Complete List of Journal Articles

Spooks? That is what I call my guides. Others may call them souls, guides, entities, spirits, guardian angels or channels. I prefer just plain “Spooks,” and apparently they don’t mind. It’s just a friendly, intimate nickname. I am one of those ...

I want you to know right from the beginning that this is blatant pitch to get you to buy a special book. When marketing people suggested that I use my editorial space as a "bully pulpit" to do just that, I resisted the idea, but this book is too important and potentially too valuable to you for me not to make this extra effort. This book can give

Writing The Path of Alchemy has been a long and fascinating journey. The initial book was written a decade ago and finally came to light after a series of mishaps and out-of-the-blue phone calls from old friends and students. Over the decade between its initial creation and its final appearance in print, the The Path of Alchemy (along with myself

The holiday period stretching from Thanksgiving to New Year’s can take its toll on anyone. This unusually hectic period gets stuffed with to-do lists, shopping lists, party lists, and mailing lists to the point where you may want to crawl back into bed and ignore the holidays altogether. One way to combat this overwhelming feeling is by

A great deal of magickal work looks magickal in a deliciously Witchy or wizardly way. Chanting voices echoing in a darkened chamber, arabesques of incense smoke rising from a candlelit altar, a robed priestess lifting her athame and evoking the Elemental powers … even the most mundane of muggles would know what’s going on, and feel a shiver down

For years I’ve been telling readers that an entire system of magic in the Western tradition could be worked using nothing other than a deck of Tarot cards. In my books and articles, various suggestions were given as to how this might be done in part—for example, I described the laying out of a magic circle using the Tarot, and also the use

Each year around this time, as we approach the holiday season, I am reminded of the hope that is a part of every philosophical and religious tradition. For everyone born north of the Equator, the winter solstice and its associated festivals center on the faith that the Sun will return to bring its life-giving warmth, and that new life will begin

Ancient astrologers observed the blazing morning star Venus vanish once every eighteen months and re-emerge as the brilliant evening star. Venus has phases just like the Moon, only we cannot see them as easily as we can the waxing and waning Moon. Have you noticed a brilliant star due west in the sky after sunset? That would be Venus. She grows

Like many a creative project or endeavor, the writing of Aspects has been a journey, during which I have learned as much about myself as the art and craft of astrology. The book started out with case studies of six famous people who had been through transformative experiences. I was curious about how people change, and what this would look like

A type of astrology that focuses on the outside world rather than the individual is called mundane astrology. The word “mundane” is derived from mundus, meaning "the world," which was a Latin translation of the Greek word for “cosmos,” or orderly arrangement. I always felt that this type of astrology was tremendously stimulating (although the word mundane suggests otherwise) and I wanted to write a book which made the “astrology of the world” come alive and speak to readers in interesting, relevant ways—especially in our uncertain times. Cosmic Trends evolved and changed before my eyes. From the simple thread with which I began, the book became a colorful fabric....