Wheel of the Year

Living the Magical Life

By: Pauline Campanelli

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Live the magical life throughout the entire year.

Discover the ancient lore, household techniques, and spiritual wisdom that will help turn every day into a time of magic, respect for all, and love of the goddess.

Wheel of the Year takes you on a month-by-month journey of discovery through seasonal aspects of Paganism practiced both in recent and ancient times. Just look at a few of the things shared in this gentle, loving book:

• December: The Magic of Mistletoe; The Ritual Burning of the Yule Log; Magical Uses of Ashes from the Yule Fire; A Ritual for Cutting Sacred Fir; The Pagan Symbolism of Santa Claus.
• March: Nine Magical Woods for the Beltane Fire; Psychic Skills for Working Magic; Making and Using the Magic (Black) Mirror; Telepathy; The Ouija Board; A Ritual for Opening the Heart Chakra.
• May: Seeing Faeries; A May Wine Ritual; Symbolism of the Maypole; Sacred Marriages; Hawthorn Protection Amulet.

©1989 Pauline Campanelli (P)2021 Tantor

Amazing Overview and Unexpected Sleep Story

I learned a lot with this book. It’s not I’m depth but still great information. I love the narration and subject so much I have listened to it numerous time as a sleep story on a 45 minute timer. Calming.

Lovely and informative

A beautiful mix of history, imagery and current use of magic. This a very approachable book, well told and full of lovey ways to enhance celebration of the wheel of the year

very informative

I love the examples given enough I bought the book for context 😊super happy with this book will share to others

I would not purchase again

This book didn't go over the wheel of the year as much as I was hoping for.

Entry Level

Very entry-level book.
Not bad at all for someone new or just interested in magic but not for someone who has any experience at all.

Not that good

I’ve read better. The saving grace was the person reading it. She was a delight.

calming to listen to

I liked everything about it. It's very informative. I am knew to this but felt grounded just listening to it.

Full of Misinformation

I added this book to my library to try and deepen my connection do the seasonal festivals but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. The author is determined to link every symbol to the Moste Ancient Pagan Mysteries, and who needs a little thing like evidence or historical context?

Any symbol from Santa Clause to anything on a Christmas ornament is linked to a completely fictional ancient pagan past. Maybe a wren is a symbol of the God or maybe.. hear me out here. Maybe it’s a bird known to appear around that time and people like birds

Wasn’t worth my time

While the narrator was a delight and there are some great tidbits this did not really teach me about the wheel and the author assumes everyone has access to feulds of fresh vegetables and fruits and a wine cellar and a beach. Not so much and it felt like being talked down to because I don’t have access to those pieces.

Subjective opinion of folklore

I like the small bits of information, but those are lost in archaic interpretations of folklore by the author. Not at all helpful to the reader. The title is misleading. A lot of the factual information in the book is misleading too. Pretty, poetic, but overall useless.