Filed Under Reviews | Comments Off on Book Review: Frigg’s Twelvefold Flame: Creating Justice & Healing with the Goddess and Her Court by Rev. Máire Durkan
Rev. Máire Durkan Frigg’s Twelvefold Flame: Creating Justice & Healing with the Goddess and Her Court Llewellyn Publications, 2026 Devotees of Frigg, this one is for you: the newest work from Reverend Máire Durkan, Frigg’s Twelvefold Flame: Creating Justice & Healing with the Goddess and Her Court, is now available from Llewellyn! I am appreciative […]
Filed Under Reviews | Comments Off on Book Review: “The Norns in Old Norse Mythology” by Karen Bek-Pedersen
The Norns in Old Norse Mythology by Karen Bek-Pedersen Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, 2011 224 pages, including index and extensive bibliography With impeccable timing, my copy of this book (ordered directly from the publisher) arrived a few weeks prior to the deadline for the Jotnar-themed issue of Idunna, the magazine of The Troth, where this […]
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One of the decks I picked up on my 2019 visit to the Milan studio of Osvaldo Menegazzi, known as Il Meneghello, was the Tarocco Napoleanico, the Tarot of Napoleon. I pulled it out the other night, and realized I had not written about it yet! Today is Bastille Day in France, so this seemed […]
Filed Under Reviews, Tarot, Runes, Oracles | Comments Off on The Sybil’s Oraculum, by Tayannah Lee McQuillar
The good people at Inner Traditions sent me a copy of The Sybil’s Oraculum: Oracle of the Black Doves of Africa, created by Tayannah Lee McQuillar, with artwork by Katelan V. Foisy. The packaging is striking: The cover art on the box repeats on the book cover and the card backs. Done in the style of […]
Filed Under Reviews | Comments Off on Shopping at Afikomen Judaica
In search of metal candleholder inserts, I found myself at Afikomen Judaica in Claremont yesterday. Sure, I could buy them cheap from Amazon, but I’d rather not give Jeff Bezos the money. And I would have missed out on an amazing experience. How can you not love a place that has the slogan “Live. Shop. Shmooze.”? Miriam […]