A perk with my job is that I work with a lot of psychics and mediums on a professional basis. In doing so, I get a lot of snippets about life and what's ahead. It is usually tacked on at the end of a conversations or email and goes, "By the way, don't worry about that guy. It will all be resolved in time." The first few times it really threw me for a loop, but now I have come to take note and learn from them. Some of the messages that come through have dramatically affected my life for the better in that it's made me look at life differently and how people treat each other (and should be treated in return). I found a link to this article on Gawker with the title "A Psychic

Next fall is a longs way off, isn't it? How mean of me to post an image of a deck in the works? Pretty mean. I know. But this is so beautiful, I cannot resist. Care to guess which card and perhaps the deck's theme?

In Part 1 of this series, I described why the Middle Pillar Ritual matters. The basic concept is that it's a "step up" from the traditional bedrock magickal skills of the LBRP. But what, specifically, does this mean? When you look at the LBRP, there are two important energetic concepts: raising/generating energy and directing it outside of yourself to empower the visualized pentagrams. I've had people report amazing phenomena just from this work alone. With the Middle Pillar, we turn that energy "in." As you note, I put the word "in" within quotation marks. This is because most people, when considering bringing something (such as magickal energy) into ourselves, generally think that

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Blake, author of several books, including her new Everyday Witch Book of Ritual. One of the aspects of modern Witchcraft I love the most is the concept of the Wheel of the Year. The Wheel of the Year is made up of eight Sabbats, or holidays, spanning the year from its beginning at Samhain to its end at the next Samhain. Of course, the Wheel is more than just those eight days; it encompasses all the days in between as well, carrying us through the entire 365-day cycle. Within that cycle, there are four main seasons: spring, summer, winter, and fall. If you live in upstate New York, as I do, each of those seasons has a distinct