Contemporary Pagan

Paganism for Beginners: A Modern Guide to Nature-Based Spirituality, Pagan Rituals, and the Old Gods is your comprehensive introduction to the fascinating world of Paganism. Whether you're curious about earth-based religions, searching for a deeper spiritual connection, or ready to start your own Pagan path, this guide offers everything you need to take the first steps with confidence. This easy-to-follow book explores the core beliefs of Paganism, its ancient roots, and the many modern traditions practiced today—including Wicca, Druidry, Heathenry, Hellenic Polytheism, and Eclectic ...

Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb emerged from the woods, each with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened. Winner take all...Shared nightmares, visions of blood and fire, and random violence begin to plague the longtime friends and Quinn, Layla, and Cybil, the women bound to them by fate. None of them can ignore the fact that, this year, the demon has grown stronger.

If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study. This book presents the basic fundamentals of Paganism. It explores what Pagans are like; how the Pagan sacred year is arranged; what Pagans do in ritual; what magick is; and what Pagans believe about God, worship, human nature, and ethics.

Embrace a spiritual journey to commune with nature, rediscover wonder in the world, and reconnect with yourself. Paganism for Beginners is your guide to exploring the diverse magick of modern Paganism. The up-to-date handbook introduces you to a breadth of Pagan traditions and core beliefs - welcoming you to this inclusive movement with a myriad of ways to deepen your personal spirituality.

“Not since A Dog's Purpose have I been so besotted by a novel's canine. Just like a good dog, Harold and this beautiful book will break your heart open and mend it all at once.”—Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of Jane & Dan at the End of the World aIn this delightfully...

After being viciously raped and left for dead in the forest, Lilith is rescued by the mysterious Pagan Pendragon. But, when Pagan rescues a damsel in distress, she belongs to him. Taken to Pagan's secluded estate, Lilith discovers he is the Red Vampire, a powerful vampire worshipped by her family's cult. One woman… three brothers with the power to consume her. One’s fighting for love… Having let her slip through his fingers once before, Pagan is determined to save his beloved Lilith from the dark desires of his brother... “Can you feel him?” “I don’t know I feel everything.”...

Have you ever wanted to understand the sophisticated belief systems of ancient religions? Have you always been intrigued by the intricate mythologies of Greece and Rome? Were you compelled toward the mysterious and spiritual nature of the universe but did not know how to access it? If so, then you've found the right audiobook! You can learn about the history and diversity of Paganism and how Paganism exists today.

This book covers everything from Norse mythology and the Norse pantheon to Celtic Mythology and the Celtic Pantheon as well as rituals and practices. Most importantly, you’ll learn all about the complete freedom paganism offers its practitioners. At its core, paganism focuses on you and your well-being. Throughout this book, I will also help you begin your journey of enlightenment and show you the wonders that the runes have to offer.

No new people: that's Annie Mercer's vow. It's bad enough that her boss sabotaged her chemistry career and her best friend tried to cure her with crystals. But after her fiancé, Jon, asks for space while he's gallivanting around Paris, Annie decides she needs space too - from everyone. Yet when Harper moves in next door, Annie can't help but train a watchful eye on the glamorous but fragile young woman. And if keeping Harper safe requires teaming up with Mo, a maddeningly optimistic amateur detective, who is she to mind her own business?

If you are looking at this book, you've likely felt drawn to nature and nature-centric religions for quite some time. However, you haven't been sure how to accommodate this affinity within our modern society because paganism is not always met with the same positivity that it follows. This book will show you how to practice paganism in an accommodating and unconstrained way. It will guide you and show you all the secrets you need to know, so you can easily connect and build your relationship with your beliefs and spirituality.

Solitary Pagans is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of contemporary Pagans who practice alone. Although the majority of Pagans in the United States have abandoned the tradition of practicing in groups, little is known about these individuals or their way of practice. Helen A. Berger fills that gap by building on a massive survey of contemporary practitioners. By examining the data, Berger describes solitary practitioners demographically and explores their spiritual practices, level of social engagement, and political activities.

There is no exact explanation of the word “pagan” - no explanation that you could understand in less than a month. To properly understand the depths of Paganism, you need to know where it all started - and how it developed throughout generations. Ultimately, it is thanks to this book that you will either satisfy your curiosity, or get a better idea of where your beliefs lie. Hence, you need not wait any longer!

He is Hate Equinox. She is Loathing Solstice. He is dark of eye and complexion, while she has ivory skin, white hair and a diamond blue gaze. Though they both come from the same community of pagans, they are polar opposites. Growing up together in public schools, each strives to outdo the other, but neither manages to successfully dominate. In time, they graduate high school and then attend different universities, enjoying a parting of ways. Many years later, their fates converge and the sparks fly. Given the conspiracy of proper circumstance and much time, mortal enemies may occasionally ...

Paganism focuses on nature, and it is a term that describes numerous religions. These religions are based on traditional cultures, but they also incorporate some modern beliefs. Some of the common traditions or religions that come under paganism include druidism, shamanism, Wicca, heathens, Odinists, and ecologists. Some groups within this community focus on specific cultures, practices, and traditions.

Pagan Worship is a coming-of-age story about a young man named David, who is at first a negligible figure in his parents’ all-consuming ambition to build an outsize base of Christian power, but who is slowly, while his parents largely ignore him in favor of his younger sister, developing his own strong identity and discovering a world far outside the dumbed-down reportage of Fox News and the strict, right-wing constraints of Orem, Utah, where he lives. But perhaps it would have been better for David if he had allowed himself to remain the same dim bulb his parents consider him to be.

Travel to the gentle rolling green hills of Yorkshire where the White Rose Witches are both their own heroes and their own worst enemies. Once an inseparable group of friends, the seven are now severed, scattered across the world, hiding immense secrets. Evie Hepburn loves fairytales. She lived briefly as the princess in her own romance with her famous husband once upon a time. Now she’s a media darling that shines brightly but briefly three times a week on her lunchtime television show before she retreats to the shadows and secrets of her family farm to be a single mum. Subdued by years ...