Not every magician needs a day job... today's Times Online looks at the life of a professional magus.

In the bizarre news, an English teacher is in serious trouble for conducting a sexual relationship with "marrying" a fourteen year old student in an unspecified Pagan ritual.

More bad news- another of the world's ignoramus' decided to take a hammer and chisel to a thousand year old Sheela-na-gig figure in Sussex, destroying yet another rare link to England's Pagan past... You can see some images and read more about Sheelas here.

We have new symbols and new texts this week- and the Mithraism section actually has something in it this time...I promise. (I know, shocking)