's seasonal cycle through darkness, death, light and life. Guided meditations and pathwork exercises help you bring the transformative power of these Earth-based mysteries into your life, and to walk the path of your own seasons of light and dark, beauty and wounding, and joy and sorrow. Your journey begins wherever you are in this moment. Your destination is nothing less than your big, beautiful Self, and your place within this great weaving of life that holds us all.

A little girl discovers the meaning of the Wiccan harvest holiday Mabon.

In this, the second in a series of e-books on the solstices and equinoxes within this sacred cycle, Danu Forest reveals the secrets of the Autumn Equinox, when the sun begins to recede, and the days and nights are briefly of equal length. This is a festival of abundance; a time for taking stock as plans come to fruition; a time of gratitude, fulfilment and transformation. Throughout the text, Danu skilfully revives ancient traditions and encourages us to reconnect with nature, and ourselves, with a host of practical rituals. Decorate your home with edible apple garlands or an autumnal wall hanging. Meditate on the changing heavens with Celtic star lore. Make sloe gin, craft seedcakes to give as offerings to wildlife or gather nuts and cast an autumn spell to attract wisdom. Explore your soul’s journey in a magical guided visualization. Based on sound extensive research, as well as many years of practical experience through both personal practice and teaching, the book will act as a guide for weaving a new, more soulful way of living into readers’ everyday existence.

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

The Celtic seasonal wheel is based on eight festivals – Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lughnasadh, Autumn Equinox and Samhain. Together, these lead usthrough the cycle of the year, aligning our awareness with the seasonal pattern of the earth beneath our feet.In this book on the solstices, equinoxes and other festivals within the sacred cycle, Danu Forest reveals the secrets of each festival in turn and skilfully revives ancient traditions, encouraging us to reconnect with nature, and ourselves, with a host of practical ideas and rituals. Decorate your home with beautiful seasonal crafts and altars to manifest sacred space. Make gifts to give to friends, cast spells for creativity, fertility and blessing, and use the abundance of nature in recipes that can be enjoyed as part of your seasonal celebrations or for self-healing and empowerment. Meditate on the changing heavens throughout the year with Celtic star lore. Deepen your experience of the turning seasons, from the rest and renewal of winter through the revels of spring and summer to the soul or spirit nights of autumn with magical guided visualizations. This cycle of conscious celebration helps us, year on year, to align with nature’s rhythms with greater wonder and insight. Based on sound extensive research, as well as many years of practical experience through both personal practice and teaching, the book will act as a guide for weaving a new, more soulful way of living into readers’ everyday existence.

PaGaian Cosmology brings together a religious practice of seasonal ritual based in a contemporary scientific sense of the cosmos and female imagery for the Sacred. The author situates this original synthesis in her context of being female and white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. Her sense of alienation from her place, which is personal, cultural and cosmic, fires a cosmology that re-stories Goddess metaphor of Virgin-Mother-Crone as a pattern of Creativity, which unfolds the cosmos, manifests in Earth's life, and may be known intimately. PaGaian Cosmology is an ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. By linking to story of the unfolding universe this practice can be deepened, and a sense of the Triple Goddess-central to the cycle and known in ancient cultures-developed as a dynamic innate to all being. The ritual scripts and the process of ritual events presented here, may be a journey into self-knowledge through personal, communal and ecological story: the self to be known is one that is integral with place. PaGaian Cosmology may be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within.