Ly De Angeles

SAVAGE - BODYWORKHealth, nutrition, resistance training wildcraft wisdom and a touch of witchAs a young witch, de Angeles learned the of the body/mind/spirit connection. Of living true to oneself and earth. As feisty and formidable as a wild creature at forty, and for many years after, all that knowledge seemed to unwillingly desert her. Because of menopause. Because of betrayal and the social bigotry of gender/age shaming. Warrior-trained, she summoned her inner champion, climbed the abyss of commonly-held profiling and rediscovered the seemingly-forgotten art of living beyond them. Author, witch, healer and scholar, she writes Savage - Bodywork to reassure all women and the odd bloke, to not despair. Take up the cause of self-determination. Be strong, and proud of how you live and who you are. Be that hoodoo hussy they all thought was an insult.At competition-level bodybuilding aged sixty-six, de Angeles teaches the weaving, howling, disgraceful and unconditional journey of limitless individuality.

What if we don't grow up? What if we grow in? If time does not go from the past to the future, what really happens. What if, like pearls on a string, you are the whole necklace? How do you know when you are? How do you know who else you are? A tribal people, and the initiates of a current science and mysticism, now live in and around the red desert of Kata Tjuta, on the continent once known as Australia. During a seasonal gathering a tarot seer predicts both a war and an unprecedented seismic event. And yet what if this has already happened? What if records were kept but understanding lost? When Ghost takes possession of an empty book with a red leather cover she teaches herself the almost defunct art of writing. What she doesn't yet realize is how deeply into the mists of myth her record is destined to travel. Or how it will impact the inhabitants of that same land, thousand of years after the coming Ice Age. What if time is a fractal, forever mimicking itself. Like seasons? Like life? Would we do things differently if we knew?

MAGIC, MYTH AND MYSTERYThe rust bucket of a truck bumps down the track towards the highway, and Robin and Rose's eyes are fixed on the road ahead, him seeming to look for potholes that could crack the axle while actually keeping the spell strong, so she never thinks to look back. Before time came into existence there was only forever. Before the us we've come to relate to--cell phone and air travel and debt--there was wilderness. Oceans, vast skies, mountain chains frozen or volcanic, seasons of swelter or snow, endless, unchainsawed forests, and the s dhe mound beneath roundhouse fortress known as Castle Pook. There was fear, explicable only through tales of wonders and monsters.When Rose's father Ail n--a storyteller, Irish seanacha --is murdered, seemingly senselessly, Rose buries him in Ireland near the grave of her mother. With secrets being unearthed, of gypsy magic, king's legends, and horsehair talismans, Rose is thrust into a way of seeing the world--an understanding of love--she never would have thought possible if he had not died. A deal made with a faerie man long ago.Is anything random? Or is everything that happens predestined?Robin leans in closely, intimately. "And in the lighted palace near, died the sound of royal cheer; and they crossed themselves for fear, all the Knights at Camelot..."Beginning with The Quickening, then The Shining Isle, UNDER SNOW is book 3 of the Traveler Series.

Life continues beyond a cataclysm of climate disaster and, unlike the militarized and corporate dimness of sectors of the northern hemisphere, the southern lands have recovered.

Witchcraft is as old as humanity. In the caves of Lascaux, in modern day France, are the images of the magic of the summoning of the hunt, painted perhaps 20,000 years ago. On the tundra of Siberia, the shaman is summoning a soul back to the body of an ill child, and they do not die. The Northern Paiute introduce the Ghost Dance to unite the living with the dead, to achieve the numbers necessary to defeat the invaders. In Australia an Illapurinja, a woman kurdaitcha, points the bone, and causes a just death, to avenge a severe wrong. Witch is anarchist. Witch is also heretical, in the original meaning of the word: the right to choose. Anarchist, not in the politically divisive slander of misrule, rioting and carnage, but in the sense of having and requiring no leader. Witch is the soughing of a breeze in the treetops and waves, like kelpies, in a hurricane. Witch is desert, and the cobbled lanes of Melbourne, Birmingham, New York, Prague and Brasilia. Witch is the whir and hum of a spindle, binding those known to harm others, with each action. Witchcraft is not a religion. We do not worship. To know more is to read these pages. This gathering of, (mainly) Celtic lore, as well as contemplations, span fifteen years of the author' life. It is hoped some of this work will assist witches, still trapped by the bigotry and condemnation of societal stereotyping, to be true to their practices. To no longer feel the need to explain. This is for my friends, all over the world, who have long informed me they don't want, or need another 101, or 'how to' manual. Come and sit with me. The woodstove is warm, and the candles are lit. I'll make us both strong coffee, or gentle tea. Put your bare feet up on my table, or the hound's'll make you wish you'd taken some advice. Make yourself at home and... stick around a spell.

THE SKELLIGLy de Angeles & Melaine KnightThe year is 2156. Dystopia. Misrule. Pirates, badlands, transdrones, cowboys, rebellion. THE SKELLIG is a story of hope and redemption where hard tech and stainless steel meets legend and myth. The skellig

The year is 2156. Dystopia. Misrule. Pirates, badlands, transdrone sex slaves, cowboys, rebellion. THE SKELLIG is the story of hope and redemption where hard tech and stainless-steel meet legend and myth.The skellig is a shape-shifter who goes by the name of Gamble. She's all woman. Most of the time. On the black of the moon she's another creature altogether, a deal she made, with the soul of earth known as the Grace, a few thousand years ago. Sometimes, over a couple of days, she's a bit of both. A desperate escape across the border is the only hope for thousands of runaways. Guided by an indigenous and immortal starman, the shape-shifting skellig, a Maori mystic and a good-looking scientist, who should be the enemy but is not, they make the journey. Bull and Rattlesnake Lil drive an Airstream, the Midnight Express, packed to the rafters with escapees and hybrids. Alice, in his armored all-terrain tank, raises his rainbow pennant on a fifteen-foot high middle-finger to the drone-swarms overhead. A militarized force, not far behind, is intent on annihilation. Freedom is beyond the northern border, a mighty, raging river, guarded by a mythic race called lfur. It is live free or die.

