The Night Journey: Witchcraft as transformation
This book explores different ways of doing ritual, the witch’s journey through life, and the stages and pitfalls of the inner work. It describes how to develop as a priestess or priest, and how to work with your group to connect with the land, with queer archetypes, and to challenge oppression.
This book is aimed at witches who want to deepen their engagement with their Craft. It explores witch mythology, ritual, how to use insights gained from the practice of witchcraft in everyday life; group dynamics; being a coven leader; teaching and learning in a coven; how to evaluate your Craft; the meaning and purpose of ‘spirituality’, religion, and magic; the archetype of the witch and what it means.
Yvonne Aburrow has been practising Paganism since 1985, and was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca in 1991. They started their first coven in 2003, and have trained a dozen people in Wicca, each with their own unique perspectives.
They started thinking about how to make Wiccan ritual more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people in 1995, and about how to make it more inclusive of neurodivergent people in around 2003, when they were working with people with dyslexia. The product of these ideas was their previous book on Wicca, All Acts of Love and Pleasure: inclusive Wicca.
From 2006 to 2008 they studied contemporary religions and spiritualities at Bath Spa University, and carried out research on queer spirituality, syncretism and dual-faith practice, and Pagan attitudes to science. The course also explored feminist spirituality, Paganism and the New Age, and the encounter between East and West.
