To Stir a Magick Cauldron: A Witch’s Guide to Casting and Conjuring
Boasting more than 100,000 copies in print, this indispensable guide has been revised and updated. Silver RavenWolf dishes out tried-and-true Witch wisdom, covering the essentials of Witchcraft.
– New cover – New interior design – New edit
In her sequel to To Ride a Silver Broomstick, Silver RavenWolf leads us to the next step in craft practice, focusing on intermediate-level magical practices, such as the proper mechanics of circle casting and 10 ways to raise power. However,
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Review by Katrina Hovey for To Stir a Magick Cauldron: A Witch’s Guide to Casting and Conjuring
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Upon reading this book I finally figured out exactly why so many Wiccans don’t like Silver Ravenwolf. It’s clear to me now. When I read To Ride A Silver Broomstick I thought it was about average. It turns out the fact that she actually discussed the religion in that book kind of blurred out some of the stuff that’s so offensive.
By reading To Stir a Magic Cauldron a learned that Silver’s philosophy seems to be “If it looks pretty, do it.” This first became obvious when she discribed a ritual that used glitter. Glitter? Those little cloured metal fleks that you get at craft stores? I had no idea that attuning yourself with nature was so commercial.
I think the most amazingly hypocritical thing in the book was a little rant she had about people sending her letters about how they want to study wicca, but have no money, and would like her help. She goes off on a tagent about how money can’t buy faith and can’t make you a witch. Yeah, ok. This is true. She doesn’t address the reasons why someone might believe that money is necessary. Ok, fine, allow her her little rant. She finishes her rant and on the NEXT PAGE she is talking about doing magic using the colours red, white, and black. She suggests going to a florist and buying roses of these colours. Whoa! back up! Why would anyone who reads her books think you need money to be a witch? She constantly suggests BUYING stuff.
If doing the rose thing were really a good idea, wouldn’t it be better to plant rose bushes of the appropriate colours? Admittedly, this is also not cheap, but it’s more cost effective AND has that whole being closer to nature thing that some wiccans are into… While discussing ritual, Silver believes that the ritual itself is all that’s really important. She doesn’t care where the tools came from, or even why the ritual is being done. She trivializes the preparations for ritual and what sort of things you decorate an altar with, as long as it looks pretty when the ritual starts.
I think the most offensive thing I read in this book what when she gave an invented calling of the quarters by a fictional witch by the name of Bubblefox. Now, she made this up herself. She takes this little calling of the quarters, disects and critisises it, and makes fun of the witch’s name. It’s the making fun of the witch’s name that really got me. 1) She invented the name herself 2) HER name is Silver Ravenwolf 3) She was basically insulting the people who actually like her books.
If you want to get caught up in meaningless details of ritual and making thing look pretty, this is the book for you. Silver’s version of Wicca is very self-centered. It’s about making yourself feel good, making yourself feel powerful, and making yourself feel pretty. She doesn’t care about feeling at one with nature, she’s more about controlling it. She’s the author of choice for people who’ll do a spell or ritual just to get a rush.
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This book is the very best so far ! I read “To Ride a Silver Broomstick! To Ride…was my very first book on Wicca and it helped me tremendously. Now after 2 years in the Craft I am ready to move on to intermediate study, and “To Stir a Magick Cauldron is by far the best book for intermediate study of the Craft. Silver is obviously a talented Writer and Wiccan Witch. Make sure you pay attention to her “unique” perspective on the Elementals in this book ! And make sure to buy Llewellyn’s Yearly Almanacs because Silver is regular contributor to it and always writes excellent articles on everything Wiccan. Some people complain that she writes like a MOM, or she writes like she is talking to children. Please understand that Silver IS A MOM ! and obviously dedicated to her family, and once a mom, always a mom no matter who you are talking to. In short, buy the book ! You won’t regret it!P.S. Its too bad Christians have nothing better to do with their time than to come in here, and pretend they are Pagans and give bad book reviews to our most celebrated authors. Its so easy to tell when a christian is “Pretending”. If you want an idea of what I am talking about, check out the two reviews titled , “stir, stir,” Blessed Be Silver !
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A necessary book for every Wiccan. I wasn’t expecting to learn much because I’ve read hundreds of books and have been practicing for years. Was I WRONG. This book gave me more encite to sharpened my ‘spiritual’ tools in the first 30 pages. Her explanations are clear, her techniques simply spoken. (The personal stories only add to the feeling of being taught with consideration and patience) The ‘Work’ sections are, I feel, necessary to truly living this life. Its a book to take you levels deeper, to teach the things you can’t learn without being an apprentice of a skilled teacher.(Like Silver) Or in a coven. I suggest anyone who wants to begin learning the ways of Wicca,(Since we never stop learning) to start with Scott Cunninghams; Wicca, A guide for the Solitary practioner & Living Wicca, A further Guide to the Solitary Practioner and Silver’s ‘To Ride a Silver Broomstick,To Stir… and To Light…’ Silver’s books are a foundation I wish I’d had 8 years ago.
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If you just started in Wicca/Witchcraft there is six books that are a must for your Library: 1. Wicca a Guide For The Solitary Practitioner (Scott Cunningham) 2. Living Wicca A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Scott Cunningham) 3. To Ride A Silver Broomstick (Silver RavenWolf) 4. To Stir A Magick Cauldron (Silver RavenWolf) 5. To Light A Sacred Flame (Silver RavenWolf) and 6. Bucklans’s Complete Book Of Witchcraft (Raymond Buckland) These six books are a most for any Wiccan/Witch. Just read them and take what you need and forget the rest. I have bought all of Scott Cunningham books that are out at this time and I just bought Slver RavenWolf three books that I have mention and She is great she is a compliment to Scott work! When I grew in the Craft I needed books to help me and RavenWolf books has help me to do just that GROW in the CRAFT. Thanks MS. RavenWolfP.S. It does not matter what name she used to write her books SHE is GREAT!
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I found this book very interesting, with a lot of good information. It had more details and advanced stuff than the first book, To Ride A Silver Broomstick, but I thought the contents were very confused, and not as structured as To Ride.. or To Light A Sacred Flame. I think it is a good book if you have already read some beginner book; this book will take you a little further, but it will probably take you a couple of reads, or good notetaking, gaining ‘control’ of the book. I like Silver’s personal writing style, how it is like she’s talking to you, instead of the usual boring writing style. It is refreshing, and at times very amusing. All in all, this book has a lot of good and detailed information, and the writing style is very good, but it also seems a bit unstructured to me.