When I was very young, I loved to watch and listen to baseball games. I'd fall asleep listening on the radio to Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett* call the Dodgers games. I started playing little league baseball, and in my last year I had the highest batting average in the league. Today, I find listening to baseball or even watching it incredibly boring. For me, there is just no way sitting on your behind and being passive can compare to actually playing the game. When I first started studying magick and occultism, I didn't know anyone who was actually trained in the subjects. As a result, I did a lot of study out of books. Some of the books were really good. Others, I came to realize, were

The Full Moon in Aries occurs this evening, Friday, October 18 at 7:38 pm Eastern (11:38 pm GMT) at 25 degrees. Full Moons represent the culmination of those things that were begun with the New Moon (in this case the October 4 New Moon in Libra), which found us focusing on balance between work and home, as well as potential new partnerships. The Aries Full Moon opposes the Sun in Libra; we are reminded to check ourselves in the progress we made towards our goals set during the Libra New Moon. Have we begun to initiate necessary change in our lives? Have we moved toward balance between our work lives and personal lives? Have we initiated positive new partnerships or personal

Good News I begin this post with some good news. Twenty-five years ago, while I was deeply studying the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, I was looking for aspects of the tradition that few people were researching. I came across a complex divination system used by that Order known as Enochian Chess. Enochian Chess is a completely unique system. Although it uses a standard-sized chessboard, each square was seen as a "truncated pyramid," looking like a pyramid with a square bottom and its top cut off. That resulted in each square having five spaces for information on it. Truncated Pyramid as Seen from Above But that's not all. Enochian Chess has four players instead of

The Kings and Time Management In addition to playing important roles in readings, the court cards can help us learn about ourselves, show us how to shine our brightest, and clue us into weaknesses that might, if unchecked, get in the way of our happiness or success. As a freelance writer juggling many projects, I’m often asked about time management skills. And sure, I can say how I do things, but my way isn’t the only way. It works for me because it highlights my strengths and helps minimize my weaknesses. Some of my Facebook friends suggested that it might be fun (and useful) to explore various time management tactics through the court cards…and I agree. So let’s imagine