Earlier this week I noted that Llewellyn is having a really great spring sale that included some older tarot books. One of them is Tarot Awareness: Exploring the Spiritual Path by Stephen Walter Sterling. It is on sale for only $8.98. This was one of the earliest books I acquired for Llewellyn. I loved it quite a bit back then. To be honest, though, I'd not looked at it in a many years. Looking through it again, I see why I loved it so much in the first place. This book takes a sacred approach to tarot, making it an excellent companion for someone using tarot for spiritual growth and enlightenment. Stephen includes references from many different spiritual paths. Although he draws from

Tarot Spreads: Layouts & Techniques to Empower Your Readings is probably my most innovative and unique book to date. It was also the hardest I've written. You see, it is far more than a collection of spreads. It is an in-depth examination of what spreads are and how they work. To my knowledge, this hasn't been done before. Here is an article I recently wrote about the book: A Few Thoughts on Tarot Spreads To read a bit more or to order it: CLICKITY CLICK SALE Llewellyn is running a really good sale on selected titles. Here I will highlight a few of my favorites plus two Shamanic ones that I really like. Tarot and Divination Goddess Inspiration Oracle by Kris

One of the questions I often receive is a request for contact with an occult group, order, coven, etc. As a policy, I don't recommend such organizations. The reason for this is that I, personally, have been "burned." That is, some time ago an organization that was great evolved into something that was not good. As a result, when I recommended that group, I was sending people into a bad situation. I never want to send people into such a situation, so rather than make a recommendation for a group with which I've had no contact for a long time, I just don't recommend any particular group. If people are looking for a group I do recommend places they can look to find one. For example, the

Today, April 6, 2012, is the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday known in English as "Passover." I wrote "first night" rather than "first day" because Jewish holidays begin at sundown. The first full day of Pesach is tomorrow, Saturday, April 7. Although most people familiar with this holiday know it for the feast known as the Seder, the holiday is actually much more than this one day. It is a three-part holiday composed of two days where orthodox Jews do no work, The next four days allow for limited work, and then there are two more work-free days. This was a big celebration. According to the classic book, The Jewish Festivals by Hayyim Schauss, the amazing thing about Jewish