I confess, I loathe sun sign talk. Let me explain. I cannot stand the flip explanations people give for why one acts a certain way based on one's sun sign. 'O she's a Gemini, she 's talkative, bright, and witty!' 'That Scorpio, he's secretive, complex, and intense.'  'Geminis and Scorpios could never make good life partners!' Now, to some extent, these descriptions can be true. However, complicated humans cannot be so simply described. The sun sign is a teeny tiny aspect of your personality. First, you really need to take another look at what the sign your sun is in truly means. Your sun sign is not the instinctive part of your personality. It is the part you are trying to become.

Ask four Pagans the name of the full moon this month, and you’ll get five different answers. There are several traditions for naming moons; to give just one example, the full moon in December could be called the Oak Moon, the Cold Moon, the Snow Moon, the Winter Moon, or the Long Nights Moon. Poke around some more, and you’re sure to find other names and interpretations. I bring this up because people can also call two different full moons the same thing once in a while. Some people go by zodiac sign when determining the full moon’s name – is the sun in Virgo or in Libra? Others calculate based on which festival the moon is actually closest to, in number of days – the Harvest

If you've been involved in the world of magick and the occult for some time, you may remember the anti-occult disaster in the 1980s and 1990s that has been called "The Satanic Panic." For those unfamiliar with what happened, a few nurses and sympathetic practicing mental health "professionals," along with various religious "leaders" and governmental officials who couldn't separate their spiritual beliefs from their professional duties, began supporting the bizarre mental musings of some troubled women. This carried over to the manipulation of children resulting in wild claims of "SRA" or Satanic Ritual Abuse. The claims are so bizarre and so impossible that I won't repeat them here. But

Some of you may remember Llewellyn's Tarot Calendar, 2000-2001, or our tarot almanac, The Tarot Reader, 2006-2008. Sadly, while they were awesome (in my opinion), they didn't quite work. But at Llewellyn we love annuals and we love tarot, so we never really let go of the desire to create some sort of tarot annual. In the coming weeks, we'll be brainstorming and kicking around ideas about this. Join the discussion. Share your comments and ideas. If you are familiar with the annuals mentioned above, tell us what you liked and what you didn't like. What would be useful? What makes a tarot annual? What is the best way to connect tarot to the idea of a year...or should we scrap that idea