I happened to have had the privilege of knowing some incredible people who, unfortunately, are no longer with us. This includes Israel Regardie, Scott Cunningham, and  Ted Andrews. When I mention such people, I often hear someone say, "I wish I'd had a chance to meet them or study with them." Although we can read and study their amazing writings, we can't go back and have personal experiences with them. What I like to point out is that there are great people, alive right now, whom you can meet and study with. Just imagine meeting Andrieh Vitimus, author of Hands-On Chaos Magic. And besides meeting him, imagine attending workshops by him with topics such as "5-Minute Powerhouse

Lately I've been having a blast with my wardrobe. As a woman of a certain age, I've begun throwing caution to the wind and wearing whatever I want. As a tarot-lover, I eagerly connect tarot to all areas of my life, sometimes consciously and sometimes the associations pop up unbidden. This is something a really like about Sasha Graham's Tarot Diva. She advocates immersing oneself into the cards in a very real way and blending the cards into one's life in every way possible. One way she does this is...you guessed it...fashion. She associates some of the Majors with different fashion styles, providing a description of the style, wardrobe staples, style icons, stores/designers to look

Uranus is the planet of innovation, change, and new ideas, and now that it is in retrograde motion (beginning tomorrow, July 9, 2011, it will be retrograde until December 9) we will spend the next five months delving deeply into the recesses of our minds to discover new ideas and answers, and new sides of our selves. Uranus joins Pluto, Neptune, and Chiron in retrograde motion during this period. Retrograde periods don’t have to be scary (as I’ve often extolled about periods of Mercury retrograde); instead, while things have a tendency to get muddled with other retrograde planets (with Mercury, for example, the ruler of communication, things in that arena tend to go haywire), Uranus

People have a natural interest in sex. Without sex, we wouldn't be here. And yet, we seem to have a love-hate relationship with sexuality. To many Westerners sex is a gift from God but we should only experience this gift under certain limited situations. To others, sex is at best a necessary evil and shouldn't even be discussed. But people will talk. If it's not polite to talk about what your friends do in private, it's okay to talk about people in a far-away country. That way, you can work out your psychological need to discuss sexuality while taking an pseudo-anthropological approach to this discussion. This is exactly what happened in Victorian Britain, where "proper" people who would