Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Mortellus, author of the new Do I Have to Wear Black?. When it comes to venerating the dead, it's easy to get caught up in the details of what "doing it right" looks like. What does an ancestor altar look like, what belongs on it, what doesn't? Can more than one ancestor share this space comfortably? In my own home, I have a great many spaces dedicated to the dead and dying, each serving a different purpose. I must confess, however, that my favorite and most worshiped-at altar to the dead is nothing more than a playlist on my iPod. What better way to honor someone and keep their memory alive than by enjoying the music they created? Quite

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ember Grant, author of Magical Candle Crafting, The Book of Crystal Spells, The Second Book of Crystal Spells, and the new Mythology for a Magical Life. Mythology has been on my mind a great deal lately since I completed my latest book, Mythology for a Magical Life. As Pagans, we tend to have myths on our radar more than most people, but how often do we study it in depth? Many people like to know the gods and goddesses that were worshiped or may even be interested, perhaps, in the archeology or anthropology of ancient cultures. Some pagans even strive to discover their genealogy in order to embrace the customs of their ancestors. These are

Join us for our next Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum Series! February 12, 2021—2pmCT Join us for our next Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum! This bi-monthly series of free online roundtable events will feature your favorite Llewellyn authors discussing topics important to you and answering your questions. Our next in the series, on love spells, will feature Good Juju author Najah Lightfoot, Psychic Witch author Mat Auryn, The Book of Candle Magic author Madame Pamita, and 365 Tarot Spells author Sasha Graham talking about love spells: ethics, effectiveness, and more, and ask them your questions! We'll be streaming live on Crowdcast—save your spot today! We look

Rachel Pollack's New Tarot Handbook is a small book that packs a big punch. Each entry gives us traditional wisdom and unique insights. Pollack urges us to dive even deeper by creating a spread for each Major Arcana card. We'll let her guide us to the Star, shall we? The Star In the sequence of the Major Arcana, the most difficult section—the Fool’s Crisis, we might call it—begins with Death and reaches its culmination in the explosiveness of the Tower. The Star shows us that we have come through—we have cast off the Devil’s chains and found hope and openness. The Star resembles Temperance, the card between Death and the Devil, with some important differences. There