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This book wasn‘t what I expected, which isn‘t its fault, but I did feel that it lacked depth. I read it out of order because I got it late, with Samhain and Yule last; it turned out to not make sense to read it in the wrong year since there is an article for each holiday with the astrological correspondences, but I rarely use those anyway. I did get a few interesting ideas for rituals and crafts, so it was worth my time to read.

And now we have a new pronunciation, em-bowl-ck, different from a) how I‘m used to hearing it, b) what the other author used, and c) what @shanaqui hears. 🤨 I know it‘s two different authors, but you‘d think the publisher would have clear standards for this sort of thing. Get it together, Llewelyn!

Have any other #witchesoflitsy heard this “EE-melk” pronunciation for Imbolc? 🤔 It‘s a first for me—I‘ve always said “ihm-bolk” and that‘s how I‘ve heard it in person. But I know Samhain isn‘t pronounced at all the way you‘d expect in English from the spelling.

I‘m already side-eyeing this author a bit for her judgmental comments on group rituals…

I got this book in an end-of-year sale on Llewellyn‘s website. It‘s gorgeous and I look forward to reading it! However, I must not have read the description carefully enough, because it‘s not what I wanted or expected. I thought it would be more like a datebook organized by the Wheel of the Year, with space to write for each day. However, it‘s mostly articles for each sabbat, with a few pages for notes. And it started Samhain 2022 so I‘m behind 😅