Here is a small sampling of books offered at Moondrop Herbals that seekers of True Self, Spirituality, Feminine Empowerment, and Connection to the divine might find intriguing, and most of all, helpful in your Journey to Connect to your own Self Worth.
Burning Woman
by Lucy H. Pearce $18.95
Burning Woman is a breath-taking and controversial woman’s journey through history—personal and cultural—on a quest to find and free her own power.
Uncompromising and all-encompassing, Pearce uncovers the archetype of the Burning Women of days gone by—Joan of Arc and the witch trials, through to the way women are burned today in cyber bullying, acid attacks, shaming and burnout, fearlessly examining the roots of Feminine power—what it is, how it has been controlled, and why it needs to be unleashed on the world during our modern Burning Times.
Burning Woman explores:
Burning from within: a woman’s power and how to build it, engage it, and not be destroyed by it.
Burning from without: the role of shame and honor in the time-worn ways the dominant culture uses fire to control the Feminine.
The darkness: overcoming our fear of the dark and discovering its importance in cultivating power.
This incendiary text was written for women who burn with passion, have been burned with shame, and who, at another time, in another place, would have been burned at the stake. With contributions from leading burning women of our era: Isabel Abbott, ALisa Starkweather, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Molly Remer, Julie Daley, Bethany Webster, and more.
Descent & Rising:
Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth
by Carly Mountain $18.95
When our lives fall apart, we often feel broken, ashamed, and deeply alone. What if you knew that, despite the uniqueness of your own experiences, each stage of the process was universal, that it was mapped out in a myth thousands of years old?
“The heroine is one who has remembered, reclaimed, and reconnected with her unfettered red thread. She has been initiated into the spirit of the depths by her dark sister, and walks with newfound, embodied authority into the upperworld.”
What if, despite the uniqueness of your own life and experiences, each stage of the process of descent was universal? The journey of Descent & Rising is the core initiation of the feminine—the heroine’s journey—one travelled by billions of women before you.
Descent & Rising explores real stories of women’s descents into the underworld of the psyche—journeys of dissolution, grief, and breakdown precipitated by trauma, fertility issues, loss of loved ones, mental health struggles, FGM, sexual abuse, birthing experiences, illness, war, burnout, and more.
This is territory that Carly Mountain, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, knows intimately, and guides us through with exquisite care and insight, using the ancient Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna as a blueprint. She maps not only the descent but the rising and familiarizes us with a process of female psycho-spiritual growth overlooked in patriarchal culture.
“The heroine’s journey is an erotic, mystical initiation that revivifies our place in the shape of things…The fodder of our descents provides the compost from which the richest fruits of our lives can grow. If only we can turn towards our pain and let it work in us.”
Home to Her:
Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine
by Liz Childs Kelly $18.95
A journey, personal and collective, through time and place, to remember and reconnect with the lost and stolen wisdom of the Sacred Feminine, an ancient Divine force known intimately by ancestral peoples around the world.
While in some cultures the Sacred Feminine remains a vibrant, living force, in the West Her wisdom and traditions have been lost or buried by patriarchal religions and traditions.
Home to Her is packed with:
- Stories and evidence demonstrating the power and presence of the ancient Sacred Feminine from every corner of the globe
- Insights into what Her wisdom represents, how it differs from other spiritual traditions, and what it has to offer us today
- How to reconnect with the Sacred Feminine as a real, tangible force for good in your own life
- By reclaiming Her powerful wisdom, we reclaim our sovereignty and our ability to dream a more just, equitable dream for our future—one that honors the sacredness of all life.
Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
by Amanda Yates Garcia $17.99
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this “gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring” (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft.
An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia’s mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old, Amanda’s real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own.
Descending into the underworlds of poverty, sex work, and misogyny, Initiated describes Amanda’s journey to return to her body, harness her power, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows, seduced by magicians, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy, Amanda’s quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch’s trials – healing ancient wounds, chafing against cultural expectations, creating intimacy – all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it’s dying?
Declaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up, be brave, describe the world they want, then create it like a witch.
Medicine Woman:
Reclaiming the Soul of Healing
by Lucy H. Pearce $18.95
Medicine Woman voices a deep yearning for a broader vision of what it means to be human than our current paradigm allows for, calling on an ancient archetype of healing, that of medicine woman, to re-vision how we can navigate sickness and harness its transformational powers in order to heal.
Medicine Woman is the eagerly-awaited sister book to Nautilus Silver-Award-Winning Burning Woman from bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce.
This audacious questioning of the current medical system’s ability to deal with the modern epidemic of chronic illness combines a raw personal memoir of sickness and healing, woven through with voices of dozens of other long-term sick women of the world and a feminine cultural critique that digs deep into the roots of patriarchal medicine. Pearce takes us from its ancient Greek roots, through the influences of the enlightenment and Christianity, the wholesale destruction of the wise woman tradition and western colonial destruction of native medicines to the current technocratic, capitalist model of medicine.
Medicine Woman asks the uncomfortable questions that our culture refuses to face:
Why chronic illness, mental health issues, medical prescriptions and costs are rising exponentially
Why women are the major sufferers of the modern epidemic of auto-immune conditions
Why women are twice as likely to be medicated for depression
Why women tend to be taken less seriously by medical professionals
The book is packed with dozens of healing arts exercises and hundreds of medicine questions to help integrate body and mind in the healing process. Like Burning Woman, this book promises initiation by transmission, reconnecting us directly with the soul of healing.
Yin Magic: How to be Still
by Sarah Robinson $17.95
Yin Magic shows how ancient Chinese Taoist alchemical practices can mingle with yoga and magic to enhance our wellbeing from sleep to stress-levels, helping us to move beyond burnout cycles and embody the beauty of letting go.
Yin Magic shares:
- What yin is and why it matters
- An introduction to the practice of yin yoga
- Yin yoga journeys for each season and the meridians
- Insight from cutting-edge neuroscience research
- Connections between Celtic, witch, and Chinese medicine traditions
- Sympathetic magic and how to bring it into your yoga practice
- How to embrace the magic in the darker times of night, new moon, and winter
Yin Magic helps us to make everyday magic at a sumptuously slow pace as an antidote to the busyness of modern life.
Yoga for Witches
by Sarah Robinson $17.95
Witchcraft and yoga share many similarities that are, for the first time, explored in combination in this groundbreaking new title from Sarah Robinson, a certified yoga instructor and experienced witch.
Find your magic on the mat!
An exploration, a new kind of journey, connecting two powerful spiritual disciplines, with enchanting effects! Yoga for Witches shares exercises, poses, and the knowledge you need to connect to your own special magic and inner power.
- Find out what the word yoga really means
- Explore how ancient yogis sought out magic
- Discover some of the goddesses and gods of yogic and witch culture
- Weave magic through spells, mantra, meditation, and yoga practice
- Explore the magic of the chakras
- Connect to the power of the Sun, Moon and Earth via witchcraft and yoga
Namaste, Witches!
Find Your Goddess:
How to Manifest the Power and Wisdom of the Ancient Goddesses in Your Everyday Life
by Skye Alexander $17.99
Learn about the ancient goddesses and how they can empower you, guide you, and help you achieve your own life goals.
From Greek and Roman to Nordic mythology, the goddesses often take center stage. Each goddess possesses her own strengths and traits that every woman can draw on for daily inspiration and guidance in their own life’s journey.
In Find Your Goddess, you’ll learn the mythical origins of these powerful female figures and how their stories relate to modern times. From Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and fertility, to Kuan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy and compassion, you’ll discover the history of each unique goddess and how they can manifest their virtues into your own life.
Whether you’re looking for guidance in relationships, your career, personal development, or physical and emotional wellness, Find Your Goddess can help you identify and draw strength from the ancient wisdom of famous goddesses. Call on the power of divine femininity and let your own goddess shine.
