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white_wolf

(6,257 posts)
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:32 AM Aug 2012

Spiral Dance?

The only book on Wicca I've read is Drawing Down the Moon and It was very informative and fascinating. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Neo-Paganism. Anyway, Drawing Down the Moon mentioned the Reclaiming tradition and what it talked about interested to me so I decided to do some research online and like what I read about it, so I was wondering how is the Spiral Dance? I know it was written by the woman who founded Reclaiming so I'm assuming it is more focused on that than the broader movement. So, I guess in general terms how does it fare in comparison to Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon?

P.S. Thanks to the person who here who recommended it to me. I can't remember who, but it was someone in this group so thanks.

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Spiral Dance? (Original Post) white_wolf Aug 2012 OP
Spiral Dance is an intense study into the Reclaiming branch of Feri Tradition. icymist Aug 2012 #1
Spiral Dance luv_mykatz Aug 2012 #2

icymist

(15,888 posts)
1. Spiral Dance is an intense study into the Reclaiming branch of Feri Tradition.
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 07:59 PM
Aug 2012

Starhawk wrote this book in the seventies and it was released in 1979. Do you want to know how to make magical tools? It's in here. Do you want the basic spells and meditations which will guide you into developing into one hell of an activist witch? It's in here. Star writes in a very easy to read way and has also thrown in some of the Feri myth in story form. She updates this book evey ten years since it's first release. The reference section is well thought out and, I personally, use it to this day. If you are looking for a good, basic how-to book, this is the one.

While Margot Adlers' Drawing Down The Moon is an all-around view of the Pagan world, Starhawks' Spiral Dance is an intense focus study on this one part of that world. Enjoy.

luv_mykatz

(441 posts)
2. Spiral Dance
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 08:21 PM
Aug 2012

What Icy Mist said.

Get it. Read it. Practice!

Then check out the rest of Star Hawk's books.

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