SEASONS OF MOON AND FLAME
The Wild Dreamer’s Epic Journey of Becoming

As a young woman, Danielle found refuge, nurturance, and wisdom when visiting her grandmother’s rustic home. Next to the fire of the winter hearth and sitting outside with the wildflowers of spring, her anorexic body was loved and fed, her racing thoughts were slowed, and she received a maternal support she did not have in any other part of her life. These visits with Grandmother Grace were the seeds that eventually grew into DanieIIe’s deepening exploration into the Sacred Hag archetype and the wisdom that these elder women have been sharing since the beginning of humanity.

Seasons of Moon and Flame’ s “Year of the Wild,” consists of thirteen chapters that correspond to the thirteen moon cycles, or lunations. These lunations are held in four parts that reflect the four seasons. Each season corresponds to an archetypal hag: the Garden Hag for Spring; the Desert Hag for Summer; the Sea Hag for Autumn; and the Mountain Hag for Winter. This book is a companion for the entire year, and each chapter is filled with rituals, stories, spellwork, and guidance.

Why use the word hag? Danielle is liberating the word “hag” from the patriarchal definition of “old and undesirable” and embracing its more ancient meaning of a wise, elder woman. From the book: “The hag has much healing wisdom to share with us, if we only listen, so let us build twig-and-stone shrines in the woods to those gray-haired ones who taught us well.”

The reader is asked to let go of their idea of linear time and embrace the never ending spiral of nature, magick and creativity.

“To be a witch is not only to acknowledge these many seasons but to humbly and humorously live them,” Danielle writes. “To cocreate a life worth living with time as partner-lover and transformation as teacher-friend. To be a witch is to have begun learning the greatest lesson the wilds have to teach their human children: Time is a spiral dance of eternal becoming, and to move in that age-old rhythm is to remember the wisdom of not only those crones who have come before us but those yet-to-be-born babes who will be inherited by the new world we leave behind.”

About the Author:  Danielle Dulsky is a heathen visionary, pagan poet, and word-witch. The author of Seasons of Moon and Flame, The Holy Wild, and Woman Most Wild, she teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, communal spell-work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She is the founder of The Hag School and believes in the emerging power of wild collectives, cunning witches, and rebellious artists in healing our ailing world. Find her online at www.DanielleDulsky.com.

Book Reviews for April (March below)

Reconnecting To The Source by Ervin Laszlo
• 244 pages • $18.99 • ISBN 978-1-250-24644-8
Book Release from St. Martin's Essentials

Love Skills
The Keys to Unlocking Lasting, Wholehearted Love

Falling in love is never a straight line to “happily ever after.” Relationships go through seasons of change, renewal, darkness, and light.

“With knowledge, commitment, and practice, we can usually work through these challenges, even when they initially feel insurmountable,” writes Carroll. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, people don’t meet, fall in love, overcome a few trials, and then live happily ever after - nor do conflict and dissatisfaction between partners necessarily mean a couple is headed for Splitsville.” ,

Love Skills offers a do-it-yourself version of a highly effective workshop program, which Carroll has been co-teaching with her husband for over 25 years, that readers can complete individually or as a couple. The book addresses both small troubles and the more serious dilemmas of communication gridlock, betrayal, and seemingly intractable differences, while providing a clear map for moving forward with these issues in the most productive way possible.

“When you know how to navigate the storms, conflict can lead to understanding and even closeness that makes your relationship even better than it was before,” writes Carroll. “In most cases, the Love Skills process will help you to rediscover the original promise of your relationship and offer you a road map for traveling this rewarding and challenging path.”

Carroll’s well-researched practices help keep love alive in the midst of serious challenges, and the specific, effective solutions she outlines provide a clear map for moving forward. Her couple-tested techniques allow readers to deal with conflict without losing connection, and show that conflict, when navigated properly, can lead to renewed closeness and unprecedented connection.

“Here’s the truth about intimate relationships: the conflicts you face right now may never disappear,” writes Carroll. “But the good news is, the ways you manage these differences can change profoundly. As you develop the emotional and interpersonal skills described in these pages, your conflicts with your partner will become less painful and destructive - and your relationship can begin to thrive again.”

About the Author: Linda Carroll is the author of Love Skills and Love Cycles. While she has worked as a therapist and couple’s coach for over three decades and has acquired numerous certificates and degrees along the way, she says that her own thirty-five-year marriage is the primary source of her knowledge when it comes to the cycles of love. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Visit her online at https://lindaacarroll.com

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Book Reviews for March

Your Moontime Magic by Maureen Theresa Smith
• 176 pages • $15.95 • ISBN 978-1-60868-668-1
Book Release from New World Library

Secrets to a Successful Startup by Trevor Blake
• 280 pages • $16.95 • ISBN 978-1-60868-666-7
Book Release from New World Library

The Bright Way by Diana Rowan
• 264 pages • $16.95 • ISBN 978-1-60868-644-5
Book Release from New World Library