Wiccan Exploration - Mirrors, Smoke and Shadows

Reading List

The following is a list culled from a number of different sources. Some are from the web and some are from classes or presentations that I have attended. These sources include Covenant of the Goddess, Circle of The Goddess, ecauldron, Witchvox and a list from Victoria Voigt presentation at a BAPA Gaia's Gateway.

I have not included publishers and dates of publication in most instances. If you're looking at this on the web you can find that information through various web search tools or bookseller sites. Some of these books are out of print but may still be available through various sources.

Adler, Margot - Drawing Down the Moon (VVF)(COG)(WV)(EC)(COTG)(BAPA)
Agrippa, Henry C. - Three Books of Occult Philosophy of Magic
Amber K - Covencraft: Witchcraft for Three or More (COG)
Amber K - True Magick (COG)
Anderson, Cora - Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition ** (COG)
Anderson, Victor - Thorns of the Blood Rose ** (VVF)(COG)
Aoumiel - Green Witchcraft, Volumes 1 and 2. St. (COTG)
Ardinger, Barbara - A Woman's Book of Rituals and Celebrations (COG)(BAPA)
Arrien, Angeles - The Tarot Handbook. (COTG)
Arroyo, Stephen - Astrology, Karma and Transformation (WV)
Arthur, Elizabeth - Binding Spell (fiction) (WV)
Ashcroft-Norwicki, Dolores - First Steps in Ritual: Safe and Effective Techniques for Experiencing the Inner Worlds. (COTG)

Bardon, Franz - Initiation into Hermetics : The Path of the True Adept
Barrett, Judith - Sex Signs (A Women's Guide to Love, Men, Sex, Anger & Personal Power) (WV)
Benham - Patrick - The Avalonians (WV)
Beyerl, Paul - A Compendium of Herbal Magick (COTG)(BAPA)
Beyerl, Paul - The Master Book of Herbalism (WV)(COTG)
Blacksun - The Spell of Making (EC)
Boer (translated by) - The Homeric Hymns (VVF)
Bolen, Jean Shinoda, M.D. - Goddesses in Everywoman (WV)
Bolen, Jean Shinoda, M.D. - Gods in Everyman (WV)
Bonewits, Isaac - Real Magic (VVF)(BAPA)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer - Firebrand (fiction) (WV)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer - The Mists of Avalon (fiction) (VVF)(WV)
Briggs, Katherine - An Encyclopedia of Fairies (WV)
Buckland, Raymond - Buckland's Complete Book Of Witchcraft (WV)(COTG)
Buckland, Raymond - Practical Candleburning (BAPA)
Buckland, Raymond - The Tree: the Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft (COG)
Buckland, Raymond - Witchcraft from the Inside (COG)
Budapest, Z - The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (COG)(BAPA)
Budge, E.A. Wallis - The Book of The Dead (COTG)

Cabot, Laurie & Cowan, Tom - Power of the Witch (WV)(BAPA)
Callenbach, Richard - Ecotopia (VVF)
Campanelli, Pauline - The Wheel of the Year: Living the Magical Life (COG)
Campanelli, Pauline and Campanelli, Dan - Pagan Rites of Passage (COTG)
Campbell, Florence - Your Days are Numbered (BAPA)
Campbell, Joseph - The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (COTG)
Campbell, Joseph - The Power of Myth (WV)
Carroll, Peter J. - Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magick (EC)
Case, Paul Foster - The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (COTG)
Chase, Doris - Tarot-Card Spread Reader (BAPA)
Circle - Circle Guide to Pagan Groups. Mt. Horeb: Circle Publications, (COG)
Circle - Circle Network News. Mt. Horeb: Circle Publications (COG)
Clarke, David & Roberts, Andy - Twilight of the Celtic Gods: An Exploration of Britain's Hidden Pagan Traditions (EC)
Clifton, Chas. S., ed - Witchcraft Today Volume 1: The Modern Craft Movement (COG)
Clifton, Chas. S., ed - Witchcraft Today Volume 2: Modern Rites of Passage (COG)
Clifton, Chas. S., ed - Witchcraft Today Volume 3: Witchcraft and Shamanism (COG)
Conway, D.J. - Celtic Magic (COTG)
Conway, D.J. - Oak, Ash and Thorn: The Celtic Shaman (WV)
Conway, David - Ritual Magic: An Occult Primer (VVF)
Cowan, Tom - Fire in the Head (WV)
Crowley, Aleister & Regardie, Israel - 777 and Other Quabalistic Writings (WV)(COTG)
Crowley, Vivianne - Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age (COG)
Crowther, Patricia - Lid Off the Cauldron: A Handbook for Witches (WV)
Crowther, Patricia - Witch Blood! Diary of a Witch High Priestess (WV)
Cunningham, Scott - Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic (COTG)(BAPA)
Cunningham, Scott - Earth Power (COTG)
Cunningham, Scott - Earth, Air, Fire & Water (COTG)
Cunningham, Scott - Magical Aromatheraphy (COTG)
Cunningham, Scott - The Complete Book of Oils, Incenses, and Brews (COTG)(BAPA)
Cunningham, Scott - Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (WV)(COTG)
Cunningham, Scott - The Complete Book of Incenses, Oils and Brews (WV)
Cunningham, Scott - The Truth About Witchcraft Today (WV)(EC)
Cunningham, Scott - Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (WV)(COG)
Curott, Phyllis - Book of Shadows : A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess (COG)(COTG)

