Description

Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the year

Fresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door to nourishment, abundance, and transformation—for readers of Psychic Witch and The Spell Book for New Witches

In New Moon Magic, Missing Witches authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer Witchy practices to change your life and reshape the world, without falling prey to the commercialization that belies the true heart—and power—of magic.

Witchcraft is praxis: how we do what we believe, and how we make those beliefs manifest. New Moon Magic is an offering to all witches, honoring the Craft’s roots in centuries of empowerment, survival, and resistance—despite capitalism’s attempts to co-opt and dilute its practice.

Here, Dickens and Torok reclaim tools of witchcraft as the ways and means of enchantment, imbued with magic that resists commodification and capitalism. The authors introduce 13 New Moon practices, each paired with a Witch who embodies the Craft:

• Potions with Cerridwen and St. Hildegard von Bingen

• Divination with Lozen and Harriet Tubman

• The Garden with Mayumi Oda

• Ritual & Ceremony with Genesis P-Orridge

• The Circle with Audre Lorde

About the Author

Amy Torok and Risa Dickens started the Missing Witches podcast in
September 2018 and published their first coauthored work, Missing
Witches, in 2021. Both have a background in creative community-building and ran two different, interdisciplinary monthly arts performance showcases for years in the same town before meeting, forming their coven, and beginning the podcast.

Risa has a BA in literature and an MA in media studies, where she wrote about the communications history and impact of open source. For two decades, she has made magic and organized interdisciplinary community events, including advocating for a Universal Basic Income. She lives in a cabin on a lake in the woods north of Montréal with her
husband Marc and daughter May Marigold.

Amy Torok is a Witch, teacher, counterculture enthusiast, musician, and visual artist/designer with a BA in English literature and a postgraduate diploma in journalism. She can be found atop a forest ravine in Quebec, with dirt under her fingernails and a song in her head at all times.