I’m going to be interviewed by Dorian Wallace on his Blog Talk Radio program, Desperate Housewitches. Date: Friday, July 12 Time: 9:00 p.m. Eastern— 6:00 p.m. Pacific Here’s the LINK to the show's blog. Here's the LINK to the live show. You can listen through your computer from anywhere in the world. Be sure to tune into this exciting, live program.

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jane Meredith, author of Rituals of Celebration. Many of the most powerful times I've had in ritual have been during celebrations for one of the eight festivals of the Wheel of the Year. Moments of powerful community; of ecstatic spiritual revelation; of deep self-knowledge and of pure embodied joy as I saw, felt, touched, and lived the divine as it shone through myself, my son, my friends, or even complete strangers. Yet there's an awkwardness about sharing these things, or about deliberately journeying into the depths of these festivals. They often remain as simple gatherings while the work of personal transformation, political action, and

For an overview of and foundation for this series, see HERE Part 2 is HERE In this article, we look at the main test or challenge of the first row, which is represented by The Emperor. The flanking cards, The Empress and The Hierophant, show the energies the create or intensify the challenge. Many people think of the Emperor and the Empress as a pair, representing opposing forces or opposite sides of the same coin, so it is confusing why in this case the Emperor stands alone as the crux of the challenge and the Empress is essentially “paired” with the Hierophant. The basic issue of the row is how you relate to and experience the world, which is shaped (in childhood) by home

Yes, the first prediction contest is still on. The person who makes the most accurate prediction will win a Tarot deck of his or her choice, and that may be chosen from all the decks offered by Llewellyn. To read all of the rules and make your entry, please go to this LINK. This contest will run for several more months. At that time a winner will be selected from among the entries on the page at this LINK. Don't wait until the last minute! A prediction made in January for an event that occurs in December will be considered as stronger than the same prediction made later in the year. Be sure to include dates or a date range when you think your prediction will take place and remember, the