The Magic of Tarot by Sasha Graham In her forthcoming book, The Magic of Tarot, Sasha gifts us with her unique and magical way of approaching tarot and life. She is also eminently practical. In her section on ways to study the tarot, she gives plenty of tips on ways to study and where to find materials. Her advice on how to identify a good teacher is priceless: How to Find the Right Teacher: Finding a gifted teacher, a personality you respond to, and someone who inspires you is a beautiful experience. Stars often align and a teacher will appear out of the blue when you least expect it (that's magic). Create space for an amazing teacher to enter your life by keeping a door open

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Laurel Woodward, author of the new Kitchen Witchery. 2020 was a year of change. As COVID raced across borders causing millions to become ill, countries shut down. COVID shut down economies. It shut down schools, restaurants, and gyms. It caused an entire "new normal" as business models shifted to work from home. I doubt there is a single person, perhaps on the entire planet, whose life was not affected in some way or another. But 2020 wasn't all bad. One silver lining to come out of the shutdown was that it caused a large portion of the populous to slow down and reinvent their lives. No longer did we have to wake before dawn to make our

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Katrina Rasbold, author of Crossroads of Conjure, Sacred Art of Brujería, and the new Uncrossing. I entered Paganism back in the 1980s. I am sure you have all heard the war stories. We had no internet, no festivals to speak of. Instead, we had quiet covens and circles. There was the occasional metaphysical store, sometimes closeted as candle shops or new age shops. In Sacramento, we had one literally called "Al's Feed Store," and it was just that. There were tarot decks, books, and stones sitting alongside live chicks and bags of cracked corn. There was a tiny section of metaphysical books in Barnes & Nobel or Waldenbooks, which

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Victoria Constantino, author of the new Tarot by the Moon. So you know you want a new deck, but where do you begin? With so many varieties of tarot and oracle decks to choose from, it can be challenging to know where to start. It seems like there are decks for every interest and aesthetic preference. Even beyond appearances, the question remains: How do you find a deck with which you connect? Those who work with tarot and oracle decks often know that what seems like a simple pack of cards can hold much greater significance. When you ask a question, whether it's life-altering or quotidian, your deck becomes the mouthpiece of the universe. A