Celebrate the Earth: A Year of Holidays in the Pagan Tradition

By Laurie Cabot and Jean Mills

Create a modern-day celebration of nature with this thoughtful guide that blends all the richness and ancient lore of Witchcraft with how-to advice, from the renowned co-author of Love Magic and Power of the Witch.

Liberate your talents, gifts, and magical powers with Witch Laurie Cabot as your guide. She shows you how to observe the Wheel of the Year--eight holidays celebrated in the ancient pagan tradition--as you renew body and spirit in age-old ritual. Celebrate the Earth tells you everything you need to know:

- Earth Magic: sample rituals, preparation, garb, herbcraft, spellcraft, magical stones, and lore for each holiday
- Holiday Fare: recipes to prepare for feasts, some from Celtic lands
- Ancient Activities: crafts and games passed down through many generations of Witch families to enrich the holiday season
- List of Sources: an extensive bibliography, plus lists of specialty shops and mail-order catalogs for your particular needs

Laurie empowers you to utilize the magical potential of herbs, offers special spells to promote love, romance, and healing, and teaches you about the pagan origins of many of today's treasured customs including honeymoons, wedding bands, and kissing under the mistletoe. With Celebrate the Earth, you too can partake in the wisdom of the ancients and find fulfillment and meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385309201
• ISBN13: 9780385309202
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Delta
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Sabbat Books

I have been searching for a good Sabbats Book for a long time. Finally, one day I came across this book. It was great! I go back to it all the time. After an information filled section on each sabbat, you will find a short story on some aspect of that holiday, followed by a section entitled Earth Magic. In this section you will find sample rituals, garb, prepartation, herbcraft, spellcraft, magical stones and lore. The rituals are for groups though, that is the only problem, but I suppose you could change them for solitary use. Earth magic also has recipies for oil mixtures and some spells to try out. Following Earth Magic you will find the section entitled Holiday Fare. This is where you will find recipies for dishes you can make for meals or desserts. After that you will find Ancient Activities which includes crafts and lore related to the season.Even the appendices have valueable information that will have you looking back again and again. I don't rate many books with 5 stars, only the ones I believe truly deserve it, and this book is one of them.

The perfect Sabbat book

This is the best book I've read concerning the Pagan Sabbats. It includes spells, oils, incense, feasts, and of course rituals for each holiday. The rituals are written for coven use but I've found they can be easily modified to fit solitary practice, as well. For anyone interested in Celtic folklore or just the holidays, this is the book to get.

A Pleasant Little Guide to the Witchcraft Holidays

This was the first book I ever read on Witchcraft several years ago. I enjoyed the Celtic stories behind the Sabbats, and I found a lot of information that I still use to this day. For example; the mead recipe, the "how-to" on candle and oil making, and the basic altar set-up. Although some of the spells do have hard-to-find ingredients, I found the book just plain fun. Anyway, it's not the only book I have encountered that has spells with unobtainable ingredients.

a lovely book

This is my favorite all-time book on pagan holidays. It contains beautiful descriptions and metaphors, and her visualizations are glorious. I greatly admire the author for her depth and sensitivity.

The Only Book To Include Faery & Merfolk Magic & Celebrations

Celebrate The Earth/A Year of Holidays in The Pagan Tradition/ by Laurie Cabot/ with Jean MillsThis is the most spiritually uplifting book that I have had the pleasure of reading.I keep it as a reference book and find that I often delight in refering back to it.This is the only such book I have ever found, that includes Faery and Merfolk magic, traditions and earth celebrations!It even includes rare knowledge on The Celtic Catti-Tribe of Ireland!("catpeople") With a love and appreciation for wildlife, ecology & an inclusive loving spirituality-this book fills a deep intrinsic need of the soul. This wonderful book will appeal to many people with diverse callings, such as animism, shamanism, paganism, wiccans, nature religions, faery and merfolk faiths or any harmonic combination of these and more!It also includes teachings, original ideas, crafts, recipes and lovely line-art.Fantastic for the learned and the beginner alike! The loving nature of the author comes through in every line.It is a verbal symphony for feeling the celebrating of "The Seasonal Wheel of The Year"! It has brought me much happiness and healing and has opened my loving eyes! A MUST HAVE! You will love this book!