Serpents of Circe
A Manual to Magical Resilience
edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón
122 pages / September 2024 / 9781947544611
Serpents of Circe is a handbook is designed to serve as a collection of ideas to teach, share, inspire, empower, protect, and guide. Within its pages are sigils, spells, recipes, essays, invocations, rituals, and more, all gathered from experienced magical practitioners. At your fingertips is an arsenal of tools to aid you on your path.
With contributions by: Adam Black, Alicia “Jynx” Vervain, Christopher Michael, Claire Christine Sargenti, Dave Gaddy, Elhoim Leafar, Elyse Welles, Emiliano Russo, Emma Kathryn, Enfys J. Book, Irisanya Moon, Ivo Dominguez Jr., J. R. Mascaro, Joey Morris, Julie Nowak, Kajira Djoumahna, Kerri A. Horine, Luxa Strata, Mat Auryn, Michelle Cunningham, Moss Matthey, Rev. Dr. P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, Phoenix LeFae, Raven Edgewalker, Richard Levy, Sawyer Massie, Shannon Rose Raison, Sophia Kirke, Terrance Gamble, Victoria Raschke, and Vittorio Benetti.
Every purchase of this book will raise $2, split between a non-profit or mutual-aid organization committed to community-building and sustainability. The selected organizations are:
- Feeding America (https://www.feedingamerica.org/), the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States.
- Sins Invalid (https://www.sinsinvalid.org/), a disability justice performance project that centers people of color, queer, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities.
Orders will begin shipping August 27th.
Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience (The New Aradia, Volume III)
The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance and The Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance have helped to empower people with magical tools of resistance during this time of uncertainty. Within their pages are sigils, spells, recipes, essays, invocations, rituals, and more, all gathered from experienced magical practitioners from around the world. In addition to serving as a tool for inspiration, teaching, and guidance, these magical tomes have had a real world impact, helping to raise just over $6000 for organizations such as Emily’s List, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Holler Health Rising.
Serpents of Circe follows in the footsteps of the first two volumes in The New Aradia series, collecting the wisdom and lived experiences of over three dozen magical practitioners, activists, and teachers worldwide to serve as inspiration and a roadmap to crafting inclusive, inspired communities. The shift from “resistance” to “resilience” in this edition is in preparation for the next step in building solidarity, enhancing awareness, fostering sustainability, and establishing long-term goals that affect us all locally and globally.
So why have we chosen “Serpents of Circe” as a title? In keeping with the mythic realm of Aradia and the Gorgons, we are turning to Circe as inspiration for our third volume. Daughter of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse, Circe is a goddess of sorcery and said to be the first Witch in Greek Mythology. She was highly skilled in the magics of transmutation, herbalism and potion-making, as well as necromancy. Spiritually and metaphysically, serpents are beings of creation, renewal, and transformation as well as protectors and guides to the underworld. The combined energy of these two ideas speak to an evolving legacy of magic rooted in wisdom, sustainability, empowerment, flexibility, and practicality.
Introduction
Laura Tempest Zakroff
Invocation of the Dark Goddess
Sawyer Massie
Entering Sacred Space: An Invocation and Meditation
Kerri A. Horine
The Living Democracy Sigil
Laura Tempest Zakroff
Linkages & Materia for Political Workings
Ivo Dominguez Jr.
A Spell of Strength for Those Seeking Justice
Luxa Strata
Safety Pins Protection Magick
Vittorio Benetti
Braiding Spell for a Better World
Claire Christine Sargenti
Serpent Medicine for Personal Alchemy: A Guided Visualization
Christopher Michael
Circe: Witch and Weaver: A Knot Spell for Protection
Emiliano Russo
Kindness Revival Sigil:
Laura Tempest Zakroff
The Danger of Spiritual Bypassing
Moss Matthey
Circe’s Hibiscus Tea: An Enchanting Drink
Sophia Kirke
The Potions of Circe
Phoenix LeFae
Invoking the Gate of Reparation
J.R. Mascaro
Lessons of Circe: The Island of the Self
Joey Morris
Creatures of Resistance: Nature’s Nonbinary Spirits of Protection
Elyse Welles
An Accessible Nature Connection Practice: Building Resilience in Social Justice Movements
Julie Nowak
Serpent Stones: Earth Magic for Protection & Resilience
Michelle Cunningham
The Magic of Reweaving
Shannon Rose Raison
A Reversible Anti-Anxiety Sigil
Kajira Djoumahna
The Calling of the Snakes
Raven Edgewalker
Dedicating to the Dreadful Circe
Irisanya Moon
Circe: Lessons from the First Lycanthropist
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
Cloak of the Silver Serpent
Mat Auryn
To Call upon the Family of the Sun
Terrance Gamble
A Spray a Day Keeps the Magic Your Way
Richard Levy
A Petition to Isis
Victoria Raschke
Shifting Perspective Sigil
Laura Tempest Zakroff
Dear Transphobe, Thanks for the $400
Ron Padrón
Lessons from Queen Nanny: Solidarity & Mutual Aid
Emma Kathryn
Being Radically Resilient: A Journey of Identity and Liberation
Sawyer Massie & Adam Black
We Are Nothing Without our Dead
Ron Padrón
Ancestral Spiderweb Ward: A Spell for Resilience
Elhoim Leafar
Using an App to Grow Closer during Times of Adversity
Enfys J. Book
Where Do I Go from Here?
Dave Gaddy, The Weathered Wiseman
The Aequitas Sigil
Laura Tempest Zakroff
The Work of Us, In This Moment
Alicia “Jynx” Vervain
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Resources
About the Editor
Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs. Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Anatomy of a Witch Oracle and The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance and the Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance from Revelore Press. Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide. www.lauratempestzakroff.com
About the Editor
Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small cryptid dog. He has been a member of the pagan community for nearly two decades with specific interests in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, hedge witchery, and spiritual activism. He is the creator of White Rose Witching through which he manages a blog sharing Queer Ancestor Spotlights and rituals. He has presented at gatherings such as the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Hallowed Homecoming, Free Spirit Gathering, various Pagan Pride Days, historic sites, and small museums on topics such as colonial witchcraft politics, spiritual activism, and queer-affirming spirituality.
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