As I wrote at the end of my previous post, This coming Saturday, September the 14th, I'll be giving a workshop for the San Diego Pagan Pride day event. This family friendly (and dog friendly!) day will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at 6th and El Prado/Laurel in beautiful Balboa Park. If you haven't attended in the past, come on out to hear me give a workshop at 11:00 am. There will also be other workshop presenters, live music, rituals, and vendors. The event is free, but please bring some non-perishable foods as a donation for Mama's Kitchen, a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization that prepares and delivers food to men, women and children who are affected by AIDS or

I know many of you have been waiting for this lovely deck and it is finally here! And you can see more HERE. I also know that sometimes people are disappointed in a long-awaited deck for various reasons. One is that sometimes it feels like the Minors were given short shrift and lack the detail and richness of the Majors. That is definitely not the case with this deck. Every card is like a peek into a richly and fully formed scene. Here are some of my favorites:

Julia Jeffrey's Tarot of the Hidden Realm is an incredibly emotional and evocative deck. Working with her on it and in particular writing the book and finding the voice of these cards was an adventure. Because of the nature of the art, which felt deeply elemental and shamanic, I used shamanic journeying techniques for some of the images. My intent was to journey for each and every card, but some of the journeys were quite exhausting, so I only did some of them that way. I wanted to share a range of images here, from incredibly intense to very calm, so you can get a sense of the depth of feeling Julia portrays.

Many months ago I turned in a manuscript to Llewellyn for consideration. I had been working on this manuscript for many years, and I had followed the formatting rules I had thought were appropriate for the submission. I thought wrong. I also received a large number of suggestions from my acquisition editor. I spent a lot of time considering what I would do. I came to realize that as an author, it's important to understand that what you create is a product, not a baby. In my opinion the goal of the author in writing a book (excluding those that are simply written for a profit) is to be able to share your ideas and concepts with as many readers as possible. The challenge to this