Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by J. Allan Danelek, author of The Case for Reincarnation, 2012: Extinction or Utopia, UFOs: The Great Debate, Atlantis: Lessons from the Lost Continent, and The Case for Ghosts. As author of The Case for Ghosts (Llewellyn, 2006), I frequently receive photos via e-mail of alleged “spirits” for my analysis and opinion.  Normally all I get are basic orb shots or filmy mists, but occasionally I receive an interesting photo that appears to show full-bodied manifestations—a few of which I’ve had difficulty explaining away as double exposures, reflections, pareidolia, or hoaxes. Recently, however, I began receiving a number of

Social networks are now the darlings of the Internet. News these days often debuts on Facebook and Twitter before it is ever posted to the websites of news outlets, and we can poke our cross-country friends and acquaintances without ever leaving the comfort of our home. Llewellyn is on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LlewellynBooks) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/LlewellynBooks); like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for the latest from our authors, sales information, spells, recipes, author interviews, other exclusive information, and, most importantly, to interact with us! We love hearing from our readers! And, we are very excited to share that a number of our authors are

This Gemini New Moon occurs Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 7:16am EDT (11:16am GMT). The Moon joins the Sun in Gemini, making this a time focused especially on communication. But, since Gemini is the sign of the Twins, there will be two opposing forces that will need to be balanced, whether that be internal vs. external, masculine vs. feminine, introversion vs. extroversion, etc. Information will be fast and free-flowing, and it will be up to us to discern what we need and to balance that which is seemingly opposite. Perhaps you are still negotiating the information you sought out during the Full Moon in Sagittarius on May 27. There will be a Sun-Moon square to Virgo, which will give

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of The Angelical Language, Volume I; The Angelical Language, Volume II; and Secrets of the Magical Grimoires. Greetings, faithful seekers!  Since this is my first blog post here, I think I should take the opportunity to introduce myself.  My name is Aaron Leitch, and I am a student and practitioner of the Solomonic Arts.  That is a style of magick that was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and from whence we get our popular conceptions of grimoires, or magickal spell books.  If you have read my Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, and The Angelical Language, Volumes I and II,  then you already