Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Larry Sagen, who works with Elana Zaiman (author of the new book The Forever Letter). George Burns, the godfather of early comedy radio and television, once said: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family— in another city." Ahh, Thanksgiving! A paradox for many! By design, it's a holiday about thanks and appreciation for all we have, yet for many, Thanksgiving offers more stress than gratitude. And this Thanksgiving may be even more difficult, exacerbated by our country's growing political and social divide. In her new book The Forever Letter, author, speaker, rabbi, chaplain, and social worker Elana Zaiman

Although this book is specifically written for use with a Marseille Tarot-style deck, I found a lot of useful information that can apply to any reading with any tarot deck. Yoav includes a section on reading symbolic language in the cards. He includes categories that many of us have seen before, such as color and number, but he includes other categories that are less commonly discussed. I found the section of body parts particularly interesting. Although I never had what I consider a formal method of interpreting body parts, I realized that I do casually think about body parts symbolically. For example, I usually notice if a character is wearing any sort of headpiece such as a crown

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Carol Matsumoto, author of the new Ghosts of Captain Grant's Inn. I own Captain Grant's 1754, a haunted inn in Connecticut. We have a cemetery across the street and one dating to the mid 1600s behind the inn. There isn’t a month that goes by without ghost hunters calling and asking to do paranormal investigations. We have seen all types of groups: the experienced, the novices, and everything in between. Here are some thoughts I have on how to—or not to do—an investigation. Do not bring a large group with you. While more is usually the merrier, you will have almost no chance of getting anything paranormal on your equipment. I

This summer, the Omega Institute offered a Masters of Tarot weekend workshop featuring me, Theresa Reed, Sasha Graham, Mary Greer, and Rachel Pollack. One of the signs of a good teacher is that they are always investigating and exploring. Even if you’ve had classes with them before or read their books, they always have something new to offer…or perhaps a new approach to an old favorite topic. It was a wonderful weekend for both us teachers and for the students. I am probably most well-known for my Steampunk Tarot, Tarot Spreads, and Your Tarot Your Way. As teacher, I like to share some of whatever philosophy, neuroscience, sacred studies, and psychology ideas that are filling my head