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    The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition
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    The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition

    By Dianne Sylvan

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    COVR Award Winner

    The Circle Within is your guide to creating a personal spiritual practice for daily life. The first section is a thoughtful examination of Wiccan ethics and philosophy that explores how to truly live Wicca. The second section includes devotional prayers and rituals that provide inspiration for group or solitary practice.

    Topics in this Wicca book include: cultivating an ongoing personal relationship with deity, ethics and standards of behavior, concepts of sacred space, elements of a daily practice, tuning into the Wheel of the Year and the elements, and creating meaningful personal Pagan rituals.

    Move beyond the basics of Wicca and enter the sacred space of the circle within.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateDec 8, 2012
    ISBN9780738718361
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    The Circle Within: Creating a Wiccan Spiritual Tradition
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    Dianne Sylvan

    Dianne Sylvan (Austin, TX) has been a practicing Wiccan since the age of sixteen. She is co-founder and President of Blessedways, a Wiccan educational and spiritual organization based out of Central Texas.  Through Blessedways she teaches classes on Wicca, the Runes, spiritual magic, and ecstatic dance.   In addition to her books, Dianne's work has appeared in Circle Magazine, NewWitch magazine, and the Llewellyn Wicca Almanac and Witches' Calendar; she has also been interviewed by the Wiccan Pagan Times.  More of her articles on living Wiccan spirituality can be found on her website, Dancing Down the Moon.

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    • 5/5
      This book gets at the heart of what it means to be wiccan outside of the sabbats and esbats. But I don't think its message is limited to those in the pagan community. The probing questions she asks and examples of religion in action can and should apply to people of all faiths. Just substitue the word wiccan with the religion of your choice. This one will be permanently in my prayer collection and has really transformed the way I view and experience spirituality in my daily life. Amazing that an author so young can be so wise. May we all be so blessed.
    • 5/5
      A thought provoking well written book. It even uses humour. I liek this author, she makes this subject quite interesting and entertaining. Most just review prior works and say the say things over and over, but this author takes a different approach.
    • 5/5
      I had seen this book on the bookshelf at Borders and thought it sounded like yet another make-your-own-coven or design-your-own-ritual books. On further flip-through, I realized it might be much more than that and decided to pick it up. I'm sure glad I did! I loved this book. I found every chapter to be thought-provoking and insightful. For me it stepped in and put back a connection between the religion I had chosen and the spirituality I somehow had lost over the years. While I am a pagan and not a wiccan per se, I still found the book to be wonderfully relevant and very engaging. I'm planning to go back and read it again after my husband is finished, to give more thought into how to incorporate her ideas into my daily life. I also want to say that her prayers in the "book of moonlight" at the back are very beautiful, some of the best I've seen.
    • 5/5
      Best book I've read so far regarding wiccan spirituality and how you can better your relationship with the gods and goddesses. A must read.