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A tarot deck that explores the theme of love to foster deeper relationships• Includes 78 cards with vibrant imagery that symbolizes the many facets of love including intimacy, connection, trust, and commitment• Empowers your inner spiritual warrior and gives insight into the underlying dynamics of your relationships• Offers card meanings for reversed and upright readings, interpretations for yes or no questions, and the ruling signs for each cardIMMERSE YOURSELF in the profound journey of the inner warrior of love to navigate the complexities of love and relationships. Entwined with the traditional essence of the Fool’s journey through the Major Arcana, the vibrant imagery of the 78 cards symbolizes different facets of love. Each card is accompanied by insightful guidance through reversed and upright readings and ruling signs. Working with this deck in divination will illuminate underlying dynamics, enhance your relationships, and help you achieve a more profound understanding of love’s many dimensions. With this powerful tool for transformation, you will gain insight into your current circumstances, no matter where you are in your life’s unique journey of love.

Learn foundational methods of divination from the Father of Cartomancy• Provides the first English edition of Etteilla’s seminal text, an Etteilla deck, and a tutorial on how to make your own deck• Offers eight main spreads along with variations, devised by Etteilla, and accompanying commentary and case studies• Shares how Etteilla’s 1770 method set the standard for most European cartomantic divination, influencing the development of both cartomancy and tarotEtteilla is the pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Alliette, known to divination devotees as the Father of Cartomancy. His 1770 manual, revised in 1773 under the title La Seule Maniere de Tirer Les Cartes, was the first book on how to divine from playing cards, and it remains the basis for many cartomantic decks and tarots today. Now, for the first time, Etteilla’s manual is available in English. This deck and guidebook gives readers a set of Petit Etteilla cards and a fully annotated translation of his text. The book explores how Etteilla’s deck and interpretive methods serve as the foundation for decks to follow, including the Lenormand and Rider-Waite-Smith decks. Readers will learn each card’s meaning (both upright and reversed) and the significance of each card’s placement in a spread. In Etteilla's system, each card’s meaning and associated words are printed on the card, allowing readers the freedom to use intuition instead of memorizing the meaning of each card. The result is an innovative system that offers a highly personalized method for readings. Readers will also learn how to make their own decks to further personalize their connection with Etteilla's method. This book offers eight spreads devised by Etteilla, with variations of each, along with commentary, case studies, and practices to enrich your understanding.

How to interpret the lines of the hands to cultivate and deepen relationships• Explores how the ancient Indian art of palmistry can help you understand your relationship patterns and make changes to improve success in love• Explains the meanings of the major and minor lines, signs, and mounts of the hands as they relate to love and relationships, including an in-depth study of the heart line• Includes hundreds of examples of actual palm prints for comparisonMore than 5,000 years ago, the sages of India discovered that the lines and signs on our hands represent not only a preview of our potential destiny but also a map of the mind. Our palm lines form and change throughout life as a direct result of our unique experiences and thought patterns. In this in-depth guide, Vedic palmist-astrologer Ghanshyam Singh Birla shows how to utilize the ancient Indian art of palmistry to better understand yourself and your love patterns, cultivate and deepen your relationships, and make changes to improve your happiness and success in love. Sharing hundreds of case studies with detailed illustrations, he explores the meanings of the major and minor lines, signs, and mounts of the hands as they relate to love and relationships. Birla explains how to learn from your destiny line whether you are receptive to someone entering your life and how to recognize when the Saturn, Sun, or Mercury mounts suggest a need to express emotions. His detailed study of the heart line in relation to the other lines and signs of the hands explains why you attract certain relationships. He then provides practical ways to understand your individual approach to love. The book is filled with hundreds of examples of palm prints, which you can compare to the palms of your friends and loved ones to gain insight on your compatibility. By seeing ourselves reflected in our hands, we can learn why we succeed in some relationships and not others, and what we can do to strengthen bonds with the most important people in our lives.

