Review: Magick for Empaths

Title:  “Pagan Portals: Magick for Empaths”
Author:  Raven Digitalis
Publisher:  Moon Books
Release Date:  April 1, 2025
Pages:  112

This little guidebook is part of the Pagan Portals series that divulges what empaths experience, the spiritual significance of empathy, and guidance for protecting, shielding, grounding, and maintaining balance when approaching spellcasting.

Much like psychic abilities, everyone possesses some degree of empathic capability. Genuine empathy involves emotional care and compassion. Emotions are a guide and a strength, not a weakness. Empaths sense, feel, and absorb them, and respond with a desire to help. Raven cautions that empaths commonly encounter emotional overload and that “compassion to a fault is a very real and detrimental thing.”

Being empathic has a unique set of obstacles and shortcomings, making finding and maintaining balance important. He stresses, “Self-care is essential to minimizing the need for distraction or emotional anesthetization.” For that reason, he begins this book with a meditation to empower empaths by aligning with the element of water and clearing chakras. More than a dozen ways to attune to water are described, including baths, hydration, floor washes, and witch bottles. Activities to connect with earth, air, and fire are are offered to help maintain emotional equilibrium. Information about natural tools suited for use by empaths, such as crystals and herbs, is offered to help maintain emotional equilibrium.

To assist with self-awareness and wellbeing, he presents options including mindfulness, meditation, medication, counseling, creative outlets, sleep, and exercise. He writes about some natural tools from a variety of cultures that can assist empaths with protection, confidence and emotional healing; these include moonstone, eggshells, black tourmaline, rue, salt, and yarrow. Another list gives ways empaths can interact with spiritual forces if they so choose, from ancestors to power animals and the fae to universal energy.

The information in this easy-to-read mini-book is helpful not only for empaths, but for anyone wishing to approach their magickal practice with more self-awareness, wellness, and balance.

Closing out the book is another meditation, this one designed as a first step working with the shadow self. There’s also a bibliography and a list of suggested reading.

About the Author:
Raven Digitalis is best known for his Empath’s trilogy and Shadow trilogy. Originally trained in Georgian Witchcraft, he has been an earth-based practitioner since 1999, a priest since 2003, a Freemason since 2012, and an empath all of his life. He holds a degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Montana, jointly operated a nonprofit pagan temple for sixteen years, and is also a professional tarot reader, editor, card-carrying magician, and animal rights advocate. He lives in Missoula, MT. Learn more at www.ravendigitalis.com and www.facebook.com/ravendigitalis.

About the Reviewer:
As an eclectic solitary crone, I travel the country in a converted school bus and share magick with those I meet. Find me at https://thewitchonwheels.com/ and on Facebook.