About the book
This book explores different ways of doing ritual, the witch’s journey through life, and the stages and pitfalls of the inner work. It describes how to develop as a priestess or priest, and how to work with your group to connect with the land, with queer archetypes, and to challenge oppression.
This book is aimed at witches who want to deepen their engagement with their Craft. It explores witch mythology, ritual, how to use insights gained from the practice of witchcraft in everyday life; group dynamics; being a coven leader; teaching and learning in a coven; how to evaluate your Craft; the meaning and purpose of ‘spirituality’, religion, and magic; the archetype of the witch and what it means.
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Praise for The Night Journey
The Night Journey utilizes the historical legend of the witch’s flight to the sabbat to expand Aburrow’s notion of a modern witchcraft which is “queer, transgressive, and resistant to authoritarian versions of reality.” In the spiritual world of The Night Journey, witchcraft isn’t seen as some sort of rarefied practice isolated from the messy mundane world, but as a beautiful, viable, and practical way of living in the world as a person of power and integrity. Taken together with Dark Mirror, these two texts comprise something quite special: a revolutionary vision of traditional Wicca which looks to the Craft’s future while simultaneously honoring its traditions.
– Misha Magdalene, author of Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice
There’s a real shortage of good books on advanced witchcraft. The Night Journey – Witchcraft as Transformation is therefore a much-needed new publication aimed at Wiccans and witches who have reached second degree or who are running their own covens. … The work at second degree involves looking at the darker sides of our own psyches, confronting our fears and challenging our perhaps long-held beliefs. The goal of this is transformation, and this book is a guide to ways of enabling that to happen.
– Lucya Starza, Author
An insightful and accessible guide to the theory and practice of contemporary Pagan witchcraft. The author writes from their extensive personal experience and presents their views in a thoughtful and enthusiastic style that are suitable for experienced practitioners and those taking their first exploratory steps. Each chapter concludes with some excellent discussion topics, suggestions for self-reflection, and practical exercises. Like all good books, it presents some challenging views, which offer much food for thought.
– Julia Phillips, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Bristol, author of Witches of Oz and Madeline Montalban, Magus of St Giles.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Between the worlds
- Religion, spirituality, and the inner work
- Queer Witchcraft
- The witch’s journey
- Sound and silence
- Witchcraft and the land
- Witchcraft as resistance
- Working with ancestors
- The pact in witchcraft and relational polytheism
- Madness, shamanism, and witchcraft
- The night journey
Part 2: Bringing it all back home
- Modes and types of ritual
- Group dynamics
- Being a coven leader
- Teaching and learning in a coven
- Egregore, current, lineage, upline, downline
- Power and authority
- Challenging oppression
- Evaluating your Craft
- What is a witch?
Appendix I: Model guidelines for group discussion
Appendix II: A coming out ritual
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Yvonne Aburrow has done it again! In The Night Journey: Witchcraft as Transformation, Aburrow takes their readers on a journey into the inner working of Wicca, ritual, and magic.
– Tim Landry, anthropologist and occultist.