If you haunt certain corners of the internet, you’ve likely seen a lot about liminal spaces — eerie photos of abandoned shopping malls, darkly lit corridors devoid of life, or vast, empty parking lots. For years, folks have been gathering liminal imagery online, like magpies attracted to the eerie and strange, forming communities around these oft-ignored thresholds.
Read MoreEach of the 78 cards in this deck depicts a different goddess from cultures in every region of the world. It is faithful to the traditional Smith-Rider-Waite deck, using the four suits and the Major Arcana, though the court cards have been redefined to represent strong, fearsome figures: Amazon (Page), Siren (Knight), Witch (Queen), and Hag (King). In that sense, every card in the deck has serious Queen energy.
Read MoreI can’t stop pulling the Death card, and I’m exhausted at the thought of what accepting its medicine entails. What more is there to lose? Clogging the drain, my hair. At the graveyard, my late friend Joe. All my remaining friendships, distant. Maybe it’s I who am untethered, afloat in the cosmos, devoid of blood and motion in my cells. I haven’t anything left to surrender.
Read MoreThe Wiccan sabbat, Mabon (pronounced MAY-bon,) falls on the fall equinox, when the days grow cooler and the nights grow longer. The second of the autumnal festivals on the Wheel of the Year, Mabon continues the celebration of harvest season begun at Lughnasadh in early August, and carries us into the dark half of the year.
Read MoreDoes my obsession with slinging cards and slayage of vampires make me uniquely qualified to review Simon & Schuster’s official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot deck by Casey Gilly and Karl James Mountford? For the purposes of this post (and my own ego), I am going to say yes! Let’s look at this deck, piece by piece, from the vantage point of a total Buffy buff and card connoisseur.
Read MoreThe Literary Witches Oracle Deck is a potent magical tool with a format that’s unique among oracle decks, inviting an imaginative approach to communing with the cards. I’ve explored many ways to use the Literary Witches Oracle, and feel this deck has become a dear friend to me over time.
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