Los Angeles Pagan Pride Day—October 4

This Sunday, October 4, is the Los Angeles Pagan Pride Day. Click on the previous link (the name of the event) to visit their website. They have a map so you can get there, too.
The event is free, but please consider bringing a non-perishable food item as a donation for the food bank. It’s a [...]

The Knight of Cups, the 3 of Pentacles, and Me

I really enjoyed the experience in (The Queen, The Tower, and Me) and decided to have another. This time I changed it up a bit by picking a deck I love but that isn’t based on the Rider-Waite tradition (by that I mean decks with cards that are recognizable to those familiar with the Rider-Waite [...]

What is abacomancy?

For those of you who don’t know it, one of my functions with Llewellyn is the editor of their free, on-line encyclopedia. If you look at the top of this page, you can see a button that leads to the encyclopedia right in the center of the menu bar.
Our goal for the encyclopedia is to [...]

Lost in The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown’s books such as The Da Vinci Code and his latest, The Lost Symbol, have had sales and popularity for adults that rivals the success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books for younger readers. All of the books by both of these popular authors have one thing in common: they’re not based on real [...]

How to Build Your Own Links

Build your own links to any page on the Llewellyn website by following these steps after you log in to your Google Affiliate Network account.
To create one link at a time with the Build Your Own Link (BYOL) feature:

In your Google Affiliate Network account, click the Links tab, then click By Advertiser.
Locate the appropriate advertiser. [...]

Join the Llewellyn Affiliate Program

Llewellyn is excited to announce our new affiliate program is now live on the Google Affiliate Network!
Join our affiliate program and earn 8% commission on all products from the world’s oldest and largest New Age publisher!
For more than a century, Llewellyn has been at the forefront of holistic and metaphysical publishing and thought. We’ve been [...]

Have you ever read a banned book?

It’s Banned Book Week!
If you’re reading this blog, chances are you have read a book that someone has tried to ban at some point in your life, even if you weren’t aware of it. Some recognized classics of literature have been the subject of complaints from people trying to get them banned from school and [...]

Guidance from Your Daydreams

I’ve always loved Rumi’s poetry, but every time I hear this one, I nearly stop in my tracks.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” [...]

Sitting Next to Mary Greer

You’ve heard of her before, haven’t you? One of the great lights in the tarot community, author of Tarot for Yourself, The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals, and—one of my favorites—21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card.
I’ve been really lucky. Most people “meet” Mary through her books. Some get to learn from her at conferences. [...]

Win Your Own Little Piece of Happily Ever After

To celebrate the release of The Fairy Tale Tarot, we’re giving away nine uncut card sheets signed by Lisa Hunt, the internationally renowned artist who created this charming and evocative new Tarot deck.
How can you win? Read on for all the details.
Subscribe to Llewellyn’s Tarot Update
All you have to do to win is subscribe to [...]