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Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot
Tarot by Paul Huson that attempts to get back to the earliest divinatory roots of the Tarot.

Dream Enchantress Tarot
Surreal Tarot by Marco Nizzoli with booklet by Barbara Moore.

Axinomancy
A little-known system of divination that uses axes, hatchets, or occasionally saws. Usually, this involved throwing the axe and interpreting the vibrations of the handle or blade when it landed in a solid object such as a table, a tree, or the ground. Another method is to heat the blade so that it glows, then interpret the shapes and colors seen in the blade much as you might interpret patterns in tea leaves.

Averse
A term meaning “strongly opposed to” something. In magick, it generally refers to a practice used against someone or something.

Autumn Equinox
The second time in a year when the period of daylight and night are equal, it occurs between September 19 and 24. Pagan names for this holiday include Harvest Home and the popular Mabon, a term coined by Aiden Kelly in the 1970s. It marks the completion of the harvest and is a type of Thanksgiving. It also marks the time to begin preparing for Samhain.

August Eve
Another term for Lammas.

Astromancy
A form of divination using the stars. Often mistaken for astrology. Astrology focuses on discovering trends and potentials so people can choose to enhance the good or overcome the challenging. Astromancy is predictive, deterministic, and fatalistic.

Astrology
The practice of interpreting the positions of objects outside the Earth’s atmosphere and how they indicate or reflect events found here in the past, present, or future. In the past, some people saw this as fatalistic: “If it’s in the stars it must happen.” This is more accurately described as astromancy. Today it is generally accepted that the stars impel but do not compel.

Astral Bleeding
An involuntary loss of astral matter, frequently called ectoplasm. Most likely to occur when someone is traveling on the astral plane and does not now how to protect themselves in that area. Generally, this “bleeding” is seen by psychics as occurring from the solar plexus.

Astral
Like the stars.

The Hats We Wear in Tarot

Looking through a typical tarot deck, you find that human characters in the cards are distinguished by many different kinds of headwear. Tarot artists are limited by how much detail they can fit into such small illustrations, but by drawing people with different hats, crowns, helmets, and other head coverings, they concisely convey information... read this article

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