Oberon Zell-Ravenheart

This excellent resource for Ceremonialists and Ritual Leaders brings together decades of work and experience from the Zell-Ravenhearts and the pagan community. Primarily a collection of works originally known as "HOME Cooking", it is the collected circles, chants, seasonal sabbats, mystery plays, rites of passage, and initiations of the H.O.M.E. tradition, one of the pioneer movements of the Neo-pagan and Wiccan movements. In this edition, this collection has been expanded and added to by the country's pagan community to create an extensive resource for anyone planning to hold pagan rituals, lunar celebrations, seasonal sabbat celebrations, rites of passage, bardics, or even more creative 'Mystery Plays' from days of yore.

Book 1 teaches you ritual basics, able to be customized for any occasion. Book 2 provides examples of Esbats, Rites of Passage, Initiations, Spells and Consecrations. Finally Book 3 provides in-depth examples of seasonal celebrations for the eight sabbats of the year. This collected resource is a must-have for anyone intersted in conducting or even attending pagan circles, rituals and festivals!… (mehr)

A Wizard's Bestiary
by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Ash "LeopardDancer" DeKirk

Wow, reviewing this 357 page reference of the many mystical, mythical, and old lore creatures that have filled our lives and imaginations has been a real treat. I learned so much and have great respect for the authors of this enlightened encyclopedia because I feel this massive undertaking will help a lot of seekers to define and redefine what they know about different aspects of the metaphysical realm.

The format was easy to follow, and I liked the pictures that accompanied many of the simple and concise explanations of the various beasts. I would recommend this enormous labor of love to anyone drawn to the rich history and myth that has effected us all throughout our lives. Thank you both, for bringing it all together in one place, especially in such an artful way.

Love & Light,

Riki Frahmann… (mehr)

A good book, and very thorough on a verity of topics overall. A really interesting introduction to magic and paganism. This book took me some time to read it throughout considering how thick it is and how the pages are set up. It has a little bit of history which as a general whole seems accurate, it has good ideas and techniques of to practice, information on certain matters, and more.

The book is set up to start with some bare bones basics and work its way up from there. Because of how the chapters are set-up they are very child and teen friendly at not being confusing or intermediating any readers.

Sometimes though the book seems to wander a little to much toward the line between fact and fantasy. The Book seems to draw a little to much on popular books on wizardry at the time, and uses a few to many references to Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and other fictional works, however I don’t think it detracts much from my view on this book.… (mehr)

Good book definitely geared toward early teens so adults will probably find some of the stuff rather annoying but it is still definitely full of TONS of useful information that adults should still read. His history and science is impeccable there was only factual inaccuracy that I saw and a couple of spelling errors that were probably just typos or printing errors. My biggest problem was that his comments on Satanism were completely off base "Satanism is the darkest of the dark arts, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Wizardry or Witchcraft. Satanic 'ethics' are entirely self-serving and manipulative, and most Satanists will routinely lie about their intentions, actions, and objectives to gain control of others whom they consider as cattle. Do NOT trust such people!" 1 There are indeed satanic witches, just like there are Qabbalistic magicians its two sides of the same coin. We don't own the word witch. This particular inaccuracy reminded me of Silver Ravenwolf's list of what witches do or do not do. 2 Satanists in general either worship themselves as god (Laveyan Satanists/ Church of Satan) and view that as long as you don't hurt others do whatever the hell you like or they view that Satan is the good guy and Yahweh is the bad guy (Traditional/Theistic/Luciferian Satanists) (they site that no god that loved you and was good would take away pleasure). I therefore highly object to furthering any misinformation particularly that on a religion that is already misunderstood enough. Keeping that particular thing in mind I do highly recommend his book but as with any book question everything you are told even this.… (mehr)