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Book Review — The Tarot Spreads Yearbook
Book Review — The Tarot Spreads Yearbook Publisher: David & Charles 144 Pages Release Date: 11th April 2023 This beautifully presented book is billed as “52 Tarot Spreads for Getting to Know Yourself.” In our modern, fast-paced life, isn’t that something we’re all trying to do a little more? It’s so easy to get bogged down in our routines, work, and trying to make ends meet that we can lose sight of our inner selves and what nourishes us. With that in mind, I opened this book with an optimistic frame of mind. At first glance, it’s clear that, like the year, this book is split into four seasons: Growth,…
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Book Review-This is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Chaos Magic: 13 Essays on Chaos MAgic for Modern Practitioners compiled and edited by Peter J. Carroll
Book Review This is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Chaos Magic: 13 Essays on Chaos Magic for Modern Practitioners Compiled and Edited by Peter J. Carroll Publisher: Weiser Books 274 Page Paperback Release Date: June 2nd, 2025 This is Chaos is a must-have for the modern Magus or Wizard, Occultist or Witch, Sorcerer and Warlock, or whatever you want to identify as. It presents not only Chaos Magick at its’ roots, and even provides a brief history given directly from one of its most influential figures himself-Peter J. Carroll, but also goes into the current of Chaos Magic-both past, and present, and even has ideas for where the current of chaos…
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Review: Magick for Empaths
Title: “Pagan Portals: Magick for Empaths” Author: Raven Digitalis Publisher: Moon Books Release Date: April 1, 2025 Pages: 112 This little guidebook is part of the Pagan Portals series that divulges what empaths experience, the spiritual significance of empathy, and guidance for protecting, shielding, grounding, and maintaining balance when approaching spellcasting. Much like psychic abilities, everyone possesses some degree of empathic capability. Genuine empathy involves emotional care and compassion. Emotions are a guide and a strength, not a weakness. Empaths sense, feel, and absorb them, and respond with a desire to help. Raven cautions that empaths commonly encounter emotional overload and that “compassion to a fault is a very real…
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Book Review-The Call of the Old Gods: My Occult Journey on the Pagan Path by Christopher McIntosh
Book Review The Call of the Old Gods: My Occult Journey on the Pagan Path By Christopher McIntosh Publisher: Inner Traditions 264 Page E-Book Release Date: May 6th, 2025 The Call of the Old Gods is a well-written memoir from one of my favorite Pagan and Occult authors, Christopher McIntosh. Instead of telling you what to do, he relays the experience to you, as well as the academic background, to inspire the reader to form their own practices, etc. This book, instead of his usual, scholarly approach, focuses on a well-storied life full of trials, lessons and friendships. McIntosh has lived a long life and has had the opportunity to encounter…
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Book Review-Odin: An Illustrated Guide to the Allfather by L. Dean Lee, Illustrated by The Saxon Storyteller
Book Review Odin: An Illustrated Guide to the AllFather By L. Dean Lee, Illustrated by The Saxon Storyteller Publisher: Red Wheel 128 Page Full-Color, Fully-Illustrated Hardcover Release Date: April 7th, 2025 Odin: An Illustrated Guide to the AllFather is the perfect primer for those looking to learn more about the One-Eyed God; not only is it a mindful guide to learning more about Odin in myth, legend and even modern iterations, but it also gracefully handles the problematic past that American Heathenry and Norse Paganism in America have. The discernment present in so many contemporary Norse Pagan books is a sign of positive change, and that there’s a genuine movement…
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Book Review-Loki: An Illustrated Guide to the Trickster God by L. Dean Lee, Illustrated by The Saxon Storyteller
Book Review Loki: An Illustrated Guide to the Trickster God By L. Dean Lee, Illustrated by The Saxon Storyteller Publisher: Red Wheel 128 Page Full-Color, Fully Illustrated Hardcover Release Date: April 7th, 2025 Loki: An Illustrated Guide to the Trickster God is the one introductory book to Loki I wish I’d had when I embarked on my journey to know the (in)famous trickster deity. I myself am a Lokean, having devoted my more adventurous, mischievous habits and tendencies (I can be a real screwball, I won’t lie about it) to him, finding peace in the clown, that jester, part of myself. Loki is more than just chaos; sure, he can…
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Book Review — Micro Meditation: Moments of calm for a happier, healthier life, by Nicci Roscoe
Book Review — Micro Meditation: Moments of calm for a happier, healthier life, by Nicci Roscoe Publisher: Cico Books 144 Pages Release Date: March 11, 2025 Micro Meditation is a collection of small, simple ways to change your outlook on life in a few moments. Whether you’re feeling frustrated, stressed, or uncertain, there are ways to stop, take action, and feel differently about the situation. The author notes the benefits of traditional meditation but also laments the lack of time to indulge in this during busy days when challenges can arise from any direction. Having these micro meditations — from ice…
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Book Review-Tarot:Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror by Natalie Labriola
Book Review Tarot: Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror By Natalie Labriola Publisher: Wooden Books, LLC 58 Page Paperback Release Date: March 15th, 2025 Don’t let the small size of Tarot: Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror deceive you; this 58 page book is jam-packed with everything you need to know about the Tarot at-a-glance. It’s aesthetically pleasing in terms of design, and has sections discussing the methodology the author uses to approach tarot (which is perhaps most common-a Jung psych-spiritual based interpretation). There’s also a short primer on the history of the Tarot and how it evolved from a playing card game, to a parlor trick, to real divination. Then, you’re…
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Book Review-Mastering the Tarot Tableau: Revisiting Predictive Accuracy with Tarot by Toni Savory
Book Review Mastering the Tarot Tableau: Revisiting Predictive Accuracy with Tarot By Toni Savory Publisher: Red Feather Mind Body Spirit 144 Page Paperback Release Date: April 28th, 2025 Mastering the Tarot Tableau: Revisiting Predictive Accuracy with Tarot takes the common Euorpean approach to Tarot reading (which is different in many aspects), and brings it to American readers. Long have I yearned for a text in English discussing using Tarot in a more predictive fashion. More often than not, we focus on the more abstract, occult or obscure meanings of the cards, instead of looking at the literal picture they’re painting for us. Fortune telling systems such as Lenormand, Sybill Oracle, and…
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Deck Review-Wild Whispers Oracle: Messages from the Desert by Nat Girsberger
Deck Review Wild Whispers Oracle: Messages from the Desert By Nat Girsberger Publisher: Rockpool Publishing 44 Card Deck, 156 page Guidebook in a sturdy box Release Date: March 4th, 2025 Wild Whispers Oracle is a beautifully designed and illustrated deck that focuses on the sun’s position in the sky, rather than the lunar phase, which is a nice break from the typical lunar-themed decks that are common. The deck is structured to fit the Sun’s pattern of rising, setting and the different phases those happen at. Having this structure within the deck allows for different sets of cards to shed light on the different parts of the self through an illuminated…
