As we study the cards, we realize that each card has many meanings. A common question is “how do you know which meaning to use in a reading?” Mary K. Greer’s book, 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card is fantastic for lots of reasons. It is interactive, it helps you get involved in your cards, it leads through a journey of self-discovery as well understanding tarot. It is also packed with gems that can help anyone hone their reading skills. In fact, in it, she answers that question “how do I know which meaning?” She writes: The Giveaways to Meaning How can you know what, out of the many meanings, will be relevant in a particular case? You must combine the rational with the

The publishing industry has been changing for a long time now. Publishing can be a very slow behemoth, very conservative. So it was really refreshing and exciting to me to learn that our partner, Lo Scarabeo, is trying something very new. You may have heard that they are running a Kickstarter campaign. You can learn all about it HERE. Crowdfunding this project makes sense on a few levels. First, the material is not written by one person. Many people contributed to make this work possible. So you will have a wide range of methods and opinions. It has been carefully edited and material added as needed to fill in the gaps and smooth out the various voices. Instead of a collection of pieces

This weekend, at the North Star Tarot conference, Melani Weber presented a workshop. That workshop was the most fun I’d had in a very long time. And you can re-create the experience at home for yourself alone or for yourself and some friends. The workshop was inspired by Robyn Tisch-Hollister’s Minute Tarot (in which the artist drew each card in one minute). Melani provided magazine and old books, stamps and ink, stickers and crayons, glue and scissors. She also provided a blank “deck” of 25 card stock “cards.” The cards we are 5 – 7 and we were given 25 in case we made an in surmountable mistake as we created our 22 card Majors Only deck. She also gave us labels, in a

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Frank Baba Eyiogbe, author of the new Babalawo, Santería's High Priests. Starting early in the morning on New Year’s Day, every online forum and blog having anything to do with Santería is abuzz with one question: “What is the Letter of the Year from Cuba?” The blog could be about the uses of fruit in Santería, but you’d still see the question in the comments. It is simply THE most awaited event in the Santería calendar. But just what IS this Letter of the Year? Every year hundreds of babalawos, the high priests of Santería and specialists in divination, gather in Havana, Cuba to perform rituals and make offerings to dozens of