Two Lessons in Life In my previous post I shared how I performed some magick at a young age. Clearly, however, it was not the result of a truly trained magician. Unknowingly, I happened to have followed a pattern that equated with the practice of magick. It was unintended, natural, and successful. The second attempt that I remember didn't happen for another ten years. During that decade I spent time going to school, playing baseball, goofing with kids on my block (I grew up on a street named "Stoner Avenue." No, really!). I did all of the things a normal guy kid did. By the time I was 16 there were two important things I hadn't experienced. Danielle I met her at a youth meeting at my

Topic suggested by Chirotus. Thank you! Most people don't completely remember their early childhood. Freud suggested this was the result of our embarrassment over ideas and actions of our early youth and called it "motivated forgetting." However, many people remember certain events from that period that had a strong effect on them. One that I remember was my first experience of magick. The Background When I was five years old I watched my father die of a heart attack. My mother couldn't deal with maintaining a house, raising me and my older brother, trying to find a job, and the loss of her husband. My brother and I were sent off to relatives while my mother received help dealing with

Lo Scarabeo is known for their creativity, including printing treatments. They have many beautiful silver and gold foil decks, a glow in the dark oracle, and are coming out with the first ever 3-D tarot deck. Their most recent deck is the Golden Universal Tarot. The cards are really beautiful but unfortunately it is difficult to photograph or scan gold foil. Luckily, Lo Scarabeo made a short video that does show the gold foil very nicely. You can see the video HERE. Learn more about the deck HERE.

Today we sadly mark the passing of a storyteller, priestess, consultant, reader, and author, Bronwynn Forrest Torgerson, who left this world on April 12, 2013. From her Witchvox obituary: Bronwynn was a passionate writer and story-teller. She authored several books, including One Witches Way and Cookie Cutter Magic, as well as myriad other articles, short stories, and poems, many of which also saw publication. She was an active member of the Pagan community, an exulted and revered Priestess, a respected consultant and reader -- and a tenacious friend and ally. Bronwynn loved nature, and was at peace while hiking a forest, or any coast touched by an ocean. She loved entertaining and playing