A deck that combines the Elder Futhark with plant magick• Explores Scandinavian divination, traditional European witchcraft, and magical herbalism• Pairs each rune of the Elder Futhark with a plant according to their shared energetic correspondences• Offers a ritual for consecrating new decks, six spreads for rune casting, and eight spell cards for a fully immersive experienceWith roots in Scandinavian divination, traditional European witchcraft, and magical herbalism, in this deck the creators have paired each rune of the Elder Futhark with a plant according to their shared energetic correspondences. For example, Thurisaz is combined with the thorny blackberry in a card of defense. Ansuz and yarrow are brought together in the communication card. Hagalaz and deadly nightshade are combined to convey storms and chaos. Each card is illustrated to reflect 16th-century engravings and ancient grimoires that demonstrate the magical intersection between runes, witchcraft, and herbalism. The Runes and Roots Oracle also includes a ritual for consecrating new decks, six spreads for rune casting, and bind rune and ritual cards within the 36-card deck.

Engage intuition and reason to stimulate empathy and meaningful action for planetary healing• Includes 36 full-color cards featuring sacred icon-style paintings of threatened and endangered species and instructions for using this deck in a group setting• Portrays the unique charism of each species, the challenges it faces, and how it affects the greater biological community and human health• Teaches Visio Divina, or sacred seeing, an ancient form of prayer and meditation that evokes intuitive knowing and inspires meaningful actionExploring the richness and necessity of biodiversity, this deck of 36 full-color cards features the work of world-renowned artist Angela Manno and reveals how the loss of biodiversity is leading to the warming of our planet. She presents each threatened species in a traditionally religious form—the icon—to illustrate its true significance. Rich with insights from geologian Thomas Berry and other ecological elders, the guidebook reveals the preciousness of each organism, specific challenges to its existence, and its effect on the greater biological community and human health. Uniquely supported by QR codes leading to the websites of conservation organizations working to protect each species and its habitat, this deck inspires contemplation, empathy, and meaningful action to enact personal and planetary healing.

Dreams of destiny across cultures and history• Explores visions and dreams that foretell love encounters, highlighting the way these experiences draw people together• Presents hundreds of romantic and other precognitive dreams from legendary, historical, and modern sources, compiled for the first time in one place• Documents numerous dream-related folklore practices from different cultures, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future loverDéja revé, meaning “already dreamed,” is a widespread phenomenon related to, though distinct from, the more popularly known déja vu. More than just a familiar sense, moments of déja revé are tied directly to specific dreams, often inspiring profound life changes for the dreamer. In this book, Daniel Bourke compiles the most comprehensive record of this mysterious phenomenon to date, presenting hundreds of romantic and other precognitive dreams from legendary, historical, and modern sources, collected for the first time in one place. Highlighting in particular the experience of dreams that foretell love encounters, Bourke explores the way these dreams and visions draw people together. Illustrating just how extensive and deeply human this phenomenon is, Bourke delves into folk practices from different cultures, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future lover, such as placing cards or herbs under a pillow, looking into a candlelit mirror, or praying to the moon. Dreamers can learn the exact name of their future lover or spouse, though they may not encounter them until years after the dream. Showing how déja revé spurs people to real world action, Bourke features stories of saints, shamans, religious figures such as the Buddha, and other visionary mystics as well as mentions of déja revé in the memoirs of authors, politicians, and ballet dancers. These dreams can be astonishingly literal or deeply veiled in symbolism but are commonly specific and highly memorable—one of the hallmarks of the déja revé experience.

Reveals the origins, uses, and medicinal properties of over 100 plant foods• Offers entries of 106 plant foods, including their origins, histories, and religious significance as well as culinary and medicinal uses• Covers an extensive range of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices as well as “specialty” foods like chocolate, pasta, sugar, coffee, and tea• Provides nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutriceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicineThe last major study of plant foods, Origin of Cultivated Plants, was first published in 1885. Since then scientists, historians, and anthropologists have learned so much more. The Genealogy of Plant Foods fills the knowledge gap for readers today who seek to learn about the plant foods upon which we depend. Drawing on peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, Nathaniel Altman offers accounts of the genealogy, histories, and nutritional and medicinal properties of 106 plant foods—foods that physically and spiritually sustain us. He includes fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, herbs, and spices as well as “specialty” foods like chocolate, pasta, sugar, coffee, and tea. Readers will learn the genealogical story of these plant foods, along with the ways our ancestors prepared, ate, and used them as medicine. Learn how the avocado, yam, lentil, and other foods detailed in this book migrated from their places of origin to where they can be found today, along with their mythological powers, spiritual significance, and the ancient and modern festivals held in their honor. The author discusses each plant’s nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicine. Readers will learn the effects each food has on preventing chronic health conditions and how they can use the medicinal properties of these foods for their own personal wellness.

