Initiated

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  Initiated

  “Initiated is breathtaking—gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring. I love this book.”

  —MICHELLE TEA, author of Modern Tarot

  “In a world desperately in need of re-enchantment, Initiated provides more than its fair share. It is a battle cry, a blueprint, and most of all, a love letter to the traditions of witchcraft, the benefits of co-creation and interdependence, and our innate ability to manifest our collective power as women and humans.”

  —LEAH DIETERICH, author of The Vanishing Twins

  “As much as witches are warriors, we are also guardians—of a history, culture, and practice that’s been erased and persecuted for millennia. Recently, I’ve been hoping for a visibility that cannot divorce witchcraft from its insurrectionary origins, its lineage of liberation, its blood memory that connects us to its feminist fire. As Initiated luminously testifies, Amanda Yates Garcia is the kind of warrior and guardian witches need: subversive and scholarly, empowered and devoted, a magician and a firebrand.”

  —JOHANNA HEDVA, author of On Hell

  “To read Initiated is to undergo your own. Somewhere between a memoir and a grimoire, this book invites the reader to reflect on their own cycles of life and death as well as their own relationship to the witch. All in a way that’s uplifting, engaging, feminist as fuck, and so unapologetically fierce.”

  —GABRIELA HERSTIK, author of

  Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft

  “I see Amanda Yates Garcia realizing a kind of magic choreography here: reaching back through millennia; dragging forth darkness by the handful; recalling ancient women misremembered, denied, hounded, and destroyed; holding the pain of misogyny and changing it with intention, into light.”

  —GRACE KRILANOVICH, author of The Orange Eats Creeps

  “With oppressive regimes and violence against the planet and our people at our every turn, Amanda Yates Garcia’s Initiated peers within the abyss, creating magic and meaning despite—and as a reaction toward—the darkness. In these pages, a battle cry. A mythic celebration of inner power. And a meditation on healing and justice.”

  —LISA MARIE BASILE, author of

  Wordcraft Witchery and Light Magic for Dark Times

  “Initiated is a page-turning word orgasm of flowering language. It’s a reexamination of patriarchal hierarchy, embracing fierce feminine energy that crackles with the transformative excitement of giving birth to one’s self, standing in our own power, and releasing old narratives that have held us back.”

  —NIKKI DARLING, author of Fade Into You

  “Initiated is a stunning act of generosity from a fearless and wise spirit guide. Amanda Yates Garcia has cracked open her life—the brutal lessons, the romantic entanglements, the yearning to be a force of love—to empower all of us to write our own magic myth into the sky.”

  —MARGARET WAPPLER, author of Neon Green