
Magic of the Pearl Pentacle
Reclaiming Love, Law, Wisdom, Liberty & Knowledge
Llewellyn Publications,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 8. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-7387-7730-6 (ISBN)
Description
Through its five attributes of Love, Law, Wisdom, Liberty, and Knowledge, the Pearl Pentacle shows you how to engage intimately with your community. This book helps you develop a deep and dynamic connection with yourself and others through numerous hands-on activities. Featuring contributions by ten authors and teachers, including Starhawk, Irisanya Moon, and Dawn Isidora, Magic of the Pearl Pentacle is written from the Reclaiming Witchcraft perspective. This passionate collaboration between diverse voices explores each point of the pentacle in depth, delving into philosophical, magical, political, personal, and social ideas. These words invite us to take up this work; to kiss the moon, the sea, and the stars in our blood.
Reviews / Votes
"Jane Meredith and Fio Gede Parma explore the multifaceted magic of love, law, wisdom, liberty, and knowledge and offer it to us as a spell to awaken beautiful, beloved community. Along with their own insights, they gather an array of voices of witches who have lived this work and speak to us with real, honest, loving truth. This book is both an invitation to connect to the gifts of the Pearl Pentacle and a vessel holding the living history of Reclaiming."-Anthony Rella, author of Slow Magic
"An impressive and influential book. The sheer knowledge and experience that comes from the ten wonderful teachers that have contributed to the book as well speaks of the power within the pages. This is a book of self-discovery and one of transformation. The journey may not be easy, but it will be life changing if you are prepared to put the work in. You won't be alone, as the words within these pages provide you with guidance as you traverse your inner and outer worlds. You might not agree with everything...but that's the point-it will provoke you to take action."
-Rachel Patterson, Witch, High Priestess, podcast host, and bestselling author
"In this deep, wise, and beautifully written book, we are invited to explore the complex interweaving of our personal magical practices with community, society, and environment...Fio and Jane's introductions to each point in the Pentacle offer honest and courageous insights on how to acknowledge and mitigate the effects of colonialism, racism, and gender bias in our spiritual practices. With the additional contributions of ten respected Witches from the Reclaiming Witchcraft tradition, I found this book to be a powerful and practical introduction into one of the core principles of the Reclaiming tradition, and a helpful and integral guide for any of us who wish to deepen our own spiritual and magical practice."
-Wendy Rule, internationally-acclaimed singer, songwriter, and witch
"An in-depth examination of the somewhat lesser known of two magical tools, offering its transformative potency to practitioners everywhere. Learn how the Pearl Pentacle can help to heal psychic and emotional wounds, transforming them into something beautiful. The authors share their personal experiences working with and teaching this tool, as well as the perspectives of several others teachers and practitioners, providing a more rounded view of this nuanced subject...Magic of the Pearl Pentacle offers the world a powerful tool of healing, harmony, grace, and community."
-Storm Faerywolf, author of The Satyr's Kiss
"A beautiful exploration of the human experience that calls us to walk a path of magic that fosters personal growth, community harmony, and divine relationship...An invaluable resource for anyone seeking to deepen both their understanding of self and their connection to the world. Drawing from the rich traditions of Reclaiming and Feri, this book challenges us to engage with our own stories, to confront the complexities of our relationships, and to embrace the beauty that emerges from vulnerability and connection."
-Jhenah Telyndru, author of The Ninefold Way of Avalon
"This beautiful offering...provokes the reader to truly reflect on their practice, to deconstruct it and analyse how one might, if brave enough, emerge from the sense of vulnerability and discomfort which this work will undoubtedly evoke, into a place of beauty and strength...Fio Gede Parma and Jane Meredith draw together their own wisdom, and the wisdom of powerful, inspiring teachers, elders, and great thinkers to present yet another visceral and transformative journey which you are invited to undertake."
-Mhara Starling, author of Welsh Witchcraft and Welsh Fairies
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7387-7730-6 (9780738777306)
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Persons
Fio Gede Parma is a Balinese-Australian non-binary witch, international teacher, and magical mentor. Fio is a cofounder of the Coven of the Wildwood and a midwife of the Wildwood Tradition. They have been initiated into four traditions of the Craft and serve and celebrate as priestex and lover with many Spirits and Gods. Fio has authored or coauthored six previous books, including Elements of Magic and Magic of the Iron Pentacle. Visit them at FioGedeParma.com. Jane Meredith is an Australian writer and ritualist. Her books include Magic of the Iron Pentacle, Elements of Magic, Rituals of Celebration, Journey to the Dark Goddess, and Aspecting the Goddess. Jane is passionate about myths and magic, co-created ritual, trees, rivers, and dark chocolate. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is one of her special loves. She teaches internationally and is a teacher within the Reclaiming Tradition. Phoenix LeFae (Sebastopol, CA) is a professional reader, rootworker, teacher, and ritualist. She has been practicing witchcraft for almost thirty years, and her teachings are connected to the Reclaiming Tradition, Druidry, and Gardnerian Wicca. She is also the owner of an esoteric Goddess shop called Milk & Honey. In addition to being the coauthor of Life Ritualized, she is the author of A Witch's Guide to Creating & Performing Rituals, Walking in Beauty, What Is Remembered Lives, and Witches, Heretics & Warrior Women. Hilary Buffum is a lifelong Reclaiming witch. She is an artist, a teacher, and a story gatherer. She has taught and organized for both Teen Earth Magic and Witchlets in the Woods. Hilary believes in the depths and power of intergenerational magic. She is a co-conspirator with little witches making rituals in streambeds and magic mud pies. She works to weave the deep, complex magic of relationship: with ourselves, community, the wider world, and mystery. Raven Edgewalker (they/them) is a British Witch, teacher, artist, and writer who lives in the magical landscape of Somerset, UK. They are a Reclaiming and Anderson Feri initiate and has worked within the Reclaiming Tradition for more 20 years. They have an ongoing, passionate love affair with the natural world. They see their work in the world as that of building connections, with self, with each other, within community, with deity and the elements. Raven has been lucky enough to teach Reclaiming WitchCamps and workshops across the world, both face to face and as a founder and member of the teaching faculty of World Tree Lyceum, an online pagan Mystery School. Raven owns the popular pagan business Greenwomancrafts and makes their living crafting beautiful pagan tools and jewelry and taking landscape photographs.
