{"id":19467,"date":"2019-04-01T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:36:52","slug":"book-review-pagan-portals-animal-magic-working-with-animal-spirit-guides-by-rachel-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/04\/01\/book-review-pagan-portals-animal-magic-working-with-animal-spirit-guides-by-rachel-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review \u2013 Pagan Portals: Animal Magic \u2013 Working with Animal Spirit Guides by Rachel Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Book Review<\/strong>
Pagan Portals: Animal Magic<\/strong>
Working with Animal Spirit Guides<\/strong><\/em>
by Rachel Patterson<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rachel Patterson is a witch, wife, mother, and author. She is high
priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an elder at the Kitchen Witch
School of Natural Witchcraft. She combines hedge witchery, religious
witchcraft, kitchen witchery, and folk magick into her own version of the
Craft.
 
Her main animal guide is the boar. Other animals have chosen to be her
guides as well; magpie, pigeon, seagull, frog, and others that pop up on
occasion. Each has it\u2019s own reason and brings it\u2019s own strengths and
wisdom. 

She encourages us to trust our intuition in all aspects of life, including
our magick, that there is no \u2018right\u2019 way of doing things. She flat out
states that what works for her might not work for you or me. 

There seems to be interchangeability between the many words used; totem,
power animal, medicine, and ally to just name a few. Their use depends on
the tradition, pathway or personal preference. Personally, I use either
spirit or guide.

Our ancestors had a deeper stronger connection to nature in all it\u2019s forms.
They understood the animal world in ways that we are just starting to
relearn. That understanding included being able to learn from the other 
creatures around them. With that understanding came understanding on a 
spiritual level besides the physical. 

Each creature has things that they can teach us, qualities that we can
adapt and adopt ourselves. Many of our sayings are animal related; busy as
a bee, quiet as a mouse, loose as a goose, what\u2019s good for the goose is
good for the gander. Animal guides can teach us wisdom, guide us away from
danger, and act as power sources for our magickal endeavors. 

We often have dreams or visions of animals. For instance, I used to dream
about lions protecting the wheelchair ramps of a school that I used to go
to. They were there to help me until I was ready to face whatever it was
that I was afraid of, deeply, at that time. So lions represent strength,
courage, and loyalty to me. 

This book has lots of great information. The author describes her own
version of a medicine wheel meditation that is designed to help you meet
some of your various animal guides. There\u2019s information about the
elemental, various astrological, deity, etc. connections.  This book is
great for learning about spirit guides, animals and otherwise. It gave me
lots of good information and confirmed many things that I had already
learned previously on my own. I do highly recommend this book for those
interested in spirit animal guides and how to contact and work with them.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Pagan Portals – Animal Magic: Working With Spirit Animal Guides on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Book Review Pagan Portals: Animal Magic Working with Animal Spirit Guides by Rachel Patterson Rachel Patterson is a witch, wife, mother, and author. She is highpriestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an elder at the Kitchen WitchSchool of Natural Witchcraft. She combines hedge witchery, religiouswitchcraft, kitchen witchery, and folk magick into her own version of theCraft. Her main animal guide is the boar. Other animals have chosen to be herguides as well; magpie, pigeon, seagull, frog, and others that pop up onoccasion. Each has it\u2019s own reason and brings it\u2019s own strengths andwisdom. She encourages us to trust our intuition in all aspects of life, includingour magick, that there is no \u2018right\u2019 way of doing things. She flat outstates that what works for her might not work for you or me. There seems to be interchangeability between the many words used; totem,power animal, medicine, and ally to just name a few. Their use depends onthe tradition, pathway or personal preference. Personally, I use eitherspirit or guide.Our ancestors had a deeper stronger connection to nature in all it\u2019s forms.They understood the animal world in ways that we are just starting torelearn. That understanding included being able to learn from the other creatures around them. With that understanding came understanding on a spiritual level besides the physical. Each creature has things that they can teach us, qualities that we canadapt and adopt ourselves. Many of our sayings are animal related; busy asa bee, quiet as a mouse, loose as a goose, what\u2019s good for the goose isgood for the gander. Animal guides can teach us wisdom, guide us away fromdanger, and act as power sources for our magickal endeavors. We often have dreams or visions of animals. For instance, I used to dreamabout lions protecting the wheelchair ramps of a school that I used to goto. They were there to help me until I was ready to face whatever it wasthat I was afraid of, deeply, at that time. So lions represent strength,courage, and loyalty to me. This book has lots of great information. The author describes her ownversion of a medicine wheel meditation that is designed to help you meetsome of your various animal guides. There\u2019s information about theelemental, various astrological, deity, etc. connections. This book isgreat for learning about spirit guides, animals and otherwise. It gave melots of good information and confirmed many things that I had alreadylearned previously on my own. I do highly recommend this book for thoseinterested in spirit animal guides and how to contact and work with them. Pagan Portals – Animal Magic: Working With Spirit Animal Guides on Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}