Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Leigh Mercree, author of Joyful Living and the new Compassion Revolution. Cultivating a loving voice in ourselves that is compassionate, aware, kind, and patient yields a better quality of life. As we start being nicer to ourselves, more accepting of our shortcomings and exercising patience, this feeling of openness and understanding ripples out to the world around us. After all, compassion is not only heroic deeds, but small unseen and often thankless kindnesses done by any one of us. And those apparently small effects do resonate out into the world. 10 healthy reasons to practice compassion: It makes us feel good (e.g., helping

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of several books, including Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language Volume I and Volume II, and Essential Enochian Grimoire. I'm willing to bet, if you are reading this blog, you have already watched every episode of the new hit TV series American Gods. Or, if you haven't, you've probably heard a ton about it from your Pagan friends. And, seriously, *WHY* haven't you watched it yet?? The first season is complete, and only eight episodes, so you can easily binge-watch the whole thing. In case you are literally living in a broom closet, American Gods is a new television show based on the Neil Gaiman

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Lipp, author of several books, including Tarot Interactions, Merry Meet Again, and the new Magical Power for Beginners. When working in a coven, grove, or other ritual group, creating a "group mind" (sometimes called an "egregore") empowers all the work you do. Your magic will naturally sync up, and your rituals will be more harmonious. Be Choosy Should Paganism be exclusive or inclusive? That's a thing Pagans have been debating for decades. There is plenty of room in our community for groups with open-door policies and groups that screen carefully. I love and celebrate the open-door groups that make Paganism accessible to all.

Tarot 101 Kim Huggens To learn more, click HERE. Fate vs Free Will This is a very important and sometimes controversial topic. Kim Huggens shares some of her wisdom in Tarot 101: The issue of fate vs. free will is one that every Tarot reader must face in the course of their development. Your view on the matter dictates your reasons for reading and your approach to delivering a reading. Do we act freely from our conscious decisions? Are we influenced by something else—other people, our genetics, our upbringing, God? And to what extent do these influences affect us? Some people believes that a destiny or fate has been planned for us or given to us at birth, or that it