What better way to start the new collection of magic images with the symbol for magic? Only, there's more than one ... Let's start with the basics therefore, global magic symbols that declare there's a magician here and magic is being done, such as the pentacle, the pentagram, the spiral and the energy magic symbol.

When people think in terms of a "magic book" - do they think of it as a book that contains instructions about magic, a collection of magic spells, magic wisdom, secrets of the ages ...

... or could it be that the book itself is magic?

If you have ever felt that a book was more than the words it contained, that there was something "beyond the words" then I've got just the thing for you - a free teleclass on "the magic of the book".

StarFields writes: It has taken me 30 years to write my own book on magic, Magic, Spells & Potions.

I would have never done this in the first place if I didn't have people from this site asking day in, day out, 365 days a year, "How can I learn REAL magic?"

So here's the story of Magic, Spells & Potions - and what it took to write a new book on magic.

People keep asking me when exactly that magical moment is when the "sun stands still" the closest it can get to us, the moment of the Summer Solstice.

Here are the times and dates around the world for summer solstice 2010 - a particularly spectacularly meaningful summer solstice, so I am told :-)

This is the number 7 in numerology: 7 = Completion: Creativity manifest, expressing the spiritual in physical form, MAGIC. Very suitable for your humble correspondent on this occasion, indeed. A grand birthday and a grand year awaits! And here's a little musing on my birthday as to age, wisdom and the power of magic ...

Congratulations to www.Magic-Spells-And-Potions.com for attracting 3 Million hits since it came online! And congratulations to our competition winner - Shadowfae from the United Kingdom who won a beautiful full length skyblue velvet cloak kindly sponsored by Artemisia Dance Designs. For full results and a list of the runners up who each won a signed copy of "The Magician", as well as my personal thanks to all who entered and my The Gift, read on ...

To celebrate our 3 million hits coming up, you can enter a free competition to win a brilliant, full length, velvet and lined magic cloak from Artemisia Dance Designs. I have one and I love it!

Go HERE to enter the competition. Oh yes, and there's a little magical twist to it, too ... :-)

What kind of an idiot hacks a site that belongs to a WITCH? Does "Voyage Into Voodoo" not ring any bells of warning? You might well ask! Find out what curse I sent him, and the other site news - new downloads, features and if you're not a hacker, a blessing at the end!

We've just hit the first three quarter of a million hits and in honour of this, here are the latest improvements to the site and new additions. Thanks for visiting and making Magic Spells & Potions so successful!

Celebrations! It's still over a month to go before this young magic site is one year old but we've just crossed the 100,000 page views milestone! Thank you to all who have come along, visited, left comments and brought your own magic! Now onwards to the first cool million!

Our fellow network member site NicolaQuinn.com has installed a very nice and traditional I Ching reading programme. Click HERE to try it and find out what the I Ching oracle has in store for you!

Hey, that was neat! Check out this name numerology analyser on http://www.iawake.com/numerology/report/name.html Damn I did well in picking that nick for myself ... LOL! Well I didn't really, it just arrived. Perhaps those who came up with that name knew something real which also works in numerology. Or I just liked to hear it. Who cares? It made me smile!