Learning the meanings of the cards is just one part of learning tarot. In some ways, it seems like it is the easier part. I cannot tell you how many students learn the cards, with deep and profound understanding and spiritual insight, ask me “how to put them together into a reading that makes sense?” [...]
I have had the honor and privilege of knowing Chick and Sandra Tabatha Cicero for many years. The Ciceros They refer to themselves as “Senior Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” which is sort of like Johnny Depp calling himself just a guitar player (he does play guitar, but that’s not his [...]
Four Llewellyn titles are finalists for 2011 COVR Awards: Biting Back, by Claudia Cunningham (Conscious Living/Self-Help Book Category) Planetary Spells & Rituals, by Raven Digitalis (Magick/Shamanism Book Category) Witchcraft on a Shoestring, by Deborah Blake (Wicca/Paganism Book Category) Modern Wicca, by Michael Howard (Wicca/Paganism Book Category) In addition, our website www.llewellyn.com is also a finalist [...]
If you haven’t heard about this amazing book yet, please check out the description, excerpt, or my previous blog posts about it. For now I just want to invite everyone who’s ordered the book, bought the book, borrowed the book, read the book, or added the book to their wishlist, to join the conversation that Bronwen [...]
Home…And Ready to Rock and Roll Well, I’m back home from the Babalon Rising festival and hard at work. I had a brief stint of jet-lagged tiredness, a surprise for me since even with overseas travel I’ve never experienced it previously. Babalon Rising is a great and growing festival. Each year more people attend. Unlike [...]
Yes, you read that correctly—this year we celebrate our 110th birthday! (Does that make us officially old??) We’ve spent over a century publishing books for the body, mind, and spirit, dedicated to bringing our readers the very best in metaphysical books and resources. Since 1901, we’ve been at the forefront of holistic and metaphysical publishing [...]
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by BelindaGrace, author of You Are Clairvoyant. Reviewing and releasing old patterns of behaviour and belief from your previous lifetimes on this planet can be extremely liberating. Most of us have had many lives here on Earth before, our Souls using each life as an opportunity to learn [...]
This Full Moon in Sagittarius will occur on Wednesday, June 15 at 4:14 pm Eastern (8:14 pm GMT) at 24 degrees. Full Moons represent the culmination of those things that were begun with the New Moon (in this case the June 1 New Moon in Gemini). This Full Moon represents the work we’ve done in [...]
Once you learn the meanings of the cards (or at least a foundation of the meanings, as most tarotists consider the cards a life-long study and journey), it’s time to put the cards together into a reading. Making the leap from understanding the cards to weaving them together into a synthesized, coherent reading can be [...]
Sometimes it seems that the best advice is submerged somewhere in this great big world, hidden among so many other words and pages already in existence. In order to bring some of that wisdom back to the surface and to allow us a moment of pause (amid often hectic lives), every so often I will [...]