Last month I was asked to write about how to use tarot cards as journaling prompts. Five years ago, I wrote an article with some journaling basics and you can find that HERE. I have some other great and/or fun ideas for using your cards as journal prompts for you, too. Write a short story You can pull the cards randomly or select them specifically. Selecting them specifically is a good option if you have a card or cards that you specifically want to explore. You can divide your deck into Courts, Majors, and Minors, or just pull off the top of the deck until you get to the appropriate card.  Main character: select a Court Card Theme: select a Major Plot: select three

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Lipp, author of The Elements of Ritual, The Way of Four, The Way of Four Spellbook, Merry Meet Again, and the new Tarot Interactions. People lose their minds over court cards in the tarot. They can stop the reader cold: Is this a person? If so, is it the querent (the person receiving the reader) or some third party? Is it a symbol, an abstract concept, or what? Partially, this is answered by context, because all of the tarot court can be any or all of the above. I like to start from the idea that a court card is a person—often a third party—because I think too many readers resort to abstracts too often. I like my readings to be

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. The Western Mystery Tradition is quite steeped in Biblical literature and imagery. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Masonry, the Golden Dawn, and Thelema have extremely close ties to the Christian spiritual tradition. (This is not to be confused with the political co-opting of Christianity from about the second century CE onward.) Not to mention my beloved Solomonic grimoires, which are most certainly an expression of medieval Christian mysticism. Even indigenous forms of

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Richard Southall, author of How to Be a Ghost Hunter, Haunted Route 66, and the new Haunted Plantations of the South. I have been writing about the paranormal for close to twenty years, and have been interested in the topic for much longer. Not only have I written How to Be a Ghost Hunter, Haunted Route 66, and the upcoming Haunted Plantations of the South, but I have been the guest of several radio shows and have been interviewed for newspapers and television shows. Needless to say, I know a few things about the topic. This blog is not to brag about my knowledge of ghost hunting, but to point out that there is one common thread that all