The publishing industry has been changing for a long time now. Publishing can be a very slow behemoth, very conservative. So it was really refreshing and exciting to me to learn that our partner, Lo Scarabeo, is trying something very new. You may have heard that they are running a Kickstarter campaign. You can learn all about it HERE. Crowdfunding this project makes sense on a few levels. First, the material is not written by one person. Many people contributed to make this work possible. So you will have a wide range of methods and opinions. It has been carefully edited and material added as needed to fill in the gaps and smooth out the various voices. Instead of a collection of pieces

This weekend, at the North Star Tarot conference, Melani Weber presented a workshop. That workshop was the most fun I’d had in a very long time. And you can re-create the experience at home for yourself alone or for yourself and some friends. The workshop was inspired by Robyn Tisch-Hollister’s Minute Tarot (in which the artist drew each card in one minute). Melani provided magazine and old books, stamps and ink, stickers and crayons, glue and scissors. She also provided a blank “deck” of 25 card stock “cards.” The cards we are 5 – 7 and we were given 25 in case we made an in surmountable mistake as we created our 22 card Majors Only deck. She also gave us labels, in a

As many of you are aware, we are the exclusive North American distributor of Tarot decks from Italian publisher Lo Scarabeo—we could not be more proud to carry their beautiful decks! And now, we've received word that Lo Scarabeo has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support their new trio of Tarot Books, beginning with Tarot Fundamentals. Tarot Fundamentals will be one of the most complete books ever published about Tarot. (The second and third books, Tarot Experience and Tarot Compendium, respectively, will be released in 2016 pending the success of the first volume.) Edited and compiled by Sasha Graham, with content by Giordano Berti, Barbara Moore, Mark McElroy, Riccardo

Many times we ask questions of the tarot that only touch the surface of the true issue. Marcus and Tali give a technique that can help dig deeper and provide a fuller, more empowering answer. I like how they are able to pinpoint the word that is really the crux of the matter. This book, Tarot Face to Face, is filled with many unique and interesting techniques for developing your skills with your deck, with questions, with querents, and with reading for groups or parties as well using tarot to engage life, enhance relationships, and encourage self-discovery. From Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin’s Tarot Face to Face Turn a Word into A Spread If you are performing e-mail