How modern physics confirms the energetic power Aikido• Draws on quantum mechanics and physics, like wave–particle duality and the unified field theory, to define the energetics of Aikido• Explores concepts of Aikido such as musubi (to tie together), connection, and reconciliation to re-link the individual with the universal• Provides lessons for everyday life to enhance personal and professional relationships and diffuse threatening situationsAikido is a martial art that offers a philosophy of harmonizing energy. The techniques of Aikido focus on aligning oneself with the world in total harmony and this begins by winning over the discord in our own minds.Richard applies the insights of quantum mechanics to explore key concepts of Aikido such as musubi (to tie together), connection, unification, and reconciliation to re-link the individual with the universal. As quantum physics and Aikido reveal, the dualism of two conflicting opposites is an illusion. It is the unified field of the two that creates life and from which reality emanates. The essential teaching of Quantum Aikido is to live as an expression of the single source of yin and yang rather than in polarity, or bouncing between the two. Embodying this teaching transforms one’s experience of life from being a struggle to a dance. These lessons can be applied in everyday life to enhance personal and professional relationships and diffuse threatening situations. The author’s creative, flow-oriented approach shows how to negotiate challenges by absorbing and using the energy of any given situation to create innovative solutions. This state of being exercises whole-brain thinking and self-reflexivity to help readers develop the measured temperament of a warrior. Readers will learn how to tap energetic sources so that each moment is an opportunity to resolve problems with spontaneous creativity.Learn to become spontaneous and free with the energetics of Quantum Aikido. By offering ways to unify our being and live in acceptance and harmony, this book opens doorways to transformation and positive change.

The first English translation of Taoist occultist Matgioi’s seminal work• Shares a deep understanding of the I Ching’s cosmological foundation• Offers the meanings of the straight and broken lines of the 64 hexagrams• Explains how the symbol of the yin-yang represents the individual’s destiny, including his emanation from, and reintegration into, PerfectionFirst published in French in 1905, and now translated into English for the first time, Matgioi’s book became the metaphysical core of the Traditionalist movement established by French occultist René Guénon, Julius Evola, and Ananda Coomaraswamy. Translator Joscelyn Godwin tells how Matgioi was initiated into a Taoist secret society and was given rare access to the perennial wisdom of that tradition. His work reveals the great antiquity of Emperor Fohi, who set down the cosmogonic principles upon which the I Ching is based and lived more than 2,000 years before Moses. Matgioi regarded Fohi as representing a school of sages unbound to any century since their wisdom is as old as humanity itself. The I Ching crystallizes a first and truest insight into the nature of reality from which the ancients derived a practical philosophy. Chinese traditionalists regard the I Ching as the first monument of consciousnes, and Matgioi explores it and equally important treatises by Fohi’s successors. In this book, readers will discover the divine nature of Chinese script, the relationship of logos and symbol, and the multiple shapes of the universe. Matgioi also explains how the yin-yang symbolizes one’s destiny and emanation from, and reintegration into, Perfection. This key work echoes Emperor Fohi’s belief that the solutions to all questions can be found by bringing them back to their sources.

Profound insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality• Shares lessons on music and life purpose the author has received from nature since childhood, including through her work in wolf conservation• Shows how connecting with nature can help you discover your true calling, release your hidden talents, and lead to spiritual growth• Explores how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering communication between soulsInternationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hélene Grimaud shares her musical life’s journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality. In this book, Hélene offers the lessons she has learned about music and her life purpose from having direct contact with nature since childhood. She shares her concept of parent prodigies, such as her own, who can recognize the innate power and talents in their children and help guide them to self-realization, often by facilitating encounters with nature. And she shows that connecting with nature spirits can help reveal your true calling. She reveals how her work protecting wolves teaches her about being human, and how it connects her to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Hélene also explores how people create art to communicate the full spectrum of emotions. Self-knowledge and the understanding of any vocation is a vehicle for profound spiritual growth. From Lie Yukou’s True Classic of Perfect Emptiness and the compositions of Hildegard von Bingen, to the poetry of Novalis and Rimbaud, she details classics of spirituality, works of rebel poets, and the wisdom of shamans that serve as guides on her journey. These works and teachings reveal the connections between music and nature, including how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering the communication of souls. Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honor the call of the wild even in the heart of civilized modernity.

