Keeping your cards clean is mostly a matter of common sense. They are made of paper, so if they get sticky or dirty, wipe them with a very slightly damp cloth and then wipe them dry immediately. But when people ask about "cleansing the cards" they are not usually asking about a bit of jam or pizza sauce that dripped on their Ace of Pentacles. What they really want to know about is how to energetically cleanse the cards. When to Cleanse As with so many things tarot-related, there are no absolutes. Here are some points when some readers feel the need to cleanse or clear their cards: 1. after a very challenging reading 2. after many readings in a row 3. before using a new deck 4.

Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much! The Book of the Law Chapter 3, Verse 42 One of the most common questions I receive is "How do you know a ritual worked?" Crowley's The Book of the Law has what to me is the most obvious answer. If you get the results you intended, the ritual worked. If you don't get the results you wanted, the rituals failed. That's all well and good in the long run, but it doesn't do you much good right now. Let's say you do a ritual to get $50 by the end of the week and sure enough, you get the money. But isn't it possible that you would have received the money if you had done nothing? The ritual and the supposed result may just be

Sometimes I roll my eyes at the posts I find online promising that I can be happier by just reading a few simple tips. Eh. Isn't happiness... well, an existential dilemma? Don't we have to call in therapists and philosophers with PhdDs to help us with that? Or at least spread a little love around the world before we can find peace within ourselves? The answer, of course, is yes and no. On a daily basis, it's the simple things you can easily control that go far to increase your happiness. This post Twenty Easier Ways to Be Happier at Divine Caroline charmed me instantly with its first tip. Make your bed. At The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin says "making the bed is one of the quickest,

Most people reading this will know that adding the "k" to "magic" is not merely an affectation. Rather, it is a way to discriminate between the entertainment known for pulling rabbits out of hats (magic) and techniques for harnessing internal and external energies that will help us change ourselves and our environment (magick). I like to define the difference simply as "Magic is an attempt to imitate magick, by artificial means, as part of entertainment." Although the spelling with the "k" has a long history (there was a time when manuscript copyists were paid by the letter, resulting in the many words with needless double and multiple letters), it was Aleister Crowley who is credited with