Content
Contents
Foreword (Phoenix LeFae) xvii
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 9
Reclaiming's Principles of Unity 13
LOVE 17
Love Is a Revolution 18
Activity: Love Poem 31
Ritual: Opening to Love as a Current 34
Love Is Art (Pandora O'Mallory) 37
Process: Choosing Love 45
Spell: Love Potion 49
What Is Remembered Lives (Willow Kelly) 52
LAW 63
Law: That Which Must Be 64
Ritual: Lawful Boundaries 77
Process: Law Keeper, Law Breaker, Law Maker 80
My Law Is Love Unto All Beings (Starhawk) 83
Exercise: Tuning In to Land, Indigenous Communities and Teachings 93
Activity: Laws of This Land 96
A Personal Response to the Collision of Colonial and Indigenous Law 99
WISDOM 111
The Pearl of Wisdom 112
Trance: Ancestral Wisdom 125
Practice: Wisdom Altars and Shrines 129
Wisdom of Land, Lineage, and Tradition (Raven Edgewalker)132
Activity: Wisdom Conversation 140
Ritual: Wisdom of the Self 143
We Are the Wisdom of Our Living Tradition (Hilary Buffum) 146
LIBERTY 157
The Work of Liberation 158
Process Part 1: What Binds You 172
Process Part 2: Ritual of Unbinding 175
Am I Free? (Susannerae)178
Process: Allies and Witnesses 186
Ritual: Liberation Pledge with Brigid 189
Envisioning Gender Liberation (Alex Iantaffi) 192
KNOWLEDGE 203
Knowledge Rewrites Us 204
Activity: Gates of Knowledge 218
Spell: Apples and Pomegranates 221
Distilling the Knowledge of a Tradition (Irisanya Moon) 224
Process: Bringing Your Knowledge into the World 232
Activity: Divining Knowledge 236
Knowledge Is Initiation (Ravyn Stanfield) 239
A Pentacle of Bridges (Dawn Isidora) 248
Ritual Basics: Acknowledgment of Country 255
Grounding 259
Creating Magical Space 261
Honoring the Elements 263
Triple Soul Alignment 266
Pearl Pentacle Tools
The Iron and Pearl Pentacles-Running the Currents 271
Pearl in 3D and Out in the World 277
References 281
Recommended Resources 283
Contributors 287
Foreword (Phoenix LeFae) xvii
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 9
Reclaiming's Principles of Unity 13
LOVE 17
Love Is a Revolution 18
Activity: Love Poem 31
Ritual: Opening to Love as a Current 34
Love Is Art (Pandora O'Mallory) 37
Process: Choosing Love 45
Spell: Love Potion 49
What Is Remembered Lives (Willow Kelly) 52
LAW 63
Law: That Which Must Be 64
Ritual: Lawful Boundaries 77
Process: Law Keeper, Law Breaker, Law Maker 80
My Law Is Love Unto All Beings (Starhawk) 83
Exercise: Tuning In to Land, Indigenous Communities and Teachings 93
Activity: Laws of This Land 96
A Personal Response to the Collision of Colonial and Indigenous Law 99
WISDOM 111
The Pearl of Wisdom 112
Trance: Ancestral Wisdom 125
Practice: Wisdom Altars and Shrines 129
Wisdom of Land, Lineage, and Tradition (Raven Edgewalker)132
Activity: Wisdom Conversation 140
Ritual: Wisdom of the Self 143
We Are the Wisdom of Our Living Tradition (Hilary Buffum) 146
LIBERTY 157
The Work of Liberation 158
Process Part 1: What Binds You 172
Process Part 2: Ritual of Unbinding 175
Am I Free? (Susannerae)178
Process: Allies and Witnesses 186
Ritual: Liberation Pledge with Brigid 189
Envisioning Gender Liberation (Alex Iantaffi) 192
KNOWLEDGE 203
Knowledge Rewrites Us 204
Activity: Gates of Knowledge 218
Spell: Apples and Pomegranates 221
Distilling the Knowledge of a Tradition (Irisanya Moon) 224
Process: Bringing Your Knowledge into the World 232
Activity: Divining Knowledge 236
Knowledge Is Initiation (Ravyn Stanfield) 239
A Pentacle of Bridges (Dawn Isidora) 248
Ritual Basics: Acknowledgment of Country 255
Grounding 259
Creating Magical Space 261
Honoring the Elements 263
Triple Soul Alignment 266
Pearl Pentacle Tools
The Iron and Pearl Pentacles-Running the Currents 271
Pearl in 3D and Out in the World 277
References 281
Recommended Resources 283
Contributors 287