The Encyclopedia of the Strange

Back in the 1980s, for a more permanent “weird” fix than I could get from TV, my choice was the mass-market paperback books from the local bookstore (when there was one of those). A lot of those books still hold prominent places on my shelves.

One of them is The Encyclopedia of the Strange, by Daniel Cohen.

Once More, With Feeling…

I hate feeling like I’m repeating myself. But, here we are again, me knocking the cobwebs off of this blog, saying, effectively, “And this time… I mean it!” That’s one of the reasons why last week, I kicked off my new attempt by talking about the full-year Tarot spread I did for myself. Because at […]

The Year in Preview: The Back Half of the Year

Well, it’s already been a hell of a year and we’re only a week into it. I started it out by doing a full-year Tarot spread to get a feel for what my, personal, year-long journey may be like. We’ve already covered the first quarter and the second quarter. If the past year has taught […]

The Year in Preview: Second Quarter

I started the year by doing a 12 card Tarot spread to get an idea of what may be in store for me. Last time, I went through a bit of the backstory of that and covered the first quarter of the year. Let’s look at the second quarter now. April Overview: Page of Cups […]

The Year in Preview

I 100% believe that divination can be a useful tool in gaining perspective and helping you navigate life a bit. I also 100% believe that divination is *not* about predicting the future that will be. At most, it gives us an idea of what may be. More often, it opens our minds to possibilities and […]

Starting Over

It’s been seven years since my last actual post here. That’s… a long time. I was going to spend a couple hundred words going on about cycles and new beginnings and things like that… but I’ve already done that. Back in February of 2007, I wrote a bit about Patterns, Cycles, and Choice. (And I […]

Harvest Moon

It is said, quite truly, that we reap what we sow. But what grows in a field isn’t always what was planted there. Seeds drift in from other places. Unexpected things pop up. Sometimes, blight or animals get in and eat seeds and young plants. Not everything we thought was going to grow, does. The […]

Justice, 18 Years Too Late: West Memphis Three go Free

Back in 1996, I saw a documentary that terrified me. It was the story of the murder of three young kids in a small Arkansas town. It wasn’t the murders that scared me, though. It was what happened after. There were three older boys arrested for those awful murders. The evidence against them? Questionable, at […]

Spinning Up, Getting Back on Track

Like many things, this blog kind of fell by the wayside over the past year or so. I’ve been more concerned with more immediate needs–like paying the bills, staying employed, and, somewhere in there, moving. When life gets crazy, it’s far too often our personal development and spiritual questing that falls by the wayside first. […]