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Being a witch is not just about casting spells. It is also about the magick of nature and life. This book shows teenagers how natural magick is both quietly beautiful and unstoppably powerful, and how they can harness that energy to better their own lives. The young seeker will be introduced to the theory of witchcraft, the God and the Goddess, and ethical considerations. There are elemental meditations, correspondence charts, information on nature spirits, magickal herbalism, spells, and charms.

A down-to-earth approach to creating an enchanted home using common household and outdoor items--such as herbs, spices, dried flowers, plants, stones, and candles--teaches readers how to bring nature's magical energies indoors. Original.

Stir up passion with violet or nab a new job with honeysuckle. From parsley to periwinkle, people enjoy herbs for their aroma, taste, and healing abilities, but few are aware of the enchanting powers harnessed within these multipurpose plants. Breathing new life into herbal folklore and wisdom, Ellen Dugan introduces the magical side of these natural treasures. The author of Cottage Witchery describes the magical traits of flowers, roots, trees, spices, and other commonly found herbs. Under her guidance, readers learn the basics of magic and spellworking so they may safely explore herbal magic on their own for health, luck, prosperity, romance, protection, and more!

A natural Witch has an appreciation of nature and an awareness of the magickal energies present in all things. This kinship with the unseen world is at the heart of Witchcraft. It is also the foundation of all magickal work. You will enhance your spellcrafting, empower your witchery, and add richness and depth to your everyday life by developing your intuition and psychic skills. Natural Witchery features straightforward how-to's, first-hand stories, spells, rituals, fun quizzes, and creative exercises to help you live a more magickal life: Learn how to tune in to many different kinds of energy, such as the cycles of the moon and the energy of the seasons, and use it to fuel your spellworkExplore different types of psychic abilities, and discover your own elemental strengths and challengesUse natural witchery to create more harmony and balance in your home, workplace, and circle This friendly guidebook also includes a Book of Witchery with magickal correspondences and a handy journal section for keeping track of your progress.

Introduces the magical traits of flowers, roots, trees, spices, and other commonly found herbs, breathing new life into herbal folklore and wisdom.

Enrich your Craft - and your spirit - by working with the awesome energies of nature. In this follow-up to "Garden Witchery", Ellen Dugan takes us further down the path of green magick, revealing the secret splendours of the plant kingdom. From common herbs and flowers to enchanted shrubs and trees, Dugan digs up the magickal dirt on a wide variety of plant life. Encouraging Witches to think outside the window box, she shares ideas for incorporating your garden's bounty into spellwork, sabbat celebrations, and more. Tips for container gardening ensure that city Witches can get in on the green action, too. This stimulating guide to green Witchery - featuring botanical illustrations of nearly fifty fascinating specimens - will inspire you to personalize your Craft and fortify your connection to the earth.

Financial prosperity is within reach for everyone. Let Ellen Dugan show you how to work magick to achieve abundance and transform bad luck to good luck. Filled with humour and no-nonsense advice, Practical Prosperity Magick features: * spells, charms, and rituals for creating wealth * tips for working with the law of attraction * how-to instructions for herbs and crystals * good-luck charms and talismans * techniques for solitary and group rituals Break down the blocks that have kept you from achieving your goals. Using the four elements as the foundations for prosperity, this down-to-earth guide explores the seven Hermetic laws and planetary techniques to help you stay upbeat and draw money quickly. Ellen Dugan's user-friendly style makes prosperity magick safe, practical, and easy-and above all, it works.

An old family prophecy spoke of a hidden star, and now she's been found.Estella Flores Midnight is recently unemployed, on her own and broke. At the darkest point of her life, she discovers that her paternal grandmother is not only living, but that the woman has been searching for her-for years.If that wasn't shocking enough, Estella learns that she has three half-sisters as well, and they've all invited her to come and stay with them. With nothing to lose, she travels to the historic riverside village of Ames Crossing, Illinois.A loner by nature, Estella isn't completely comfortable with the Midnights and their generosity. She's barely arrived when she discovers a family wedding is days away, and at the reception Estella comes face to face with a man who seems oddly familiar. Chauncey Marquette is a dead ringer for his infamous ancestor Pierre-Michel Marquette.However, there's more to the Midnights than meets the eye. Estella can accept and even embrace her family's wise woman traditions, but unfortunately she has bigger problems. It seems that the past and the present are now running in circles. Dreams, d j vu, and waking visions begin to plague Estella which forces her in to looking for reasons as to why.Are the memories of a pair of star-crossed lovers from the 1840's somehow magickally influencing her actions? All Estella wanted was a chance to make a new life for herself-the past should stay buried where it belongs, but clearly the local ghosts have other ideas.

