Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rev. Wendy Van Allen, author of the new Relighting the Cauldron. Over the centuries when the Roman Catholic and later Christian churches supplanted the Pagan religions of Europe, we know that many pre-Christian traditions, such as well offerings and blessings, were re-Christened and absorbed by the Church and continued as folk customs and traditions, even up until today. As a result, many of these customs and beliefs were then claimed by Christians to have always been their own, and we Pagans often find it tiresome to point out that the origin of these types of practices has nothing to do with Judeo-Christian theology or religion. It is

Vote now for your favorite Llewellyn books and decks in the 2022 CARTA Awards from the International Tarot Foundation! Best Tarot Deck Cirque du Tarot, by Leeza Robertson and Michael Joshua Tufts Runic Tarot, by Jack Sephiroth, Zhang Chao, & Jaymi Elford (Lo Scarabeo)   Best Oracle Deck Ancestor Spirit Oracle, by Jade Sky and Belinda Morris (Blue Angel) The Mandala Healing Oracle, by Denise Jarvie & Lindy Longhurst Seeker Oracle, by Ravynne Phelan (Blue Angel) Esoteric Buddhism of Japan Oracle, by Yuzui Kotaki and Miki Okuda (Blue Angel) Circles of Healing Oracle, by Alana Fairchild Celtic Astrology Oracle, by Antonella

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of several books, including the new Mysteries of the Aura. There is a link between out-of-body experiences and the aura. In my new book, Mysteries of the Aura, I relate several stories of occurrences I've had since the time I started to see and read the auras in the 1970s. As you can imagine, I had countless direct experiences, and most of them helped me to go further in my exploration of these words of energy. One of them, which you cannot find in the book, occurred when I was 18 years old. I was living in the South-West of France. Many people knew about my work as a radiesthesist, magnetizer, and aura reader.