Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Clare R. Johnson, PhD, author of the new Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming. Lucid dreams are dreams where we know that we're dreaming, while we're dreaming. In a lucid dream, we activate our waking awareness in a dream, without waking up. Once lucid, we can fly, face up to nightmare images, heal ourselves from trauma and grief, rehearse skills we need in our waking life, overcome phobias, experience dreamscapes of astonishing beauty…and have an enormous amount of fun! Here's how to get lucid: Keep a Dream Journal. This is a wonderful way of communicating with your dreaming mind. Non-lucid dreams are the path to lucid

It's time for a giveaway! Between now (October 11) and next Wednesday (October 18), head over to Goodreads and enter to win one of five copies of A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft by Deborah Blake! About A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft: Enjoy the Sacred Wisdom of Witchcraft Every Day Connect with your witchy self each and every day using quick, easy, and fun practices. This handy book features simple yet meaningful ways to integrate witchcraft into your daily life, inspiring you to take your magic to a new level whether you’re a beginner or an experienced practitioner. Deborah Blake guides you on a journey through the Wheel of the Year, providing witchy

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. Mary is well-known for her books 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card, Understanding the Tarot Court, and The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals. As teacher, Mary combines theoretical study, practical application, philosophical inquiry,

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons, The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis, and Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses, and the forthcoming Esoteric Freemasonry. Jean-Louis is also Lifetime Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis and Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross. A common idea today is that spiritual paths are all the same. This idea most likely came from the Eastern Hindu philosophy. I like very much the representation I read forty years ago in a book written by a Yogi. In his description, all the spiritual paths can be compared to various ladders placed around the house. All of them allow