Daly, Mary - Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical Feminism (WV)
Danielou, Alain - Gods of Love and Ecstasy, the Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus (COTG)
Davidson, H.R. - Ellis. Myths and Symbols of Pagan Europe (COG)
Davis, Wade - The Serpent and the Rainbow (BAPA)
DeGrandis, Francesca - Be a Goddess! (COG)
Dee, John - The Hieroglyphic Monad
Deren, Maya - Divine Horsemen (VVF)
Devereux, Paul - Shamanism and the Mystery Lines: Leylines, Spirit Paths, Shape Shifting and Out of Body Travel (EC)
Di Prima, Diane - Loba (COG)
Downing, Chrstine - The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine (BAPA)
Dunwich, Gerina - The Magick of Candle Burning (BAPA)
Dunwich, Gerina - The Wicca Garden (WV)

Edghill, Rosemary - Speak Daggers to Her (mystery) (WV)
Edghill, Rosemary - The Book of Moons (mystery) (WV)
Edghill, Rosemary - The Bowl of Night (mystery) (WV)
Eisler, Rhiane - The Chalice and the Blade (BAPA)
Eliade, Mircea - Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (COG)(VVF)(BAPA)
Eliade, Mircea - The Myth of the Eternal Return (WV)
English, Deirdre & Ehrenreich, Barbara - Witches, Midwives and Nurses (VVF)
Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (fiction) (WV)
Evans, Arthur - Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture (VVF)
Evans-Wentz, W.Y. - The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (WV)

Fairfield, Gail - Choice-Centered Astrology: The Basics (WV)
Fairfield, Gail - Choice Centered Tarot (BAPA)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart - A Witches' Bible Compleat (WV)(COTG)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart - Eight Sabbats for Witches and Rites for Birth, Marriage and Death (VVF)(COG)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart - The Witches' God: Lord of the Dance (COG)(WV)(COTG)(BAPA)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart - The Witches' Goddess: the Feminine Principle of Divinity (COG)(WV)(COTG)(BAPA)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart - The Witches' Way; Principles, Rituals and Beliefs of Modern Witchcraft (VVF)(COG)(WV)
Farrar, Janet & Stewart; Bone, Gaving - The Pagan Path (WV)
Farrar, Stewart - What Witches Do; the Modern Coven Revealed (COG)(BAPA)
Ferguson, Diana - The Magickal Year (WV)
Fitch, Ed, and Renee, Janine - Magical Rites from The Crystal Well (COTG)(BAPA)
Ford, Patrick K. (ed) - The Mabinogi, and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
Fortune, Dion - Applied Magic (COTG)
Fortune, Dion - The Mystical Qabalah (COTG)
Fortune, Dion - Psychic Self-Defense (WV)
Fortune, Dion - The Sea Priestess (VVF)
Franz, Marie-Louise von - Creation Myths (WV)
Frazer, Sir James - The Golden Bough (VVF)(WV)