The search for the Blood Moon Grimoire continues...Welcome back to William's Ford, Missouri. The bewitching college town where magick and weirdness seems to happen on any day of the week that ends with the letter 'Y'. Autumn Bishop, grad student, Seer, and the newest Witch in town, has her hands full in the second installment of the Legacy of Magick Series. Her relationship with Duncan is heating up, and she is finally finding some normalcy in her new life. But things are never as they appear in William's Ford, and Autumn's path is not an easy one. Grisly poppets are being discovered, and they are linked to a series of accidents involving teenage girls. Added to this, a mysterious, yet kindly new ghost has begun to haunt Autumn at the Manor- just in time for Samhain. The ghostly visits are filled with distracting clues-clues to a long held skeleton in the family closet and the possible location of more pages from the lost Blood Moon Grimoire.As Autumn digs into her own past for answers, she discovers a decades- old- lie and heartbreaking secrets which could drive Autumn's new-found family apart. Deception, division, and death haunt Autumn and all of the Bishops. Will she be able to rise to the challenge of her legacy of magick and uncover the secret of the rose in time?

Is she a good Witch, or a bad Witch? Holly Bishop, the darkest practitioner of her entire family line returns home after almost three years living as a mundane, a very changed young woman. Determined to start fresh, she begins by rebuilding her relationship with her family, even as she keeps a heartbreaking secret. While she was away, life has gone on for the rest of the Bishops, and Holly struggles to find her place in William's Ford, and in her family once again. Transferring to the local university is the least of Holly's problems. She is constantly tempted to use her empathic abilities and now that she is back home, her newer and stronger powers are attempting to break loose. When an adversary returns seeking revenge, Holly ultimately pays a hard price and then falls under suspicion due to her family's legacy of magick, and her own troubled past. Now Holly realizes that she must cast off the fear she has carried, re-embrace magick, and accept her powers. But things are never quite as they seem in William's Ford... ghostly visitors, missing family heirlooms, mysterious ancestors, rogue love spells, and finally a forbidden romance challenge Holly at every turn. Can she manage to walk the line between light and dark, love and hate and still maintain her own hard-won moral code? What will happen now that she's accepted her true magickal path and let her emotions and passions free? Ellen Dugan is the award winning author of seventeen metaphysical non-fiction titles. She branched out into fiction in 2015 with her paranormal series "Legacy Of Magick". Ellen lives an enchanted life in Missouri. Visit her website at www.ellendugan.com

She's a Gypsy at heart...What's it like living in a town made famous by the witchcraft trials? Not bad actually, but when you're the only member of the town's most prominent Gypsy family with no occult powers to speak of...it's not an easy road to walk.Meet Nilah Stefanik. She's sassy, smart and fresh out of grad school. With a ton of student debt, she's taken a "dead-end" office job at the Fogg Funeral Home in Danvers, Massachusetts. It's a toss-up as to what her family disapproves of more...her current place of employment, or that she has no discernible psychic or magickal talents of any kind.Nilah comes from a long line of Polska Roma fortune tellers, mystics, and psychics. Her grandmother, the incomparable Madame Sabina, is an institution in Danvers. Unfortunately, that talent skipped Nilah...or so the family always believed. Now, paranormal predicaments confound Nilah and draw her into a mystery just in time for Halloween. Deep down, Nilah is a Gypsy at heart, and with a little help from her grandmother and a trouble-making ghost, Nilah may at last uncover the truth about herself and her destiny.

There are many dark secrets in the village of Ames Crossing, Illinois...To the locals, Amanda Beaumont is the classy and soft spoken librarian who dates Deputy Zakary Parker. She lives quietly, content with her cat and cherished books in the old house at the base of the cliffs. But, the truth is nothing like it seems as Amanda is actually a daughter of Midnight, and the keeper of a chilling heritage.Amanda is a Guardian, and duty bound to protect the village. If you thought she was scary when your library books were overdue, you should see her at her other job. In her secret profession she takes on only the most severe paranormal cases, and battles the evilest of foes...The closer she gets to Zakary, the more complications her duty causes her. Preserving the illusion of the reserved librarian is playing hell on her romance with the deputy. As a Guardian, her calling requires that she maintain her cover, and keep the paranormal world hidden from the public.But secrets, even old ones, have a way of revealing themselves. Can Zakary accept the truth of who she really is? Or will the kind and handsome Deputy be her undoing?

