October 8: Editor's Note: Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our winners! All 25 winners have been notified via email. If you're one of the lucky 25, please respond via email with your full mailing address by Friday, October 12, 2012 (sadly, if we don't receive mailing information by that time we will need to select a new lucky winner). Thanks again, and congrats! We're doing it again! Llewellyn is giving away signed, uncut press sheets from one of our breathtaking tarot decks! That's right! We're giving away 25 uncut, press sheets from the Witches Tarot, numbered and signed by creator Ellen Dugan and artist Mark Evans! Ellen Dugan and Mark Evans will be at the

Ellen Dugan wrote a wonderful article about her experience creating the Witches Tarot. Read it HERE  

The Book of Shadows Tarot is a unique project, many years in the making. It is an ambitious project based on a two-deck system. Each deck is designed to work independently but also to work together. The decks are based on the concept of As Above, So Below. The first deck, As Above, is a non-traditional (that is, not based on the Rider Waite Smith images) exploration of Wiccan/Pagan theories. So Below is a traditional deck that shows how magic is manifest in everyday life. The kit comes with the book and the As Above deck. The box includes a space for the second deck, So Below, available in February 2013. Below is a video created by Lo Scarabeo. Take a peek into the creation of

The other day I was on a radio show (click HERE to listen to archive) and a listener reminded me of an exercise I wrote about, so I thought I'd share it with you. Learning the meanings of the cards is the first step in learning to read the cards. The next step is developing the skill to form cards into coherent stories that convey a useful message about the question. There are lots of ways to practice this skill. A common one is to shuffle and lay out 3 - 5 cards and simply tell a story, starting with the first card and ending with the last. One thing readers learn is that certain card combinations will come up for similar situations or answers. This exercise will help with the