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Review: Bloom & Shadow
Title: Bloom & Shadow: Earth and Moon Spellcraft for Growth, Love, Life, and Beyond Author: Elohim Leafier Publisher: Independently published Date: October 2, 2025 Pages: 405 pages When this book was first published in January 2016 as “Wicca! Lobe & Soul: Teachings and Experiences About Love, Life and White Magic,” Elohim Leafier was just finishing college. He was feeling “the extreme limitations” of the Wiccan coven he had just left and maintaining his Afro-Caribbean background as he published all the rituals he had done up to that point. In the ten years since then, he has met witches and wizards from different practices and places. He has since studied…
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Review: Become an Exceptional Tarot Reader
Title: Become an Exceptional Tarot Reader: The Card Meanings & Skills You Need to Ace Every Reading Author: Ethony Dawn Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Date: December 8, 2025 Pages: 416 A culmination of Ethony Dawn’s twenty-five years teaching tarot, “Become an Exceptional Tarot Reader” takes you through the steps to become confident and successful reading cards. The book is structured so that each chapter builds on the ones before it, therefore it is meant to be read in the order it is written. Information is presented in a logical manner beginning with basics such as myths, how the seventy-eight cards are grouped into segments, and various ways to pick cards.…
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Review: Memento Mori Deck
Title: Memento Mori: 36 Cards to Embrace Life Author: Red Wheel Publisher: Weiser Date: October 6, 2025 Pages: 36 cards “Memento mori” is Latin for “remember you will die.” This concept of remembering death is found in cultures around the globe and throughout history. In art, it is portrayed using skulls, withered flowers, timepieces, smoke, coffins, flickering candles, rotting fruit – objects symbolizing the fragility of existence, the passing of time, and the impermanence of life. While some find reminders of death morbid or distasteful, the tradition of memento mori is meant to remind people that death is inevitable and life is short, so not to waste any of it.…