Be a Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex
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Review by Kathi Somers for Be a Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex
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A little over four years ago, I worked through the 15 weeks of lessons in Be a Goddess and found, to my great surprise and pleasure, that these lessons were fun, inspiring, and, most of all, life-transforming. The psychology was sound, the spirituality was amazing, and the teacher was warm and caring. Since then, I’ve gone on to train extensively with Francesca and have been delighted to discover that the teacher I found in her book is the Real Deal. She is everything I hoped to find and more. I continue to recommend Be a Goddess for anyone who is interested in exploring Goddess spirituality, beginning a path as a magical practitioner, or just looking for spiritual guidance and inspiration. As for the reviewers in this section who maligned Francesca and her work, I am saddened and a little angry. Attacks on a person’s work and personal worth are unseemly and undignified. Disagree, if you must, but attacking anonymously is reprehensible.
Review by blueromany for Be a Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex
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Greetings~
There are many books on various craft available today. Too often people write reviews based on what they think “is the right way”…Personaly I think it’s great that this author has presented her authentic self in a book available to those who wish to make use of it. Just because a book is written and available, dosent mean you half to use everything in it if you choose to buy it. Honor this woman for her gift to our world.
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If this book were titled “fantastic and fun exercises to improve your self-esteem” perhaps more people would expect and appreciate what they get. This is not a reference on Celtic myth or historical Celtic religion, although bits are included for flavor, updated with the author’s interpretation. This is not a book for the physical practice of basic Wicca, although some of the attitudes you can pick up here will affect your religious beliefs more deeply than correspondences or ritual specifics. I love the “prayers” and meditations, and really found my confidence and happiness much improved. The exercises helped me change my relationship with the Divine from the judeochristian victim model to the Goddess participant and friend model.
And by the way, improving your self esteem does lead to prosperity and great sex. The word Celtic can be used broadly or loosely, and the Celts adapted across time and geography. There are many unknowns, and many more debates in Celtic study. A tenet of Wicca/Goddess study is that you can appropriate what you will from history and build on it yourself to come up with your own beliefs and rituals that are meaningful for you. If you need to go through and change every instance of the word Celtic in this book to Francesca’s neo-celtic eclectic, do it without rancor. But still try the exercises, and see if they don’t make you happier. That’s the point.
Review by Frank MacEowen for Be a Goddess: A Guide to Magical Celtic Spells for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex
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The one thing I liked about this book is the author’s partial down-to-earth emphasis on having one’s spiritual practice be connected to the hum-drum mundane elements of daily life for the sake of making them sacred. I think this is a real strong suit for this book, and DeGrandis’ other writings: the practicality of them for the modern practitioner, most especially for women seeking a pathway of empowered spirituality in a culture that still disempowers the feminine. From this vantage point I think the book serves a purpose. However, putting on my Celtic scholar’s and practitioner’s hat, I’m afraid the down-to-earth style then goes out the window and some real misleading inaccuracies take place that I think really have the potential to stand as a liability for those individuals seeking the facts about the Celtic traditions. This largely lies in the fact that DeGrandis, like so many others, links Wicca (a 1950’s invented-religion based on largely English and Anglo-Saxon sources) with Celtic traditions, which to belabor the point here, have nothing to do with Wicca (see an excellent article on the web written by respected Celtic scholar Ian Mac’an’Tsoir on “Why Wicca Is Not Celtic”.) Wicca as an influence is a valid path for many. I’m not knocking this at all, and have immense respect for those individuals who embody that path. However, if we are to make an honest assessment of it we must realize that it draws as much on Roman, Greek, Germanic, and Egyptian goddess worship, as anything else. Wicca (the modern path) is mildly modeled after the more ancient expressions of witchcraft in England, which is an authentic tradition hailing from Anglo-Saxon roots. However, it is not ‘Celtic’ and I feel that DeGrandis’ insistence on linking Wicca with Celtic tradition is misleading to the modern reader. Her “Celtic shamanism” seems to draw most heavily upon Irish faery lore and tradition, yet these are simply “the Gaelic faery traditions”, they are not Wicca. There isn’t, to be concise, even a letter ‘W’ in the Gaelic language, meanwhile Anglo-Saxon Wita, Wicca, and witchcraft was never originally oriented to the Celtic customs or seasonal observances as she (and so many Wiccan writings) present. If you are a woman who wants a book that supports you in getting spiritually practical in your life, then this book by De Grandis will aid you. However, know that there are also some inaccuracies presented and that if you really want to learn about the authentic faery traditions of the Celtic world, by-pass all the Wiccan reinterpretations and head straight to the writings of R.J. Stewart.
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This book, which is supposed to be about Celtic Shamanism, is a real rip-off. It’s “fuzzy bunny” wicca and I’m sick and tired of books like this. Wicca is a religion, not a hobby that you do in your spare time.I got nothing out of this book but the idea that the author is making money from selling fake ideas & silly rituals.If you are serious about Celtic Shamanism, DON’T BUY THIS WORTHLESS BOOK.