As you may recall from my post last year, Circle Sanctuary holds a yearly drive in order to send Yule care packages to Pagan and Wiccan active duty members of the military. Here is their call for aid this year, please help me in passing it along.  * * * For the fourth year in a row, Circle Sanctuary is honoring and supporting active duty Pagan service members through Operation Circle Care. This year, we are widening our focus and sending Yuletide care packages to active duty Pagan troops serving in any overseas theater of operation, including Germany, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, or on board Navy ships.  The success of this program is due to the generous support and donations from

The Mystic Faerie Tarot is a thing of beauty, in my opinion. First, the art is unquestionably lovely; Linda Ravenscroft did an amazing job. Second, the cards feel like old friends but are different enough to be engaging. Third, the treatment of the Minor Arcana is really unique. Each suit tells a little fairy tale. This is so helpful for beginners, as once they learn the story they can easily learn the card meanings. The visual and story-telling cues make it easy. Here are a few of my favorite cards--shown extra large because I like them so much: [caption id="attachment_4173" align="alignnone" width="540" caption="How sweet is this?"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4174"

An interview with me has just been published on The Magical Buffet. You can read it by going to THIS LINK. In the interview I talk about the changes you'll find in the new edition of Modern Magick, challenges I see for the Pagan, Wiccan, and magickal communities, what it was like to share an apartment with Scott Cunningham, and several other topics. I'd like to thank Rebecca of The Magical Buffet for giving me this opportunity. I really appreciate it. The Magical Buffet is one of the blogs I regularly read. If you're interested in "spirituality, politics, and pop culture," you might start reading that website, too. If you have any questions in relation to the comments I made there,

It is important for people who practice magick to be true skeptics. Too often I have seen people perform a ritual and then get swept away into a world where chance and mere happenstance are attributed to their magickal working. Such people constantly see magickal forces (often working against them) rather than more common explanations. If you're feeling sick, assume flu first, magickal attack last. As any person who regularly works with magick knows, most people don't believe in magick. Those who go around saying that every creaking sound in an old house is the sign of a ghost or the failure of a politician is due to their magickal ritual only make the doubters laugh more heartily. And