New book on the altar today: Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body by Laura Tempest Zakroff. I've been circling this one for a while, and it finally arrived.
Here's the premise that pulled me in, right from the opening: you are your own most important magical tool. Not the deck, not the herbs, not the candles — the body. Zakroff maps the witch's power through the physical form itself, treating the body as the instrument every working actually runs through. Chapter one sets that table: before you reach for anything on the shelf, you reach for yourself.
Which...if you've been floating in water with me, breathing through the Descent, learning where the reactive horse lives in your own chest...you already know in your bones. This just gives it a map.
I'll be pulling from it in posts to come. Consider this the first torch lit on a new path.
🗝️ Have you read this one? Or is there a book that changed how you sit inside your own body? Tell me below — I'm building the reading pile.
En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light.
Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙
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📚 The book: Laura Tempest Zakroff, Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body (Llewellyn, 2021)