For all of my friends in the Southeast... This weekend I'll be speaking at the GreenSong Grove Samhain Festival. I'll be giving two workshops: Modern Magick This is a brief and basic introduction to the techniques and concepts of Western Ceremonial Magick. In this workshop I’ll be covering • Preparations and banishings • Talisman design • Methods for charging talismans I'll be covering both the ancient traditions of ceremonial magick and the latest methods of chaos magick. You will be able to make and charge an effective talisman after you attend this workshop Past Life Regression In this workshop you’ll begin by earning what past lives really are and why

Tarot shelves at bookstores are filled with beginner level books. Do we really need so many? Aren’t they all essentially the same? I think we do need so many and that they are not essentially the same. First, they all differ in terms of voice and presentation. People learn differently and respond better to some styles of communication than to others. Every author has his or her own voice and way of explaining things. Second, not every tarot reader interprets or reads the cards in the same way. By seeing that there are so many different methods and schools of thought, new readers are encouraged to explore until they find what works for them. This month we will look at eight different

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michelle Belanger, author of Vampires in Their Own Words, Walking the Twilight Path, Haunting Experiences, The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide, and the newly-released The Dictionary of Demons. Halloween is just around the corner, and ads for haunted hay rides and other spooky attractions are popping up all over. But with the current popularity of shows like Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters, who wants to go to a haunted schoolhouse stocked with costumed actors? Wouldn’t it be more fun to investigate a real haunting? These days, more and more people are taking up ghost-hunting, and the month of October – with all its spectral

Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion is the name of a book by Francis King that was originally published in 1972. It was eye opening for the time because it revealed practices of sex magick that had developed over the previous century or so. It is more of a historical and theoretical book where my Modern Sex Magick is far more practical. But the thing I'd like to point out is that although it is a good book, it still has a very moralistic sense to it. The title itself shows what is being implied, that the use of sex and magick is somehow a perversion. A recent post by Frater A.I.T. in his blog, "Heavens Within Earth," offers another view, that sex magick is fine, but that watching porn can