When you’re a working Tarot reader, you will eventually find yourself reading in a busy environment like a festival, market, or restaurant. A successful event will provide you with back-to-back clients. Seeing a line of people waiting to read with you is both exciting and daunting, but you shouldn’t let…

My students are not just new to Tarot, they’re new to the occult, and that can present some challenges. If you’ve grown up with occult symbolism and concepts, picking up a divination system won’t take too long because everything you learn is backed by a lifetime of study. If you’re…

Let’s use our spiritual gifts to help others — Many of us in alternative spiritual communities, such as witches, occultists, and New Age practitioners, often speak of the collective consciousness — the idea that we are all interconnected on a spiritual and psychic level. We embrace the phrase “as above, so below,” signifying the connection between the divine and…

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) is a down-to-earth guide for anyone interested in starting or improving grassroots support groups in times of crisis. Spade, a lawyer, educator, and trans activist, is a respected name in the mutual aid movement, and their experience shines through in…

Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Witchcraft Practice Beyond Intention — You hear it on the spiritual side of the internet all the time. “Intention is everything.” Sure, witchcraft is about exerting your will onto the universe. Like a coder, the practitioner writes lines of instructions to create a situation of their own design. Intention is important, but it’s not everything…

TriQuarterly TriQuarterly, the literary journal of Northwestern University and of the Litowitz MFA+MA program, welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, video essays, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers. They also accept interviews and craft essays. They are accepting submissions March, April, and May. Submit…

Gabrielle Bates’s Judas Goat is a stunning collection of forty poems that explores the complexities of intimate relationships. The book’s title animal serves as a metaphor for the themes that run throughout the collection: betrayal, forced obedience, and the violence inherent in young womanhood. Bates’s writing evoke vivid figures from…

With devastating earthquakes and train explosions polluting our air and water, I’m sure you’re weary of any literature with a title like The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. …

Note: To go straight to the Valentine’s Day Tarot Spread, scroll down. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and with it an opportunity to reflect on our relationships and the love in our lives. Whether you’re in a relationship, single, or just looking to connect with yourself, a tarot…