title: Planets for Pagans: Sacred Sites, Ancient Lore, and Magical Stargazing
author:  Renna Shesso 
description: "A map that leads us back to our sacred selves." -<b>Sandra Ingerman, MA</b>, author of <i>Medicine for the Earth</i> and <i>The Shaman's Toolkit</i><br /><br />"This book is as important a work as I've ever read on the subject of astrology and cosmology. I've certainly never been moved by a book on this subject in quite this way. Shesso reintroduces the night sky to the child inside you and that's a very special gift" -<b>Bob Freeman</b>, Occult Detective blog<br /><br />"This is one of those books that ties together practical, scientific knowledge with myths, legends, and cultural lore. Perhaps best of all, it encourages us to get off the sofa, put on a jacket, and go outside to rediscover the magnificence of the universe, and the magic of watching the sun, moon, planets, and stars wheeling overhead in their unending celestial dance. It puts our forgotten, hidden sky into focus and brings its primeval meaning to us as food for our souls." -<b>Greg Stafford</b>, author, publisher of <i>Shaman's Drum</i><br /><br />"A clear, accessible, up-to-date guide to the positions of the planets in the sky as well as to their resonances in our hearts and imaginations." -<b>Diane Wolkstein</b>, co-author of Inanna, <i>Queen of Heaven and Earth</i>
zlib_text: Forgotten Realms
  
  The Priests: Mistress of the Night
  
  By Don Bassingthwaithe and Dave Gross
  
  Month of Kytkom, the Year of Rogue Dragons (1373 DR)
  
  
  The black wood screens that lined the Fane of Shar on Shade Enclave had been
  oiled and polished over long centuries until the reflections of those who
  passed them flickered like specters in their ancient surface. Legends
  whispered among the faithful claimed that the wood of the screens came from
  trees that had grown in a mountain valley so deep that light touched its floor
  for only minutes each day, around a clearing where Shar herself had once
  danced alone in the shadows.  
  In fact, Variance Amatick knew, they had been carved by a once-famous artisan
  from perfectly ordinary wood and had originally graced the temple of another
  god entirely. An account of the looting of that rival temple and of the
  rededica-tion of the screens to the glory of Shar resided in the vaulted
  archives beneath the Fane. Variance saw no good reason to dispel the leg