This past summer, I wound up in a Tarot reader’s tent at a seaside town fair. She asked me to shuffle her deck, and then she spread the cards out in a semi-circle. I closed my eyes and, as instructed, ...

As Halloween approaches, some are drawn to nontraditional spirituality for a tarot reading or a psychic prediction. But for others, it is a way of life. Modern people connect to the occult — defined ...

As an ex-Evangelical kid who grew up in Amish country in the Northeast, I never really felt tied to anything — least of all religion. It's hard to trust or instill faith in anything when all your life ...

My social circle of lapsed Catholics, exvangelicals, and other “deconstructing” Christians may have lost the narrative threads we followed for much of our lives, but we can rattle off our rising signs ...

"Every reading is kind of like a snowflake," 28-year-old Bay Area tarot reader Alese Osborn tells me before reading my cards over the phone. It's Wednesday, Osborn's day off from her hectic ...

Fall has put a spell on us. Or maybe it's made us want to put a spell on others. Either way, it's time to grab your witchiest friends and head to one or all of these five shops for all of your ...

Originally published in WBUR’s ideas and opinion section, Cognoscenti. Executive Director Alissa Quart explores how she and ...