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library_mama) wrote2006-09-12 08:58 pm
library_mama) wrote2006-09-12 08:58 pm
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Overdue
Two books I borrowed from a good friend a year ago and just now got to. Major blushes here...
The Green Path by Starhawk Why on earth didn’t this grab me the first time I tried it? Maybe the introduction is a little dry, but this time around, I was hooked. Starhawk’s passionate love for the earth is a bright flame in this book that manages to integrate science, daily life, spirituality and political activism. Aimed at Wiccans, Starhawk chides witches for claiming to worship the Earth without actually knowing Her. Then follows an element-by-element look at the Earth with calls for direct observation, meditation exercises, practical ways to help the earth, and yeah, ways to get involved politically. She covers Air, Water, Fire/Energy and Earth, as well as Patterns and the Center. I’m not even Pagan, but I found this book deeply moving and profoundly applicable. Where else could you find reflections on applying the physical movement of wind to your day-to-day personal relationships together with thoughts on permaculture and reducing energy usage? Read this book. You won’t regret it.
Magic in the Wind by Christine Feehan This is a lovely little paranormal romance – some magic mixed into a world which is more like an action movie than regular real life, a bunch of romance and some s3x. The feminist in me got frustrated at the otherwise powerful and competent female lead feeling “branded” and “possessed” during every s3x scene – man must assert superiority in bed, if nowhere else. Sigh. But the basic premise – a family of seven magical sisters, the oldest of whom falls in love with the Man with a Dark Past, literally followed by death – is fun.
The Green Path by Starhawk Why on earth didn’t this grab me the first time I tried it? Maybe the introduction is a little dry, but this time around, I was hooked. Starhawk’s passionate love for the earth is a bright flame in this book that manages to integrate science, daily life, spirituality and political activism. Aimed at Wiccans, Starhawk chides witches for claiming to worship the Earth without actually knowing Her. Then follows an element-by-element look at the Earth with calls for direct observation, meditation exercises, practical ways to help the earth, and yeah, ways to get involved politically. She covers Air, Water, Fire/Energy and Earth, as well as Patterns and the Center. I’m not even Pagan, but I found this book deeply moving and profoundly applicable. Where else could you find reflections on applying the physical movement of wind to your day-to-day personal relationships together with thoughts on permaculture and reducing energy usage? Read this book. You won’t regret it.
Magic in the Wind by Christine Feehan This is a lovely little paranormal romance – some magic mixed into a world which is more like an action movie than regular real life, a bunch of romance and some s3x. The feminist in me got frustrated at the otherwise powerful and competent female lead feeling “branded” and “possessed” during every s3x scene – man must assert superiority in bed, if nowhere else. Sigh. But the basic premise – a family of seven magical sisters, the oldest of whom falls in love with the Man with a Dark Past, literally followed by death – is fun.