A Primer For Everyone

Ritona is pleased to announce the publication of the latest book by druid, theorist, and author Rhyd Wildermuth.

A People’s Guide To Tarot: A Primer for Everyone is exactly what it claims to be. Rather than the dense and obscure language of most guides to magic and divination, A People’s Guide to Tarot shows how the skill of reading cards — and the mindset that comes with it — is available to everyone.

A People’s Guide To Tarot includes clear and broadly-accessible explanations of card meanings, tips for learning how to ask the right questions, and multiple ways of understanding the relationships between the cards and the reader.

(This is for the print editions. For the digital edition, see this link)

A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life

“To be pagan is to be connected to the land in a way that stands outside of—and often in opposition to—the concerns of the urban and of Empire. Even though the official histories of humanity always focus on them, empires and the cities they form are mere temporary interruptions to a more organic and mostly unwritten history of human life.

It is a history of relationship to land, of connection to it, of life lived in relative harmony with the nature of which humans are but one small part. It is not just a history, however, but a still-living reality for much of the world, and one we can still connect to and become part of.”

In a world of uncertainty, political upheaval, climate change, and endless consumerism, in alienated societies bereft of meaning and connection to nature or community, what does it mean to be Pagan?

From druid, theorist, and writer Rhyd Wildermuth comes Being Pagan, a guide to re-enchant your world. Exploring the meaning of pagan connection—to time, to land, to body, to nature, and to Other—through history, personal experiences, and myth, Wildermuth offers simple yet profound guidance for anyone searching for a deeper way to live.

(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link.)

Continuing the legacy of his previous collections (Your Face is a Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, and Witches in a Crumbling Empire), The Secret of Crossings collects the best prosaic and esoteric writings of Rhyd Wildermuth from 2020 to 2022.

“We can only hope perhaps there are still some secret paths that can be forded. Maybe not for all of humanity, nor even for most of us, but maybe at least the few who still look for those crossings: those who stand in awe at the larger forces of nature our false god Progress has unleashed.”

The Secret of Crossings compiles over forty essays first published for subscribers to From The Forests of Arduinna or Another World, many of them never released to the public.

(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)

An erotic fantasy novella

Garen is a Provisioner, gifted and cursed with unbidden visions of the future and unconscious moments of sordid lust. He is trained and devoted to use his ability to help those in need, but when an empire on the verge of war enlists him to provision a group of brutal killers hunting the last surviving wolf, he must decide whether to follow the inscrutable plots of the goddess of foresight or embrace his own buried desire.

The Provisioner is a work of erotic fantasy, of bodily liberation, and of deep magic.

Specifications:

158 pages, 8 x 5.25, perfect bound with matte cover, b&w interior.
Release date: 1 May, 2021

Single purchase: The Provisioner retails for $14.00 US

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(Release date 21 June, 2019)

How does capitalism work (and why isn’t it working)? How do the rich use race and gender strife to divide and control the poor? What was life like before Capitalism, and what might it be like after? And what’s the relationship between Marx’s ideas about alienation and the Pagan desire to re-enchant the world?

All That Is Sacred Is Profaned is the text from Rhyd Wildermuth’s popular introductory course on Marxism, now available in print. Written for those without privileged academic experience and those too busy trying to survive to read economic theory, this book uses real-world examples to explain how capitalism operates, why it came about, and how it might be stopped.

All That Is Sacred Is Profaned isn’t just an economic or political text. Instead, Pagan and druid Rhyd Wildermuth teases out the intersections between Marx’s ideas and the core worldviews of animism and Paganism: the magical transformation of the world through labor, the inspirited nature of the things we humans create and trade, and the sacred aspects of the world crushed beneath the demands of profit.

All That Is Sacred Is Profaned in arranged in five sections:

• Chapter One: What Capitalism is (and isn’t), and how it has come to control the way we see the world and each other

• Chapter Two: How Capitalism works (and doesn’t), and why owners are always at odds with the people who work for them.

• Chapter Three: Why Capitalism replaced feudalism and other forms of society, and how our modern image of the past is shaped by capitalism, not by history.

• Chapter Four: How Colonialism and Slavery relate to Capitalism, and how racism and sexism developed as management strategies to keep the poor divided

• Chapter Five: Why Capitalism cannot continue forever, how its internal contradictions are destroying nature and humanity, and how we might use Marx’s ideas to survive our current crises.

• In addition, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned includes study questions, a glossary, and additional material for those who wish to learn more.

132 pages, Perfect bound, B&W, Matte cover

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A dead bard on a desolate hill, giants on a cliff-edge, a heroin-addict in a dumpster, blood-soaked shattered glass on a window-ledge, and midwinter sunlight streaming through the tomb of Newgrange...

A Kindness of Ravens is a collection of forest-edged words arrayed against the theft of meaning and the death of dreams. Find within essay on civilisation and its end, poems on gods & love, and journals from an unlikely pilgrimage each haunted by the songs of the Singers in the Darkness and the rage of the Raven King.

This is the second edition, now published by Gods&Radicals Press.

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The tea-soaked and rain-drenched musings of a nomadic punk bard. Encounters with the gods, the dead, and the spirits of forest and stream. Musings for the dreaming rebel in the leaf-strewn tavern, the urban poet following the course of buried rivers beneath her feet, and all those who await the return of the gods and the uprising of the trees.

This is the second edition of Your Face Is a Forest, now published by Gods&Radicals Press

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40 pages, perfect-bound, matte cover.

Gods&Radicals was started after Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth gave a presentation about Capitalism and Paganism at a conference. The room was packed, people spilled outside, and both Alley and Rhyd found themselves sitting on a counter ledge so more people could fit.

A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer is the zine they handed out, and Gods&Radicals now offers an expanded, professionally-printed version.

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