The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action

Starhawk, Hillary Valentine

Harper Collins, Nov 15, 2011 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 352 pages

Continuing the lessons and deepening the knowledge first set out in the bestseller The Spiral Dance, here is the first guide that works for both basic and advanced magical training. Authors Starhawk and Hilary Valentine transform a fairy tale about twelve wild swans into a set of instructions for an initiatory journey into the world of Witchcraft, providing a remarkable roadmap describing three distinct paths into magic, healing, and action.

"The practice of magic rests on the power of the word," says Starhawk. For circles, covens, and groups, this volume is the power of the word at work -- a sourcebook that instructs and inspires on many levels, from the craft of magical training to innerspiritual development to outer work in the greater world.

About the author

Starhawk is the author of nine books, including her bestselling The Spiral Dance, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, and Webs of Power, winner of the 2003 Nautilus Award for social change. She has an international reputation, and her works have been translated into many different languages. Starhawk is also a columnist for beliefnet.com and ZNet. A veteran of progressive movements who is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, she travels internationally, teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. Starhawk lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes. Hilary Valentine has been practicing and teaching Reclaiming Tradition magic since 1985. She lives in northern California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action
• Authors: Starhawk, Hillary Valentine
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2011
• ISBN: 0062125230, 9780062125231
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft; Religion / Spirituality; Religion / Wicca