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Grandmother Moon: Lunar Magic in Our Lives--Spells, Rituals, Goddesses, Legends, and Emotions Unde Paperback – December 20, 1991
Inviting us to "look" at the moon as the old ally she is," renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moon's power for peace, health, and energy. With delightful wit and wisdom, she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore, from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips. Budapest reveals how, by acting in harmony with the moon, women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility. Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives.
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperSanFrancisco
- Publication dateDecember 20, 1991
- Dimensions7.38 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100062501143
- ISBN-13978-0062501141
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- Publisher : HarperSanFrancisco; First Edition (December 20, 1991)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062501143
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062501141
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #199,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #52,739 in Religion & Spirituality (Books)
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About the authors
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940.
Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika's themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, "Z," grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god.
The poverty of postwar Europe and political oppression under the Russian occupation made Z fiercely political, so when the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, she took her destiny into her own hands and became one of those sixty-five thousand political refugees who left the country, mostly young workers and students like herself. She finished high school in Innsbruck, graduated from a bilingual gymnasium, and won a scholarship to the University of Vienna where she studied languages.
Z emigrated to the United States in 1959, became a student at the University of Chicago, married, and gave birth to two sons. In Chicago she studied with Second City, an improvisational theatrical school, the only one in the country at that time.
Her family's spiritual tradition, however, started seeping back into her life, and she practiced solo worship of the Goddess at her home altar in her backyard.
When she entered her Saturn cycle at the age of thirty, she became involved with the women's liberation movement in Los Angeles and became an activist herself, staffing the Women's Center there for many years.
There she recognized a need for a spiritual dimension so far lacking in the feminist movement and started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. She wrote The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (Weiser Publishers, 1989) which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage.
Z was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but won the issue, and the law against psychics was struck down nine years later. (See WitchTrial.net)
Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.
Today Z lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveling a lot, giving workshops and lectures, but always making time to smell the roses. She is the star of her own cable TV show called 13th Heaven and acts as the director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess, spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic University Online, a vagina-friendly online school for Dianic Wicca and Goddess studies for women. (See ZBudapest.com)
California Institute for Integral Studies recognized recently Z's contribution to Women's Spirituality Movement.
Books by Z Budapest:
Holy Book of Women's Mysteries
Grandmother of Time
Summoning the Fates
Goddess in the Office
Goddess in the Bedroom
Grandmother Moon
Celestial Wisdom
Z emigrated to the United States in 1959, became a student at the University of Chicago, married, and gave birth to two sons. In Chicago she studied with Second City, an improvisational theatrical school, the only one in the country at that time.
Her family's spiritual tradition, however, started seeping back into her life, and she practiced solo worship of the Goddess at her home altar in her backyard.
When she entered her Saturn cycle at the age of thirty, she became involved with the women's liberation movement in Los Angeles and became an activist herself, staffing the Women's Center there for many years.
There she recognized a need for a spiritual dimension so far lacking in the feminist movement and started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. She wrote The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (Weiser Publishers, 1989) which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage.
Z was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but won the issue, and the law against psychics was struck down nine years later.
Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2012Recently I have gone back in the chronology of pagan and witchcraft literature to examine, to refresh my thoughts and workings as I have reached a plateau in my spiritual progress. I acquired Z. Budapest's revised classic "Grandmother Moon". Organized by the lunar calendar, each cycle includes a Goddess myth, message from an associated deity, a "moontide" section which describes a possible obstacle during the cycle, spells, world lunar festivals, a lunar herb and other folkloric tidbits told in the style Budapest is best known for: through connections in her personal anecdotes. Each moon is named for the energy, coinciding with the common names from almanacs and "old wives tales".
The introduction gave me a revelation I was not expecting. Z discusses a possible explanation for the separation of the humanoid primates we once and the up-right, speaking homosapiens we eventually became; suggesting this shift occurred not by the once thought agricultural revolution but when we ceased being entirely solar creatures and transformed into the lunar beings we are now. Something I have never thought of: Why are human women the ONLY mammals which bleed monthly? Early humans would seasonally go into heat, much like modern primates. At some point this changed...our bodies began to synchronize with the tidal lunar energy, bringing an ebb and flow of magical energy into the microcosmic world of our ancient ancestors. From a biological perspective this gave our species a better rate of growth, since we could ovulate more frequently. With this came a surge in population growth, which also meant more people to help feed and care for the rest. Whilst women were connected with the mysteries of blood and birth, men were kinda left behind in a physical sense,. They learned to plant and harvest according to the phases of the moon, as many successful gardeners still do.
Budapest's storytelling is one of the things which most people find so endearing about her personality and it comes through in several examples. One in which I found particularly interesting is the recollection Budapest makes about a family conversation when visiting back home. The heated political passion of her family combines with her spiritual-warrior self. In discussing the past hardships of her home country, Budapest offers two perspectives to the readers: through her families eyes and her own, being the daughter who returns to see the aftermath of war; something pagans here in the United States rarely can say to understand. Budapest recalls a workshop she gives in her home country and I was surprised to read the reaction from the women, public and media... all were so positive and full of support; unlike the combative stance she gets in her adoptive culture of America through the religious right and, more currently, our own Pagan community. If Americans had gone through the similar experiences of being caught in one corrupt government after another, with their rights taken away including choice of religion or property ownership, I think we would appreciate someone holding a flame in the wind and dark.
Budapest has always been a radical, never wavered from her political-spiritual ambitions and often says things many do not want to hear, but they need to be said. Her personal views may be from another time, but as she becomes the Grandmother Moon, her wisdom is timeless at the core. I think before people make a judgment about who she is and what she teaches, they should pick up this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2023This is a must have for a lunar witch. Has served me for decades and now my daughter has her own copy.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2012One of the things I enjoyed most about this book is Z.'s anecdotal style. Her life story would make a fascinating read. She always manages to tie a spiritual lesson in with the story she tells, however, and to connect it to the subject she is discussing in the book. I also really like the way the book is organized by season, then by Goddess message, the zodiac message, moontides, moonspells, holy days of the moon season, and then a story. It is similar to _Grandmother of Time_, but more focussed on the feminine energies of the Moon.
When one reads Z.'s books, her vast knowledge of not only Goddess lore and European folk traditions, but knowledge gained from the wealth of her 70+ years of experience on this planet emerges. _Grandmother Moon_ is no different.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014Always take Z with a grain of salt. I only bought this book because I needed it for a course I was taking. If you can get past Z's man-bashing and hatred towards males, then you will enjoy it. Though it is really very hard to get past it.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2023I read and used this book years ago and it somehow got away from me - was happy to get another copy.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2010Z's books are very interesting and always a value to your collection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who follows the moon and wants to learn more. I was more disappointed in the seller than the book. The seller stated it was new, it was anything but new. The cover was bent and had pages written in it! Last time I check books don't come from printing with writing on the inside pages.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014They will give the interested person a definitive view of this Woman oriented Craft. Delightful, clear, and beautiful. You can't go wrong with these. Her companion book GRANDMOTHER OF TIME is equally beautiful and will add greatly to your enjoyment.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2017I have bought and given this book away so many times. It is a classic. No respected Metaphysician, or practicing Magician should be without this book.
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Mabel Brito LópezReviewed in Mexico on September 24, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bello
Fue un regalo de cumpleaños, excelente opción
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Cliente AmazonReviewed in Spain on November 9, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars La información es muy útil
Me ha gustado toda la información que proporciona la autora. Lo he usado para ampliar la información que incluyo en mis talleres sobre la Luna
- TheresaReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Grandmother Moon
Great read, excellent source of information, fascinating tips and I will use this time and time again in the future!!