From: bz687@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (E. Andi Woods-Fasimpaur)
Subject: Family Craft (was Re: Great book to start with)
Date: 12 Jul 1994 23:23:24 GMT

In a previous article, dje@netcom.com (David Earnest) says:
> Another book I bought recently which people may find helpful is _The
> Family Wicca Book_, by Ashleen O'Gaea. I have not yet read through
> it, but it seems to have many useful "transition" rituals and ideas
> for adolescence, maturity, etc.

There has been some discussion of this book in the past.  The book
does have a great deal to offer... (if you sensed a "but" here you
were right) ...MS O'Gaea seems to have a major axe to grind.  She
spends a large portion of the book making pointed statements about
Christianity and male dominated monotheistic oppression of the human
psyche.

Don't get me wrong, I think that there is a need for books oriented to
pagan families... but I am not sure at this point if _The Family Wicca
Book_ has enough to offer to make it worth the amount of culling and
picking and choosing that will need to go with it.

I would really like, at this time, to recommend as an alternative:
_The Pagan Family: Handing the old ways down_ Ceisiwr Serith Llewellyn
Publishers (c) 1994

The approach is much more even handed... Mr. Serith does not seem as
though he is on a crusade against Christianity... He offers a mostly
Celtic point of view, but does not seem to be writing a book
exclusively for celtic families...

I would say that it is probably one of my best recent purchases... not
including some of the old hardcovers i have managed to pick up at the
used bookstore down the street...

Warmest Blessings...
        Andi	   =.          "They play with every inch of skin
 aka Arachne	  (_):.//       and seek out every nerve
 		       (_       An inquisition giving you  
Spinner ISO Top	         (__    what you think you deserve..." -Tom Smith