Did you miss the USTREAM chat with Practical Protection Magick—among many others—author Ellen Dugan? Never fret! You can watch the full interview here or below. Llewellyn Author Chat with Ellen Dugan

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Herring, author of Astrology of the Moon. Many people see the birth chart as the "map to the soul," a guide that tells you everything, or at least most things, about a person. Decipher it correctly, and you can determine someone’s strengths, faults, quirks, desires, love life, and shoe size. Those more familiar with astrology and its ins and outs know that it’s not always that cut and dried, that each planet in a sign or house impacts how another planet in a sign in a house manifests. The nuances of reading a chart skillfully involve understanding how each factor may modify the other, and therefore change the stereotype, or the

It almost always happens that when I go to any event, someone tells me they'd like to write a book. Sometimes their approach is one of looking for advice. Sometimes they are more aggressive ("I can write a book better than that!"). I always encourage them and offer to help. This is because when it comes to occult books, there really isn't any competition. You see, I don't know of anyone who buys just one occult book. When someone gets one of my books they end up buying books from other writers. And if they buy a book by someone else, they eventually get one of my books, too. Even if someone is writing on the same topics as I do, their book is publicity for my books and my books are

We've been discussing significators lately, mostly methods for selecting them. If you've missed the previous posts, you can find them HERE and HERE. There are so many reasons to NOT use a significator. Readers today have lots of reasons for relegating the use of significators to the dustheap of fortune telling. We say that it inhibits messages by taking a card from the deck and rendering it useless. We say that it makes the querent feel like a mere bystander, an observer as their fate plays out before them in the cards. And those reasons are true. If we use significators as they were used in conjunction with "mere fortune telling" then yes, of course, they are not a good match for