Overview: Pagan Portals - Animal Magic: Working With Spirit Animal Guides by author Rachel Patterson, is an introduction to the world of animal magic; how to find, recognize, connect and work with the power of animal magic.

Verdict: Within the confines of this easy to read, relatable, and wholly impassioned new book, author Rachel Patterson dives into a slew of different types of animal magic, some probable origins, modern versions, and then provides some informative meditations to help the reader search for animal guides of their own.

The book covers topics that include just what animal magic is and the benefits of practicing it, along with those aforementioned meditations and even some simple spells to employ when attempting to figure out which animal has some meaning to you; and what they might well be able to teach you.

If you have ever wondered about what your spirit animal could be, moreover what it might be able to do with/for you, then you are not alone, for the fundamental search for your spiritual juju (which can only be found in the energies of the animal kingdom) is a search that has been instilled in humans for the longest time.

So, you’re not alone for spiritual seekers through all of history have recorded their interactions with animal energies and medicine. Furthermore, they strove to build strong relationships with animal archetypes as a way of broadening the human experience with the natural world and its gifts.

As we learn, Spirit, Totem and Power Animals are messengers from the world of Spirit, the collective conscious, Source, etc. and they show up in our awareness when the time is right; gifting to us a gentle reminder that we are connected us to their divine energy and can call upon it to achieve our highest and best life.

More importantly, these creatures become teachers, guides and advisors when we most need it and so here in Pagan Portals: Animal Magic, Rachel shows us how to incorporate our own guides into rituals and other workings once you have made your connection with them.

Encouraging the reader to use their own intuition to learn what the animal has to teach them, as opposed to relying entirely on a paragraph from a reference book, Rachel’s book is a rather solid, down to earth, dutiful guide to different aspects of working with these most wondrous of animal spirits.

As for the author herself, she describes herself as thus: I am a witch ... have been for a very long time ... the real sort, but I am also a working wife and mother. I am also a High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft.

My craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, kitchen witchery, hedge witchery and folk magic. My heart is that of a Kitchen Witch.

About the Author: Rachel Patterson is High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder of the Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft. A Green/Kitchen Witch with an added dash of hedgewitch and folk magic. She lives in Portsmouth, UK.

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