Like a tiny altar in your pocket!

Featuring the symbols of traditional witchcraft, modern Wicca, andother pagan beliefs, the Witching Stones are a unique and fun tool fornovice witches as well as an effective divination method for moreadvanced practitioners. As you learn the meanings of each of thethirty-five Witching Stones, you will grow to understand the basicbeliefs and knowledge of the Craft.

Infinitely handy, the Witching Stones eliminate the need to carryyour cauldron and other tools on a 10-mile hike. Like a tiny altar inyour pocket, you can discreetly cast spells and perform ritualsanywhere, even at your desk or at the airport!

The accompanying guidebook provides several divination methods, anexplanation of the meaning and use of each symbol, and spells for alloccasions.

Perfect for teens and young adults interested in Wicca
Consists of 35 of the essential symbols of witchcraft carved onto moderntiles
Less complex and intimidating than other divinatory oracles such asTarot or runes
Instruction book contains seven spells for love, prosperity, protection,and more

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This learning tool for novice Witches is also an effective divinationmethod for advanced practitioners. As you learn the meanings of the 35Witching Stones - marked with symbols of traditional Witchcraft, modernWicca, and other pagan beliefs - your understanding of the Craft willgrow. With the stones in your pocket, you can discreetly cast spells andperform rituals anywhere.

The accompanying 144-page book gives the meaning and use of eachsymbol, several divination methods, and spells for all occasions. 35stones, pouch, book.

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Table of Contents:

Contents
Preface, xi
A Note on Divination & Spells, xv
Charging Your Stones, xix
Preparing Layout Space, xxi
Magic Circle, xxii
Dispersing Layout Space, xxiii
Divination Methods, 1
Three-Stone Draw * 3
The Bane Method * 5
New Moon Layout * 7
Magic Circle Layout * 9
The Stones, 11
Altar * 13
Athame * 15
Autumn * 19
Balefire * 21
Bane * 23
Besom * 25
Candle * 29
Cauldron * 33
Censer * 35
Chalice * 39
Deosil * 41
Full Moon * 43
God * 45
Goddess * 47
Herbs * 49
Magic Circle * 51
Moon * 55
Moonrise * 57
Moonset * 59
New Moon * 61
Pentacle * 63
Rebirth * 65
Salt * 67
Spring * 69
Summer * 73
Sun * 75
Sunrise * 79
Sunset * 81
Wand * 83
Waning Moon * 87
Water * 89
Waxing Moon * 91
Widdershins * 93
Wine * 95
Winter * 97
Simple Spells, 99
Banishing Negative Influences * 101
For Clarity of Thought * 105
For Strength of Spirit * 109
Achieving Balance & Equilibrium * 113
The Hunt * 117
Basic Love Spell * 121
Attracting New Love * 125
Strengthening the Bonds * 127
Rekindling a Fading Spark * 129
Drawing a Protective Circle * 131
Advanced Spells, 135
Protecting the Home * 137
Attracting Prosperity * 141
Discouraging Attention * 145
Reopening Doors of Love * 149
Creating a Lucky Stone * 153
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Excerpt: Witching Stones: For Divination, Magic & Spells

Preface

We created this book and the accompanying
stones primarily as a divination method. We believe
they will provide a means to help people begin to understand
and touch the untapped energies slumbering within
themselves.

When we chose to use the symbols of the ancient Craft
now often referred to as Wiccaas a divination method, we
also created an excellent teaching aid and starting point for
anyone interested in learning about the Craft. There are
many fine books already available that explain the Craft in
much greater detail than we could ever attempt here, and we
do not claim that this book is the ultimate authority on the
subject, only that it serves as a convenient starting point for
novice witches and pagans.

In writing this book, we have chosen to use the words
witch and pagan as interchangeable. While this may offend
some pagans who do not consider themselves witches,
and vice versa, it avoids the confusion that would have been
caused trying to differentiate between the two groups, as definitions
for these two words vary wildly in the traditions
themselves. It has often been remarked that there are just as
many definitions for the word witch as there are people
who call themselves witches.

While researching this book, we gathered an incredible
amount of conflicting information, as each pagan tradition
seems, in varying degrees, to hold different beliefs. For example,
some traditions will tell you that an esbat is strictly a
full moon ceremony, while others insist that any non-sabbat
ritual is technically an esbat, full moon or not. If you ask
any three witches to define a Book of Shadows, the first
one will tell you that its a record of coven activities, the second
will say that its a journal of your own personal growth,
and the third will insist that you're wrong and its actually
called a Mirror Book. The magical properties attributed to
certain plants often vary from witch to witch as well, even
when they live as neighbors within a small town.

This may be a source of confusion for novices, but this
also demonstrates perfectly the concept that is at the heart of
our pagan heritage: that it is the intent of the practitioner or
spellcaster, not the physical format of the spell, that really
matters.

No one tradition can be said to be more correct than
any other, and we have tried to draw from as many sources
as possible. In cases where conflicting information was
gathered, we have attempted to provide as many differing
viewpoints as seemed appropriate, without becoming
overly confusing. We apologize if your particular beliefs are
not represented here, but we welcome you to contact us regarding
them.

Within the pages of this book you will find complete instructions
on using the stones as a personal divination
method. The stones may also be used as symbolic tools in
the included rituals and spells. We have also provided some
of the historic backgrounds of the symbols used on the
stones to help you better understand their use in the Craft.

We hope that you find these stones to be helpful tools in
your journey toward self-enlightenment, toward your discovery
of yourself, and toward your discovery of the ancient
Craft.
Blessed be to you all,
P. M. Richards & M. A. Madigan