First impressions and packaging When The Camelot Oracle arrived, I was immediately impressed with the packaging. The box has a satchel-like look, with gold lettering in an epic font that adds a touch of luxury. Let your imagination take over and you are almost ready to set off on a quest. It gave me Hobbit…
Do you know where the liminal is? Have you ever been there? There are perhaps some examples that we all share knowledge of. For instance, twilight, that moment between dawn and daylight or dusk and night time. It is a threshold between one place and another, a bridge or stairs, a doorway, or even between…
About a year into my tarot studies, I signed up for a class with Jenna Matlin on using tarot for mediumship. It set me on the path to becoming a medium. Jenna’s classes (and her first book, Will You Give Me A Reading?) are who I attribute my learning to read tarot intuitively, beyond the…
With all the talk this time of year (spooky season) about ancestors and guides and everything macabre, I was drawn to the concept of psychopomps as a practical approach to working with the darkness. Our ‘inner’ darkness. Because dead doesn’t mean the end, it means transition and that’s the whole purpose of this deck by…
Tarot, Magic, & Reason, aka TOMAR, is a stunning book and deck combo created by the lovely ‘Debs’ (Deborah Allen). The subtitle reads: The TOMAR In-Depth Beginner’s Guide to Tarot Theory and Practice…but, to be clear, the ‘beginners’ part of the subtitle is referencing learning tarot theory, “exploring its traditional ideas in their modern context…[to]…
Lon Milo DuQuette’s Classic Handbook Still Deserves its Reputation, but This Edition Needed More Lon Some books become classics because nobody supersedes them. Others arrive at the right moment and solve a problem so thoroughly that their original necessity becomes difficult to remember. Lon Milo DuQuette’s The Magick of Aleister Crowley belongs mostly to the…