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MOTHERS OF MAGIC
Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors
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. many feelings.
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 violenceand 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 mothersancestral, spiritual, and earthlyto 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 oursa path toward true connection and the deepest sources of love.
Perdita Finn is author of Take Back The Magic: Conversations With The Unseen World and 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 Getting to Know the Dead, in which participants are empowered to activate the magic in their own
lives with the help of their ancestors. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
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 violenceand 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 mothersancestral, spiritual, and earthlyto 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 oursa path toward true connection and the deepest sources of love.
Perdita Finn is author of Take Back The Magic: Conversations With The Unseen World and 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 Getting to Know the Dead, in which participants are empowered to activate the magic in their own
lives with the help of their ancestors. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
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Published 2026-05-05 by Running Press |