City Witch A Journal to Deepen your Connection to your City through Magical Self-exploration

by Basile, Lisa Marie

• ISBN13: 9780760380321
• ISBN10: 0760380325
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-08-06
• Publisher: Rock Point

Summary

Manifest your desires as an urban witch with this accessible and intuitive guided journal designed for a practical, magical city life. 

City Witch shows you how to connect with your city’s diverse spiritual ecosystem and channel the powerful energy running through it. In this gorgeous journal, author of Light Magic for Dark Times and The Magical Writing Grimoire, Lisa Marie Basile, teaches you how to maintain a magical practice when nature, time, space, and resources are scarce. Use the journaling space to document the process and reflect on the purpose of your magic. Make it truly yours by building spells on your witch’s journey to self-discovery. 

This journal is your portal into the world of witchcraft and mysticism, giving you the space to learn and grow as a city witch. Engage with the urban landscape around you and harness its boundless possibilities for a thriving magickal practice. Some topics that you will explore in depth include:

• Working with urban energies
• A variety of spells for city life
• Techniques for working with spirits and elements
• Exercises for boosting your creativity and energy
• The purpose behind both ancient and modern cities
• How nature configures into city life

City Witch is your guide to not only the energetic and sacred pathways within your city, but also to your full magickal potential. Whatever your personal goal, whether it is to bring nature into your space, reconnect with your spirituality, or hone your spell-building craft, the City Witch journal offers an attainable way to live intentionally in any city.

The Everyday Inspiration Journals series has a guided journal for every self-improvement journey. Whatever your personal goal, whether it is to incorporate more positivity into your life, or to slow down and find calm, or to hone your spell-building craft, or something else, you will find in this series an elegant journal in which you can record your thoughts, aspirations, and progress. With a simple, easy-to-follow structure, each journal is filled with powerful prompts and helpful trackers to illuminate your way.

Also available from the series: Spellcraft, Find Your Mantra Journal, Essential Dream Journal, Astrological Self-Care Journal, Night Meditations, Manifest Your Dreams: A Journal, and Find Your Magic: A Journal.

Author Biography

Lisa Marie Basile (she/her) is a poet, essayist, editor, and chronic illness awareness advocate living in New York City. She’s the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine and its online community, and the creator of Ritual Poetica, a curiosity project dedicated to exploring the intersection of writing, creativity, healing, and sacredness. She regularly creates dialogue and writes about intentionality and ritual, accessibility, creativity, poetry, foster care, mental health, family trauma, healing, and chronic illness. She is the author of The Magical Writing Grimoire, Light Magic for Dark Times, City Witches, and a few poetry collections, including the recent Nympholepsy, which is excerpted in Best American Experimental Writing 2020. Her essays and other work can be found in The New York Times, Narratively, Sabat Magazine, We Are Grimoire, Witch Craft Magazine, Refinery 29, Self, Healthline, Entropy, On Loan From The Cosmos, Chakrubs, Catapult, BUST, Bustle, and more. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes (most recently for her work in Narratively). Lisa Marie has led poetry, writing, and ritual workshops—at HausWitch in Salem, Massachusetts; Manhattanville College; and Pace University—and she’s led ritual and writing events, like Atlas Obscura’s renowned Into The Veil. She is also a chronic illness advocate, keeping columns at several chronic illness patient websites. She earned a master’s degree in writing from The New School and studied literature and psychology as an undergraduate at Pace University. You can follow her at @lisamariebasile and @Ritual_Poetica.