How the Moon illuminates the shining pathway to fairyland:

http://mysteryarts.typepad.com/magicwords/2012/12/the-moon-as-a-road-to-fairyland.html

From our Spotted in the Wild collection: The new sun god (Charles Darwin) burns away the old priesthood to usher in a new fundamentalist religion — Big Science.

Protecting Against Pseudo-Valid Results from Online Divination

We tested the top six free online Tarot systems and determined a single, simple test for protecting against invalid results: http://bit.ly/TEWYwN 

A Mystic's View of Death

Here's the Belgian mystic Maurice Maeterlinck's view of death as an unquenchable flame:

http://mysteryarts.typepad.com/magicwords/2012/11/a-mystics-view-of-death.html

From Spotted in the Wild:

A Fool meets The Moon in this illustration from Puck, 1883.

We discuss the world of Tarot and other high weirdness in this rather extensive interview.

"Amma took a stack of what looked like tarot cards out of her purse, but the images on the cards weren't right. They weren't tarot cards—these were something else. She arranged them on the table carefully, re-creating a spread. ... Amma dropped the last card. 'There it is. ... The Angry Queen. The Unbalanced Scale. The Child of Darkness. The Storm. The Sacrifice. The Split Twins. The Bleeding Blade. The Fractured Soul." —Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos (2011)

[See our daily Tarot posts at the Spotted in the Wild blog.]

A Hierophant from Punch, 1865.

See our regular postings of Tarot imagery in the wild here.

This Tarot Death card is actually a political cartoon from The Canadian Magazine, 1905. See a larger version of the image over at our Spotted in the Wild blog.

"The cards of Fate had been dealt and they were anchored to the bed like a Tarot spread before her."
—Gianna Perada, Blood Life (2012)