Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Molly Chanson, author of the new Yoga Wise. I would be lying if I pretended that for me yoga has always been a spiritual practice. In my 20s, it was exercise, and my intention was focused on my body and its appearance. It wasn't until I was in my late thirties, after having two kids and feeling lost as a wife and mother, that I started to understand yoga as a practice that offered benefits beyond the physical. I don't think anyone's motivation for adopting a yoga practice is good or bad, better or worse. Yoga does create physical changes. But through Asana, the physical practice, we also gain emotional well-being, and gifts beyond our

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Georgina Cannon, author of the new Your Guide to Self-Discovery. It's sometimes very difficult to take responsibility for where we are in life. It's so much easier to blame. Blame your parents, your boss, the weather, your sibling, the bus for being late, your partner, the government, the traffic during rush hour. Or, when all else fails, we blame Karma. When we do this, we don't really understand the role and relationship of Karma. Karma literally means "action." Karma is the law of action, and this law governs man's consciousness. Karma may differ on the basis of the time factor—past, present, and future. Consequence is the part of the

Let’s spend this summer studying The Sun card! Each entry between now and August (8 total) will feature a Sun card from a different deck along with the text the creator wrote for it. It will be interesting to see how so many people see difference aspects of this apparently simple card. We'll start with Tarot in Wonderland by Barbara Moore and Eugene Smith. In the text below, the “Through the Looking Glass” section is the longer exploration of the card through the lens of the Alice (in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass) stories. “Down the Rabbit Hole” is a the short and sweet divinatory meaning.   Through the Looking Glass Alice, after many adventures and trials, has

Llewellyn is sad to announce that Raven Keyes has passed. Raven Keyes was an internationally recognized Reiki Master Teacher who worked with surgeons and other health professionals for many years. She authored the award-winning book The Healing Power of Reiki, and she was named best Reiki Master in New York by New York Magazine. She was also the founder of Raven Keyes Medical Reiki International.