Brittany Carmona-Holt

I find myself recommending this book and buying it as gifts for people more than any other book on my shelf! Many of us are only just now going through this personal and collective reawakening of our personal power and magic, and I can personally attest to this being an ideal, empowering place to start. It helped demystify spell work for me, helped me connect the dots from childhood memories and experiences back to a magickal lens, and is my most frequently references book when I'm working on a spell or ritual. There's a little bit of everything in here, but it's highly approachable, and down to earth. The breadth of content, makes it to where you can easily make the information your own, and build your own practice in whatever field you're already in, or feel called too. Most importantly, I love what Juliet stands for - I'm really choosey with the spiritual books I choose to consume because there is often too much of an opportunity for love and light spiritual bypassing trying to negate the harsher realities of the current iteration we're all currently living. So I loved how Juliet makes it clear that along with witchcraft being for our own person healing, growth, and prosperity, that we are not separate from the collective or the earth, and therefore our magickal practice shouldn't only be only self-serving. Our magickal practice is our activism. I don't see many occult books or spiritual guides address that fact. I found this book randomly at a local bookstore while I was looking for something else. I was drawn to it, and I cried with it, not very far into it at all, and I believe that that was the witch wound starting the process of beginning to heal. The solace and kinship I've found in this book has made me feel safe enough to come out of the broom closet and incorporate my magickal practice into the other work I do in the world as a full spectrum doula, writer, and photographer. It has been a key component in helping me feel empowered and invigorated to start sharing my own needed medicine and magic with the world to contribute towards the reproductive justice agenda I feel called to. And I have no doubt it can ignite and invigorate others to show up the way that they are needed in the world too.