Witches Runes: Insights from the Old European Magickal Traditions
Silver RavenWolf(Pennsylvania) is a nationally recognized leader and elder of Wicca, and through her writing has been instrumental in guiding the future of one of the fastest-growing faiths in America today. The author of seventeen books, she has been interviewed byThe New York Times,Newsweek Magazine, and theWall Street Journal,and her work has been featured in numerous publications, includingBust Magazine, theBaltimore Sun, theSt. Petersburg Times, theNational Review,Publishers Weekly, Body & Soul Magazine, andTeen Lit Magazine.Her many titles include the bestsellingSolitary Witch,Teen Witch,To Ride A Silver Broomstick,To Stir A Magick Cauldron,To Light A Sacred Flame,American Folk Magick,Angels: Companions in Magick,Silver’s Spells for Prosperity, Silver's Spells for Protection, Silver's Spells for Love, Halloween,and theWitches’ Night Outteen fiction series. Her new bookHedge Witchis forthcoming from Llewellyn in September 2008.Nigel Jackson, born in 1963, lives in Manchester, England and is a well-known artist and illustrator specializing in the symbolism of Western Esoteric Tradition: he is deeply immersed in the traditional Tarot of 15th century Italy, the magical teachings of medieval-renaissance astrological magicians such as Ficino, Agrippa and Bruno and in bringing to life the talismanic images inherited from ancient sources of arcane lore such as the Arabian grimoire The Picatrix. He has worked intensively in researching the magical system of the 28 Mansions of the Moon. Nigel has been involved for the last quarter of a century in pursuing the inner wisdom of the hermetic mysteries and in expressing the symbolic 'language of the gods' through his visual art which he views as a living  'alchemy of the imagination'.