In association with The College of Thelema of Northern California, Teitan Press has released The Thoth Tarot, Astrology & Other Selected Writings, by Phyllis Seckler (Soror Meral).

The book is edited and introduced by Dr. David Shoemaker, Gregory Peters and Rorac Johnson.

From the book’s description on the publisher’s website:

The Thoth Tarot, Astrology & Other Selected Writings, is edited by three of Phyllis Seckler’s former students: Rorac Johnson, Gregory Peters, and David Shoemaker. It includes a biographical sketch of Phyllis Seckler drawn from her own autobiographical writings, and two of her most important essays: “The Tarot Trumps of Thoth and Psychology” – a detailed analysis of the psychological and magical symbolism of the Trumps of the Thoth deck – and “Thoth Tarot and Astrology,” a significant study of astrology and the natal chart, with special reference to the cards of the Thoth deck. Both of these essays were previously serialized in Seckler’s journal In the Continuum, but they are here presented for the first time in book form, accompanied by redrawn and corrected diagrams.

In addition to the essays the book also contains a selection of important correspondence between Seckler, Aleister Crowley, Karl Germer and Jane Wolfe. These are followed by a transcript of the last major interview conducted with Phyllis Seckler, in which she recounted the details of her introduction to Thelema and involvement with the old Agape Lodge, her subsequent participation in various Thelemic organizations, and her thoughts on developments within the Thelemic world.

It retails for 45$US and is available from Weiser Antiquarian. For the first week – until September 28th, 2010 – the book will be available with free shipping in the US and at a reduced rate for international sales. For more information see Weiser Antiquarian.

Evolver.net is hosting a teleseminar titled Divination: How to Read the Future Now.

It will feature talks by Rachel Pollack, author of one of the most comprehensive books on tarot divination, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom; VerDarLuz, an astrologer; Stephen Karcher, who’s authored several books on I Ching, including Total I Ching: Myths for Change; and John Michael Greer, a Druid and author of many books on diverse esoteric subjects, including The Art and Practice of Geomancy.

Erik Davis (TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information) will be hosting the seminar.

Two free entries have been offered to ahrfoundation.org readers, so:

The first two people who e-mail me here at ahrfoundation.org will get this series for free.

Update: Only one spot left!

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Hungarian Ludwig von Wohl persuaded senior intelligence figures that he could replicate the forecasts of the Nazi leader’s personal astrologer.

He claimed that if London knew what advice Hitler, born on 20 April, was getting, they would know his next move.

But the security service MI5 had warned that von Wohl was a “charlatan”.

BBC, “British ‘studied’ Hitler’s stars“

I must admit, I find this a little odd – both that British intelligence thought this would be a reasonable source of information about a war that was devastating Europe.

It turns out that none of his predictions came to pass, “apart from his forecast of Italy’s entry into the war, which he made when it was ‘quite patent to anybody with the slightest knowledge of international affairs’.”

Further, according to the Beeb, historians don’t believe that Hitler took any notice of astrological forecasts.

Some of the relevant files have been released and are available for viewing at the National Archives in Kew, west London.