Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Career Press; Exp Rev edition July 4, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1564148866
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1564148865
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 3.2 ounces
Product Description
Once again, Wiccan families can take heart! Family Wicca is back - revised and expanded!
More than ten years ago, it was the first book written specifically for Wiccan parents. Now it's the 21st century's best reference for the still growing number of neo-Pagan parents who want to introduce their children to the principles of their religion. Like Ashleen's other books, it's written from her perspective as a Wiccan, but it's easy for Asatruar and Druids to "translate" and use, too.
In Family Wicca, priestess, wife, and mother Ashleen O'Gaea offers encouragement, shares her own family's experiences, discusses real-life challenges and how to deal with them, and provides a wealth of simple rituals and inexpensive projects that will enhance your family's life in every way.
Learn to ground your family in Wicca without devaluing other religionsexplain life, sex, and, death compassionately and with calm common sense. Live mythicallyand joyfully celebrate the passages in your life. Not only will you find lots of ideas to use right away, you'll also refer to this book again and again as your traditions grow with your family. It includes, for example:
• Answers to hard questions about the faith from children and non-Wiccan family and friends. • Ways to put Charge of the Child into practice. • Blessings for daily events and spells for daily problems. • Tips on celebrating the Sabbats through camping and other outdoor activities. • Projects to do together, such as making brooms, banners, calendars, and coloring books.
Wicca's families are Wicca's future. The need for mutual support is increasing - and Family Wicca is revised and expanded to answer that need for another generation.
Publisher Description
"Down to earth advice on sharing the Wiccan religion with your children, parents, and other family members, whether you are an experienced or brand new Wiccan." —Isaac Bonewits, author of Bonewit's Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
"Ashleen O'Gaea has made a powerful and comprehensive book even more valuable with this second edition of Family Wicca. This book should be on the bookshelf of every modern Wiccan family for the Charge of the Child alone. It truly gave me goosebumps. Family Wicca offers Wiccan and other Pagan families projects that everyone can share in as well as age-appropriate magic, tools, and rites. This book really does cover just about everything you need to raise children in the Craft with creativity, magic, and honor." —Kristin Madden, homeschooling mom and author of Magickal Crafts, Pagan Parenting, and Pagan Homeschooling
"Family Wicca represents the rebirth of a book that the community craves. Wiccan practitioners are welcoming new generations of children every day. This book will grow with us, and nurture our families with Spirit, magick, and love." —Patricia Telesco, author of Kitchen Witch's Guide to Brews and Potions and 365 Goddess
"Family Wicca is still relevant and useful to this family more than a decade later. I can't imagine any Pagan Parenting library being complete without it." —W. Lyon Martin; author of the Pagan children's book An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child
Reader ReviewsThis is a new and revised edition of the very popular book by this author. I even had a friendto me that she had seen this new version and wanted to know if I had read it. Well, I did. While containing much of the older and basic material, there is much new. The book approaches whole family practice, and the raising of a child in our belief system. It discusses social, magical, political topics and more, giving us a grounding in our own basic principles so we can easily pass these along to our children. There is a basic outline of modern Wicca and the family, Sabbats, specifics to raising children in the Craft, answering those questions that you didn't think you could answer, rites of passage, Wheel of the year and more. The first book was a very good and useful tool for the Wiccan family. This updated version still finds practical advices, good overviews of the practice and Ms. Ogaea's simple yet elegant writing style that makes this a good choice for anyone looking for a guidebook for bringing Wicca into a family practice. boudica
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