tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79901210211585624152024-02-07T23:06:45.629-05:00Asteria Books and Events NewsAsteria Books and Events is a small publishing house and event coordination service located in Louisville, KY. Our website is www.asteriabooks.comLaureleihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533181448249888912noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-52301467058826906102021-02-15T13:01:00.004-05:002021-02-15T13:06:36.133-05:00Wisdom of Love: Cowrie Divination System ~ Available March 1, 2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwhesZtUk6pdskKk1C6jttxHd_mbH7nFgPZnX_PNm2dBP8VmfA_AFI91fpNZKznH6AMApI4NPg-GZCT3Xq2RZ37SDfbdkDKeXwbg_Ujytk9F_98ZudGIZgnJGGLPfOAyuBmGnqWM9mCI/s1080/IG-WOL-announce.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwhesZtUk6pdskKk1C6jttxHd_mbH7nFgPZnX_PNm2dBP8VmfA_AFI91fpNZKznH6AMApI4NPg-GZCT3Xq2RZ37SDfbdkDKeXwbg_Ujytk9F_98ZudGIZgnJGGLPfOAyuBmGnqWM9mCI/s320/IG-WOL-announce.png" /></span></a></div><span data-offset-key="9a0kn-0-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Starting March 1, the beautiful little book for Laurelei Black's cowrie divination system will be available. Laurelei shares e</span></span><span data-offset-key="9a0kn-2-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">verything you need to know to get started with 16 little vulva shells that want to talk about relationship, self-actualization, and empowerment! A Priestess of Aphrodite, Laurelei has been developing and using this cowrie system for about a decade with clients, devotees, and loved ones.</span></span><br /> <p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Will be available via Amazon and Etsy (at BladeAndBroom). </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laureleihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533181448249888912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-1500608383204284502020-09-10T13:09:00.002-04:002020-11-08T23:22:04.567-05:00Witches' Key to Goetic Familiars -- A Compendium of Solomonic Sorcery: Submission Guidelines<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LGkpggA_A67nKfZ9EEUilpvNfrqet92GQ1r7pKjxjkV1ha_did-PyMCDbnzvgjxY6jzB_8DIW5q75MSWRthWINk4zAbsfdhmGiF58aHIjfrXXUuUL3Y1A5dUUZjmwIpSAFl_e0dmDQM/s1080/WKGF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LGkpggA_A67nKfZ9EEUilpvNfrqet92GQ1r7pKjxjkV1ha_did-PyMCDbnzvgjxY6jzB_8DIW5q75MSWRthWINk4zAbsfdhmGiF58aHIjfrXXUuUL3Y1A5dUUZjmwIpSAFl_e0dmDQM/s320/WKGF.jpg" /></a>Asteria Books & Events is excited to announce that it is accepting submissions for an upcoming project related to the work that persons identifying as Witches and Sorcerers are doing with the 72 Spirits variously known as the Goetia, the Howling, the Legion, or even by some as the Shemhamforash. We are particularly interested in centering the voices of folks who work in ally-ship with Spirits, as opposed to the "command and compel" model found in most classical texts. Essays, rituals, formulas, working notes, spell records, chants, and personal accounts related to bargaining, compacts, relationship maintenance, Spirit-tending, and other aspects of your life with the Spirit(s) are ideal, as are black/white or greyscale artistic submissions. Poetic submissions will also be considered for inclusion. </p><p></p><p>Contributors may submit multiple pieces for consideration. Submission does not guarantee inclusion. </p><p>Our vision for this work is to offer a meaningful guidebook and grimoire for Witches who are interested in connecting with these Spirits in authentic, reciprocal relationship. We hope to show others that such Spirit-relationship is not only possible, but it serves as the cornerstone of many Witches' Craft. </p><p><br />* Art - Clean line art or greyscale -- 2800 x 1800 pixels at 300 dpi, JPG, PNG, or GIF<br />* Text - Essays, rituals, formulas, working notes, spell records, chants, poetry -- 5000 word max -- DOC/DOCX only</p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Where, When & How to Submit Your Work</b></u></p><p>All contributions can be emailed to laurelei@asteriabooks.com -- or shared via Google Drive to the same email address. (Please don't send anything via social media apps.) All work must be received by March 31, 2021 for consideration of inclusion. </p><p>Questions can be asked here or emailed privately to the address above.