The Deck of 1000 Spreads Gail Renfrow is a member of a local tarot group. She brought The Deck of a 1000 Spreads with her and wrote a review. We thought the review was so good that we asked her if we could share it. She very generously agreed! Here is it: When I first saw Llewellyn’s new Tarot kit, The Deck of 1000 Spreads, my first thought was “This is genius!  How has no one thought of this before?”  As the moderator for Witch City’s Tarot study group, I know how difficult it can be when one first jumps into the world of Tarot.  First you have to learn what the 78 cards represent, then what they represent when they’re reversed, and then you have to find and remember

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The Two Aspects of Occultism Today There are lots of ways to divide the approach to occultism in various forms today. For this post, I'll describe it as the technological/spiritual, and the religious. The technological/spiritual sees magick as means to achieving goals. Often, part of the technology involves the use of spiritual practices. Thus, although magick doesn't require a religious basis, for many people it includes a deeply spiritual basis. In fact, one of the goals can be attuning oneself with the Divine. This can be called "finding your true will." Your true will is seen as being totally in harmony with the Divine, and once you discover what your true will is—your direction

[caption id="attachment_12363" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Dr Alexander Thorkel (played by Albert Dekker) from from the movie "Dr. Cyclops" (1940)[/caption] Although many scientists are loathe to admit it, the basics of what is known as "the scientific method"—essentially the ability to reproduce experimental results under identical conditions—were based on the practices of magicians and medieval alchemists. Sir Isaac Newton, who codified modern physics, wrote more on alchemy and religion than he did on physics. Most of the founders of modern astronomy saw the observation of the skies as a minor part of what really consumed them, astrology. Looking at the records of the