Everybody's favorite gothic Witch has her hands full this December...Ivy Bishop has plenty to keep her busy this Yuletide season. Over the past few years she's been hard at work establishing her career, and now she has landed a lucrative gig shooting holiday photos at the local Christmas tree farm. The picturesque property offers amazing natural backdrops for her photography. It has rolling fields of evergreens, ancient apple trees covered in mistletoe, and it also runs adjacent to a wooded park, where, rumor has it, a monster has been lurking.When Ivy is approached by a family friend about the attack that he and his friends experienced, she decides do a little investigating on her own. This isn't the first time that the creature was reported...But now legend and myth are becoming all too real. If that wasn't enough to keep her on her toes, Ivy must find a way to get along with the cynical-yet annoyingly handsome-owner of the farm. Fortunately for Ivy, she's never been attracted to the rugged, down-to-earth types. Unfortunately, the longer she's at the Christmas tree farm the more her feelings involving a certain gorgeous yet pain-in-the-ass man begin to grow.They say, what happens under the mistletoe stays under the mistletoe. But that may no longer be an option for our snarky heroine. While Yuletide may be a season of magick and peace, for Ivy Bishop, the holidays just got very complicated.

Midnight Masquerade: Book 2 in the Daughter Of Midnight seriesHow much trouble can a little magick cause?Gabriella (Ella) Midnight is the dependable middle sister of her family. Working from home, where she likes it best, she designs both websites and the occasional book covers for her clients. But she has a little secret-she's head-over-heels in love with the hunky owner of the local garden center. The problem is, Max thinks of her as his best friend.When her clients throw a fancy masquerade party to celebrate the grand opening of their winery, Gabriella decides to cast a glamour on herself to bolster her confidence. With the hopes that if she's finally brave enough to tell Max her true feelings he will see behind the mask of friendship she's been wearing for the past two years and love her in return.But the magick takes an unexpected twist, and Gabriella's evening doesn't turn out quite how she planned. In the shadows of the old house on the cliffs, she meets Philippe Marquette, and the enigmatic Frenchman is the last thing she would have ever expected to conjure into her life. Seems that glamour spell ended up working...maybe a little too well...and in a way she never would have imagined. However, there is always a price to be paid for magick, and when Gabriella realizes what the cost of her spell is, she is forced to keep an even bigger secret. In one night the path of her life has irrevocably changed and now she must face the consequences of the midnight masquerade

Midnight Prophecy: Book 3 in the Daughters Of Midnight seriesThe prophecy awaits...Camilla (Cammy) Midnight is the youngest sister of the daughters of Midnight. Organized and confident, the pink-haired wise woman has her future all neatly mapped out. She is on the brink of launching her own business, and Camilla has no time for distractions or romance.Camilla meets Jacob, the landscaper in charge of redesigning the gardens of the old haunted house on the cliffs. The rugged, single father is unquestionably attractive, and his five-year old son is absolutely adorable. Despite herself, Camilla is smitten, until she realizes that the landscaper is a skeptic. While Jake has been captivated by Cammy and her edgy style, she tries to dismiss him and his narrow-minded attitude. What he assumes is all a joke, for Camilla is an essential part of who she is. Nevertheless, something keeps pulling the two of them together.Destiny, it seems cannot be denied. Now Camilla and Jacob must solve a one hundred and seventy year old mystery that links both their families with a tragic part of history from their beloved hometown. Something seems to have the local ghost ramping up her activity, and even Jacob has to admit that there's something spooky going on in that old mansion on the cliffs.Camilla knows magick, but she never expected to deal with historic prophecies and curses. Can a skeptical man learn to believe in magick? Can a wise woman, embrace the fate that was prophesied for her almost two centuries before?

Book 9 in the Legacy Of Magick seriesDark, light, or somewhere in between?Magnolia (Maggie) Parrish is descended from two powerful magickal lines; the Bishops and the Drakes. Yet despite her impressive lineage, she is a most reluctant Witch. Years before, Maggie turned her back on her mother's dark magick, and is completely determined to give her own young child all the stability, normalcy, and happiness that she, herself, never had.Maggie is a professional event coordinator with a solid reputation. There is no bride she can't wrangle, and no event she can't handle with a combination of hard work, intuition, and a little southern charm. She can work just about anywhere, so when the opportunity arises Maggie gladly accepts the job of coordinating her new-found cousin, Autumn Bishop's, wedding. All she has to do is put the past behind her, load up her car, and relocate from Louisiana to Williams Ford, Missouri with her four-year-old daughter, Willow.The presence of a Bishop-Drake hybrid has set the inhabitants of William's Ford on their ears. Everyone in town is talking, and Maggie tries to ignore it, determined to build a good life despite the intrigue that surrounds her. She meets mystery writer, Wyatt Hastings and finds him odd-yet somehow charming. As Maggie builds up her business, she and Wyatt begin to grow closer.However, there is a sinister side to William's Ford that Maggie is unaware of, and that many in town seem to have forgotten about. Some legacies cannot be denied, and Maggie is forced to come to terms with her past and her own dark power.