• Presents four loving, feisty old witches, one for each season, who share earth-honoring wisdom, rituals, and spells to help you embrace your journey through the sacred latter half of life

• Filled with magical recipes, inspiring ceremonies, playful activities, and meaningful meditations

You are invited into the magical world of four loving, feisty old witches, one for each season, who share earth-honoring wisdom, rituals, and spells to help you embrace your journey through the sacred latter half of life.

In the season of Winter, the earthy Root Witch reminds us that bodies are made for pleasure, and that Winter is made for dreaming. She offers spells, rituals, and ceremonies to reframe your perspectives on aging and promote acceptance of your changing appearance. She also shares secret recipes for a healthy, happy body, focusing on preparations that help maintain and restore hair, skin, and bone. In Spring, the airy Winged Witch offers a witchy approach to spring cleaning, both in the traditional sense and in self-understanding and relationships. She shares recipes and rituals for jettisoning the dead past, discovering your own authentic style, adding magic to your clothes, and feathering your nest so it feels like home to your spirit.

The fiery Summer Merwitch helps us to be more joyfully creative, with activities and wisdom to help overcome the obstacles that prevent us from fulfilling our creative dreams. She honors the senses, encourages us to embrace our sexuality, and gives us ways to express our fiery anger cleanly and powerfully. The watery Autumn Kitchen Witch shows us how to honor our harvests and our ancestors, how to make peace with death, and how to make every meal a celebration of life, with magical recipes and rituals that bring joy to the soul. The Kitchen Witch also explores several goddesses and wise old women from folklore who can offer templates for a rich and spiritualized maturity.

Offering practical and enjoyable ways to make aging an empowering, magical, and transformative adventure, this book of spiritual guidance will help you love yourself through the aging process.

Cait Johnson is an author, counselor, teacher, playwright, performer, and witch. The author of six books, including Witch in the Kitchen and Celebrating the Great Mother, she trained with the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and has a private practice as an editor and intuitive counselor in New York’s Hudson Valley.

FOREWORD
Apprentice Ancestors by Caitlín Matthews

INTRODUCTION
A Magical Invitation

WINTER
Root Witch Wisdom from the Cave
ACCEPTANCE AND AFFECTION FOR YOUR SACRED BODY • DREAMING INTO YOUR WISDOM YEARS • POWER ANIMAL ALLIES FOR CRONES • CONNECTING WITH EARTH IN WINTER • FINAL WORDS FROM THE ROOT WITCH: MAKING PEACE WITH YOURSELF

SPRING
Winged Witch Wisdom from the Tree House
MAGICAL FEATHERS: DRESSING FOR YOUR SPIRIT • FEATHERING YOUR SOUL NEST • THE ENERGY OF HOME • YOUR SPIRIT FLOCK • CONNECTING WITH AIR IN SPRING FINAL WORDS FROM THE WINGED WITCH: SPRING ALWAYS RETURNS

SUMMER
Merwitch Wisdom from the Seaside Bonfire
CRONES CREATE • SENSUAL LOVING AND LIVING • SILVER FOXES: THE LIBERATION OF SEX AFTER FIFTY • THE FIRE OF ANGER AS YOUR ALLY • FREEDOM • THE POWER OF GRANDMOTHERS • CONNECTING WITH FIRE IN SUMMER • FINAL WORD FROM THE MERWITCH: LOVE

AUTUMN
Kitchen Witch Wisdom from the River Cottage
ARCHETYPES OF THE WILD, WISE OLD WOMAN • HARVEST OF INSPIRATION • LESSONS FROM THE LEAVES: LETTING GO • MAKING PEACE WITH MOTHER DEATH • FOOD AND FEASTS FOR THE SOUL • CONNECTING WITH WATER IN AUTUMN • FINAL WORD FROM THE KITCHEN WITCH: THE FEAST OF LIFE

APPENDIX

Magical Helpers

Gratitude

Index