Christina Young
My name is Christina, 34, mom of soon to be 2 kiddos (2nd born arriving around Imbolc 2020), and an off and on practicing pagan since I was about 12. My fields of interest along the path are ancestral based along with herbalism, folklore, shamanism, and nature's cycles. I'm not really a caster of any kind but focus on honoring the circle of life and the wheel of the year. I dabble with tarot and oracle cards but definitely not proficient in them. My focus is on herbs. This is part of the reason my husband and I own an herbal company that focuses on educating and supplying people about the herbs around them. We focus on the mundane instead of the magickal among our subscription boxes and our general view of the business. We're trying to expand into a few different directions in 2020 but our main focus is always herbal education. I've always felt that even for your magickal uses to work properly and safely you must understand the mundane properties and uses of herbs to get the full spectrum of their capabilities in your workings. When it comes to the ancestral side of things - I focus primarily on Slavic and Scottish-Celtic studies. I dabble with a Native American path because I was raised around Natives and now married to a man who's half Native. I might not use their path in my own 100% but I love to be educated about things so I can pass the information onto our children later.
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Book Review – Slavic Witchcraft: Old World Conjuring Spells & Folklore by Natasha Helvin
Book Review Slavic Witchcraft Old World Conjuring Spells & Folklore by Natasha Helvin 224 Pages I was asked by the Editor of PaganPagesOrg if I would be interested in reviewing this book because my background/experience does involve some Slavic practices and traditions, and she wanted to see if I would mind giving an honest opinion based on what I’ve learned already. I most certainly agreed to it as I was curious how it might compare to what I learned while living in Croatia and what I’ve studied in the USA. Let me explain briefly a little about my perspective and experiences: My father’s family is originally from today’s…