Galenorn, Yasmine - Dancing with the Moon (COTG)
Gardner, Gerald - The Meaning of Witchcraft (COG)
Gardner, Gerald - Witchcraft Today (COG)(COTG)
George, Demtra - Asteroid Goddesses (WV)
Gimbutas, Marija - The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, Myths and Cult Images (COG)(WV)
Ginzberg, Carlo - Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbat (WV)(EC)
Golden, Carole - Moon Signs for Lovers (WV)
Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene - Santeria: African Magic in Latin America (BAPA)
Goodman, Linda - Linda Goodman's Love Signs (WV)
Goodrich, Lorre - Merlin (WV)
Goodrich, Norma Lorre - Guinevere (WV)
Goodwin, Matthew Oliver - Numerology: The Complete Guide (BAPA)
Grant, Kenneth - Nightside of Eden (COTG)
Graves, Robert - The Greek Myths (WV)
Graves, Robert - The White Goddess (WV)(COTG)(BAPA)
Graves, Tom - Needles of Stone Revisited (COG)
Gray, Eden - Mastering the Tarot (BAPA)
Green, Marian - A Witch Alone: 13 Moons to Master Natural Magick (COG)(EC)
Green, Marian - The Elements of Natural Magic (COG)
Green, Marian - The Path Through The Labyrinth
Greene, Liz - Astrology for Lovers (WV)
Greene, Liz - The Astrology of Fate (WV)
Greer, Mary K. - Tarot for Yourself (BAPA)
Guest, Lady Charlotte E. (translator) & Schreiber (ed) - The Mabinogion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Guiley, Rosemary - The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft (COG)(BAPA)
Gundarsson, Kveldulf - Teutonic Magic (BAPA)

Halifax, Joan - Shamanic Voices: a Survey of Visionary Narratives (COG)
Halifax, Joan - Shaman, The Wounded Healer (BAPA)
Hamilton, Edith - Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (COTG)
Hand, Robert - Planets in Transit (WV)
Harner, Michael - The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner (VVF)(BAPA)
Harrow, Judy - Wicca Covens: How to Start and Organize Your Own (COG)
Harvey, Charles & Suzi - Sun Sign, Moon Sign (WV)
Harvey, G. & Hardman, C. - Paganism Today (WV)
Heindel, Max - Astro-Diagnosis (COTG)
Heindel, Max - Simplified Scientific Astrology (COTG)
Hickey, Isabel M. - Astrology, A Cosmic Science (WV)
Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic (mainstream/literary) (WV)
Hogart, R.C. - The Hymns of Orpheus (WV)
Hollander, Lee - The Poetic Edda (BAPA)
Hope, Murry - Practical Celtic Magic (WV)
Hopman, Ellen Evert - A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (WV)
Hunter, Jennifer - 21st Century Wicca (WV)
Huntley, Jan - Astrological Voids (WV)
Huson, Paul - Mastering Herbalism (WV)(EC)(BAPA)
Hutton, Ron - Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles (WV)(EC)
Huxley, Aldous - The Door of Perception (VVF)

Jay, Michael - Gay Love Signs (WV)
Jones, Gwyn & Jones, Thomas (eds) - The Mabinogion (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Jones, Prudence & Matthews, Caitlin (eds) - Voices from the Circle
Jong, Erica - Witches (WV)

Kaplan, Aryeh - Sefer Yetsirah: The Book of Creation (COTG)
King, Francis & Sutherland, Isable - Rebirth of Magic (BAPA)
Kirby, Babs & Stubbs, Janey - Interpreting Solar and Lunar Returns (WV)
Kirby, Babs & Stubbs, Janey - Love and Sexuality: An Exploration of Venus and Mars (WV)
Knight, Gareth - A History of White Magic (COTG)
Knight, Gareth - A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism (COTG)
Kozocarl/Owens/North - The Witch's Book of Days (WV)
Kraig, Donald M. - Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts (EC)(BAPA)
Krupp, E.C. - Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilisations (EC)
Kurtz, Katherine - Lammas Night (fiction) (WV)

LaVey, Anton - The Satanic Bible (VVF)
Laidlaw, Marc - Neon Lotus (VVF)
Lao-Tse - The Tao Te Ching (VVF)
Leek, Sybil - The Complete Art of Witchcraft (WV)
Leland, Charles - Aradia: Gospel of the Witches (VVF)(COG)
Lethbridge, T.E. - Witches (COG)
Lexander, R. & Rose, G. - Seduction by the Stars (WV)
Lovelock, James - Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (WV)
Lurthmann, T. - Persuasions of the Witch's Craft (WV)
Luzel, F.W. - Celtic Folk Tales from Armorica (EC)

