Book Review

Money Magic

Practical Wisdom and Empowering

Rituals to Heal Your Finances

by Jessie Susannah Karnatz 

Publisher:   Chronicle Books

208 Pages

Publication Date:  March 1, 2022   

 

 

In “Money Magic: Practical Wisdom and Empowering Rituals to Heal Your Finances,” intuitive financial coach Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka “The Money Witch” presents a detailed seven-step system to assess your financial situation, plan for goals, and overcome obstacles. It’s a workbook combining practical advice and a sprinkling of magical rituals to take control of your money, getting readers from where they are to where they want to be.  

Much has to do with healing the emotional blocks surrounding money that prevent success, self-care actions to increase confidence, and meditations to make for a money-manifesting mindset. It’s a holistic approach that addresses techniques that go beyond traditional financial advice.

This is not a quick fix with some crystals and spell work. It’s not a law of attraction book. It requires diving deep into income, wants versus needs, expenses, what success looks like, and a reader’s relationship with each. There are journal prompts, research exercises (such as the clues your astrological midheaven gives about where to focus for financial success), affirmations, and homework dealing with core wounds that can influence or sabotage your financial life. 

“I don’t sound like a banker, and I don’t sound like your dad getting mad at you for not taking his advice. I sound more like if finance maven Suze Orman took psychedelic mushrooms,” Karnatz states.

She comes at finances from logistical, spiritual, emotional, energetic, and magical angles — all aimed at healing and creating space to develop a new relationship with money. Each chapter opens with associations — allies, astrological inspiration, crystals, a tiny tarot reading, and a tea — associated with the topic, and concludes with a ritual. 

It can be overwhelming, scary, and intimate, but to heal your finances requires healing everything in your life. This book appears to address everything needed to guide readers through the process.

Jessie Susannah Karnatz is a financial couch and the founder of Money Witch, a company that uses practical financial tools and empowering rituals to help clients achieve their financial goals. She is based in San Francisco, California.

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About the Author:

Lynn Woike

thewitchonwheels.com

All my life I have known magic was real. As a child, I played with the fae, established relationships with trees and “just knew things.” In my maiden years I discovered witchcraft and dabbled in the black-candles-and-cemeteries-at-midnight-on-a-fullmoon magick just enough to realize I did not understand its power. I went on to explore many practices including Zen, astrology, color therapy, native traditions, tarot, herbs, candle magic, gems, and, as I moved into my mother years, Buddhism, the Kabbalah and Reiki. The first man I dated after my divorce was a witch who reintroduced me to the Craft, this time by way of the Goddess. For 11 years I was in a coven, but with retirement, I have returned to an eclectic solitary practice. When accepting the mantle of crone, I pledged to serve and teach. This is what I do from my skoolie – a 30-year-old school bus converted into a tiny house on wheels that I am driving around the country, following 72-degree weather, emerging myself into nature, and sharing magic with those I meet. Find me at thewitchonwheels.com, Facebook and Instagram.