INITIATION is a memoir that reflects on the moral and ideological changes from the past to the present. Written in a perennial voice de Angeles, born in an era of woman-shaming for difference or sexually unacceptable behaviour, was sold to strangers for 300 by nuns, promptly forgotten, her identity thought erased forever, she was always going to be what others perceive as trouble. De Angeles rewilds her own story and transforms cultural stereotypes into a language of honestty and unapologetic witchcraft. "We are the stories not bound by dogma or displayed as relics in a museum. We cause disquiet. We summon questions but it's not our way to give answers. We take you to the wild and the frightening places. The cave entrance under the ice at the base of that crevasse. Blue handprints on the rock face imprinted with an ochre of confusion. By people no one can name and from a time no human being can confirm. Once Upon a Time people. People of the reindeer. Volcano people.". INITIATION recalls an age, seemingly forgotten in an era of sexual and gender acceptance, of lies and christian fists. Fogetting is the sleep of freedom, she says, of the baby-scoop era, when girls as young as her own mother were forced, by shame and threat, to vanish their newborn children, supposedly in-perpetuity. She knows it is still happening. Children remain a form of currency to those who have the money to acquire one. This is not over and slavery is a hall of many mirrors.

Initiation is a memoir that reflects on the moral and ideological changes of the last sixty years. Written in a perennial voice de Angeles, witch, rewilds her own story and transforms cultural stereotypes into the language of myth.Witch people, like magicians and sorcerers, conjurers, druids and hoodoo hexers, like cunning women and cunning men, kadaichas, shamans, manitous, angakoks, curanderas, bruxas, noadis, enchanters and shapechangers are needed in this world. They are the stories not bound by dogma or displayed as relics in a museum. They cause disquiet. They summon questions but it's not their way to give answers. They take us to the wild and the frightening places. The cave entrance under the ice at the base of that crevasse. Blue handprints on the rock face imprinted with an ochre of confusion. By people we cannot name and from a time we cannot confirm. Once Upon a Time people. People of the reindeer. Volcano people.Born in 1951 and put up for adoption, de Angeles was sold by the church for 300. She was always going to be a problem.

Celtic mysticism, prior to the Roman invasion of Britain, is written in a scholarly but storytelling weaving - a tapestry of history - because this knowledge would otherwise be hidden. Many books have attempted to present the animism of the tribal people of Albion, called priten for the tattoo art (called "painted people") and most have failed for one reason: the indigenous peoples are described in the past tense, alleging that they have long since died out. The invaders, genocidal perpetrators and colonisers of what is now known as England, Scotland and Wales, Ireland, the Outer Hebrides and more, have attempted to eradicate the lore, law, customs, language, culture and spirituality of us, these first people. In many instances rape and assimilation through force have come close to breeding us out. De Angeles delivers the soul of an ancient but living people, their valour and humor, the struggles they fight to maintain a traditional way of life, and that still live. The author is a direct descendant of Caradoc ap Cunobelin, one of those struggling for self determination.To many reading this it will be the first time they have heard the names of these historic people, let alone celebrate their kinship with them. This could very well be your own family. Forgetting is the sleep of freedom.

The Celtic magic and mysticism, prior to the Roman invasion of Britain, is written in a scholarly but storytelling weaving - a tapestry of history - because this story would not be true otherwise. Many books have attempted to present the paganism of the P/Briteni people and most have failed for one simple reason: the indigenous inhabitants are described in the past tense, alleging that they have long since died out. The brutal invaders, killers and colonisers of what is now known as England, Scotland and Wales have attempted to eradicate the lore, law, customs, language, culture and spirituality of those first people. In many instances rape and assimilation through force would have come close to breeding us out. De Angeles delivers the soul of an ancient and magical people, their valour and humour, the battles they fight to maintain a traditional way of life, and that still live. The author is a direct descendant of Caradoc, one of the heroes in that distant pasts' struggle for self determination.To many reading this it will be the first time they have heard the names of these historic people, let alone celebrate their kinship with them. This could very well be your own family.Forgetting is the sleep of freedom.

MAGDALENE - The Witch of the Grail Legends, is the grail queen of The Templar Legacy. Miriam, young, na ve priestess of Asherah is of the royal Hasmonean bloodline and is the chosen initiatrix of a priest-king, Yeshuah ben Miriam and mother-to-be of their daughter. Set between Judea, Cornwall, Glastonbury, the Druid isle of Mona and the mists of Ireland, Miriam - visionary and prophet - becomes a stranger to the woman she once was, stronger in the face of the savagery and brutality of war than she ever would have thought possible, closer than even she could have believed to the powers within nature to heal in the face of adversity. This is a controversial love story and an adventure into consciousness. Complete with an extensive glossary and bibliography de Angeles' tops off the book with GOD'S BASTARDS, an addendum of research and commentary.

Explains the tenets of witchcraft and its methodology, and describes how to invoke and utilize powers of nature, identify and interpret omens, and practice simple spells.