MacGregor, Trish & Vega, Phyllis - Power Tarot: More Than 100 Spreads That Give Specific Answers to Your Most Important Questions (EC)
Maeve Rhea, Barbara E. Vordebrueggen - Summoning Forth Wiccan Gods and Goddesses : The Magick of Invocation and Evocation (COTG)
Malaclypse the Younger - Principia Discordia (VVF)
Malinowski, Bronislaw - Magic, Science and Religion (VVF)
Mark, Alexandra - Astrology for the Aquarian Age (WV)
Markale, Jean - King of the Celts (WV)
Martello, Leo - Witchcraft: The Old Religion (WV)
Mather, S. Liddell MacGregor(ed) - The Greater Key of Solomon : Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of King Solomon's Secret Procedure, Its Mysteries and Magic Rites
Matthews, Caitlin & John - The Western Way. Vol 1: The Native Tradition, Vol 2: The Hermetic Tradition (COG)
Matthews, Caitlin - The Celtic Tradition (WV)
Matthews, John & Caitlin - The Aquarian Guide to British and Irish Mythology (WV)
Matthews, John & Caitlin - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom (WV)
Matthews, John - The Household of the Grail (WV)
Maynard, Jim - Maynard's Pocket Astrologer, Quicksilver Productions, annual (COTG)
McCoy, Edain - A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk (WV)
McCrickard, Janet - Eclipse of the Sun: An Investigation into Sun and Moon Myths (EC)
McNeill, F. Marian - The Silver Bough (WV)
Melton, J. Gordon - Magical Religion in the United States (COG)
Michaud, Joy - The Uranus-Neptune Influence (WV)
Miller, Richard & Iona - The Magical and Ritual Use of Perfumes (WV)(BAPA)
Miller, Richard - The Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs (WV)
Miller, Richard - The Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs (WV)
Monaghan, Patricia - The Book of Goddesses and Heroines (COG)
Moncrieff, A.R. Hope - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece (WV)
Monoghan, Patricia - The Book of Goddesses and Heroines (BAPA)
Mookerjee, Ajit - Kali, the Feminine Force (VVF)
Morrison, Sarah, Lyddon - The Modern Witches' Spellbook (COTG)
Murray, Margaret - The God of the Witches (WV)
Murray, Margaret - The Witch Cult in Western Europe (WV)(VVF)

Neumann, Erich - The Great Mother: an Analysis of the Archetype (COG)

Orion, Loretta - Never Again the Burning Times (COG)
Otto, Walter - Dionysos, Myth and Cult (VVF)(WV)

Parfitt, Will - The Living Qabalah: A Practical and Experiential Guide to Understanding the Tree of Life (COTG)
Paris, Ginette - Pagan Grace: Hermes, Dionysus and Apollo (WV)
Paris, Ginette - Pagan Meditations: Aphrodite, Hestia, Artemis (WV)
Parkinson, Cornelia M. - Gem Magic (BAPA)
Patai, Raphael - The Hebrew Goddess (VVF)(COG)(COTG)
Paterson, Helena - The Handbook of Celtic Astrology (WV)
Pendderwen, Gwydion - Songs for the Old Religion (VVF)
Pendderwen, Gwydion - The Faery Shaman (VVF)
Pepper, Elizabeth and John Wilcock (ed) - The Witches' Almanac. A yearly compendium of lore, legend, and practical information (COG)(COTG)
Peschel, Lisa - A Practical Guide to the Runes (EC)
Piggott, Stuart - The Druids (WV)
Pollack, Rachel - Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. (Volumes 1 and 2 in one volume, older ones are separate) (COTG)
Powell, T.G.E. - The Celts (WV)

Ravenwolf, Silver - To Ride a Silver Broomstick (WV)
Reade, W.W. - The Veil of Isis, or, Mysteries of the Druids Revealed (WV)
Rees, Alwyn & Brinley - Celtic Heritage (VVF)(WV)
Regardie, Israel - The Art of True Healing (COTG)
Regardie, Israel - The Middle Pillar (COTG)
Regardie, Israel - Foundations of Practical Magic (BAPA)
Regardie, Israel - The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic
Renault, Mary - The Bull from the Sea (VVF)
Renault, Mary - The King Must Die (VVF)
Renee, Janina - Tarot Spells (BAPA)
River, L. & Gillespie, S. - The Knot of Time (WV)
Ross, Anne - Pagan Celtic Britain (WV)
Russell, Jeffrey - The History of Witchcraft (WV)
Ryall, Rhiannon - West Country Wicca (WV)

