Lady Rhea, Queen of Candle Magick, has long been New York City's special, magickal treasure. She is a font of spellcraft, lore, and knowledge, both mystical and common-sense. For decades, many have made pilgrimages to Lady Rhea's shop to learn from her, as well as to obtain the unique, power-blasting candles that she creates. This new, expanded edition of her book, The Enchanted Candle, makes Lady Rhea's wisdom and magickal expertise accessible to all. In these pages, Lady Rhea shares her techniques, secrets, and history, so that you, too, are empowered to achieve your goals and dreams. ---- Judika Illes, author of The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, Encyclopedia of Spirits, The Big Book of Practical Spells and other books of magick. The Enchanted Candle includes rituals for every occasion together with details on the basics of 'how to do it' and most important why this all works. All aspects are here: candles, oils, herbs & seals, all the ancillary items plus where to find them. This is a complete book that you'll use time and again. ----Raymond Buckland, author of the Practical Candleburning Rituals and Advanced Candle Magick.

The definitive guide to candle magic, written by a leading authority with over 30 years of experience making magical candles and creating candle spells. Author Jacki Smith, founder of Coventry Creations (currently among the largest and most successful magical supply companies), shares her magical secrets with readers, enabling them to empower themselves through successful spell casting. Her book explains the nature of magic spells and provides examples for a wide variety of purposes including love, money, healing, and protection, liberally punctuated with tips from "Aunt Jacki," deriving from her many years of experience. The Big Book of Candle Magic shows: How to create your own candles The basics of crafting your own spells How to use basic supplies for everyday magic

During the early years of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican library, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

For centuries, Pagan seekers of love, fortune, health, healing, and protection have used candles as a vital part of their rituals. That's why Wiccan expert and practitioner Lady Rhea began creating enchanted candles over twenty years ago -- each of them hand-carved, encased in glass, and embellished with seals, oils, and other decorations. Now, to show you how to create your very own enchanted candles at home, Lady Rhea has written a book based on her underground classic of the same name -- designed to meet your specific needs and personalized by your own guiding spirit. Using the powers of fragrance, color, shape, exotic oils, and fire, these candles are the perfect vessels to send your spells and wishes out into the astral realm. Book jacket.

The proper oils, blends and fragrances are central to the practice of Wicca and essential for many spells, candle magick, mojo bags, ritual bathing, incenses, floor washes, potpourri, anointing sacred objects and much more. For over 30 years, Wiccan expert Lady Rhea has been creating her own special formulas that she supplies to Pagan stores the world over - and now she is sharing them with readers everywhere! Includes advice on locating ingredients and recipes for over 300 blends.

Mandy enters A Circle of Three with her friends April and Sandy in a Newport, Rhode Island summer of seventeenth birthdays, summer jobs, an Enchanted Hurricane, and a Dream Invader, who's after a secret that the girls don't even know they're guarding. Struggling to catch up in her Magikal training with her friends, Mandy's newfound chaotic skills are both helpful and dangerous as the three teens and April's precocious younger sister, Brenna, try to have a normal summer amidst the coming Hurricane's 'Winds of Misfortune', the appearance of Aisling, the mischievous Invader of their summer Dreams, and an unwelcome return of Courtney who helps and hinders their every step. Each girl deals with a recent past as Sandys mom, Karen, struggles with her own past, a past that only Three can Free.

The well-known questions such as What, How and, above all, Why are given some unexpected and enchanted answers in the volume III of the book A Little Frog’s Heart. These answers are delivered by the original characters we got used to celebrating along the story. The relationship between a grandfather and his grandson is being brought in a warm light destined to open up our hearts for the harmonies of this volume, The Stellar Waltz of Life. In the glittering bunch of the stories which interweave and overflow from each one to the others, as a modern version of the series On Thousand and One Nights, one could discern two mythological episodes, somehow a remnant of a popular Christianity magnificently adapted for a contemporaneous audience, of a genuine originality, which sheds their light as if they were some big rounded regal grapes, even if they are in a way ‘removed’ from the bunch and ‘spread’ all over the volume.