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This is where creativity meets personal transformation. Where moon rituals meet self-expression. Where feminine frequency becomes a tool for conscious creation.

Whether you’re dreaming up your next creative project, seeking spiritual growth, or simply want a more magical way to move through life, this beautifully practical guide blends lunar wisdom, creativity and quantum principles to help you to create and manifest with rhythm, ritual, and radical self-trust. Inside, you'll find:

• A complete 8 part lunar-led, rhythm-rich, creativity-first Re-spell Your Reality programme with creative practices and rituals for each moon phase.
• Feminine tools for intentional living, manifestation, and intuitive alignment.
• Moon Mavens - real creative women from history who'll walk with you through each phase, activating archetypes and awakening creative power.
• Journaling prompts and rituals to help you decode your own rhythms, desires and creative cycles.

Perfect for fans of spiritual self-help, moon magic, creativity journals, and manifesting books for women, Respell Your Reality is a beautifully designed guide to being your own magic-making, creative muse.

This collection of 54 poems by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori, draws on the deep well of Rumi’s masterful poetry, transmitting with fluid grace the wisdom, wit, and passion that infuse his work.

Water expands on Gold, Gafori’s inspired and widely praised first volume of translations. As she writes in her introduction to the collection, “Gold highlights Rumi’s rhapsodic, ecstatic side.

Water, by contrast, is Gold’s moody cousin.”

Whether Rumi confesses, critiques, praises, nudges, or commands, his startling voice and leaps of imagery dazzle, and his
summons, to surrender to the transformative power of Love, rings with urgency, especially in these polarizing times.

Gafori, born in NYC of Persian descent, grew up listening to Rumi recited in her home. With her ears tuned to the subtleties of the Persian text and to the music of contemporary American
poetry, she brings a vital, doubly-resonant energy that pulses through the cascades, leaps, and
incantatory repetitions in these poems.

Her intimacy with the Persian language, the cultural context and the array of meanings animating certain Persian words, offers a new depth to
the translations. Gafori is a performance artist, enamored reciter, and musician, translating with the oral tradition in mind, invigorating the text both on the stage and the page.

The poems in Water will move, challenge, and inspire, and are an ideal place to discover or re-discover the
words of the Persian master.

Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273) is considered the greatest poet of the Persian language. Starting at around the age of 40, he wrote over 65,000 verses of poetry which have been
published in two books, the Masnavi and the Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi.

Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and musician. Her work has been published by the Harvard Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Columbia University Press, and elsewhere.

She lectures on and performs Rumi’s poetry at universities and venues across the country.

Join our informal signing event with Luna Marie and get your own copy of the Warrior of Love tarot. Perfect for love seekers and tarot enthusiasts, this beautifully crafted deck combines traditional Rider-Waite symbolism with a modern twist focused on matters of the heart.

Elevate your tarot practice with a deck that features unique visual cues through carefully chosen colour codes for each suit, making readings more intuitive and insightful. The luxurious gold for Pentacles symbolises abundance, the romantic rose gold for Cups evokes emotional depth, passionate bronze for Wands ignites creativity and drive, and the sleek silver for Swords offers clarity and truth.

Using tarot cards to explore your romantic life offers powerful benefits for understanding what’s really happening within your relationships. Tarot provides clarity on relationship dynamics, reveals underlying emotions, and highlights opportunities for growth and healing. Whether you’re navigating new love, deepening a current relationship, or seeking self-love, The Warrior of Love Tarot Deck serves as a trusted tool to unlock insights, guide your decisions, and help you understand your emotional landscape.

Designed for all skill levels, this tarot deck invites you to connect with your intuition and gain a deeper understanding of your romantic journey. Each card tells a story of love, connection, and self-discovery, making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship awareness or gain insight into love challenges.

Complete with an insightful guidebook, each card reveals profound wisdom and personal growth, empowering you to navigate love and relationships with confidence. Whether you’re new to tarot or a seasoned reader, The Warrior of Love Tarot Deck is your ideal companion for modern love guidance.
Unlock clarity and foster emotional healing in your love life with Luna Marie’s Warrior of Love Tarot Deck — the ultimate tool for understanding what’s happening within your romantic world and achieving greater connection, happiness, and self-awareness.

Explore how we search for meaning in our futures, as revealed by the divine, occult or supernatural, from the ancient prophets to the end of days.

What will happen to us next? From the earliest beginnings of human civilization, people have searched for signs, patterns and clues to address the last unanswerable question. Looking into the future has obsessed human beings since written records began. As soon as communities could conceive of higher powers, they tried to look into the future. Prophets and priests have delivered divine messages. Shamans and seers have channeled spirits and interpreted visions, portents, revelations and omens.

This unique and richly illustrated volume reveals the long history of the future in every human society – from Egyptian oracles, Roman augurs and Aztec omens, to Japanese divination and the active magic of Norse seers. It traces the parallels in different traditions and cultures, exploring the signs and images found in antique documents, rare books, imaginative projections and divinatory paraphernalia.

The nine chapters explore extraordinary oracles from ancient Greece and western Africa, to Mesopotamia and the mountains of Tibet; we discover omens, portents and auspicious signs in indigenous societies in Asia; meet the Zoroastrian priests of Iran and astrologers of China; share dreams and visions from Australia to North America; and finally reckon with the many predictions of the end of the world, from ancient days to our present moment.