Four decades ago, two men, Herman Slater and Ed Buczynski, started a small occult store in New York City called "The Warlock Shop." They were at the right place at the right time offering what people wanted. Eventually they outgrew their location and moved, renaming their shop "Magickal Childe." They put out a wonderfully strange and complete catalog, in tabloid format, offering everything from the strangest herbs to "Aleister Crowley's altar" (well, I think it was a night table from the last place he lived and that might have served as an altar). The owners eventually went in separate ways, and Slater kept the store. It was many years later that I finally met "Horrible Herman," and

One way to fine tune your understanding of the cards and to add precision to your readings is to compare cards with similar themes. Looking at the similarities and differences will deepen your interpretations. For example, the 2 of Cups and the 10 of Cups (pictured below, from the Llewellyn Tarot by Anna-Marie Ferguson) both focus on love between two people. In these images, both the couples are embracing. Both have that wonderful “and they lived happily ever after” feeling to them. But they are also different in that one is the beginning of a love relationship and the other is a love that is still fresh but has the quality of longevity. First, let’s consider the numbering. The

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Mark Spencer, author of A Haunted Love Story.. My family experienced a lot of doppelgänger activity when we first moved into the Allen House four years ago. It wasn’t exclusive to our youngest son, who was then five, but it involved him more than other family members. We’d see Jacob go into a bathroom and never come out. We’d see him standing in the upstairs hallway on our way down the stairs, and when we got downstairs seconds later, he would be in the kitchen, eating cereal and watching Sponge Bob Square Pants—oblivious to the fact that a spirit was using his energy to manifest itself and taking on his appearance. A friend of our

A group of thirty-three tarot readers and bloggers have banded together to create a Tarot Blog Hop. Every six weeks or so, we’ll all write a blog answering the same question. For example, today’s is “How can I be a better candle?” Each one links to the one before and after it, so you can eventually make your way through all 33. You can start anywhere, so why don’t you start with mine: http://practicaltarotreadings.com/blog If you run across a broken link, you can go here to find the next link: CLICK