A Circle of Stones, initially released in 1995, bargains a distinct method of meditation and Otherworld touring in a Celtic Pagan context by using prayer beads as a spotlight for knowing early Gaelic cosmology and how one can trip via its 3 nation-states of land, sea, and sky. With chapters on ritual, altars, traveling, and speaking with deities, this brief e-book has supplied seekers with instruments for his or her religious paintings for almost 20 years. This re-creation bargains a miles more suitable pronunciation advisor for the Irish and Scots Gaelic within the textual content, and a brand new foreword that provides context for the book’s old position within the emergence of Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan spirituality.

One of the vintage foundational works of the Celtic Reconstructionist circulation, A Circle of Stones provides a stunning meditation self-discipline based round a reconstructed cosmology of the pagan Irish Celts. Drawing upon conventional Gaelic prayers, poetry, and mythological symbolism to be used in live performance with a mindfully crafted Celtic mala or set of prayer beads, Erynn Laurie has created an available gateway in which the committed seeker could discover the nation-states of the Irish Otherworld and turn on its quite a few strands of knowledge of their lives."
Jhenah Telyndru, Avalon inside: A Sacred trip of fantasy, secret, and internal knowledge, Founder, Sisterhood of Avalon

Circle of Stones used to be not just the 1st booklet introducing us to Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, yet used to be additionally the main chic. an easy choice of meditations and directions that concurrently introduces the reader to the language, gods, and poetry of the ancient
Celts. this can be a workbook that rewards repeated returns to its pages, permitting beginners and skilled Pagans alike to drink from Manannan mac Lir's good of knowledge. The go back of Laurie's publication to print is a boon, a present to the broader Pagan neighborhood that are supposed to no longer be ignored.
Jason Pitzl-Waters, The Wild Hunt @ Patheos.com

This long-anticipated and much-demanded reprint of A Circle of Stones will proceed to face, as has the 1st variation, as a huge monument within the turning out to be smooth culture of Celtic Reconstructionist polytheist perform, quite within the medieval- and folk-derived Irish traditions of that flow. The ancient value of this booklet by myself makes it an important merchandise within the library of an individual attracted to those subjects.
Dr. Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Werewolves, Magical Hounds, and Dog-Headed males in Celtic Literature.