--- product_id: 62762084 title: "Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic" price: "NZ$55" currency: NZD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/62762084-six-ways-approaches-and-entries-for-practical-magic store_origin: NZ region: New Zealand --- # Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic **Price:** NZ$55 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic - **How much does it cost?** NZ$55 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/62762084-six-ways-approaches-and-entries-for-practical-magic) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description I cover the world that was and set it aside. I create the world that is that I may inhabit it fully. I build a bridge into the Otherworld, a place between Awake and Dreaming, a place between Matter and Spirit, a place between what was, what is, and what is to come. Six Ways is a handbook of magic and sorcery, rooted in witchcraft, folk magic, chaos magic, and animist spirit work. Subjects covered include sigils, servitors, meditation, trance, spiritual cleansing, warding, dream sorcery, candle magic, talismanic magic, vessel work, and tending to the spirit ecologies we live with and in. Six Ways looks at how and why to build relationships in all of the worlds, manifest and unmanifest (what Wachter calls the Field) that allow us to perform effective magic. Effective magic changes us on the levels of mind, soul, and spirit, while improving our real-world circumstances. The focus is on finding pathways to the Otherworlds and building symbiotic relationships with the Others (powers, spirits, and allies) that dwell there. Sorcery then becomes the practice of working within those relationships to bring about the changes we seek in our lives. Aidan Wachter is the author of Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing The Past & Telling True Lies, and Changeling: A Book Of Qualities. Review: Perhaps the most useful magic book I've read - This is a book that provides many possibilities for performing magic but doesn't overwhelm you. What I like most about the book is that the chapters are short, to the point, with little filler. When he describes a technique where there is another great reference, he gets to the salient points and then refers you to a more detailed source if that is something you want. He also gives credit where credit is due to other practitioners and authors. A quality I don't often find in other magicians. I also like how you can mix and match techniques. He doesn't bowl you over to make it sound like you have to do it a certain way. You can really be creative with his approach. His Chaos Magic background really shows here. I liked his sections on sigils, servitors, talismans, vessels, offerings, and weeding out to be the most useful for me. But the entire book is really good and you will find something that can enhance your toolbox. When he talks about calling up spirits on page 20 using invocation or evocation, he makes it sound so simple and sensible that your imagination runs with all the different ways you could possibly use it. The book is straight-forward and an easy read. However, it is complex enough to wet your appetite in trying other approaches. This is one you can read again and again. For his next book, I would like to hear more of Aidan's magical philosophy. It is definitely in this book, but such discussion could help the magician. Excellent work. Well done! Review: So much thoughtful practice packed into a small package - It's elegant the way that Wacher presents this spiritual path. The presentation is compassionate, non-judgemental and delivered in a relaxed manner with smile and a wink at times. By the end, I was left with the impression that I sat down and had a conversation where I asked Wacher to tell me how he approaches his path. In turn Wacher tells me without ever trying to impose it. His own path derives from exploring many different magical paths and taking from each what was needed, but unlike other sources, this is not a grab bag of appropriation. Wacher studied each of these paths and understands their context. While he doesn't always explain the context or cosmological source material, he generously credits them and provides sources for additional study. This is a great strength. As someone who has spent some time studying in this arena, I recognize the sources and don't need them spelled out again. Doing that would have detracted from the books message, which is ultimately, this is not complicated, anyone can do it and there's no reason not to be doing it right now. I wrestled for a while with this as a source for a beginner. I suppose it depends. I'm a person that wants to read *everything* before I get started and while I find that useful in the long run, it often means that I delay starting to the point where I might not start at all. I also think that as a beginner I'd have been skeptical or dismissive of the early exercises in the book aimed at working on removing self-limiting thought - this is me and not remotely everyone. So, I that if I were a beginner, I would have missed the value in this book. But for many beginners it would be a a great starting point. Beginners that took up the practices would find their value and have a working practice in a short amount of time. This practice would also be a fully formed path, but refreshingly sparse, allowing room and probably desire for further study, and the ability to add what is needed and let go of what isn't. Refreshingly sparse is such a key feature to this path. I don't know how many other books or spiritual systems describe a "simple working" and then go on to list 20 necessary tools and items, 2 hours of prep work and it all needs to happen during the 1 night a month that the moon is at the right aspect. As someone who has been doing this in a variety of forms for over 20 years, I can say that it is a kick in the butt to remind me what is important and to make me re-evaluate what I'm doing and not doing. While I frequently fail to be the magical/spiritual minimalist that I aspire to be, I think it's at the heart of everything and I have not found a better presentation than in Six Ways. