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Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the non-denominational international fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, rabbis, shamans, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Finn now teaches popular workshops on "Mothers of Magic", in which she helps students explore how to draw on our Ancestral Mothers for help and healing--of ourselves and our planet. She is the author of Take Back the Magic (Running Press, 2023), and lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
 

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**Author of Take Back the Magic and co-founder of the beloved non-denominational fellowship The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn offers a profound invitation to remember and recover the power, presence, and wisdom of the Mother Figure.

“This book is a lodestar for anyone seeking to live with reverence, rootedness, and wonder.” —Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit  **

At a time when so many of us feel unmoored from guidance, care, and belonging, Mothers of Magic is a profound call to return to our deepest sources of knowledge, nourishment, and kinship.

When Perdita Finn found herself at a crossroads with her health, she embarked on a search for healing that led her to confront a heritage of misogyny and violence—and to summon the wisdom of her ancestors to unravel the trauma woven into her story and the story of civilization itself. Braiding memoir with cultural history, Finn introduces readers to a pantheon of maternal figures, from the loving spirit of St. Anne and the defiant courage of Joan of Arc to the very Earth itself, who have long offered refuge, instruction, and love. Through these stories and her own journey of transformation, Finn reveals what becomes possible when we recover an ecological feminism that restores our relationship with our bodies, our mothers, and the body of our world. Alongside the narrative, she shares practical ways to summon all of our mothers—ancestral, spiritual, and earthly—to help us navigate our everyday challenges and deepest wounds. 

Radical and restorative, Mothers of Magic is an intervention for our time and a map back to the maternal wisdom that has always been ours—a path toward true connection and the deepest sources of love. 

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: Confidence-Killing Bullshit 
Chapter 1: “You should never paint again” 
Chapter 2: “We’re just looking out for you”
Chapter 3: “You’re art sucks” 
Chapter 4: “Beautiful art lacks meaning” 
Chapter 5: “My grandma makes crafts, too” 
Chapter 6: “You’re a copycat!”

Part II: Myths About Making
Chapter 7: “Color inside the lines” 
Chapter 8: “Real artists wear black” 
Chapter 9: “Self-taught doesn’t count” 
Chapter 10: “Art school is the only way” 

Part III: Popular Fiction
Chapter 11: “You’ll die of starvation” 
Chapter 12: “Don’t rock the boat” 
Chapter 13: “You’re going to fail anyway, so don’t even try” 
Chapter 14: “Serious artists don’t have day jobs” 
Chapter 15: “Art and motherhood do not mix” 

Part IV: Red Flags on the Road to Success
Chapter 16: “This will be excellent exposure” 
Chapter 17: “Every artist needs a gallery” 
Chapter 18: “We’ll discuss details later” 
Chapter 19: “Artists aren’t successful until they’re dead” 
Chapter 20: “It’s too late for you” 

Conclusion
Back o’ the Book Bonus
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index