Description:
A hands-on guide for witches, pagans, and others who are drawn to the magic of water for healing and protection.
The Way of the Water Priestess is a practical guide to the magical power of water and its resident spirits and how to use that magic for both self-empowerment and in the service of protector of water in all its forms. Written by the founder of Triskele Rose Witchcraft, the book offers a guide to revive the ways of the water priestess--to make water sacred again. This is not a new practice; women have tended the sacred waters since antiquity. Readers of The Way of the Water Priestess will learn all the aspects of water magic:- Historical and archeological information about rites and rituals, and women's role in relationship to water
- The lore of water goddesses from various cultures around the world
- How to form an intimate connection with water in all its forms
- Moon rituals, sacred bathing, and oracular and ritual arts
- How to become a sacred vessel of water
Brief description:
Annwyn Avalon is a water priestess living in Avalon. She is the founder of Water Priestess Training and the Water Priestess Confluence. She is the author of Water Witchcraft, The Way of the Water Priestess, and Celtic Goddess Grimoire. She has also contributed to numerous esoteric publications in the U.S. and England. She writes the Patheos blog "Water Priestess in Avalon." She has contributed to the book Brigid's Light and more. She has devoted her life to the study of esoteric water mysteries and Avalon. Her path is one of sacred service to the waters of this world and her ancestors. She is an initiated witch and priestess, Reiki master teacher, award-winning dancer, and has a BFA in sculpture and a BA in anthropology, as well as an apprentice certification in herbalism. She is also the sacred steward of Chalice Orchard, the former home of the famous authors Dion Fortune and Geoffrey Ashe. You can find Annwyn roaming the hedgerows of Glastonbury or at a sacred spring in service to the waters.
Review Quotes: "In The Way of the Water Priestess, Annwn Avalon lovingly pours forth a bountiful offering of beautiful, simple, and clear wisdom and ritual that anyone answering the siren call of the ancient waters can hear and heed. Whether in devotion to a watery goddess, in allyship with water-dwellers, or as an advocate for one of the planet's water sources, every water priestess can find fresh inspiration and cleansing guidance within this book." --Laurelei Black, author of Aphrodite's Priestess and Cult of Aphrodite: Rites and Festivals of the Golden One