After recording with Othon Mataragas for his debut album, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond will be returning to the studio with him to record Aleister Crowley’s “Tango Song”.

The “Tango Song” was written by Aleister Crowley with music by Bernard Page; the first musical score was published in 1913. Continue reading »

The Almanac of Precariomancy is a set of tarot trump cards appealing to an anti-corporate sentiment.

A few cards retain their usual title such as the Chariot and Justice, others are more creatively and thematically retitled: the Magician has been renamed the Intern, the Empress is the Operator, the Emperor is the Manager, and the Start has been renamed the Chain (pictured here).

We are precarious because our choices are limited by the blackmail of the companies, coming by the day with new and surprising shapes: the housing issue, the income lack, the job torture, the self-awareness of our body and soul, our educational system, the possibility to learn and share knowledges and technologies.

–Why Precariomancy

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This is a little off-topic, but the CIBC Run for the Cure is a run sponsoring the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation which raises millions of dollars to help fund breast cancer research to find a cure.

My Grandmother whom I was very close to died of cancer. It’s a long and painful process to watch someone go through, and the run has an impact.

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Mike Howard of the Pagan magazine The Cauldron recently wrote an article for New Dawn on the British Secret Service and their employment of occult investigators titled “The British Occult Secret Service: The Untold Story“, available online.

In March I posted about the release of documents that MI5 used astrologers to cast horoscopes to predict Hitler’s next moves, but this article looks further back to Elizabethan times, specifically Dr John Dee, and Sir Francis Walsingham.

Howard notes that: Continue reading »

In a recent discussion on AIM I was asked about tarot’s role in decision-making. We’ve looked at tarot and accuracy, and sharing bad news with a client, but what happens when they want you or the cards to make a decision for them?

SPJ asked:

I’ve heard it’s not “good” practice to expect the tarot to make decisions for you and it may be better to only ask it what the outcomes to things might be if you continue down the same path?

Many will suggest that the mere fact the querent is aware of new possibilities may alter the outcome, but past experience has demonstrated that Continue reading »