Magic has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. From the lonely child who talked to the moon with Rosie rabbit, to the teen who married too soon, who begged the goddess of the moon every night to stop the violence, conversing with the moon has always brought me comfort.
As I grew older, I began to read and with Rae Beth’s book Hedge Witch’s Way, began to discover my life path. In my own space, I drew strength from the elements, renewed my connection with the moon and made life choices upon the guidance I was given.
My first novel, never published, described the life of an English teacher, traditional at work but able to lose herself in the words she loved and become part of the stories herself. This was the magic I wanted to share, how ‘real’ life can embrace and benefit from magic. At this time books about vampires, shape shifters and schools for wizards sold in their millions but my writing was different and didn’t fit neatly into the fantasy genre.
A few lean writing years followed where I penned short stories, reaching out into different genres, trying to find my niche until the loan of a book and an inspirational path working journey changed my life.
The life of a hedge witch , like an author, can be a solitary one and though I shared extracts of my novel at writing group, I felt alone in my love of this ‘real magic’ genre….until I read The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic by Dion Fortune. These books were ‘magical realism’. They ignited my passion for my magic, supporting me in my study of the Qabalah and my desire to write about real magic. Written at the beginning of the 20th Century, Dion Fortune’s settings feel quaint, almost naive and yet the magical scenes and the subsequent discussions about them feel powerful and apt for modern life.
I’ll save the detail of my path working for another post but the connections I made and the confidence they inspired, remain with me today. Though I had not Dion Fortune’s background, knowledge or depth of understanding, I had my own magic and from this platform, I wrote Destiny of Angels.
The book begins at a school reunion where Angel Parsons bumps into her good friend from school, Jenny Parkes, as well as those who blighted her school days. Gone is the geeky, odd, easily tormented school girl and in her place, Angel the entrepreneur, successful business woman and high priestess takes centre stage. With her ‘family’, misfits in society who she met, helped and befriended, she works with Lilith on the astral plane to offer the perpetrators of her childhood misery the opportunity to choose redemption, finally closing that unhappy chapter of her life.
I’ll be honest with you, Destiny of Angels is not the best book ever written but the intent is there. The message that there is more to life than on this physical plane on which we dwell and that we can access levels of understanding if we give ourselves the space and time to do so, rings throughout the book.
If you are interested in real people and real magic, I would love to hear from you.
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Wendy Steele 