Preston Sturgis was one of the top screenwriters and directors in Hollywood's history. His Sullivan's Travels manages to be wildly humorous, inventive, and touching while dealing with serious social issues. His mother, Mary Estelle Dempsey, married a traveling salesman, but moved to Paris to be a singer when Preston was just 3. She moved back to the U.S. and married a wealthy stockbroker named Solomon Sturgis (her previous marriage had been annulled). Sturgis adopted her son in 1902. Mary Stugis' father was Dominick d'Este Dempsey. She took that middle name and to occultists became known as Mary d'Este, Mary Desti, or Mary d'Este Sturgis. She also became a lover of Aleister Crowley

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, authors of Great Sex Made Simple, Tantra for Erotic Empowerment, and The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, are interviewed on SheKnows.com as tantra experts. SheKnows is a popular women’s website that provides daily content on health, wellness, relationships, careers, parenting, entertainment, and style. The complete article can be found here.

Our Marketing department very occasionally encourages us to write blog posts in the form of lists. You know the type: 5 Ways to Cast a Spell, 7 Things You Must Know About Mayans, 14 Beauty Secrets of Witchy Women, 101 Ways to Procrastinate at Work. We’ve all seen these kinds of articles on the internet, and there’s a reason for it: people simply click on those more, apparently. This fact really sunk in when I was at my parents’ house over the holidays. They’d just bought a hot spot so they finally had an Internet connection at home (yes, in 2012), and my dad spent a good hour just clicking on articles like “The 10 Top-Paying Jobs with 2-year Associate’s Degree,” "The Top 10

With the new year comes lots of new things. I'd like to draw some of them to your attention and also ask you to share something with readers... 1st Up: Prediction Contest Yep. I'm going to be announcing this for some time to come. In my last blog post I announced a prediction contest. It's very simple: make a prediction for this year. The contestant with the most accurate prediction wins his or her choice of any Tarot deck published or distributed by Llewellyn. For full details click on this LINK. 2nd Up: The Latest Issue of Hermetic Virtues Magazine Hermetic Virtues is rapidly becoming the premier journal of traditional ceremonial magick, following in the great tradition of magazines