Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Philip H. Farber, author of Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation. When I was younger I took a perverse pleasure getting into religious arguments. While I’ve always tended toward agnosticism and never felt very strongly one way or the other about organized religions, I took it as fair game that anyone coming to my door trying to convince me to join their religion was a ripe target. I was often amazed at how proselytizers could ignore simple logic and profess faith in what I considered to be pretty far-fetched ideas. It was fun, but I eventually grew out of it. These days, the dialectic between religious zealots and

21 Ways To Read a Tarot Card Step 11 in 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card by Mary K. Greer reminds me a lot of the month of November, which we are starting today and which is the 11th month of the year. This step is about exploring the range of a card. Many tarot readers say that all cards have positive and negative meanings. Step 11 helps explore the full range, from most beneficial to most problematic. November is a month of extremes for me…the beginning of cold winter days (at least here in Minnesota); brown, rotting vegetation; general bleakness countered by heart-warming holidays; good football; the preparation of the earth for next year’s growth. My the parameter of my