title: A Love Alchemist's Notebook: Magical Secrets for Drawing Your True Love into Your Life
author:  Jessica Shepherd 
description: Starred Review. Astrologist-blogger Shepherd (of Astrology.com's Venus and Beyond: Love on the Outer Planets) offers a welcome oasis for those who feel stranded by lower-your-expectations dating guides (see He's Just Not That Into You). Rather than focus on pitfalls, Shepherd prescribes a "cosmic love adventure" utilizing the Secret-esque principle of "magnetic desire," along with a bit of magic and meditation, to conjure up one's sought-after mate. Channeling the goddess of love, Shepherd provides a range of analysis and advice, including the ways that Venus influences your astrological sign, how to develop a magical tool kit, and what's important about moon-watching. Each chapter is rich with less-than-common exercises, meditations, affirmations, love spells and rituals, along with the requisite quick tips. Her "Cookbook of Soul Mate Spells" appendix is delightfully down-to-earth, insightful, and provides hours of playtime. Despite its New Age trappings, Shepherd's approach is rooted in fundamentals-self-confidence, wisdom, and patience-and effectively makes working toward personal growth and enlightenment fun.
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  For Tenielle
  The dreamer in me always has and always will need the realist in you.
  Safe travels, baby sister.
  
  One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
  —PAULO COELHO, THE ALCHEMIST
  
  prologue
  TRINITY
  “ALL RISE. COURT IS now in session, the Honorable Judge Williams
  presiding.”
  Everyone stands as I enter the courtroom and waits for me to be seated before
  they do the same. It’s a powerful thing to experience, and it’s something I’ve
  worked my whole life for. Sometimes it amazes me that I did it. That I became
  the youn