Magical cultures like all communities encode expectations about gender. Women are witches; men are magicians. Women use receptive energy, men use active energy. Intuitive women embody the moon, focus on dreaming and enjoy making things, while intellectual men embody the sun, focus on accomplishment, and enjoy doing ritual.

The essays in this book explode gender stereotypes and survey the spectrum of women’s experiences in magic. Women are witches, but also ceremonial magicians, Satanists and sex magicians. Women dream, use intuition and make magical tools but they also argue, create ritual, and fiercely contest their right to achievement. In these essays, pregnancy is an occasion for analysis, alchemy exists in the lab and in the kitchen, desire is a path to self-knowledge, and gender itself is a door to the deep contemplation of the meaning of magic.

In this book women’s voices whisper their secret experiences, narrate lives of women magicians in the past, speak of the usual and the unusual, roar their triumphal discoveries, and sing the joy of life.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Brandy Williams
Magical Women’s History
Florence and the Mummy by Caroline Tully
The Bride of the Snake by Amy Hale
Magic and Pregnancy by Lesa Whyte
Enochian Motherhood by Soror Inde Seraphina
Are Ingredients Important? by Shellay Maughan
The Active and the Receptive by Kayla Block
Radical Feminist Alchemy by Helen Honeycutt
Desire - The Seeker by Kat Sanborn
Satanism - The Left Hand Path
My Life in Satanism by Venus Satanas
Women and the Left Hand Path by Sybil Black
Lilith, Babalon, and Sexuality
The Rose of Sharon or a Thorn among Lilies by Alison More
Every Time You Play the Red, The Black is Coming by Kirsten Brown
Whore by Leni Hester
The Female Kink Magician by Lupa
Culture Bearers
Words Beneath the Willow by Teresa Garcia
Cove Witches and Curanderas by Byron Ballard
What I Hold in my Hand by Kris Leet
Speaking as a Woman
The Accidental Magician by Grace Victoria Swann
His Mother’s Whole Body Heals by Erynn Rowan Laurie
Where Do I Go From Here? by Jaymi Elford
The Feminist Adept by Brandy Williams
Three Chapters from a Magical Life by Mordant Carnival
Conclusion by Brandy Williams

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