Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alexandra Chauran, author of numerous books, including the new Clearing Clutter, 365 Ways to Strengthen Your Spiritulity, and the new Getting Through It: Reclaiming Your Life After Adversity, Change, or Trauma. So, you are nearing the end of the year 2020. Almost made it, right? Wrong. It turns out that the negativity of 2020 was a miasma that weakened and sickened nearly all of us in either a literal or figurative way. The losses have piled up, and the grief from each of them is real. Many people lost a job, felt a best friend drift away, lost a parent to COVID-19, or had a marriage crumble under the stress of being home-bound. The

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Anthony Louis, author of several books, including the new Horary Astrology. On December 21, 2020, the planets Jupiter and Saturn conjoined in the heavens. Such "great conjunctions" happen about every 20 years, but this one was special. Not only did the planets coincide as measured along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth, but they also came together in declination—that is, in their angular distance north or south of the equator. In fact, these two giants of our solar system got so close, within 0.1 degrees of each other, that to the naked eye they looked like a single, extremely bright planet. The last time

The Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum is a bi-monthly series of free online roundtable events that feature your favorite Llewellyn authors discussing topics important to you and answering your questions. Our second in the series, on Celebrating Yule, featured Everyday Witchcraft author Deborah Blake, 365 Days of Hoodoo author Stephanie Rose Bird, The Old Magic of Christmas author Linda Raedisch, and Llewellyn's Little Book of Yule author Jason Mankey. Did you miss the live event? No worries! Stream it here.

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Gail Bussi, author of the new Enchanted Herbal. Let's face it: life is not always easy even at the best of times, and given the uncertainty and change we have all been experiencing in the past year, it's not surprising that many of us are feeling more stressed, anxious, and fearful than ever before. With the coming of the holidays, we all can do with a little calming magic! This is why I have developed what I call a "tranquility tool kit" to help us feel a little better; gentle self-care and support are always important, of course, but in the midwinter season perhaps more so than ever! These simple-to-make products all contain essential