Sakoian, F. & Acker, L. - The Astrologer's Handbook (WV)(BAPA)
Sakoian, F. & Acker, L. - Astrological Patterns: The Key to Self-Discovery (BAPA)
Sasoportas, Howard - The Twelve Houses (WV)
Seymour, Dr. Percy -0 The Scientific Basis of Astrology (WV)
Simms, Maria Kay - The Witches? Circle (COG)
Simpson, Jean - Hot Numbers (BAPA)
Skelton, R. & Blackwood, M. - Earth, Air, Fire, Water (WV)
Skinner, Stephen & King, Francis - Techniques of High Magic (VVF)
Slater, Herman - A Book of Pagan Rituals (WV)(COTG)
Slater, Herman - Magickal Formulary (WV)(COTG)
Smith, Debbi Kempton - Secrets from a Stargazer's Notebook (BAPA)
Smith, Steven - Wylundt's Book of Incense (WV)(BAPA)
Starhawk - Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (WV)
Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing (fiction) (WV)
Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the (VVF)(COG)(WV)(EC)(COTG)(BAPA)
Starhawk; Hill, Anne; Baker, Diane - Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions (COG)(COTG)
Starhawk, M. Macha Nightmare and the Reclaiming Collective - The Pagan Book of Living and Dying (COG)
Starhawk; Valentine, Hilary - 12 Wild Swans (COTG)
Starthawk - Dreaming the Dark (WV)
Stein, Diane - All Women Are Healers : A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing (COTG)
Stein, Diane - The Women's Spirituality Book (BAPA)
Stewart, R.J. - Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses (WV)
Stewart, R.J. - Earth Light (EC)
Stewart, R.J. - The Book of Merlin (WV)
Stewart, R.J. - The Mystic Life of Merlin (WV)
Stewart, R.J. - The Prophecies of Merlin (WV)
Stewart, R.J. - The Underworld Initiation (WV)(EC)
Stewart, R.J. - The Way of Merlin (WV)
Stivell, Alan - Renaissance of the Celtic Harp (VVF)
Stone, Merlin - Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood (WV)
Stone, Merlin - When God was a Woman (WV)(COTG)(BAPA)
Streiber, Whitley - Cat Magic (fiction) (WV)

Teish, Luisah - Jambalaya: the Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (COG)(BAPA)
Telesco, Patricia - A Victorian Grimoire (COTG)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (VVF)
Thorsten, Geraldine - The Goddess in Your Stars (WV)
Thorsson, Edred - Futhark (BAPA)
Tierra, Michael - The Way of Herbs (COTG)
Toulson, Shirley - The Celtic Year (WV)

Updike, John - The Witches of Eastwick (fiction) (WV)

Valiente, Doreen - An ABC of Witchcraft Past & Present (VVF)(COG)(WV)
Valiente, Doreen - Natural Magic (WV)(COG)
Valiente, Doreen - Rebirth of Witchcraft (COG)
Valiente, Doreen - Witchcraft for Tomorrow (COG)(WV)(BAPA)
Waite, A.E. and Smith, Pamela Coleman (illustrator) - The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack/ Book Set. (COTG)
Walker, Barbara - The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (WV)(COTG)
Walton, Evangeline - The Mabinogion series (fiction) (WV)
Watson, Nancy B. - Practical Solitary Magic (WV)(COTG)
Weinstein, Marion - Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows (WV)
Weinstein, Marion - Positive Magic: Occult Self Help (VVF)(COG)(WV)(EC)(BAPA)
White, T.H. - The Once and Future King (fiction) (WV)
Wolfe, Amber - In the Shadow of the Shaman (BAPA)
Wolkstein, Diane & Kramer, Samuel Noah - Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (VVF)
Woolfolk, Joanna Martin - The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need (WV)

Yeats, W.B. - Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (WV)
Yeats, W.B. - The Celtic Twilight (WV)

Zavala, Ann - Crystals (mystery) (WV)
Ziegfield - Tarot: Mirror of The Soul (COTG)

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Last Updated 3 January 2004.

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