introduction This doesn’t mean that you have to go around telling everyone you meet that you’re a Witch. What it does mean is finding ways to integrate your spiritual beliefs as a Pagan with your day-to-day life. And that was what The Goddess Is in the Details was all about. From home and family to mindful eating to dealing with times of crisis, I tried to come up with suggestions that were meaningful but also reasonably fast and easy to fit into most people’s already overwhelming demands on their time and energy. From the response to the book, I’m guessing that I succeeded. So—why write another book with the same basic theme? Well, I might have left a few things out the first time. After all, you can only fit so much into any one book without making it so large it would constitute your daily exercise just to pick it up. And frankly, I’ve learned a few things since then and changed the way I view other things. At the time I write this, I have been practicing Witchcraft for almost seventeen years: five-and-a-half years studying with my first high priestess, a year as a solitary after I left that group, and then ten-plus years as high priestess to my own group, Blue Moon Circle. Needless to say, over that time things in my life—and in me—have changed, and how I practice my Craft has changed with them. Even Blue Moon Circle has changed, fluctuating over the years from the three core people it started with, up to as many as eight or nine, and back down to six. I’ve also made connections over that time with many of my readers, some of whom have asked me questions that never got answered in any of my other books. So right about the time I signed the contract for my first published novels and said to myself I guess that’s it for the nonfiction, a little voice in my head said, “Wait! There’s one more book you have to write first.” Yes, ma’am. Never ignore that voice. Which brings us here, to this book. It is, in theory, a follow-up of sorts to The Goddess Is in the Details. But it is also a book that stands by itself, and you certainly don’t need to have ever read anything else of mine for this book to work for you. I cover some things in both books (in different ways), and some things only in this one.
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