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Laureleihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533181448249888912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-78445753518246426272020-09-04T17:45:00.000-04:002020-09-04T17:45:05.352-04:00Women's Goddess Retreat -- Coloring Book & Anthology: Submission Guidelines<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpa27Vn1cA1jlmcWHPtzSfO1xBEMpW4Xw9sDMk-uSdZ5vBCGhif1SuQGW5-QM3p0vdPHpqp1UfpekPvPc02oXYjrTLt93jYLgfO_as2YDMkh3Y0gnG1nu4v6-t4v8PpR9Z4JQb3MizUf4/s1080/WGR+projects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpa27Vn1cA1jlmcWHPtzSfO1xBEMpW4Xw9sDMk-uSdZ5vBCGhif1SuQGW5-QM3p0vdPHpqp1UfpekPvPc02oXYjrTLt93jYLgfO_as2YDMkh3Y0gnG1nu4v6-t4v8PpR9Z4JQb3MizUf4/s320/WGR+projects.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Asteria Books & Events is so pleased to announce that it is accepting submissions for TWO publication projects related to its very own long-running <a href="http://www.asteriabooks.com/retreat" target="_blank">Women's Goddess Retreat</a>. Any person who has attended the retreat since its inception in 2009 is encouraged to submit art, poetry, flash nonfiction, and fiction to these projects (as described in the Project Submission Guidelines below).<p></p><p><u><b>Coloring Book</b></u> ~</p><p>We are looking for submissions related to any of the Goddesses we have covered in the 12 years of the retreat, with an emphasis on representations depicting the lessons they have shared with us specifically. We would also love submissions relating to our roles as Priestesses and our experiences as Women. This book is meant to be a reflection of the work and the wisdom we have shared and uncovered together in the years (now more than a decade) that we have been circling together. From our sacred fires, our Rites of Passage, our Goddess Circles -- all of it! Images of power, tenderness, and grace; words of wisdom, encouragement, humor. We want it all.<br /><br />* Art - Clean line art -- at least 300 dpi, JPG, PNG, or GIF<br />* Text - Poetry, chants, flash nonfiction -- 100 words max -- DOC</p><p><u><b>Anthology</b></u> ~</p><p>We anticipate this will be the first of possibly several anthologies to be born from our beloved retreat. Our Goddesses have shared so much wisdom with and through us over the last 12 years -- and they aren't done! (Neither are we!) In keeping with retreat custom, we are allowing the Goddesses to dictate the theme this first time. They'll show us their voice by speaking through the writers who come forward.</p><p>Our vision is to have participants share the stories and wisdom that they feel most drawn to share -- from whichever years, Goddesses, pantheons, they feel moved to speak about. You do not have to have been a facilitator to write about a particular Goddess or Rite of Passage. We want to hear from a variety of perspectives. What we ask is that you identify as many of these particulars as you can within your submission: <b>year, Goddess, stated lesson, activity</b>. (If you are writing about a Rite of Passage or some other aspect of the retreat, give as many particulars -- year, Rite, etc -- as you can.) From there, you can share whatever insight, wisdom, humor, take-away, etc. that you wanted. We're telling stories within stories -- ours and the Goddesses'. Circles within circles. And sharing those ever-widening circles of love and wisdom with the women of our retreat (and beyond).</p><p><u><b>Where, When & How to Submit Your Work</b></u></p><p>All contributions can be emailed to laurelei@asteriabooks.com -- or shared via Google Drive to the same email address. (Please don't send anything via social media apps.) All work must be received by December 31, 2020 for considerations of inclusion. </p><p>Questions can be asked here or emailed privately to the address above.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Laureleihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533181448249888912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-12600934649138384292016-05-11T07:49:00.000-04:002020-05-21T13:21:24.218-04:00Witches Rune Series: To Call Ye Forth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Summoning a long-dead Witch King to be a real-world lover and protector
was easy for Rose and her covenmates. Overcoming a murderous dark coven
while dodging a fanatical minister and his rabid congregation may
present more of a challenge.
