Friday 27 July 2018

Guardian Angel Cards


Circle Network Card Deck Review: Guardian Angel Cards - Loving Messages from theAngels, 44 cards by Toni Carmine Salerno, 44 cards with no images, no booklet, just text and colour on heart shaped cards, giving a message of inspiration, guidance and healing. Brief but positive 50 word information typed on the coloured cards. How to use the cards to receive an answer to a question are given in the information on how to use the cards. Cards are divided into suits with 5 cards containing a short prayer. Artist and author, Toni Carmine Saleerno has produced a very large number of card decks for his Australian publishing house, Blue Angel. Twee! So easy to read the short text message directly from the card. A nice gift! Send an oracle card with a message to a friend with a birthday card!  
Also see Sacred Earth Cards:  https://mbsmagazin.blogspot.com/2018/08/sacred-earth-oracle.html#.W2vtujknbIU

Saturday 21 July 2018

Self Healing Techniques

Circle Network Book Review: Know That You Are Loved - Self-Healing Techniques for Everyone by Philena Bruce Pages: 109 (paperback) Paperback price: £7.99 Kindle price: £4.92 (Amazon) Published by O Books  Author’s website: www.philena.co.uk

Inferno - Dan Brown


Spirit Orbs

We have all seen opaque circular balls of light on digital photographs. These strange objects are also seen on CCTV cameras. Klaus Heinemann was a NASA physicist and has a PhD in experimental physics. He believes these strange circles of light are spiritual phenomena and that they have a vital

The Key to the Tarot

Circle Network Book Review: The Key to the Tarot - What Tarot is - and how to consult it by A E Waite.
 

Arthur Edward Waite was born in 1857 in New York and was brought up in Jamaica and died in 1942 in Britain. This classic book was first published in 1910 to accompany a deck of tarot cards which developed as a result of the author's research at the British Library. Waite was a leading member of the Order of the Golden Dawn (along with W B Yeats and J M Barrie and other intellectuals of the time). This was where he met Pamela Colman Smith, the illustrator of this famous deck. 

Celtic Wisdom Pack

Celtic Wisdom Box by Caitlin Matthews provides information about ancient Celtic spiritualitty, with ceremony and ritual for today's world with prayers and blessings, the Wheel of the Year, the moon cycles, the land, seasons, how to set up a shrine and how to use the cards. The box contains a black metal pendant, small animal cards in black and white ink and a book of Celtic lore. This is a great little book to help us to mark and celebrate the seasons. I was delighted to find this in a shop in central London for a reduced price. If you see one, make it yours! Review: Wendy Stokes


Titania's Spell Cards

Love and Success is a bright red velvet flip lid box containing cards which each have a short spell and also a gentle painted image  with message compositions by Titania Hardin, who has a prolific output of popular books of spells, divinations, rituals, potions, etc. Here 64 cards, with simple illustrations by Janet Simon

Peace & Harmony Cards are presented in a superior quality purple vet flip top box, each card carries a pastel image country tradition and a suggestion how a little spell could be conducted. Bees, beads, salt and other common and household items are profiled.

J-The Woman Who Wrote The Bible - by Mary F Burns


Circle Network Book Review: J-The Woman Who Wrote The Bible - A Novel by Mary F Burns  Published by Circle Books 343 pages Paperback £11.99 eBook: £6.99 http://www.maryfburns.com/

This is enjoyable reading! It’s one of those books I enjoyed as I curled up and relaxed at the end of a busy day. It removes Biblical characters from the context of mythical heroes and presents them as real people. It is a human perspective on people whose actions and stories have influenced our culture for thousands of years.


Annamaria Hemingway-Immortal Yearnings

Circle Network Book Review: Immortal Yearnings: Mystical Imaginings and Primordial Affirmations of the Afterlife by Annamaria Hemingway
Published by 6th Books Paperback Price: £14.99 Kindle Price: £5.76
Author website:  http://www.annamariahemingway.com/
Annamaria Hemingway's latest book, Immortal Yearnings, takes the reader on a journey exploring how, via the medium of mythology and symbolism, humanity wrestles with the metaphysical questions posed by our common experiences of living, dying and, in some cases, receiving intimations of an afterlife.

Suzanne Ruthven - Country Writer's Craft

Circle Network Book Review: The Country Writer's Craft: Writing for Country, Regional and Rural Publications by Suzanne Ruthven published by Compass Books Paperback 153 pages £9.99 Author's website: http://suzanneruthvenatignotuspress.blogspot.co.uk/

If like me, you have had an inclination to write for country publications, after reading Suzanne Ruthven's 'A Country Writer's Craft', it's likely you will be more motivated and equipped to do so.

The author provides inventive ideas and tools for getting to grips with all the varied publications, from glossy county lifestyle magazines through to smallholding and farming publications and all between. There are valuable insights into the mind of editors and what they are looking for and tips on how to market research their readership. Also included are professional writing exercises at the end of each chapter.

Spirituality of Carlos Santana

Circle Network book review: The Spirituality of Carlos Santana. Edited by Nicholas Nigro. Hardback price: £11.99 Kindle edition: £8.22 104 pages Published by Backbeat Spirituality Press.

Carlos Santana grew up in a family of musicians, and played in the Santana Blues Band (later the name was reduced to 'Santana'). With his inspiring Tijuana and Latin rhythms and virtuoso performances he impressed many big stars of the rock and roll era, including The Who and The Rolling Stones and he has received many prestigious awards.  

A West Country Sensitive - Chris Brooks


Born and raised amongst Wiltshire’s Sacred, Mythical and Megalithic sites, Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, the Crop Circles, Ancient Burial sites and many others that date to times past, far beyond historical knowledge or records, it is my firm belief that there is a reason and a purpose as to why each and every one of us are born in the particular geological location we have been.


