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Summary: A good start but should emphasize more practical advice
Review: 'You are no longer a victim, you are a victor!' 'The techniques herein, however, should not preclude obtaining professional assistance, whether we are talking about the need to notify the police, a counselor, or medical professionals.' 'Throwing magick at a problem or goal isn't the ultimate solution to all of our difficulties.' 'Like the famous guy says, "Don't sweat the small stuff".'While I find this refreshing coming from Silver Ravenwolf, and commend her on placing this most valuable common sense in the front of her book, I wish she would have focused more on this kind of wisdom throughout her book rather than offering the 'book designed to teach you how to prevent bad things from occurring and how to protect yourself should you walk into something that you shouldn't have.' It would have been better if she had also offered the advice of 'look before you walk' so you would not have walked where you should not have been. This book is a re-release of the book originally issued in March of 2000. It is a 'cookbook' of spells, rituals and incantations to assist in protecting yourself in a variety of ways from a plethora of potentially harmful situations. The novice will find the correspondence tables useful and those familiar with Silver's personal path will find this book enjoyable. There are things that can be confusing such as the cross used for a spell for 'sick and broken cars' on page 47 and invoking Venus to protect police officers on page 66. This is Silver's particular path. There are one or two spells that are inspiring, while there are those that are lackluster and need some adjustment to timing and rhyming to make them work. Some spells are short and quick while others appear to be major undertakings. Her book offers a suggestion of protection for the mistakes we made or troubles we can encounter. But this book is not a total solution for our own errors of judgment or actions we knowingly take and we realize we should never have approached. And it is not a cure all for what threatens us. As she states in the beginning of her book, and I wish she would have repeated through out the book in bold letters, 'The techniques herein, however, should not preclude obtaining professional assistance, whether we are talking about the need to notify the police, a counselor, or medical professionals.' That should be repeated as a mantra over and over in the book. For the occasional bump that we encounter in life, this book can provide some positive reinforcement a la Silver Ravenwolf style. For serious issues, there is proper counseling, assistance from the proper authorities and the support of friends and family that will assist us out of trouble and protect us. The wisdom is knowing how to balance magic with the mundane to achieve the desired levels of protection. boudica
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Summary: Facinating!
Review: After ordering three of Silver Raven Wolf Books from Amazon, I waited delivery with great anticipation and was I trilled they came. The Protection book is FAB! It is a well writen that make you really think "I CAN protect muself"! Delivered along with Silver's Teen Witch, I am looking forward to focusing my energies inwards rather than outwards and also I shall enjoy reading my third book "To light a Sacred Flame" ..I can't wait to see what the future will bring! A superbly inspiring book.
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Summary: Very Good, but newcomers to the Craft be careful
Review: I eagerly did one of the spells in this book to "break apart those who stand against you" and created chaos in my own life rather than breaking up their negativity. OOPS!! Somehow or other, it backfired on me and the Goddess exacted her revenge! I spoke to a few experienced witches about this and was told that I stirred up a lot of energy and was then given more gentle magick to do to calm things down again. So my only advice to newcomers is to talk, read, and learn from witches of longtime experience before casting certain spells. I learned about the threefold law the hard way! Aside from that, Silver's books are wonderful and I heartily recommend all of them to anyone interested in the Craft. Brightest Blessings!
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Summary: Silver really comes through with this one!
Review: I have all of Silver's books, and many, many others. When I'm in a pinch, this is the one I always go to first. The "Stop a Bad Case of Gossip" is great!
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Summary: very good for spell reference.
Review: I love the spells in this book! Rarely, do spell books speak of protection spells in the modern sense. In older books,protection spells would be in reference to spirits. This books offers tools for protection against negativity in all forms.
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Summary: A refreshing Ravenwolf read
Review: It's nice to see Silver Ravenwolf write something besides how to books. The spells in this nifty little volume range from extremely easy to a little more difficult and covers just about everything you may need magickal protection for.
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Summary: Horray For Silver
Review: Silver does it again with this great spell book . Buy it you`ll love it
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Summary: A great continuation of Silver's excellent series
Review: Silver is the first Wiccan author whom I have discovered so far, who has had the focus to dedicate her time and energies writing this "Silver's Spells For..." series. I declare that she is doing quite a good job! As for the one or two folks who declared that they needed to know Wicca or how to manipulate magickal energies before they used her books, well, you are entitled to your opinion. Considering that EVERY person on this planet has the potential for magick, I dare say that you all are trying to put magick in a box! Naturally Silver remembered to put the usual cautions and admonitions about the laws of magick in the first chapters of her book...so relax, OK? Anyway, don't let the naysayers put you off-- it is an excellent series, and the wide array of spells, their size and power being in direct proportion to the seriousness of the problems/people/situations at hand, are just what I needed! I live in a big city where there is LOTS of noise, and I used her suggestions for stress. Also, my ridiculous relatives have been harrassing me psychically to contact them (which in and of itself is not magickally ethical), and the "Simple Folk Spells for Little Troubles" worked wonderfully. All of her spells are, as Wiccan ethics go, WITH HARM TO NONE. Blessed Be!
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Summary: Its allright.
Review: Silver Ravenwolf. Unusual name, ok writer. Some of the spells in this book I would be unsure of and hesitant to try. I like the SAP spell, though. It may be her tradition, but I like to stick to asking the Lord and Lady rather than asking a million different godesses/gods. but I like the practical advice she gives. May her writing improve.
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Summary: Excellent Correspondences
Review: there are a lot of negative comments I've read on silver, and the more I see of her works, the more I understand them. This isn't real occultism. I'm sure these spells work well enough, but if that's all anyone practicing this stuff cares about, then you're not really a witch, just some meddler in the arts who dosen't really understand any of this. Silver's books can be good up to a point, but there are those of us (occultists) who have studied many, many long, extremly painful years in the sacred energies, and these spells can be dangerous. They're real, and they're dabbling in the energies without really knowing what you're doing. Silver dosen't take the thought or time to explain true occultism in her books, but I don't think that's really her fault. Sometimes, I actually think she believes she's a real witch, and I'm sure her "followers" do to. Take my advice, if you really want to practice magick, then read something else. DON'T STOP READING THESE BOOKS, if you don't want to, but you do need to read other books by other authors to get many veiws on occultism anyway, so I suggest reading some books by ALEISTER CROWLEY, or some sort of well-known, famous occultist, and see if you don't change your mind about Silver. If you don't, that's fine, at least you've looked around a little bit more, and if you do, that's good too (you probably will).
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