WICCA FOR COUPLES by A. J. Drew
Making Magick Together
$13.99
Where a circle is cast, a home is built.
Where athame is brought to chalice, a union is forged.
In a world where Wicca is something one does as a solitary or with his or her coven, this book demonstrates how Wicca is something one experiences with kith and kin. Wicca for Couples examines such issues as Archetype vs. Stereotype, Wiccan Ritual vs. Real Life, Clergy vs. Guru, and as its title implies, Couple vs. Coven. In so doing, this book gives us the context of our own deeply felt needs and desires rather than issues of pop culture and fashion.
This book shows us the potential for a modern Wicca based on the lives of the pre-Christian Pagans. This is a Wicca where the structure is founded on the natural bonding of a couple, rather than the seclusion of the solitary practitioner or the confines of a loveless coven. Where archetypes are more than just names, they are living examples of how we can better understand and strengthen our relationships, and thus build a worldview based on love rather than objectification.
Wicca for Couples not only includes rituals for handfasting, Wiccaning, and handparting, but also a discussion of how these sacred rituals have been almost trivialized in Wiccan culture and what steps we can take to return their sanctity. This book explains why Wiccans declare sexual union The Great Rite, explains the sanctity of this union, and warns against its trivialization. Most important, by examining Wiccan ritual, this book demonstrates how our rituals imitate life and how the living of that life is infinitely more important than what one does in formal circle.
A.J. Drew is the author of the highly successful books Wicca Spellcraft for Men (New Page Books) and Wicca for Men. He is the host of the annual Real Witches Ball, one of the single-largest Pagan gatherings in the U.S. He is also the system operator, Webmaster, and host of www.neopagan.com, which was designed to become a hub for the entire Pagan community, and is succeeding. He is the owner of one of the largest Wiccan/Pagan shops in the Midwest, Salem West.