This book has a unique approach to witchcraft. While most witchcraft books focus on the mind as the (alleged) most powerful tool of the witch, with meditation and other exercises, „Anatomy of a Witch“ focusses on the whole body, showing how powerful it is. There are five main sections: „Witch Lungs“, „Witch Heart“, „Serpent“, „Witch Bones“ and „The weaver“ (the mind). Now in order not too spoil anything I won‘t say much more about these sections but I really enjoyed all the ideas and suggestions that can be found in the respective chapters.

There are also several interesting journal prompts and exercises to work with, some of them with ritual movements. The author elegantly weaves poetic spells and vivid metaphors into the tapestry of this book, along with Tarot descriptions (of the first nine cards of the Major Arcana). There are also beautiful sigils and suggestions how to work with them. In the end, these are combined in one vertical sigil.

What I also liked a lot: Laura Tempest Zakroff‘s texts about the body are gender-neutral throughout the book (so there is no focus on binary concepts of „masculine“ and „feminine“ energy, like you can find in some other books.) She also gives suggestions for people with movement disabilities (for instance, most of the exercises can also be done from a seated position).

Conclusion: If you want to integrate all of your body consciously (or more consciously than you used to do so far) into your witchcraft, this is a perfect book for you.

And a tip: Laura has a series with „Witchual Workouts“ on Youtube (currently with almost 150 episodes) with dance and ritual movements, each with a different witchcraft related topic. The episodes are ca. 8 to 15 minutes long (just type „Witchual Workout“ into the search box on Youtube).