This Full Moon in Cancer will occur Monday, January 9 at 2:30 am Eastern (7:30 am GMT) at 19 degrees. Full Moons represent the culmination of those things that were begun with the New Moon (in this case the December 24 New Moon in Capricorn). The Cancer Full Moon opposes the Sun in Capricorn; you may feel torn between your emotional needs at home and with your family (Cancer) and your ambitions outside the home (Capricorn). I dislike the idea of New Year's resolutions (they are rarely kept, and we are pressured by our society to make them; besides, any day we decide to make a change for the better is the perfect day to initiate that change!). That said, the December 24 Capricorn New

Today I got five emails from authors all alerting me to a website that had 32 of our books and an equal number of other publishers’ books on it, scanned in and uploaded as PDFs for anyone to freely download. If it sounds like harmless sharing to you, please read this post and educate yourself on pirating. First, the background: people loves to steal our books. Libraries and bookstores have claimed for years that some of their most frequently stolen stock are the religious books – anything from the Bible to those on witchcraft and magic. Whether this comes from a belief that all sacred knowledge should be free, a desire to hold onto a book containing so much wisdom (or so many

It’s January, which means many of us are doing readings about the year ahead or consulting our favorite annual Sun Sign Book. There is another annual activity you can do to get insight into your future. Many tarot readers already calculate and know their birth card. That’s when you add up all the digits in your birthday and reduce down until you get to a number that is under 22. Some people take it further and say if you get a number under 22 but over 10, then you reduce again and have two birth cards. For example if you reduce your numbers down to 14, you would also reduce to 5, so your birth cards would be Temperance and the Hierophant. And some people say that you always have two

Yesterday I read a nice post on the subject of spirit evocation by Fra.AshenF.:N.:F. Basically, his position seems to be that the evocation of spirits is not proven when you Evoke a spirit for a purpose and You later obtain the purpose or think you get a message concerning that purpose. I believe this is fairly accurate. As Fra.AshenF.:N.:F. accurately points out, if you achieve your goal without seeing the spirit, how do you know you actually evoked a spirit? The successful results could have been caused by some other type of magick, such as sympathetic magick, triggered by your unsuccessful evocation. So the essence of spirit evocation is, well, directly communicating with