Honoring Your Ancestors: A Comprehensive Guide to Ancestral Veneration and Its Practices

Gina : Loved it. My mother and I both read it.

United States on Dec 31, 2023

HENTHOM: Still reading the book. Will see how it goes after reading
Henry

United States on Sep 24, 2023

Elisa: Libro Ottimo adatto a tutti.
Arrivato puntuale, si presenta ben imballato, con una copertina flessibile.
Il libro è in inglese, ma facilmente comprensibile e ben scorrevole.
Lo consiglio a tutti, specialmente ai neofiti che cercano un libro sull'argomento.
Il libro è costituito da 11 capitoli... Lo divorerete!

Italy on Apr 06, 2023

Gabrielle: I was a bit skeptical reading the reviews when I purchased as some commentors said it was written from a catholic/judaistic perspective. However, as a pagan who dabbles in everything from chaos magic to demonolatry & sex magic, I didn't find this to be the case. The author does make it clear in the very beginning that she writes from this perspective because it is how she was taught by her mentors and the reader is not only free to, but in fact encouraged to, interpret the prayers/views in the book in whichever way is suited to their practice.

I found it to be very informative and appreciated the little easter eggs of the authors personal experiences and sometimes entertaining stories as well - and to make it even better, as soon as I began reading the book I set up an altar for my ancestors and got a couple checks in the mail from an art gallery I submitted pieces to a year ago with no results...so I think my ancestors approve!

United States on Mar 19, 2022

J. C.: This was a wonderful read. Very warm hearted and very beginner friendly. I hope this author will write another book on magic for beginners.

Germany on Dec 27, 2021

Kathleen Johnson: This book is an great introduction to honouring your ancestors and it has encouraged me to further go down this path.It is written in an format that is usuer friendly and easy to read.i would recomend this book to any novice.The only negative really is that there is not much really on this subject and the closest thing to it is folk magic or hoodoo.its an great book overall and there is nothing I could be directly critical about

United Kingdom on Nov 24, 2020

Kindle Customer: So informative and useful. There are so many methods revealed that a novice can use to elevate one's beautiful ancestors. Thank you!

United Kingdom on Dec 06, 2019

Poetry Fan: This book really has a lot to say regarding ancestral veneration. I am so glad that I purchased it and I know that it will be one of those books I will read again. The author knows how to write, and she does an excellent job of organizing all the information. There is even an index and I really like that. The author also has some insight regarding all this pressure to buy stuff if you want to engage in paganism or wicca or whatever. I also get so tired of all that--is it all necessary? Like the author, I have accumulated stuff over the years and am now trying to not get influenced by the latest this or that. I also like that she brings up Italian culture, here and there, and as a person whose entire family members (both sides) are from southern Italy, I really like the references. I like her blog, Italian Folk Magic, and I really like this book. I hope she is planning to write more books in the future.

United States on Nov 14, 2019

Ben Stimpson: Ancestral practices are found around the world, every culture has ways to honour their dead both at the time of passing and afterwards. In most non-western cultures the life of the dead is a rich world intimately interconnected with our own. In the West, however, we have lost this connection to our ancestors, and that is the goal of this book... to be both an introduction and an invitation to a deeper connection.

Honoring Your Ancestors is one of those calibre of books that is both indepth, but easily accessible. It's written in a style that you can read it from cover to cover and be lead through a journey of developing a practice, or just pick up and read a small section and hit the ground running. What Vaudoise has accomplished is a book that can appeal to both those who are new to the concept of ancestor veneration, and those who have b een working with their ancestors for years. Grounded in several spiritual traditions, the author brings her own perspective to the table while also maintaining the book as neutral as possible. Her book is written with the tone of "this is what these people do..." and always ends with the underlying question "what...

Canada on Nov 06, 2019

S. G.: This book is so eminently sane and sanely written.

I jumped immediately to the section on spells and then moved backwards. I was impressed that there is magic of imagination, of petition, of simple intention-setting, herbs, and all the good more elaborate stuff of Psalms, holy days, saints, and conjuring visible evil eyes into oil. There is a lot of wisdom included here showing a lot of experience and wisdom gained as a spellworker, and a sufficient emphasis on personal responsibility.

Some advice in this book is almost in the form of laconic jokes. The book does not feel like a critique or policing of contemporary witchcraft, but a call to do serious work and to re-think concepts popular in the mainstream today (like what it means to love yourself).

The book is full of love and the dead. It is exciting to see Western writers approaching the almost taboo and forgotten topics of our dead who are hidden beneath cultures so often worshipping image and youth at the expense of a full vision of life and death.

I would have loved this book years ago when I first started thinking about my ancestors, and I still love it now after wondering...

United States on Sep 13, 2019