Aquarius, The Water Bearer January 20 to February 18 Modality: Fixed Element: Air Ruler: Uranus Keywords: Unconventional, original, progressive, intellectual, compassionate, stubborn, isolated As an Aquarius you are an enigmatic puzzle, a mix of the old and the new and of friendly and aloof. You are noted for your independence and strong will, but you [...]
The Tarot of the Silicon Dawn is one of my favorite decks from 2011. It is completely innovative, utterly challenging, and delightfully frustrating. Decks like this are what keep tarot fresh and inspire us to constantly grow and explore. The Tarot of the Silicon Dawn is complex. It is surprising. It is unique…and so much [...]
Readers, please enjoy this guest post by Sally Cragin, author of Astrology on the Cusp and The Astrological Elements. I realized I had something interesting to explore when the chapter I wrote on cusps was left over from my first book, The Astrological Elements. That was published in 2010, and is a general interest primer [...]
Tarot readers spend a lot of energy explaining that “Death doesn’t actually mean physical death, mostly; it usually means transformation.” And of course, I agree with that. And yet, I don’t completely agree with it. It strikes me as ironic that we are so afraid to predict death when, in truth, it is the only [...]
Today, there are more than 800 million active users of the social network known as Facebook. That’s closing in on three times the population of the U.S. Twitter has about 300 million active users. Facebook and twitter are means of communicating with others. But are they really helping people become more social? I think they’re [...]
When people start off with magick they usually begin with general externals and specific internals. By this I mean they begin with the externals of the ritual being rather generalized—everything colored red for added energy, for example—along with a specific intention such as bringing yourself more energy to “pull an all-nighter” studying for a test. [...]
Quite a few tarot bloggers create lists of their favorite tarot-related items of the year. Here are a few that I ran across. What are some of your faves from 2011? Tarot by Hilary The Tarot Lady Amethyst Tarot Donnaleigh de la Rose
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Skye Alexander, author of Sex Magic for Beginners. All magic works, if you do it right. If you’re not familiar with sex magic, it’s a technique for tapping your sexual energy to empower spells and to produce effects in the material world or beyond. Basically, you raise [...]
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tess Whitehurst, author of Magical Housekeeping and The Good Energy Book. Everything is energy, and everything is connected. And since our personal energy has a characteristic momentum and flow that affects everything from our mood to our job to our relationships, shifting our energy just a little [...]
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ellen Evert Hopman, author of Priestess of the Forest, The Druid Isle, and the forthcoming Priestess of the Fire Temple. As a Celtic Reconstructionist Druid I am always interested in the practices of the ancient Celts. I read about them, write about them and then put them [...]