I bought Walker's Women's Rituals hoping to find a way to incorporate a form of spirituality without abandoning the rational. I found appealing her contention that spiritual can celebrate the real and natural. In the end, I didn't find doing such things as sewing a priestess robe or creating an altar was for me--but before that I found myself buying this book too--and I still keep it on my bookshelf. I suppose because I do find the material intriguing and entertaining. It's exhaustive and thorough and well-illustrated, and each entry cites a source listed in the Bibliography. Contents are divided into 21 sections including such objects as motifs, signs, supernaturals, zodiac, animals, minerals, etc. Here's a short entry selected at random:

Hermetic Cross [with picture of what looks like an anchor--a cross bisecting a semi-circle]
This version of the Christian cross was adapted from the sign of Hermes. Some said it was a "hermaphroditic" sign of male and female principles together: the male god (cross) arising from the female (crescent moon). Since the moon was a common symbol for all forms of the Virgin Mother including even her Christianized, mortalized one, the Hermetic cross was often interpreted as an emblem of Christ born of the virgin. 1

1. Koch, 12
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This is the definition of the same term at http://symboldictionary.net

This alchemical symbol, most often referred to as the Cross of Hermes, appears mainly in watermarks used by printers during the English Renaissance, were usually attributed patronage of their craft to the god Hermes. The emblem’s lower portion represents the hermetic maxim, “as above, so below,” and is related to the Masonic square and compass. The upper numeral “4″ is the sacred number of Hermes and represents the four directions and the the crossroads sacred to the god. This is the “sign of the cross” used by kabbalists; this self-blessing was later adopted by the Church of Rome.
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Somewhat different--and notably that definition lacks a female dimension. Regardless, the book is fun to browse. ( )

good reference book -- includes things not normally in dictionaries related to feminist symbols ( )

Book Description: Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9¾" tall. Inside pages are clean, unmarked and tight.
Believe to be first edition, nothing to indicate otherwise.