To finish out our theme of spring, let’s talk about new beginnings. Throughout the year, there are many times and seasons to mark new beginnings: the New Year, Fall (back to school nostalgia), one’s birthday. And spring. All the burgeoning new life popping out of the ground, out of nests, and out of animals of all sorts. In tarot, the Aces represent new beginnings. Out of all the “new beginnings” times of the year, I think the Aces go best with Spring. The Aces have this feeling of being gifts from the Universe and Spring has that feeling to me. When it finally comes, I am just so very grateful. The Gaian Tarot by Joanna Colbert Powell, which will be available in the fall,

Perhaps the most controversial religious leader of the past century died on Sunday, April 24, 2011, and, if you're like most Westerners, you may have never heard of him. Sathyanarayana Raju was born in India in 1926. When just a teenager, he was supposedly stung by a scorpion and began reciting ancient Sanskrit prayers that he could not have known. More supposed miracles took place, and in 1940 he identified himself as the reincarnation of the revered saint, Sai Baba of Shirdi, who had died eight years before Raju was born. He later declared that he had no worldly relationship with anyone and became known as Sathya Sai Baba. Over the decades that followed, his fame increased. This was

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Donald Tyson, author of a number of books, including the new Demonology of King James I. King James the Sixth of Scotland, who later went on to become King James the First of England, was a singularly unlovable man. He could barely walk due to rickets in infancy, had a speech impediment, dribbled wine down his chin when he drank, seldom bathed, and was arrogant about his pretensions of scholarship. He was fanatically religious, superstitious, cowardly, and given to night fears and paranoia. This was the man who in 1590 became absolutely convinced that the Devil was out to kill him by using his agents, the witches. At this period in history

I was originally going to call this post, "Think Small." As I was writing it, however, I came to realize that title wouldn't really capture the depth of what I am suggesting. I think it was the late brilliant comedian George Carlin who pointed out that we don't have to save the Earth. If we pollute, bomb, and do everything necessary to destroy all human life, the Earth will be just fine. It may take a few thousand years—maybe longer—for the Earth to purify the air with its "lungs" composed of trees, flora, and rainforests. It may take as long or longer to purify the Earth's "blood" as it's cleaned through the soils and rocks and vein-like rivers. It may take even much longer to