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Making Magic with Gaia

The author of Food, Festival and Religion shows how spiritual practices drawn from the ancient magical arts can help to heal Mother Earth.

A Greenpeace activist, Wiccan High Priestess, and proud Soccer Mom, Francesca Howell has been involved in magical traditions and wildlife preservation since childhood. In this one-of-a-kind book, she shares her everyday suggestions for spiritual renewal through connecting with nature. The meditations, ceremonies, and spellcraft in Making Magic with Gaia spring from an ancient Pagan tradition of Earth stewardship, which blends deep ecology, magic, and activism to bring the reader into a closer communion and harmony with Mother Earth.

Packed with practical suggestions (recycling, gardening without pesticides, and conserving water) and mystical rituals (shamanism, crystal magic, and Power Animals) for helping the planet, this book is written for anyone with a spiritual ecological awareness. Not the witchcraft of Gothic novels, Making Magic with Gaia is based on a modern religion with ancient roots that can heal the Earth as it heals the practitioner.

Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Francesca Ciancimino Howell currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived in various countries and on various continents. Among her many volunteer engagements for her community, she has served on the Religious Education Council of the Unitarian-Universalist Church and was a member of the multi-faith "Spiritual Support Team," at the Boulder Safe House, counseling battered women. Francesca has been a naturalist for Boulder County, leading public programs on wildlife, wetlands, in English and Spanish. She is adjunct faculty at Naropa University and this was her first published book.  A note of interest: Making Magic with Gaia's Italian edition became a best-seller on the mind-body-spirit lists in Italy.As a scholar Francesca has written widely on her academic research; an academic monograph drawing on her doctoral and post-doctoral research in Europe will be published in 2018.

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