Hi everyone. How are you feeling during this quarantine, pornies? I’ve been reading a lot, since I have limited access to internet in my city, and so I totally devoured Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch, by Diana Rajchel, a book I didn’t expect I’d like that much! Thanks to the publisher for sending this copy!
- Print Length: 312 pages
- Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (March 8, 2020)
- Publication Date: March 8, 2020
- ISBN-10: 0738752746
- ISBN-13: 978-0738752747
While the most common approach to witchcraft is using natural elements, synchronizing with the Earth’s cycles, this books offers an innovative and interesting approach to those of us who live in cities and towns. The author explains how to work with the energy and the one-of-a-kind magic present in cities and the elements that compose them, which I’d like to know why nobody has done before, or at least not in this way.
I wasn’t that convinced about this book when I began, and indeed, the beginning was a bit slow for me, but I picked it up a couple of days after, started from page one, et voila, I was binge reading Urban Magick as if my life depended on it. There’s something in the way Diana Rajchel writes that makes it all look so interesting I couldn’t stop.
Just to name a little bit of what you may find in this book, you get to know different city movements, how they can serve as a frame of reference to work your magic, which can of buildings serve for which kind of work, and even how to use buses and trains to do simple spell work. Yeah, I never thought about that!
What I liked the most about reading it, was that Urban Magick is based on experience and that you can easily adapt everything and anything that catches your attention to your surroundings. Diana Rajchel was clear when she said her examples are based on her own work, and so you need to take them just a reference, and boy will I.
Living in a city has been challenging for me, as I imagine has been for many others. To have such a solid starting point to work with is a relief, and although I still used and comfortable with my own way of doing things, there are many, MANY elements and ideas I will be including from now on thanks to this book.
Finally, I think this is perfect for millennial witches, we the younger generation (although I’m not sure I can be considered part of it anymore; is being 24 years old considered old?) Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch, by Diana Rajchel, is an unceremonious yet serious approach to a new branch of witchcraft you definitely want to try.
About Diana Rajchel:
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| Photo by Nathan McCann |
Diana Rajchel is a city priestess, witch, and psychic life coach in San Francisco, California. Her passionate love of myth, magic, and mystery touches all she does. She is the author of the Mabon and Samhain installments of Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials series as well as Divorcing a Real Witch (Moon Books, 2014). At present, she is working on a book on counter magick.
Have you read this book? Would you recommend it or not? Let me know in the comments! Kinky regards, K!
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