This post is for Felicity, who kindly reminded me that I've been a bit remiss in my blogging :) This Full Moon in Libra occurred on Sunday, April 17 at 10:44 pm Eastern (2:44 am Monday, April 18 GMT) at 27 degrees. Full Moons represent the culmination of those things that were begun with the New Moon (in this case the New Moon in Aries of April 3). The Libran scales add a sense of balance to this Full Moon, perhaps balancing out all the intense Aries energy that pushed us outside of our comfort zone at the beginning of the month. Now is the time to reconcile the changes that we've begun and integrate them into our daily lives. This is a cardinal Full Moon, with Saturn joining the Moon

The Witchy Tarot is very interesting deck. Many people discount it as being too young or too cute. Make no mistake…just because all the witches pictured in these cards are young and cute, it does not mean they are not smart and powerful. The court cards are handled very cleverly here. Instead of the traditional Page, Knight, Queen, and King, the ranks are Celebration, Moon, Goddess, and Trial. The Celebration of Flames (roughly equivalent to the Page of Wands) reminds me of the 4 of Wands. In this case, it is Beltane. May first. Even though spring “arrives” on the equinox, it is a cold, fickle, ugly kind of spring. It is “meteorological” spring. Real spring, when the air is

In honor of Earth Day this Friday, this week our Llewellyn blogs will be dedicated to environmental issues small and large. Watch for discussions on our facebook page as well! For today, I’d like to start out by talking about cleaning up our environments, one step at a time. So the other weekend as part of my spiritual practice I went out for a nice walk in my neighborhood to pick up trash. As the days have been growing ever warmer, it’s the perfect time of year to see what’s been left behind under the last vestiges of melting snow, sand, salt and grit along the side of the road. I found car parts, a glove, a cell phone, and tons of beverage cups, plastic bottles, wrappers,

I was working on the second part of my 3-part series concerning the 110 years of Llewellyn (you can read part one by clicking HERE), when I had a realization I thought I'd share. Last night, I attended a wonderful Pagan full moon ritual held by a local coven. As is found in virtually all rituals, there were speeches. Now, it so happens that this group has some excellent writers. Some of the speeches were longer, poetic, and evocative. Some were shorter, direct, and to the point. That got me wondering: which is better (by which I mean more effective)? Long, elaborate speeches as are frequently found in ceremonial magick rituals, or shorter, less flowery ones? Passion and Emotion Crowley