In the August 13, 2009, issue of the British tabloid, The Sun (as reported in Patti Wigington's Paganism/Wicca blog on About.com), a woman named Kim Yeates made a big mistake. She had a small crystal ball, just 4" in diameter,  that had cost her about $33.00 (20 British Pounds Stirling). She left it in her window while she was visiting friends. Like a magnifying glass, it compressed the light from the sun coming through the window to a small point...on the back of her TV set. The TV exploded and set fire to her sofa. When she returned to her apartment, she discovered over $16,000 worth of damage. Destruction from tools isn't that uncommon. I can't count all of the homes I've been to

Last fall I spent five weeks in Torino, Italy working at the Lo Scarabeo offices. While there, I did a variety of work, including writing some Little White Booklets (those small booklets that come with decks). After reading the one I wrote for Tarot of the Dream Enchantress, Riccardo Minetti, the editor at Lo Scarabeo as well as a deck designer, said that he could see how I “dragged the image meanings kicking and screaming in line with the Rider-Waite deck in my head.” It is true—I was enslaved to my mental deck, which is the Rider-Waite. After spending so much time with Riccardo, I saw the value in freeing myself from that enslavement. But that is another discussion for another