[Once again this motel chain's internet connection is going up and down. Today I'm writing from Mickey-D's.] A Day at Llewellyn Wednesday was my day at home offices of Llewellyn. This was a fantastic day. I got to see many long-time friends and make a few new ones. Llewellyn is not Hogwarts. It doesn't have people floating through the air. It is, in every sense, a real business. It's filled with employees in offices or cubicles doing their work. What is magick is the way they're able to turn out so many books and products that are valuable to so many people. Even more magickal is the way so many people can work together to produce amazing things. I got a chance to talk over business

If you've been following this blog, you will have noticed that I didn't post yesterday. I spent most of the day traveling. From Denver through Nebraska and Iowa into Minnesota. When I traveled through Arizona, Utah and Colorado, there were beautiful, vast spaces surrounded by mountains. It was breathtaking. As I moved further north there were also large open spaces, many irrigated and growing crops or having small herds of cows. But it was flat. It just went on and on. Long sections of the freeway were seemingly designed with a straight edge. It's just so...flat. I tried the radio. All I could get was the farm report. Sorghum, you'll be happy to know, is up to 10-50. A hardware

Still no internet access at the motel. Written from the Village Inn restaurant (free slice of pie with dinner on Wednesday!). Back at INATS I spent some time with the wonderful people from Lo Scarabeo who had come in from Italy. Their decks, if you haven't seen them, are some of the most remarkable, evocative, and powerful Tarot decks in the world. Barbara Moore was also there, as delightful as ever. Then I did a book signing. Now, this was at a New Age convention and frankly, I didn't expect many people would be interested in a more hard core occult book like Modern Magick. I was absolutely shocked to see a long line waiting for me. During the next hour I signed over 100 copies of

Today was not really traveling, it was attending the INATS convention. It's not huge—you can walk it and see everything in an hour or two—but it's great to see the trends that are going on and what people will be selling in the coming year. Lots of crystals and gems. Lots of clothes. And of course, lots of books! I went around the floor a few times—you never really see everything the first time. For me, there were a few standouts: Flash cards decks. One for learning astrology, another for learning the Runes, and another for learning Tarot. A giant tuning fork. Made of reconstituted crystal, it was about two-feet long and perhaps .75 inches thick. When sounded, it could