As a collector of tarot and oracle decks, storage is always a problem. I still don't have the ideal solution. I wonder if I ever will. Part of my problem is not just keeping them somewhere but with hundreds of decks, how do I arrange them? By publisher? By theme? By type? Alphabetically? Right now, I have ones that I like and use more often in a nice cabinet purchased for the sole purpose of storing my cards. Others, that I don't use often or have mostly for reference as well as the foreign editions of my projects, are in the <shudder> basement in Rubbermaid (tm) containers. I keep decks in their original packaging if possible. If not, I put them into bags, either purchased,

I recently read an article (LINK) about scientists using a Ouija® board as a way to get information from the unconscious. Written by Clare Wilson, the medical features editor for NewScience, the article is actually a review and comment on a scientific paper entitled "Expression of nonconscious knowledge via ideomotor actions" by Hélène L. Gauchou, Ronald A. Rensink, and Sidney Fels. If you want to read the original article it costs $31.50. Since this post is going to comment on Ms. Wilson's article, I did not read the original. Ms. Wilson writes, "Typically a group of users place their hands on a movable pointer , or 'planchette', and ask questions out loud." Actually, this is

Just a few items of interest as you ease into your Monday: About Rachel Pollack's recent book: The New Tarot Handbook An audio review by Angelo Nasios of The Steampunk Tarot The Annuals and Calendars are in. What's your favorite? I love the Astro Calendar. As for the Annuals, I like a lot of them, particularly The Moon Sign Book, The Sun Sign Book, and The Herbal Almanac. And The Magical Almanac and the Witches Companion. That is a lot, isn't it?

…King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites… And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines… —I Kings, Chapter 11, The Bible The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward Poynter Currently on exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (I searched a long time to find an image in the public domain that didn't show the queen, who is generally believed to have been from Ethiopia or Yemen —although her title implies she may have been from India— without the pale, extremely white skin associated with Europeans. It is far more