Yvonne Aburrow Livres

This collection features prayers, meditations, and chalice lightings specifically designed for Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist communities, as well as Earth Spirit and Pagan groups within the tradition. It serves as a spiritual resource for worship and reflection, fostering a sense of connection and mindfulness among participants. The book aims to enrich religious practices and support diverse spiritual expressions within these inclusive faith communities.

Exploring the connection between mind and body during ritual, this book delves into embodied spirituality, emphasizing the importance of celebrating life through physical presence. It argues that genuine transformation in the world arises from harmonizing inner experiences with external actions, fostering a deeper understanding of how personal rituals can lead to meaningful change.

Focusing on the witch's journey, the book delves into various ritual practices and the stages of inner work, highlighting both challenges and growth. It offers guidance on developing as a priestess or priest and emphasizes collaborative efforts within groups to forge connections with the land and queer archetypes while addressing themes of oppression.

Exploring the rich mythology, symbolism, and folklore surrounding reptiles, this book delves into the cultural significance of creatures like snakes, crocodiles, and turtles. It highlights their roles in various traditions and stories, while also incorporating poetic elements that enhance their mystical allure. Through a comprehensive examination of these reptiles, readers gain insight into their impact on human imagination and storytelling across different cultures.

Are you leaving a religion, entering Paganism, leaving Paganism, changing traditions within it, or leaving religion altogether? Changing Paths is a companion for the journey.How do you explain your new path to friends, family, former co-religionists, and yourself? How do you extricate yourself from your previous tradition and its associated ideas? How do you unpack your complex feelings about your path and why you are changing direction?Individuals have many reasons for leaving a faith, including being in conflict with bad theology, bristling against a high-control religion, and disagreeing with conservative positions on gender, sexuality, and the body. Changing Paths offers resources for examining religious attitudes to gender, sexuality, other religions, and whether your religion supports you effectively through life’s ups and downs.There are various routes into Paganism and Changing Paths offers resources on how to decide which tradition is right for you, how you know you’re a member of a group, and reasons for joining a group—or not. Exercises, journal prompts, and reflections explore how to deal with unexamined baggage from your previous tradition, the role of leaders, and how to find a beloved community.You aren’t alone in your journey. A range of contributors who have trod this same path—from a former Christian who is now a Wiccan to a former Pagan who now avoids labels—also share their experience and wisdom.

Exploring themes of love and pleasure, this book delves into the rituals that celebrate these elements in life. It emphasizes the significance of personal and communal practices that connect individuals to the divine. Through poetic language and rich imagery, it invites readers to embrace their sensuality and spirituality, encouraging a deeper understanding of the sacredness found in everyday experiences. Valiente's work serves as both a guide and an inspiration for those seeking to enrich their spiritual journey.

This book is aimed at witches who want to deepen their engagement with their Craft. It explores modes and types of ritual; how rituals work; the uses of sound and silence in ritual; the witch's journey through life; the stages and pitfalls of the inner work. It shows how Queer Witchcraft is an inherent aspect of the archetype of the witch; how witchcraft relates to the land; witchcraft as resistance to oppression; working with ancestors; the witch's pact with spiritual powers; the relationship between madness, shamanism, and witchcraft; and the concept of the night journey, another very old image from the history of witchcraft; how to use insights gained from the practice of witchcraft in everyday life; group dynamics; being a coven leader; teaching and learning in a coven; egregore, lineage, upline, and downline; power and authority; the process of challenging oppression; how to evaluate your Craft; the meaning and purpose of 'spirituality', religion, and magic; the archetype of the witch and what it means.