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<i><br />Delilah Temple's debut novel takes readers on a sizzling plunge into
the sexy and sorcerous lives of a coven of traditional witches who hide
in plain site on the outskirts of Indianapolis. Provocative and
delicious, it'll leave you yearning for Book 2.</i><br />
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Explore the world of five Indianapolis witches as they struggle to keep a low-profile during the beginnings of a fresh new witch hunt.<br />
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Available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FH28ZC0" target="_blank">Kindle</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Call-Ye-Forth-Witches-Rune/dp/0985773456/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462967278&sr=8-2&keywords=to+call+ye+forth+by+delilah+temple" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.Laureleihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533181448249888912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-54780755748265165682014-02-14T22:33:00.001-05:002014-02-14T22:33:25.352-05:00Temple of Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"This was part of Sappho's art, to give herself so completely in lust and sweat and satisfaction, to allow herself to be contented and dependent on her lover. ... She hadn't yet learned that this art was a double-edged blade - one that would cut her again and again. It would lend heat to her passion and poetry, and it would eventually break her."<br /><br />Sappho, the lyric poet whose life and lovers give us our current understanding of the word "Lesbian," was hailed as the Tenth Muse on her island home of Lesvos and all throughout Classical Greece. Her poems of passion and longing were directed at the men ... and women ... whom she adored and sometimes envied.<br /><br />Like most girls of Lesvos, Sappho lived a life among women. After her earliest education, though, she rejects the traditional married life and gives herself in service to the temple of Aphrodite to become a priestess of love, beauty, and sexual ecstasy. Cloistered among the sacred courtesans, she opens her heart and body to love. But when Pittakos the tyrant and Alcaeus the poet vie with each other to be first in her heart, will she lose herself and all that she holds dear?<br /><br />Laurelei Black, who is herself a priestess of Aphrodite, offers a unique and often erotic look into the passionate, tumultuous, and inspirational life of Sappho through the lens of service to the Goddess of Love.<br /><br />asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/temple-of-love<br /><br />Written and Edited by Laurelei BlackUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-13327248856428319612014-02-05T19:02:00.003-05:002014-02-06T12:50:14.804-05:00Liber Qayin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Qayin-Azazel speaks! Hearken unto the words of Lilith and Ishtar.<br />
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This prophetic work is channeled from the Witch Father, Tubal-Qayin, and the Witch Mother, who is both Lilith and Ishtar. Hear now the Gospel of Qayin, the wisdom he brings to all Witches in this New Aeon.<br />
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Liber Qayin is a channeled book in three parts: The Black Book of
Lilith-Sophia, The Red Book of Qayin-Azazel, and the White Book of
Ishtar-Lilith. <br />
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40 pages, available in paperback or instant digital download.<br />
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<a href="http://www.asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/liber-qayin.html">asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/liber-qayin</a> <br />
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Written/received by Laurelei and Natalie Black<br />
Cover art by John BirkelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-16835870088448203692014-02-05T18:38:00.004-05:002014-02-06T12:52:05.715-05:00Asteria Book's Book of Shadows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Asteria Books has made available their entire current Book of Shadows in .pdf format. There are over 100 original sheets made by Asteria Books/Blade & Broom. (This PDF version prints with a blank background so you can print on any paper you choose. The ones in the picture are printed on ivory parchment paper.)<br />
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These BOS pages are like no others that are available anywhere -- on or offline. These leaves from the Book of Shadows are pulled directly from the American Folkloric Witchcraft Tradition and are published exclusively by Asteria Books.<br />
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<a href="http://www.asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/book-of-shadows.html">asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/book-of-shadows</a><br />
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The PDF copy is available for instant download from Etsy. You can print these on your own paper, or keep as part of your digital BOS.<br />
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Created by Laurelei & Natalie Black<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990121021158562415.post-416728658466165412014-02-05T17:33:00.003-05:002014-02-06T12:53:48.055-05:00The Witches' Key to the Legion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, the Goetia, is one of the most
widely read (and feared) books known to today's magical practitioners.
It has come down to us from no later than the 17th Century, and previous
printings have been translated, edited, and commented upon by some of
the most illustrious Mages of the last two centuries.<br />
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THIS book is the first to address Witches in regard to
the Legion, and it is unique in its admonition of the spirit torture
that has been the hallmark of previous editions. On these pages, you
will not find tedious conjurations designed to threaten and bully
spirits into cooperation. Instead, you will find a reasonable, direct
approach to working with the 72 spirits of the Legion.<br />
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Witches have a long and storied history of spirit
conjuration, and (most of) the Legion awaits a familiar relationship
with today's Witches and Mages.<br />
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The Witches' Key to the Legion includes several essays on
working with these spirits, discussions of the creation of the Legion
and their seals, a complete Demonic DO NOT CALL list, two quick
reference tables to help you easily find a spirit with whom you have
affinity, alternate sigils for most and illustrations of several of the
spirits, and updated descriptions of all 72 spirits as provided by the
spirits themselves.<br />
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If the spirits of Legion were to write a book about themselves, this would be it!<br />
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<a href="http://www.asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/legion.html">asteriabooks.com/publishing/catalog/legion</a><br />
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Written and Edited by Laurelei Black<br />
Illustrated by Natalie Black and John BirkelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0