Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven

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I’ve realized that the reason I haven’t been doing Goddess work is because I’m mentally uncomfortable with myself as a woman, and I could use some reclaiming of that. Capitalising on the rising trend of hipster witchcraft, BASIC WITCHES is a lighthearted and empowering book of spells and lifestyle tips for feisty millennial women. It suggests using more masculine accessories like ties or wristwatches as talismans, or charging your body wash or deodorant if you don’t like perfume.

Don't be mistaken though, the book doesn't apply to a specific gender and the authors make a lot of effort to give alternatives to feminine ideas that are expressed throughout the book. Jest tu sporo ciałopozytywności, dużo o pozbywaniu się nawyku piorytetyzowania w naszym życiu potrzeb innych, sporo o konsensualności praktyk seksualnych i prawach reprodukcyjnych itd.

It's cute, the illustrations are badass, and it's got some great tips for success as an adult in there.

This method of physical and mental alignment harkens to how incorporating long-term goals into your daily routine helps you to become your best self. I had my eyes on this book for some time and I knew I wasn’t going to like it but I gave it a chance. Honestly, it’s the part of magic and occultism that I struggle the most with, since I’m not really inclined towards positive thinking.I seem to always struggle with finding friends that like me for me and not only when they need something. While it is inclusive of non-binary and masculine genders, you can tell that this book was written by two women. Women do risk social exclusion and being shamed if they dare to embrace their sexualities, so anything that helps women do that is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. I also admire the emphasis this book places on being self-aware and vulnerable, letting your friends see your demons. But it’s a great guide to useful everyday spellcraft like “How to Clothe Yourself in Literal Darkness,” “A Spell to Ditch Friend Envy,” and “A Spell for Embracing Failure.

I’m sorry but I don’t know any practicing witch who would say that The Craft was a positive influence. Here’s the problem — Hands-On Chaos Magic devoted entire chapters to explaining how to properly use the techniques described in this spell. A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates.

For us lazy witches, or maybe busy witches who don't have time for long, drawn out magic rituals, this does a great job at conveying the message that powerful magic can be short and affordable. There’s no purpose to it, especially if we’re using it to mean “dating someone out of social obligation/horniness even when you don’t really want a partner. Mixing fitness with comedy, Stasia is like the human version of an energy drink, speaking her mind no matter what people think.

You can also allow God or the Universe to bring you someone with enough of your ideal qualities that you’ll be happy.It’s only a small step from this to actually enchanting clothing by charging it with a particular emotional state, if it isn’t charged already. Thankfully, this book offers another solution in the form of a spell for personal demon exorcism that promises to help you weaken and eventually evict unwelcome mental guests. Although the authors tried to provide some, although painfully limited, historical background to the art of magick, I felt more like reading a Tumblr blog than a real book. I like the association of different haircuts with different kinds of spells, though — a shaved head is a banishing that gets rid of everything you don’t want, a pixie cut is a binding spell that is both masculine and feminine, asymmetrical hair is an illusion spell that looks different from different angles, etc. Hoverer, high amount of political correctness does not fit very well devils and witchcraft metaphors.