Photo of the 3 October 2005 Eclipse by Victor Nuno
For those of you who follow astrology and enjoy watching patterns, a lot is going on in the next couple of weeks. We just had Pluto enter business-minded, structured Capricorn, which will have interesting ramifications on the global turf or, if you prefer, the things happening in our world [...]
Photo by Howie Berlin
Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at [...]
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I have strawberries.
There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between.
They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size [...]
Photo by Dave Parker
It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still teasing my [...]
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Bowl of Smoke photo by Melanie Cook.
A few years back, imperfect strangers would stop me in the grocery store and give me advice. On everything. My looks, my clothes, my love life, my purchases. Everything. If one more person had told me what I should do with my life, I would have exploded. [...]
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Some of my favorite bracelets.
It’s not that I aspire to be Xena, Warrior Priestess, with my armbands and steel brassiere. (Okay, maybe I do, but that’s beside the point.) It’s a challenge I’m taking. Some people refer to it as the “Bracelet Challenge,” but I’m not using it in quite the same way as [...]
Photo by Derek Kolb.
Since my divorce three years ago, my older daughter has come up with some real gems. Forget all the self-help gurus in the world–my teenager’s guidelines for joyful living boil down to these three.
1. Never take advice from unhappy people.
That might seem simple, but how often do we [...]
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Photo by Fuschia Foot
Since I was old enough to write, I’ve kept a to-do list. It’s a necessary tool in my daily living and I don’t apologize for it. I acknowledge and honor it.I’ve started a different kind of list, a totally “selfish” list that’s designed to keep me from letting my time get [...]
Photo by Mike Baird
When I was 5 years old, I used to say, “When I turn 7, I’ll be a big girl and I’ll be able to do all the things I can’t do now.” When I was 7, I used to say, “When [...]
[LADY IN WAITING, inside a 1000-year-old temple, c 2008 by Lorna Tedder]
Can you attract important people from your past–particularly old friends and lovers–BACK into your life? Of the Law of Attraction followers I’ve met and worked with, fully a third are looking for easy money and a second third just want that special person back. [...]
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Maybe the question is, Does our culture “allow” us to be happy? Or are we all supposed to put on a “happy face” and pretend we’re happy but while being expected NOT to be truly happy?
[TREE HUGGER photo by Littlesprite Photography]
I was very impressed with an analogy that I heard in an Abraham-Hicks seminar. The [...]
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Photo by Wili Hybrid
A few weeks ago, I felt pressed to ask Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime, to make a shamanic journey for me. I had some healing issues that needed to be addressed in a different sort of way.
I was intrigued with the report she made back to me, and I’m still digesting the [...]
Photo of LittleSprite’s Pink Altar
Written by Kristin Madden, author of Pagan Parenting and Pagan Homeschooling
We all have our altars, whether they are formal tabletop altars, talismans hung on a doorknob, Medicine pouches, or a subtle arrangement of crystals and feathers on a shelf somewhere. Altars serve as focal points for magic and as physical [...]
