Femme Occulte: 2023 Issue 16 Winter - The Pentacle
After a year of focused work with magical tools and beings inhabiting both our soul and the outer astral world, winter is a time of grounding. In this issue, we invite you to take a peaceful walk through slumbering nature, whose elemental gifts have woven a wreath of knowledge adorned with four candles in the colours of the four seasons. This wreath is carried on the head of a beautiful being of light, Lucia, to bless our days.
But she does not walk the following pages alone. Many other goddesses, beings, and souls, or parts of the soul, walk with her amongst the stones adorned with the scent of mineral incense. These are the Slavic Morana, the Celtic Rhiannon, the Tarot Princess of Pentacles, the personal spirit animal or guardian, and the psychologically conceived parts of ourselves, the anima and animus. The howling of a wolf pack accompanies the procession.
They pause for a brief moment, perhaps, to pick mistletoe, coltsfoot, or lady’s mantle, plants that so perfectly represent the element of Earth and the disc symbol in their several forms through leaves, flowers, and fruits. The green and yellow-brown hues are covered by a milky white, silky smooth mist in the basket of the coming cold season, which curls into a snow roll with a whiff of our recipes.
We can take this energy home, where we consecrate the pentacle, the earthly instrument of the witch's altar. How do we use it afterwards? The authors of our chapters will tell us about their journeys and the use of the symbols of Winter and Earth.
80 pages
B5 (9.9 x 6.9 inch / 25 x 17.5 cm)
FSC certified paper
Digital print
Perfect-bound paperback
Full-colour photography and illustrations
