Book Review - Intuitive Witchcraft by Astrea Taylor
I recently read ‘Intuitive Witchcraft’ by Astrea Taylor, a book on how to use intuition to elevate your craft. As an eclectic and highly intuitive Witch this tickled my fancy so I jumped straight into reading.
This is an excellent book for Witches who are not drawn to any particular tradition or path. At first, this book reads like a beginner 101 book for Witchcraft, but don’t let that turn you from its pages because the correspondance lists are gone by chapter 4, and if you skip past these early chapters you will miss some wonderful personal stories that Astrea has included which helps to place her view and teachings into perspective.
‘Intuitive Witchcraft’ includes many excellent exercises and rituals and the book itself is set up in a very interesting manner. Each chapter has a theme, and each theme includes many subsections which makes it super easy to refer back and find the information that you’re looking for. For example the chapter “Working with the Gods” has 14 subheadings ranging from a paragraph, to a couple of pages long for each one. They range from “What are the Gods” to “How the Gods Communicate” and so much more. It makes this book excellent as a reference book although a tad more difficult to get into a flow when reading. I recommend reading a few sections at a time and then sleep on it to aid in absorbing the information.
This is a deceptively large book. Just when I thought Astrea had touched on all aspects of the craft, there comes another chapter, and another! Filled with other ideas and suggestions that I hadn’t expected.
Fair warning, this is not a quick, light read. It’s not too heavy, but it will take some time to digest and get through.
I really loved how she used the perspectives of other Witches throughout the book. Termed ‘Intuitive Insights’ she invites the voice of others to chime in with a page or two on the topic at hand which was a delightful add on in my opinion.
Another bonus was the “Further Reading” list at the end of each chapter. Marvellous!
Overall I really liked this book. I agreed with all of the concepts, ideas and teachings that Astrea put forth and felt inspired by what she had to say. A great reference style book to have on the shelf.
I give this book 4 out of 5 witches hats.
My witches hats rating system:
0 - Problematic, this book should be burned.
1 - Did not like this book, do not read
2 - It was ok, wouldn’t recommend it though.
3 - I liked it but it might not be for everyone
4 - I really liked it and think most people will like it
5 - AMAZING, I loved it and everyone should read it
