WINTERSPELLS: Life on the Magical Path

Tags: Tarot

• Those Sneaky Psychic Attacks

  Those Sneaky Psychic Attacks

  This is a core story that is not in my Free Report “Psychic Self Defense”  offer on the box to the right — Sign up and get it while I still have it available as this blog is going through changes –
  It took me eight years to figure this out.
  In the Free [...]

• Nigel Jackson and “Winter Rouses All My Grief”

  The Magical Art of Nigel Jackson

  While living in London, I was perusing the bookshelves in the legendary Atlantis Bookshop, across from the British Museum and not far from The Plough pub, haunt of Victorian and Edwardian magicians in the hay days of the London occult scene.
  In Atlantis, I found a book called The Pillars of [...]

• My Magical Timeline: North and East, Living Outside My Body

  The Call of the Otherworld

  During my early adolescence, the call of the Otherworld intensified to such a pitch that I had a very hard time being present. Vivid dreams assailed me, astral projections, and visits from the horned Spirit of the Woods upset my sleep. Perhaps my imagination was merely fueled by the constant reading [...]

• Interview with Tarot Historian, Paul Huson

  Paul Huson
  Paul Huson is one the most interesting writers on the occult. His approach to witchcraft has inspired many magical people since the publication of  his classic Mastering Witchcraft in 1970.  He is a proponent of ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ , rather than Wicca. The most apparent difference between these two approaches is that, while Wicca is [...]

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Card Dealer

  by Mary Greer

  Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s first published poem, “The Card-Dealer,” was based on a painting by Theodore von Holst (1810-1844) called “The Wish” or “The Fortune-Teller” (1840). The poem, which epitomized Rossetti’s fascination with the theme of the femme fatale, was inspired by the painting that he described as being of [...]

• Mysteries of the Tarot: The Ship of Fools

  The Ship of Fools: Heironymous Bosch

  Ship of Fools, by Heironymous Bosch
  As a great fan of Heironymous Bosch, I could not help posting a whole boatload of Fools! Note the little head in the tree!
  I found an interesting source for the idea of the painting in a book called Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between [...]

• Mysteries of the Tarot: The Fool

  The Fool

  “…but we will speak only of those things which are difficult, and not to be grasped by the senses, but, indeed, which are almost contrary to the evidence of the senses.”
  Paracelsus, Archidoxi Magica

  Using my own handpainted Holy Grail Tarot, I will use this blog to teach the definitions of the cards and [...]