The Source: A Journey to the Heart of Your Own Personal Power; Magical Messages from Mother Shipton-Prophetess, Healer andSeer. By Ursula James.
That book?
She is a ritual working type of Witch. Meaning she uses the Lunar phases and rituals with intent and purpose of bettering her life and those around her.
Now there are other Witches who prefer different ways to weave magick.
I am more of a Pictish Witch I use Cauldron magick and flowers herbs and other types of nature to astablish a recipe for my magickal workings and also some chants or rhyme or song,candles,Petitions,evocations,elementals,Circl e magick,divinations and Familiars,.Some rituals but not much.
Now other witches will use different combinations for different outcomes or just what they prefer or are most comfortable with.
James Randy renowned skeptic did research on Mother Shipton and found no hard facts that she even existed.
I would also like to add her prophecy's seem vague at best. So this is one of those buyer beware type of Author just make sure to take any and all information as an opinion at best until there is scientific fact to back it up.
Here is James Randy's link on Mother Shipton
http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Sh...%20Mother.html
I would also like to point out that using mother Shipton as a guide for Urusla is suspicious at best because the legends say Mother Shipton was extremly ugly and draw her as the stereo typical Hag.
I would wish that people stop in my life time thinking of any Witch like this.
This image of a witch is an insult to women in general because during the burning times they would accuse a woman of being a Witch then beat her until her face was green with bruises and break her nose and cut her face up so badly she would look like she had warts due to the flesh of there skin being pulled up by beatings. That is where this image orginated and it is greatly offensive to any woman no matter what there beliefs are. So since they use this stereo typical image it leads me to believe Mother Shipton probably never existed at all.