Mothers of Magic

Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors

De: Perdita Finn

Narrado por: Perdita Finn

Author of Take Back the Magic and co-founder of the beloved non-denominational fellowship The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn offers a profound invitation to remember and recover the power, presence, and wisdom of the Mother Figure.

"This book is not optional reading for our moment. It is essential... Mothers of Magic offers a pathway of reconnection that is both ancient and radically relevant."​ —Dr. Gertrude Lyons, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and author of Rewrite the Mother Code

At a time when so many of us feel unmoored from guidance, care, and belonging, Mothers of Magic is a profound call to return to our deepest sources of knowledge, nourishment, and kinship.

When Perdita Finn found herself at a crossroads with her health, she embarked on a search for healing that led her to confront a heritage of misogyny and violence—and to summon the wisdom of her ancestors to unravel the trauma woven into her story and the story of civilization itself. Braiding memoir with cultural history, Finn introduces readers to a pantheon of maternal figures, from the loving spirit of St. Anne and the defiant courage of Joan of Arc to the very Earth itself, who have long offered refuge, instruction, and love. Through these stories and her own journey of transformation, Finn reveals what becomes possible when we recover an ecological feminism that restores our relationship with our bodies, our mothers, and the body of our world. Alongside the narrative, she shares practical ways to summon all of our mothers—ancestral, spiritual, and earthly—to help us navigate our everyday challenges and deepest wounds.

Radical and restorative, Mothers of Magic is an intervention for our time and a map back to the maternal wisdom that has always been ours—a path toward true connection and the deepest sources of love.

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“In Mothers of Magic, Perdita Finn offers not just a remembrance but an urgent summons for our time. In a world where so many of us feel unmothered, unanchored, and cut off from the deep sources of nourishment that once sustained our souls, Finn reminds us that we were never meant to be held by one mother alone. We were meant to be circled by many—human, ancestral, elemental, animal, and unseen.

With exquisite clarity and fierce compassion, she exposes the cultural and historical forces that severed us from these lifelines and left us dangling, disconnected from the vast network of mothers who have always supported us. And she invites us back—back into the lineage of grandmothers who taught through their hands and their dreams, back into the wisdom of the earth-mothers who have steadied countless generations, back into the circle of old women whose presence can soothe addictions, untangle soul wounds, and remind us how to dance again.

This book is not optional reading for our moment. It is essential. At a time when anxiety, isolation, and spiritual hunger are reaching crisis levels, Mothers of Magic offers a pathway of reconnection that is both ancient and radically relevant. Finn’s message is clear: we cannot become the mothers, the daughters, or the humans this world needs until we recover our belonging to the many mothers who have always held us.

I am profoundly honored to endorse this work—deeply wise, fiercely truthful, and urgently needed.”

—Dr. Gertrude Lyons, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and author of Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust - A Cosmic Approach to Motherhood

"Do not be fooled! This book is more than a book. It is a passport to a wild country and Perdita Finn is a poet, a magician, a myth maker and unmaker, a storyteller of great power, humor, and depth. As you read her alluring tales of being mothered and mothering, you will meet your own mother, your grandmother, your ancestors, and yourself. And as you practice and pray along to her reverent and irreverent incantations, you will find healing and hope." —Elizabeth Lesser, author of the NY Times bestsellers, Broken Open, Cassandra Speaks, and other books, and the cofounder of Omega Institute