Understand, work with + leverage the cycles + rhythms of nature, your body, the moon, Venus, Chiron, the asteroid goddesses + the cosmos There were a few things that niggled me in the book (some of which I wonder may have been due to a little but of push/ pull between Lisa and Hay House) that I won't go into here. But I've also made a However, Lisa recognises that her book won't appeal to everyone. She is bold and doesn't mind speaking her mind - and that is something I respect and admire in a woman, even if I don't agree with their perspective. The world needs more women who are happy to speak their minds. It is absolutely okay to disagree, not be apologetic about it, and still be friends. That is the most powerful message that Witch: Unleashed teaches. Moving past the excessive fixation on female genetalia, this book also doesn't really contain sufficient information on witchcraft itself. The first third of the book is basically just your run of the mill feminist-witchcraft rant. Blah blah patriarchy blah blah burning times blah blah EMBRACE YOUR PUSSY POWER blah blah blah. Such a drag. The real shame here is that by devoting so much time and energy to focusing on the feminist aspect of feminist-witchcraft, the author left a lot to be desired in the way of witchcraft guidance. The information provided is very basic, and honestly, you could google it or learn it from pretty much any other beginner's witchcraft book and feel a lot less awkward.

It is so telling how fast people are willing to shut a woman down. If this is not your witchcraft look somewhere else. Those complaining have absolutely no idea how broad witchcraft is and what witchcraft can entail. In hoodoo, Italian folk magic as well as many other folk magic customs, the use of menstrual blood, a very powerful substance, is vital to some spells. Are you really going to stop the dialogue and use of something so powerful because it isn’t inclusive enough? Nature isn’t inclusive then. Get over it. And it’s our wholeness, our intuition, our magic and our power—the power that lies between our thighs—that will truly change the world.” A witch is a woman in her power. She's wise, a healer, someone who is aligned with the cycles of Mother Nature and the phases of the Moon. Yet for so long, the word 'witch' has had negative connotations. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why in past centuries the word 'witch' has led women to be tortured, drowned and burned at the stake, and why the witch is now waking once again in women across the world today. This book will help women to remember, reconnect and reclaim the word 'witch' and its power. The good, the crazy, the WT-actual-F, the sad, the dark, the bloody glorious + all the many trillions of variations of what it means to ‘be a woman’.Landscape are really good reads and I've recommended them a number of times to people feeling out of tune with their bodies and menstrual cycles. So I was keen to read Witch.

Just a few weeks ago I met Lisa Lister, the author of Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic, at a bloggers' party being run by the book's publisher, Hay House UK. In fact, the party was partly to launch this new book aimed at women wanting to learn how witchcraft can empower their lives. I provide tools, knowledge + practices to help you feel safe, reconnect with, + be present in your body, understand your cyclic nature + work with your rhythmic intelligence to thrive.This book will help women to remember, reconnect and reclaim the word 'witch' and its power. It provides an overview of the many different versions of witchcraft and their core principles and practices, and shares ancient wisdom made relevant for waking witches, including how to: