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WELCOME TO THE MAY EDITION OF THE MAGICKA SCHOOL NEWSLETTER!
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Merry Meet Everyone!

I hope that you are all well.

Here is the latest news from Magicka School:
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BRAND NEW SHOP ITEMS

Take a peek at www.magickaschool.com/Shop/index.php

We are very excited to announce that we have added many more items to the Magicka Shop.

Browse our range of altar statues, take a look at the lovely altar boxes and navigate your way through our jewellery ranges.

Prices to suit all pockets!

Take a peek at: www.magickaschool.com/Shop

All proceeds go towards supporting your Magicka School community.

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IMPORTANT: PRICE REVIEW

At Magicka we have done our best to keep supporting membership costs to the minimum needed to keep the site running. In fact we have not changed our prices for many years. However, our costs are ever increasing and to maintain the high standard of courses and keep our community running we are currently considering raising our membership fees. If you wish to take advantage of our current low rates then please upgrade as soon as possible as we are unsure that we will be able to hold our prices at the current level for much longer.
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THE MAGICKAL LIGHT EZINE, TALENTED CONTRIBUTORS NEEDED!

One of the great things about Magicka is the range of talent to be found among our membership! As many of you know the Magickal Light Ezine carries a range of excellent material by professional and non-professional writers, artists and photographers and we are always on the look out to support creative talent. If you would like to contribute to the Magickal Light Ezine please email admin@magickaschool.com for further details.
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JOIN PINO ON FACEBOOK.COM

Pino Longchild now has his own Facebook page. Why not add him as one of your friends and keep up with what he and other Wiccans are up to?
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FROM MAGICKA TEACHER MARCUS KATZ:

Magicka School Tutor Marcus Katz and co-author Tali Goodwin are delighted to offer all Magicka purchasers of our first Llewellyn book, 78 Days Around the Tarot, a free place on our online Tarot Diploma course, worth $230, suitable for beginners and those wishing to develop their Tarot skills, for only a $14 book purchase!

You'll of course be also getting the book, which is 456pp, and regularly the #1 selling Tarot book on Amazon a month prior to its publication! It provides a comprehensive guide to Tarot from beginning to read all the way to the Opening of the Key method of the Golden Dawn. The course, run by mentor Janine Worthington, and supervised by ourselves, is a superb support to your own Tarot studies. It can be taken online, in your own time, with live and recorded lessons, with nothing more than your web browser!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738730440/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=templumkabbal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0738730440

To get your guaranteed place on this 3-month online course, awarding you a Tarosopy Tarot Diploma, all you have to do is pre-order your copy of “Around the Tarot in 78 Days” (Llewellyn Worldwide) or purchase your copy between publication date, May 8th 2012 and World Tarot Day, May 25th 2012. This title is presently retailing at only $14 or equivalent on Amazon and may sell out prior to publication due to the popularity of this special course offer. So please get your pre-order or purchase of the book if you want to get on this course and send a copy of your proof of purchase (from any outlet, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) to us prior to June 1st at: goldenticket@tarotprofessionals.com.

We will then provide you a guaranteed place on our 3-month online Tarosophy Diploma course commencing June 1st 2012, which uses this book as a framework.

Wishing a complete Wheel of Fortune to all who travel Around The Tarot in 78 Days!


GODS I HAVE KNOWN
Seven short stories by author Brina Katz, wife of Magicka Teacher Marcus Katz, show how the Gods come calling, from Loki to Pan, Lilith to Hecate, through Tarot Cards and Standing Stones. Contains adult themes.

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006F8DWBA/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=templumkabbal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006F8DWBA
Paperback: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gods-i-have-known/18701262?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2
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FOLLOW MARCUS KATZ ON TWITTER

If you are already on Twitter or interested in this free social instant message network, and want high quality Magical and Tarot insight and chat, follow @TheTarosophist . Check out http://www.twittter.com for details and to signup.
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RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM YOUR HIGHER SELF

From leading astrologer and author Lyn Birkbeck, get a personal full-colour astrological profile divined at birth by your Higher Self through the Sabian Symbols for all the planets and points in your birth chart. At birth these various parts of your being and your Higher Self became separated and so you effectively forgot who you are and why you came here. Now through the Sabian Symbols you are prompted to remember as your Higher Self is activated as you read this unique profile. Introductory Offer to Magicka: 21.00 USD/12.85 GBP.  Get your personal profile now:

http://www.lynbirkbeck.com


NEW iApp ORACLE

Do you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and want a personal oracle at the touch of a screen? Get this iAPP ORACLE to guide you on all levels, from mystical to mundane. The Astro-Oracle is designed by leading astrologer Lyn Birkbeck and gives you a GPS for your soul:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/astro-oracle/id416308952?mt=8&ls=1
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MENTORS

Did you know Magicka runs a flourishing mentor scheme? And is the only Wiccan site that offers this service completely free to its members. We are dependent on volunteers to keep this service growing. If you are have finished the Beginner's Tarot or Wicca Revealed course you are eligible to become a mentor. If you are interested in helping fellow students and having your very own Mentor Group on our Forum then please email headofmentoring@magickaschool.com and we will send you more details. This is a wonderful opportunity to converse with people from all over the world and help them on their magickal path.
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ADVERTS
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Want your ad in this space? Email admin@magickaschool.com
Get your message out to tens of thousands of Magicka members around the world!
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THE BOOK OF ENGLISH MAGIC

The Book of English Magic, by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard
Heygate is “encyclopedic in scope and jam-packed with joyous
information” –Mark Book, author of The Secret History of the World

NOW AVAILABLE from The Overlook Press
www.overlookpress.com/book-of-english-magic.html
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A Turning to Fire by Kim Potter
A Turning to Fire
For Pagans who follow the Wheel of the Year, Imbolc marks the ebbing of winter and beginning of spring. Originating in Ireland, the word itself means “in the belly”, and referred to lactating ewes, Though to us this may have connotations of the pregnant period before birth, to our ancestors this must have been a tangible sign of relief from the harshness of winter and the scarcity of food.
It is at this time the snowdrops appear, pushing their way up through the frozen ground, their delicate petals reminding us of beauty and life, a welcome sight, especially for those of us in the UK who have been surprised by a freezing cold January. Crocuses provide a fresh blaze of colour in the still barren ground, and a sharp eye may just glimpse the new buds beginning to form on the trees.
The light we welcomed back at Yule is now growing stronger as the wheel turns. The days are noticeably longer, the light in evidence in its return, signalling an end to the contemplative part of the year and a return to activity. This is a time for new ventures, and for realising the plans quietly formed in the darker part of the year.
Imbolc is traditionally the time to honour Brigid, the Celtic Fire Goddess, so called because she is allegedly Goddess of the Forge, Goddess of the Hearth and Goddess of Inspiration. It is said that nineteen priestesses tended her sacred fire, to keep the flames alive, while on the twentieth day Brigid herself tended the sacred flames.
What does Imbolc mean to you? I always mark this festival with a special reverence, for it was just before Imbolc some 5 years ago that I decided to dedicate myself to learning about Paganism, and particularly witchcraft. I didn’t know then I’d chosen the traditional time for initiation ceremonies in the Craft. A year ago, just before Imbolc, my newborn infant laid cuddled warm in my lap while I listened to his faint snuffling sounds. What better symbol of new beginnings and of spring than a child? So for me it is a time of renewal, of hope and optimism for the year to come.
On a deeper level, as the active time of the year comes again, how will you make your ideas manifest? What old habits and old thinking still needs clearing out for new plans to materialise? How will you use the transformative power of this fire festival to kindle ideas in your hearts and minds? What will you take with you, into the freshness of spring and what will you leave behind in the darker part of the year? Whatever you choose and however you like to celebrate, I wish all of you at Magicka a beautiful Imbolc."

Support Magicka School today by stopping by the Magicka School Shop! Here you can purchase Magicka School-themed items such as T-shirts, keychains, mugs and pins as well as course E-books and back issues of the Magickal Light E-zine!