This book is an irresistible, definitive guide to the magical practices of contemporary women. Beginning with a brief history of witchcraft, it explores a huge range of beliefs, festivals, skills, and lore, including:

• Goddesses, priestesses, and witches
• Reincarnation, karma, magic, and power
• The aura, the chakras, psychic awareness, astral traveling, pathworking, dreamwork, and healing
• Covens, initiations, collectives, and lone witches
• The circle, the altar, wands, robes, chalices, incenses, oils, and candles
• The moon and the planets
• Sabbats, esbats, solstices, equinoxes, Samhain, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas
• Tarot, scrying, starcraft, and herbal lore

Gathering together all the disciplines of European witchcraft and providing rituals and spells for use in our lives, A Woman's Book of Shadows, first published in 1993, is a remarkable compendium of magical lore, psychic skills, and women's mysteries.