Hope, Warmth, and Tarot Cheer For the Most Wonderful Time of Year Keep the childlike wonder of midwinter burning brightly with the help of this festive deck. Featuring reimagined suits of candles (wands), good cheer (cups), canes (swords), and gifts (pentacles), the Yuletide Tarot honors this spiritual time of year while remaining true to Rider-Waite-Smith style. Bestselling author Kristoffer Hughes' guidebook presents detailed descriptions of each card's keywords, meanings, and holiday lore as well as five unique midwinter spreads that will deepen your connection to this magical season.

Renowned author Kristoffer Hughes presents a beginner guide to Druidry that covers what it is, where it comes from, and why it's an important and fulfilling spirituality. Hughes shares not only the nuts and bolts of how to be a practicing Druid, but also Druidry's deep roots in history, its evolution into modern times, and ethical and environmental considerations. Druids are defined by what they do, and this book offers many ways to put Druidic theory into action. Explore what it means to talk with trees, answer the call of wild awakening, honor the ancestors, and work with deities. Use prayer, meditation, and ritual to expand your awareness, develop relationships with the unseen, and engage with elemental powers. This book provides Celtic wisdom and helps you connect with the Awen the blessed breath of inspiration.

The witch goddess Cerridwen is the focus of devotion and reverence among witches and Pagans around the world. This book traces Cerridwen s roots through layers of history and myth, and it provides hands-on exercises and visionary rites to help you realize her immeasurable power in your own magical practice. Welsh Druid Kristoffer Hughes shows you how to evoke the magic of ecstatic poetry and song as you join the lineage of magical bards who have explored the secrets of Awen and Cerridwen s cauldron of inspiration. You will also discover Kristoffer s powerful approach to contemplative journeying, working with sigils, and creating an altar. With rituals for initiation, affirmation, and clarity, this deeply poetic book explores the transformative energies of the goddess of witches.

Delve into the depths of a magical current that spans over three thousand years. The Book of Celtic Magic provides its readers with the unsurpassed power of practical magic and the transformative forces of ancient Celtica. Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, Kristoffer Hughes invites you to explore the pantheon, myths, and magic of his native Wales. Discover the magical allies, the gods and goddesses, and the spirits of place that form the foundation of this vibrant tradition. Practice rituals that draw you closer to the divine energy of the plants and animals that surround you. Work with spells, conjurations, invocations, and magical tools that have been developed and refined from authentic Celtic sources. Complete with contemplative exercises and a glossary of terms, this step-by-step guide is a definitive source of real Celtic magic.

The tale of Taliesin and the magical cauldron of Cerridwen speaks from the heart of the Celtic Pagan tradition. In From the Cauldron Born, you are invited not only to read the story but to live it. You are invited to resonate with the magic of the witch mother Cerridwen and her cauldron of inspiration. You are invited to become Taliesin, the prophetic spirit with the radiant brow. You are invited to awaken to a lucidity of spirit born from the archetypes of sacred myth.

Join Kristoffer Hughes on a yearlong journey of rituals based on one of Wales's most profound legends. With deeply transformative exercises and lyrical wisdom, you will experience beauty and knowledge, imagination and creation as never before.

Praise: "If you are captivated by the exploration of Welsh and Celtic myth, Kristoffer Hughes's in-depth, scholarly work belongs on your bookshelf."--Ellen Dugan, author of Seasons of Witchery

"In this book, Kris Hughes takes up his Druid's staff and guides us through the winding paths of the tale of Taliesin with insight, learning, and inspiration so that we too may drink the magical brew in the cauldron of Cerridwen and emerge transformed."--Anna Franklin, author of The Sacred Circle Tarot

Embrace the power and magic of the ancient Celtic mysteries. Journey with gods, goddesses, and magical allies into a world of enchantment and inspiration. This is not just a deck of cards; it s a storehouse of ancient myth, magic, and mystery. Based on the Rider-Waite system but designed to express and transmit the depth of the Celtic mysteries, this deck plunges both reader and querent into strong currents of magic.

As the Last Leaf Falls is a guide to death and the mysterious world beyond. Join renowned Druid priest Kristoffer Hughes as he explores the three Celtic realms of existence the realm of necessity, the realm of spirit, and the realm of infinity and illuminates the essence of grief, mourning, and spiritual continuation. Challenging many status quo beliefs about the afterlife, this book provides exercises, meditations, rituals, and thought-provoking questions designed to bring you on a journey of discovery through the most profound of all human transitions. Filled with insight and practical guidance, As the Last Leaf Falls shows you how to honour family and friends in spirit, discover life-affirming aspects of every state of existence, and move beyond the fear that surrounds death.

A personal account of one mans journey through the dappled groves of culture and tradition, who explores Druidry through the eyes of a man in love with his heritage and land. Written with clarity, humour and pathos, this journey through tradition descends into the mysteries of Druidry and of its practice in the 21st century. fundamental principles of Druidry from ritual, connection, mythology, shamanism a personal ride through the Druid year Share in a world of wondrous beings, of sheer potentiality beyond comprehension, and the awe and childlike surrender one feels when confronted with the enchantment of Druidry.