Need a vacation but don’t have the time? Or do you need a vacation right NOW? Here’s a simple way to take a quick get-away. Pick a tarot card. Look at it until you can see it with your eyes closed. Lay back. Imagine the card getting larger and larger until you can step into it. Then step in and see what happens. For example, perhaps you’d like to visit Loch Ness courtesy of the forthcoming Sacred Sites Tarot:   Or maybe give the Wheel a spin with the Wheel of Fortune from the Dark Fairytale Tarot: I cannot, however, recommend visiting the Strength card also from the Dark Fairytale. She's not as charming as you’d think!   As for me, I’d

As a collector of tarot and oracle decks, storage is always a problem. I still don't have the ideal solution. I wonder if I ever will. Part of my problem is not just keeping them somewhere but with hundreds of decks, how do I arrange them? By publisher? By theme? By type? Alphabetically? Right now, I have ones that I like and use more often in a nice cabinet purchased for the sole purpose of storing my cards. Others, that I don't use often or have mostly for reference as well as the foreign editions of my projects, are in the <shudder> basement in Rubbermaid (tm) containers. I keep decks in their original packaging if possible. If not, I put them into bags, either purchased,

Just a few items of interest as you ease into your Monday: About Rachel Pollack's recent book: The New Tarot Handbook An audio review by Angelo Nasios of The Steampunk Tarot The Annuals and Calendars are in. What's your favorite? I love the Astro Calendar. As for the Annuals, I like a lot of them, particularly The Moon Sign Book, The Sun Sign Book, and The Herbal Almanac. And The Magical Almanac and the Witches Companion. That is a lot, isn't it?

This weekend at INATS (the International New Age Trade Show), we got our first peek at the new Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan and Mark Evans. You can get more details HERE Ellen and Mark have created a beautiful website where you can see all the Majors. Take a look; this is a gorgeous deck packed full of great symbolism. Ellen and Mark's website