Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen, author of the new Witchling Academy Tarot and the forthcoming Owl Tarot. Magic is bringing your thoughts and intentions into reality with focused energy, and tarot is the perfect tool for magical practices, because it is filled with an enormous amount of symbology that can be used to represent your intentions. Here are three ways that you can use tarot for everyday magic. Altar Using tarot on your altar can help you both create and focus on the energy you desire to bring into the sacred space. For example, when I create an abundance altar, I like to incorporate the Nine of Pentacles as the centerpiece of my altar for my

The Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum is a bi-monthly series of free online roundtable events that feature your favorite Llewellyn authors discussing topics important to you and answering your questions. Our third in the series, on Love Spells, featured The Book of Candle Magic author Madame Pamita, Good Juju author Najah Lightfoot, 365 Tarot Spells author Sasha Graham, and Psychic Witch author Mat Auryn. Did you miss the live event? No worries! Stream it here.

Llewellyn’s Little Book of Tarot is another small book with a big impact. Not only is it a pleasure to hold with pages designed to please, there are dozens of decks represented. Here are the pages for a card that is often misunderstood and beautifully illustrated with the Tarot of Durer.  

Rachel Pollack's New Tarot Handbook is a small book that packs a big punch. Each entry gives us traditional wisdom and unique insights. Pollack urges us to dive even deeper by creating a spread for each Major Arcana card. We'll let her guide us to the Star, shall we? The Star In the sequence of the Major Arcana, the most difficult section—the Fool’s Crisis, we might call it—begins with Death and reaches its culmination in the explosiveness of the Tower. The Star shows us that we have come through—we have cast off the Devil’s chains and found hope and openness. The Star resembles Temperance, the card between Death and the Devil, with some important differences. There