Hello, Isiacs!
I am thrilled to let you know that both Isis Magic and Offering to Isis WILL be back.
Offering to Isis: Knowing the Goddess Through Her Sacred Symbols is being published with updated text and new illustrations of the offerings later this year (2024). It is from Azoth Press and will be available from Miskatonic Books. I’ll share more information as soon as I have it.
Isis Magic: Cultivating a Relationship with the Goddess of 10,000 Names, 25th Anniversary Edition will be available in spring of 2026. It will be published by REDFeather, Mind, Body, Spirit, which is known for its beautiful oracle decks and other topics in personal transformation and empowerment.
Oh, you saw that “25th Anniversary Edition” thing, too? Woof. I can’t believe it’s been that long. On the other hand, when I think of the tiny Mac computer with the floppy disks that I first started writing Isis Magic on while seated at our kitchen table, I actually can believe it.
As those of you who have been following along with this blog know, I don’t talk much about myself here. I prefer to keep the focus on Her. She’s the reason you’re here. She’s the reason I’m here. And She’s the reason both of these books are here. But I thought I’d break my rule just a little bit to share with you something about me and how these books came to be…
The earliest I can remember writing stories was in the sixth grade. Influenced by the spy TV shows that were popular at the time, I wrote about secret agent cats and their clandestine organization, P.U.R.R. Yeah, you don’t want to know what that stood for.
Next, I graduated to monster and horror stories inspired by the Creepy and Eerie graphic novels (we called them comic books then, but they were graphic novels).
I never really thought of myself as a capital-w Writer, though I made my living from marketing writing. During this time, I learned how to research. I found The Goddess and connected with my local Pagan communities. I studied magic and psychism, both on my own and through training in a Hermetic magical tradition. And of course—I’m sure I share this with many of you—I never lost my deep interest in ancient Egypt.
With all that in the background, it isn’t really surprising that, when I did find Isis—or She found me—that the task She wanted me to do was to write books for Her.
As I worked on that little Mac on the kitchen table, I researched to discover everything about Isis that I could find in order to bring it all together in one book. (There was no Google when I began. I know; shocking.) The devotions, meditations, and rituals in both books were inspired by what I learned about ancient Egypt and by Her. In fact, She used many of them to train me as Her priestess. One piece of UPG (unverified personal gnosis) that She gave me during the writing of these books, is that these books would bring seven important devotees to Her service. They would be leaders and would help more people come to know Her.
I hope this has already happened. I hope you’re one of them.
So. Those are the bare bones of the story of Isis Magic and Offering to Isis. I’ll keep you up to date on when the new editions will be available and share with you any new information as it comes along. Thank you all for your devotion to—and if you’re new here, interest in—Isis. She is the most wonderful and magical of Goddesses. She is Divine Magic, Divine Wisdom, Divine Power, and Divine Love. And She IS.
Oh, I’m so very happy to hear that Isis Magic will be published again! Congratulations!!
Great News! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time 🙂
Last week I did a public ritual with my FOI and gardnerian fellow priests and priestesses for the Goddess Isis at the Great Mother Sanctuary here in Brazil. This is a beautiful space in the state of Sao Paulo who honors the Goddess in all her names and forms. I adapted and used part of your Opening the Way and Rite of Awakening rituals, that I’ve found here on your website. I’m excited to have access to further material!
Thank you so much for all your hard work.
The light of the Goddess shines through your writing.
Blessed Be!
Wonderful! I’d love to see a photo if you’d care to share! You can post to my FB page or email me at isidora.forrest at gmail and I’ll share it 🙂 Isidora
That’s great! Congratulations.
Congrats Isadora!
How wonderful! I really hope that this edition will have an ebook version. My eyes aren’t as young as they used to be and being able to change the font & size is so helpful.
Congratulations Isidora 🙂
I was waiting for a republishing of the book Isis Magic for a long time 🙂
Somehow I knew I had to wait if you know what I mean.
Best regards 🙂
Pascal
Me, too!
hi, I’ve learned a lot from your writings and have used some of the magic you’ve posted on this blog. Thank you for the inspiration.
Also, please can you get the publishers to put these books on kindle or another electronic/pdf format? I’m visually impaired and use a screen reader to read books aloud and a lot of books like this just aren’t in any kind of electronic format.
thank you again for the writing you do.
yes! And I heard the call! Thank you so much for what you are bringing to us and the remembrance you allow ❤️❤️❤️