Goddess Afoot: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses Review

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Goddess Afoot: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses ReviewMichelle Skye is the perfect example of what a pagan writer should be. She uses primary source material for her mythic information--can you imagine!?! And better than that, she is very clear in where her writing differs from the primary source, or has no basis in the source. To me this is an outstanding practice that should be adopted by all pagan authors of non-fiction.
I always tell people that there are two ways to know the goddesses--through study and through direct contact and both are totally necessary to get the whole picture. This is the approach that Skye uses in her books. The meditations, rituals and spells arise from and are complimentary to the factual information on each goddess. This being said, she is not a reconstructionist or purist in any sense, which may turn some people off to her work--for example she recommends the use of white sage in the rituals honoring European goddesses, and one ritual even uses runic yoga--but I see no harm in bringing the goddesses into our lives in ways that differ from our ancestors.
I am hard pressed to find fault with this book--but I do have two minor complaints. On page 16 Skye writes that guided meditation is also known as shamanic journeying--but the two practices share very little in common--I would have to say that statement is completely false. My other problem comes when in the chapter on Eriu, she writes about how the goddess's sons are known by the god they worship: "Mac Greine --Sethor, the sun his god" (p148) and doesn't mention that the sun "god" in Ireland is female--I find this misleading. She corrects this later in the book in the Sunna section when she writes "that the Celts and the Norse related the orb of the sun with the Goddess" (p.248), but if you are only interested in the Irish goddesses and only read their sections of the book, you will be sadly misinformed.
But those two complaints aside, I feel that this is an excellent book and I do hope that Llewellyn continues to publish books by Michele Skye and finds other authors of her caliber to publish.Goddess Afoot: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses Overview

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