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #73,952 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #163 in Occultism #200 in Witchcraft Religion & Spirituality #239 in Magic Studies (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 825 Reviews | ## Images ![Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51MXZyEM9lL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perhaps the most useful magic book I've read *by G***I on November 29, 2022* This is a book that provides many possibilities for performing magic but doesn't overwhelm you. What I like most about the book is that the chapters are short, to the point, with little filler. When he describes a technique where there is another great reference, he gets to the salient points and then refers you to a more detailed source if that is something you want. He also gives credit where credit is due to other practitioners and authors. A quality I don't often find in other magicians. I also like how you can mix and match techniques. He doesn't bowl you over to make it sound like you have to do it a certain way. You can really be creative with his approach. His Chaos Magic background really shows here. I liked his sections on sigils, servitors, talismans, vessels, offerings, and weeding out to be the most useful for me. But the entire book is really good and you will find something that can enhance your toolbox. When he talks about calling up spirits on page 20 using invocation or evocation, he makes it sound so simple and sensible that your imagination runs with all the different ways you could possibly use it. The book is straight-forward and an easy read. However, it is complex enough to wet your appetite in trying other approaches. This is one you can read again and again. For his next book, I would like to hear more of Aidan's magical philosophy. It is definitely in this book, but such discussion could help the magician. Excellent work. Well done! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So much thoughtful practice packed into a small package *by D***N on February 8, 2019* It's elegant the way that Wacher presents this spiritual path. The presentation is compassionate, non-judgemental and delivered in a relaxed manner with smile and a wink at times. By the end, I was left with the impression that I sat down and had a conversation where I asked Wacher to tell me how he approaches his path. In turn Wacher tells me without ever trying to impose it. His own path derives from exploring many different magical paths and taking from each what was needed, but unlike other sources, this is not a grab bag of appropriation. Wacher studied each of these paths and understands their context. While he doesn't always explain the context or cosmological source material, he generously credits them and provides sources for additional study. This is a great strength. As someone who has spent some time studying in this arena, I recognize the sources and don't need them spelled out again. Doing that would have detracted from the books message, which is ultimately, this is not complicated, anyone can do it and there's no reason not to be doing it right now. I wrestled for a while with this as a source for a beginner. I suppose it depends. I'm a person that wants to read *everything* before I get started and while I find that useful in the long run, it often means that I delay starting to the point where I might not start at all. I also think that as a beginner I'd have been skeptical or dismissive of the early exercises in the book aimed at working on removing self-limiting thought - this is me and not remotely everyone. So, I that if I were a beginner, I would have missed the value in this book. But for many beginners it would be a a great starting point. Beginners that took up the practices would find their value and have a working practice in a short amount of time. This practice would also be a fully formed path, but refreshingly sparse, allowing room and probably desire for further study, and the ability to add what is needed and let go of what isn't. Refreshingly sparse is such a key feature to this path. I don't know how many other books or spiritual systems describe a "simple working" and then go on to list 20 necessary tools and items, 2 hours of prep work and it all needs to happen during the 1 night a month that the moon is at the right aspect. As someone who has been doing this in a variety of forms for over 20 years, I can say that it is a kick in the butt to remind me what is important and to make me re-evaluate what I'm doing and not doing. While I frequently fail to be the magical/spiritual minimalist that I aspire to be, I think it's at the heart of everything and I have not found a better presentation than in Six Ways. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Engaging, Forward, and Solid *by V***S on October 23, 2020* What a book. I was almost disappointed at how slim it appeared until I opened it and, I have to admit, my eyes bulged out of my head a little at the size of the text and the density. And it's not some Chumbley/Trad-Craft-esque foray into poetic mysticism and shaded metaphors. Aiden gets straight to the point and makes you take steps to begin this system of magic from the very first chapter. I'm still chewing on the first five chapters myself, and seeing how the processes laid out therein have already affected my view, requiring me to think deeper on certain beliefs and practices in which I currently partake. Though it's a slim book, it is entirely substance over style, and every page has been earned through blood, sweat, and tears. There is no filler anecdotal nonsense to make you feel inferior if you don't have intense and psychologically disturbing experiences with the provided exercises. The book is not an authors attempt to make themselves sound incredibly powerful or mystical by luring yiu in with homely stories and tales. Wachter gets straight to the point, and keeps your nose to the grind stone the entire way through. I will admit I was hesitant to buy this book. The quality of many new books tends to scare me off spending my money, but loterslly every personal acquaintance I asked about this one said they either adored it, or they had heard nothing but rave reviews. Well, I'm raving. This book is incredible. More than any I have ever read, this book teaches you how to find yiur own way by explicitly stating that you should not take the author's methods as your own. Instead, we are explicitly told to take it and try it, then alter it, or don't use it again if it doesn't work. It's extremely refreshing, and has me biting at the bit to read more. ## Frequently Bought Together - Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic - Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies - Changeling: A Book Of Qualities --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.nz/products/62762084-six-ways-approaches-and-entries-for-practical-magic](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/62762084-six-ways-approaches-and-entries-for-practical-magic) --- *Product available on Desertcart New Zealand* *Store origin: NZ* *Last updated: 2026-06-03*