Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch

by Diana Rajchel

Overview

Uncover the Magick Hidden Between the Sidewalk Cracks

Engage with the urban landscape around you and harness its boundless possibilities for a thriving magickal practice. Urban Magick shows you how to connect with your city's diverse spiritual ecosystem and channel the powerful energy running through it.

Diana Rajchel invites you on an in-depth exploration of what it means to work with urban energies, providing a variety of spells for city life, techniques for working with spirits and elements, and exercises for boosting your creativity and energy. You'll also learn the purpose behind both ancient and modern cities, how architecture and population affect your magick, and how nature figures into city life. This remarkable book is your guide to not only the energetic and sacred pathways within your city, but also to your full magickal potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738755991
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	03/08/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Diana Rajchel began her career planning to serve as clergy and write about all subjects spiritual. It did not occur to her or anyone else to say with what agency she might assume priesthood. The result of this oversight in intention setting is that she is now an itinerant city priestess, well-practiced witch, and somewhat unintentional subversive. Her background includes Wicca, folk witchcraft, conjure, and a whole lot of experience organizing people that don’t like knowing that they’re organized. Diana splits her time between San Francisco, California, where she co-owns Golden Apple Metaphysical, and southwestern Michigan, where she runs Earth and Sun spiritual coaching with her partner. In between her wanderings she teaches as part of the Magick 101 series for Wicked Grounds Annex in San Francisco, and teaches and reads tarot at Elements Kalamazoo in Michigan. Diana has 25 years’ experience as a professional tarot reader and western herbalist and has 29 years’ experience as a professional writer. She is also the pet DragonCat to a very ladylike boxer named Nora.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction 1

One: What Is Urban Magick? 5

Two: Laws of Urban Magick 23

Three: Foundation Skills for Urban Magick 33

Four: The Birth of Cities 55

Five: Urban Design as Occult Art 71

Six: Urban Art and Magick 117

Seven: Nature Magick in the Cement Jungle 137

Eight: Spirit Work and the City 161

Nine: Life in the City 197

Ten: Spells for Urban Living 211

Eleven: So Now What? 235

Bibliography 245

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

★ 01/13/2020

Rajchel (Divorcing a Real Witch), a magic and tarot life coach, presents an informative, socially conscious guide for magic practitioners looking to reclaim the wild within the city. Rajchel depicts a world beyond the one visible to most city dwellers, where spirits mingle among the crowds and the collective consciousness of urbanites raises powerful energy. She calls this type of work a “form of folk magick” and a “launching point” for ritual development that is untethered to specific dogma and changes based on the city and spiritual path of the practitioner. Topics including defensive magic, ghosts, and elemental work also contain craft advice and advocate connection with spirits. Her chapter on tailoring magic to the specifics of a city (San Francisco serves as her model) includes discussions of how different neighborhoods contain certain “intents” that correspond to the four classical elements. In addition to discussions on witchcraft and spell development, the book nods toward climate and behavioral philosophies such as the Green City and New Urbanism movements. This approachable, informative handbook will appeal to readers interested in finding the magic of the metropolitan. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"An informative, socially conscious guide for magic practitioners looking to reclaim the wild within the city."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I've been waiting a long time for a book like Urban Magick to arrive. Not only does Diana include a complete guide to harnessing power and integrating the city into your magical practice; she also includes often left-out history and design patterns for why cities develop into what they are. Start navigating your city pathworking with Urban Magick today."—Jaymi Elford, author of Tarot Inspired Life

"For too long, the Pagan and New Age movements have fixated on the magic of wilderness while ignoring the urban environments in which they live. Rajchel's Urban Magick is a necessary and revolutionary step forward in that desperately overlooked arena."—Jeffrey Groves, author of The Mark of the Wolf

"In Urban Magick, Diana Rajchel shows that a city is a magical environment that has its own rules and laws that impact how you work with it. In this book you'll learn what those rules and laws are and how to create a relationship with your city that changes your magical practice. This is cutting edge magic that you'll want to take advantage of, to help you transform your spiritual practice."—Taylor Ellwood, author of The Magic of Art

"Urban Magick is an exciting exploration of deep city sorcery. Diana Rajchel takes us on a beautiful journey through spaces that are unassuming yet brimming with spiritual life. This work shows that for those with eyes to see, we urban creatures can thrive in our own enchanted worlds."—David Salisbury, author of Witchcraft Activism

"Reading this book has forever changed the way I view my relationship—my love affair—with the city I live in. I'm left brimming with new ideas that I'm eager to explore, and new practices I'm looking forward to trying out."—Robin Scott, creator of Urban Tarot

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