Self Therapy



Circle Network Book Review: Self-Therapy by Marian Van Eyk McCain, 99 pages
Published by: Psyche Books, Paperback Price: £6.99  Author’s website: www.marianvaneykmccain.com    www.elderwoman.org

Water Color Lenormand

Bouquet - The Card of Wishes Granted
WATER COLOR LENORMAND

This deck consists of 39 cards designed by S M Senden, a scientific illustrator who was impressed with the amazing accuracy of the Lenormand system of cartomancy. The elegant simplicity of the images are presented in original water color paintings by Senden that are true to the original Lenormand images without the inserts.

This deck is perfect for the beginner who is learning the symbols of the Lenormand cards, and it is also suitable for the advanced readers who like the clean lines and elegant simplicity of these cards. The Dog card is a beautiful rendition of an Irish Wolfhound that captures the nobility of this handsome animal - a fiercely loyal dog that is gentle and loving unless threatened. The Ring card features intertwined rings as another way to express the concept of cycles. The Mice Card are nibbling and wielding their destructive actions. The Snake card is pictured with two heads to underscore the deception that this card implies.

The Whole Elephant Revealed

Circle Network Book Review: The Whole Elephant Revealed - Insights into the existence and operation of Universal Laws and the Golden Ratio by Marja De Vries Publisher: Axis MundiPaperback: £18.99 ebook £6.99  403 Pages.Authors website: www.marjadevries.nl/

The title ‘The Whole Elephant Revealed’ is taken from a twelfth century Sufi story of a village where all the inhabitants were blind. When the King brought one to the village one day, each person was allowed to feel a part of the creature. One felt the trunk and thought it was a hollow pipe, another the ear and thought it was a large rug, another the tail and his extraordinary impressions of this and so on. Each part created confusion and no-one could agree to its purpose because the entire animal could not be envisaged.

Writing a Life Story - Sara-Beth Watkins



Circle Network Book Review: Telling Life’s Tales – A Guide to Writing Life Stories for Print and Publication by Sara-Beth Watkins Published by Compass Books 134 pages paperback £9.99 

So many ordinary people want to write a memoir, an autobiography or life story but do not know where to start. The market is competitive so you must be well informed in order to give yourself a very good chance of writing a really readable, enjoyable and interesting book.  This primer provides the best start for a total beginner. The author is a tutor The Open College and teaches creative writing. She has 20 years’ experience as a freelance writer, has written three fantasy e-books and two other books for

Hans de Waard Interview


From the book: The Jacket Technique: For days on end, I felt amazing! The Jacket Technique was born: I compared our physical body to a coat stand from which excess baggage hangs in the form of jackets. Those jackets all have different names, like the cord jacket, the trauma jacket, the projection jacket, and more. When there are too many jackets on the coat stand, you can’t see the coat stand itself. You can’t see who you really are, what suits you and what really nurtures you in life.

The Jacket Technique is a method to remove from your life whatever is weighing you down, whether it be anxiety,

Shen Therapy

SHEN THERAPY
Fully Certified Provider: Vijay Rana
 Cost of 1 hour £50
London Venue

Website: http://www.emotionalintegration.com/

SHEN - Specific Human Emotional Nexus - takes place on an individual basis, as a retreat or in a group setting. It is a gentle and non-verbal treatment and takes place while the client lies fully clothed in a cradle (a soft canvas table style bed). The therapy works on the principle that memories of distress, caused by accidents, shocks, emotional upsets, etc., remain embedded within the physical body and the practitioner's hands are used to move and release the memories, thoughts or emotions associated with these events. Symptoms, such as fear, sadness, guilt, embarrassment, disappointment, lack of confidence and exhaustion can be relieved.

Tarot Transformation - Tiffany Crosara

Circle Network Book Review - The Transformational Truth of Tarot – The Fool’s Journey By Tiffany Crosara Published by Dodona Books Price: £14.99 ISBN: Number of pages: 258
Author’s website: http://www.transcendentaltemple.co.uk/


This is a valuable book on a fascinating topic which both beginner and more experienced user can benefit from. The author, Tiffany Crosara has 25 years of working with the tarot as she was introduced to it when she was a perceptive and sensitive young person. Her first name, ‘Tiffany’ means ‘epiphany’ or ‘revelation from God’ and her work as a tarot reader and teacher is certainly inspired. She is one of the UK’s top tarot readers and teachers. 

Communal Meditation


Building community is about more than just interacting with a few, like-minded people. Real communities span age groups, and have diversity as well as areas of commonality that enable connections. Shared meditation can be used to provide some common ground and bring otherwise disparate people together.

Coming together to share a specific interest creates a good foundation for a community. Performing a communal activity can build bridges because issues of wealth, class, race and also religion become secondary to the work in hand. So much of our life does not encourage us to mingle with people outside our normal sphere and so our communities readily reflect too much of what we already know and think rather than opening new doors.


Nimue Brown

Circle Network Book Review: Druidry and Meditation
By Nimue Brown Published by Moon Books Paperback £11.99 172 pages

Nimue Brown is a Druid celebrant, a Pagan Federation volunteer and has completed her OBOD (Order of the Bards, Ovates and Druids) training. She has been involved with the Druid Network and is a founder member of the West Midlands’ Druid Gorsedd, Bards of the Lost Forest, has run a closed ritual group, a folk club and is an experienced workshop facilitator and meditation teacher. She facilitates meditation groups within the UK Druidry community and has written this insightful and stimulating book on the use of Western style meditation for group and individual Druid practise. She includes passive and active exercises to deepen experience and awareness, and provides philosophy to aid personal and spiritual development and an understanding of the sacred.