Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Thorn Mooney, author of Traditional Wicca and the new Witch's Path. One of the questions I receive the most in my travels and hanging out on the witchy internet is, "Where are the advanced books? What should I read to take the next steps?" It's worth asking first, though, "What does it mean for a book to be advanced?" Is it just a question of containing difficult magical techniques? Secrets? Tons of exercises? Over-the-top requirements that you sacrifice your personal or professional life in order to be a sincere practitioner? Does it have to be exclusive—available only to a chosen few? Or serve as a key to the Mysteries of the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rich Newman, author of Ghost Hunting for Beginners and the new Passport to the Paranormal. Ask any ghost hunter about evidence gathered during an investigation, and you will probably be shown a handful of EVPs. Electronic Voice Phenomena is the act of capturing disembodied voices on audio recordings, and it is one of the most common ghost hunting techniques used today. You're probably already thinking, "How can I record my very own EVPs?" Before we get to that, let me give you a quick history of this technique. It all began in the 1950s when a filmmaker by the name of Attila von Szalay began capturing voices that he claimed were long-dead

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jaime Gironés, author of the new Llewellyn's Little Book of the Day of the Dead. Many people around the world celebrate their ancestors during Autumn. Some Pagans who celebrate Samhain on October 31st, a time when the veil between the worlds is thinner, use this time to honor those who have passed away. In Mexico, and other countries of Latin America and wherever there are Latino populations, the Day of Dead is celebrated around November 1st and 2nd. There are other celebrations for the dead and the ancestors in other parts of the world around this time of the year, like the dušičky ("little souls") in the Czech Republic. During this

Sasha Graham has established her expertise of doing shadow work with tarot. Her latest book, The Magic of Tarot: Your Guide to Intuitive Readings, Rituals, and Spells, will be out next month. The exercise below will give you a taste of how she teaches shadow work and combines it with tarot. Naturally the book goes into more depth, but in this sample you can get a sense of her practical, loving, and magically-fueled approach. Enjoy this excerpt: Write down five things you can't stand about other people. Five qualities that make you go crazy. Five things people do that fill you with a tasty, bitter bile of anger in your throat. It could be five qualities of a single person, or from