In this series, we are taking the time to smell the roses, which for tarot lovers often means taking the time to really appreciate a single image of tarot art. Today we look at the 8 of Spring from the Victorian Fairy Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone and Gary Lipponcott. You can see more HERE. The 8 of Wands can be a boring card, usually with just 8 sticks flying across the space of the image. These archers, though, manage to capture the meaning and express it even better, I think, than the traditional image. They carefully line themselves up, taking aim. Once they release the arrow, there is little that can change its course. Besides that, I just love the card, the squirrel watching,

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Diana Palm, author of Setting Spirits Free. The concept of the spirit world is by no means new, but until recently, only sages and mediums could access it. What if I told you that there is a technique that the average person could learn to help them communicate directly with their loved ones on the other side? Many of you may be familiar with the technique called scrying. Scrying is often associated with tea leaf readings, cloud interpretation, or crystal bowl gazing. I am going to share a method of scrying with you that you can do at home; this method is designed to raise your vibration and slow down your brain waves, which will allow

In this series, we are taking the time to smell the roses, which for tarot lovers often means taking the time to really appreciate a single image of tarot art.  Today we look at the 4 of Wands from the Tarot of the Hidden Realm by Julia Jeffrey. You can see more images HERE. In this deck, Julia explored the interaction of the energy of numbers with the elemental energies of the suits. Here, the stability of the 4 really helps the energy of fire come together in a way to create something really special. Fire is a very volatile energy and if supported through a good structure, it really shines. I love the idea of the four musicians all paying attention to each other and deftly

In 1973, the Aquarian Press published R. G. Torrens' The Secret Rituals of the Golden Dawn. This came four years after Spearman had published his The Inner Teachings of the Golden Dawn. A close reading of them showed variations, but not major differences, between the content of those two books and Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn. I remember reading Regardie's review of the books by Torrens, and he was not enthused, claiming the information appeared to be just re-writes of his own book. Later, Regardie came out with another version of the Golden Dawn's rituals and teachings that were closer to the Torrens' books than his previous writings. It seems that the minor differences found in