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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 has done some beautiful work mining the wisdom of fairy tales and showing us how to adapt it to our tarot practice. Enjoy this teaser which gives you the first bit of fairy tale wisdom. You’ll have to read the book to get the whole story. Fairy Tale and Tarot Equation Darkness/Anxiety + Enchantment = Transformation Fairy Tales and Tarot have an extraordinary common elements between them. You probably grew up with a slew of favorite fairy tales capturing and fascinated your imagination. Understanding the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Leslie J. Linder, author of the new Spinstress Craft. My new book revamps and reclaims the terrible old stereotype of a spinster (an independent female earning her own coin). The spinstress uses magick, mystique, and her own inner glow to create exactly the life she wants. Her relationships are on her terms, and whenever she is single that is just fabulous too. The book additionally speaks to womxyn. This is meant to make a slightly less binary space for anyone who feels called to spinstress craft. In this journey you will get to: Consecrate your makeup, shoes, or whatever make you feel pretty and powerful in your daily life. There is

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Emily Carding, author of the new So Potent Art. In my latest book, So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare (due out from Llewellyn in July 2021), I explore the magical and supernatural content of Shakespeare and its possible practical applications. Here are a few ways in which you can start using Shakespeare in your magical practice today! Use Iambic Pentameter. Whilst this is a phrase that may strike some with dread, it simply means a line of ten beats with five emphasised beats, or "iambs," so the rhythm of a line reads as such: da DUM, da DUM, da DUM, da DUM, da DUM. Shakespeare wrote in this way as the rhythm best replicates the