The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature

By Starhawk

America's most renowned witch and eco–feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in environmental science with magical spells, chants, meditations and group exercises to create the ultimate primer on our relationship to the earth.

From the earliest times, respecting our interdependent relationship with nature has been the first step toward spirituality. Earth, air, fire and water are the four elements worshiped in many indigenous cultures and celebrated in earth–based spiritualities such as Wicca. In The Earth Path, America's best–known witch offers readers a primer on how to open our eyes to the world around us, respect nature's delicate balance, and draw upon its tremendous powers.

Filled with inspiring meditations, chants, and blessings, it offers healing for the spirit in a stressed world and helps readers find their own sources of strength and renewal.

Will appeal to Starhawk's traditional Pagan, New Age, and feminist readership.

Young women newly interested in magic and witchcraft.

A new and growing generation of those involved in ecology

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Feb 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062125200

Starhawk

Starhawk is the author of nine books, including her bestselling The Spiral Dance, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, and Webs of Power, winner of the 2003 Nautilus Award for social change. She has an international reputation, and her works have been translated into many different languages. Starhawk is also a columnist for beliefnet.com and ZNet. A veteran of progressive movements who is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, she travels internationally, teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. Starhawk lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes.

Reviews for The Earth Path

[Jorge Gonzalez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Starhawk has outdone herself again in providing leadership and ritual aimed at healing and preserving our precious earth. Her wisdom and compassion create a ripple effect throughout communities of similar consciousness. Well done, as always.

[quantumbutterfly_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Starhawk is perhaps one of the best known of modern Pagan authors and certainly has been around for a long time, having originally publishing The Spiral Path in 1979. Her work has taken her far into the realm of political activism and earth healing, which are featured prominently in this book. She looks at the elements through a general lens of neowicca, and how they apply to personal as well as world-wide lives. Working with the classical elements of earth, air, fire, water, and spirit, Starhawk gives details instructions as to how to connect further with the land around us and to start healing the damage that has been done by so many years of disconnection from the natural world. While you may not agree with her politics, the exercises for establishing those connections can be used by anyone who is looking to incorporate such work into their spiritual practices.

[earthlistener · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The somewhat smaller then usual print in the book made it somewhat more difficult read, I still found the book worth it. This book by Starhawk looks into ways of reconnecting both spirituality and physically back with the earth. Earth Path is not just a book about earth based spirituality; it’s a book about how to eat, breath, and sleep earth based spiritual views throughout life. The author, Starhawk also talks about her personal experiences both on a personal level and a environmental level. This book is a long and careful read, but it a good one.

[hearthfirecircle · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I was dissapointed that there weren't more practical suggestions for how to incorporate earth centered activism into my life. I tired of the appocalypic theology. However, her simple suggestions of spending time in the wilderness to observe and understand is extremely important and useful.