Maori elder Maata Wharehoka’s teachings on birth, death, climate, and healing• Reveals how Maata integrated her own experiences of trauma and colonialism with traditional Maori wisdom to develop modern teachings• Shares Maori practices around birth, death, and healing, and Maata’s ritual of Kahu Whakatere to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss• Tells the story of Parihaka, the birthplace of nonviolent protest, and how its teachings speak to humanity todayEntering the Maori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This may sound like a step into a distant past, but it is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The Maori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Maori teachings. Stephanie reveals how Maata used her experiences of trauma and colonialism, along with generational Indigenous wisdom, to develop teachings for our times. Readers will learn Maata’s Maori practices around healing, death and dying, and relationship to elders as well as her views on the sanctity of birthing, parenting, kuiatanga (the way of the kuia, or women elders), inclusive healthcare, and the Earth. Maata’s practice of Kahu Whakatere—a ritual to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss—shows how death can be a peacemaker and unifier. And lastly Stephanie lets us see and understand the Maori view of the climate crisis and how to address it with nature-informed consciousness. With reflective exercises that share the hard-won wisdom of an elder, this book allows Maata’s spirit of manaaki—protection, respect, and care—to reach beyond Aotearoa to the world.

A cultural exploration of the esoteric movement and its historical impact and legacy• Examines the Rosicrucian involvement of figures like Rene Descartes, Robert Fludd, John Dee, Elias Ashmole, and the alchemist pirate Prince Rupert of the Rhine• Traces the saga of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his countercultural successors Frederick and Elizabeth, who triggered the Thirty Years’ War• Shows how Rosicrucianism inspired the English Revolution and explores the Rosicrucianism of John Winthrop the Younger, Connecticut’s founderSince the appearance of Rosicrucian manuscripts in 17th-century Germany, historians have questioned the authorship, intent, and significance of this esoteric movement. In this book, Ronnie Pontiac shows how Rosicrucianism’s underground influence in the early-modern period continues to the present, providing the important historical context of this invisible society. Pontiac looks at the esoteric culture around Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and his court, including figures like John Dee, Tycho Brahe, and Rabbi Loew, the legendary creator of the Golem of Prague. Despite occultists’ fascination with Rudolf ’s successors, Frederick and Elizabeth, at the start of the Thirty Years’ War—and Rosicrucian efforts to make Frederick the first Protestant Holy Roman Emperor—the esoteric renaissance in Bohemia was short-lived. However, this wasn’t the end of Rosicrucianism. Pontiac explores the movement’s impact on Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution as well as individuals such as Robert Fludd, René Descartes, Elias Ashmole, Moritz the Learned, Paracelsus, and William Shakespeare. He then details the movement’s arrival in the New World, including the Rosicrucian activities of Connecticut’s alchemist governor, John Winthrop the Younger. Looking to the present, Pontiac shows how both pop culture and the modern psychedelic counterculture are informed by Rosicrucian ideas, showing the enduring legacy of this esoteric movement.

Raise your vibration to channel consciousness from a higher order• Teaches how to activate and channel Pleiadian wisdom directly through our sacred heart space to liberate the soul• Introduces sun and earth symbols designed by the Pleiadians to activate the pineal gland and connect to their higher order• Offers tools for growth, affirmations, and several high frequency number series that readers can meditate upon to realign consciousness for a positive futureAS THE EARTH PROCEEDS on its ascension course, the Pleiadians—beings of a higher level of consciousness—guide humanity to move more gracefully through the shifting time-space continuum. Supported by Pleiadian channel Pavlina Klemm, the celestial intermediaries teach us how to activate and channel their wisdom directly through our sacred heart space. They share their sun and earth symbols, so we may activate our pineal gland and connect with the higher order. As the guides bring us closer to the wisdom of the inner earth, the cosmic children, the light beings of each color frequency, and archangels, they also protect us from detrimental influences by increasing our light and consciousness. With the 21st cosmic key, the Pleiadians offer the most important frequency for the liberation of the human soul as we enter the next Golden Age. Inviting us to increase our vibration and resilience, they share exercises, affirmations, and several high frequency number series to meditate upon, so we can realign our consciousness for a positive future. As a direct transmission of energy and healing love, this Pleiadian wisdom guides us toward living through our sacred heart.

Seven mysteries for an embodied experience of transcendence• Draws on Gnosticism and Hermeticism to explore seven esoteric mysteries of feminine wisdom that are supported by practices• Offers a wisdom teaching on integral spirituality and pansentience, encounters with spiritual entities, dreams, and reincarnation• Explores the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros in sacred marriage—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insightSince the dawn of Christianity, the Sophia tradition has been suppressed and shrouded in secrecy. Drawing on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, this book presents divine feminine principles and teachings that are at the heart of the Sophia tradition and how they can be applied to enrich spiritual knowledge and practice. Author Lee Irwin writes from a masculine perspective that honors and celebrates feminine insights, relations, and shared attitudes toward the sacred. The mysteries he shares are grouped in two sections: the lesser mysteries of body, mind, and soul and the greater mysteries of salvation, sacred union, the world soul, and reincarnation. The lesser mysteries encourage greater personal awareness through the healing of old wounds and empowerment through responsibility. Irwin explores sacred sexuality and incarnation as a praxis that emphasizes the celebration of the body as temple. Through the greater mysteries readers learn how to develop transpersonal awareness, raise consciousness, and become receptive to gnosis through dreams and encounters with spiritual entities. Irwin then describes the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros through alchemical union—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight. Feminine wisdom is a process—a way and not a destination. Divine Feminine Gnosis offers readers on any spiritual path an approach to living that is aimed toward heart-centered wisdom and an embodied experience of the transcendent.

An intuitive oracle to help you connect with the Divine plant kingdom• Offers 40 full-color cards, including 10 shamanic healing cards and 30 plant spirit cards such as Astragalus, Calendula, Mugwort, and Violet• Explains how to use the cards and offers guidance on connecting with each plant’s Divine spirit and intelligence• Offers spiritual practices and channeled plant spirit prayers to open you to physical, emotional, and spiritual healingBased on medical intuitive Laura Aversano’s inspired book The Divine Nature of Plants, this oracle deck and guidebook, illustrated by Nadine Gordon-Taylor, helps you call upon and connect with the plant spirits of 30 healing herbs and flowers. Each plant card features a full-color painting, and the booklet descriptions include details to connect with the plant’s Divine spirit and intelligence as well as its spiritual, emotional, and physical medicine. These 30 plants include Astragalus, Black Cohosh, Calendula, Lilac, Motherwort, Mugwort, Poke, Rosemary, Violet, Wormwood, and Yarrow. Also included are 10 shamanic healing cards to guide you on the deeper journey into sacred connection with the elemental world of nature. The guidebook also offers a prayer channeled from each plant’s spirit to help you discover your personal connection to the Divine plant kingdom.

A Taoist guide to recovering from addiction• Systematically explains the nature and development of addictions, the process of recovery, and how the Tao Te Ching can provide guidance• Provides easy-to-perform Chi Kung practices to aid with recovery, specifically for challenges that don’t respond to mainstream treatment• Describes Taoist Emotional Recycling to heal stuck emotions about the past and address the urges and attitudes that often cause relapseThis book explores addiction and recovery from a Taoist viewpoint, offering a path to healing rooted in ancient Chi Kung practices and principles from the Tao Te Ching. Emphasizing the eternal balance of yin and yang, the authors show that addiction clogs up the body’s “yin centers,” hindering one’s ability to process energy effectively and propagating a pattern of stuck behaviors. The authors provide a systematic approach that has been refined over 5,000 years of easy-to-perform Chi Kung exercises that help rebalance the body, identify the root causes and traumas that fuel addiction, and address the attitudes and urges that cause relapse. Through these holistic organ- and body-centered practices, readers can develop healthy sleeping patterns, eliminate brain fog, reduce joint pain, and develop willpower. Readers are also guided in Taoist Emotional Recycling to heal stuck emotions about the past and transform negative energy into positive energy to ensure recovery and return to a state of wholeness.