(Photo of Aislinn with Kat and Murv (M.R. Sellars) at the Samhain 2006 Florida Pagan Gathering. She’s about 6 inches taller now and can’t wait to reconnect with friends in Ocala )
6:08 PM I’m laughing all the way home. I have four new special-order tires, a complete re-alignment, and a hole in my purse, but I’m [...]
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Not long ago, I was talking to Bev Walton-Porter about people who say they’re sorry and why we sometimes can’t accept an apology. From a spiritual standpoint, this has bothered me because for many people, I can accpet an apology, forgive instantly upon that apology, and move right along, but for others, it’s much harder [...]
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Book cover: the second edition of Access, the first novel published by Spilled Candy Books.
If Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s allegations of the US Government developing AIDS to get rid of undesirables sounds like a conspiracy theory novel…it is.
The book is called ACCESS, and it’s a spiritual suspense thriller written in 1996-97 and first published in 1999. [...]
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I’ve come to trust my intuition more than ever in the past year. And at the same time, there are still the times when I’m unsure. And I like to be sure. I do.
How do you verify your intuition? If there’s a pattern to follow, then it tastes like it might be [...]
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They say in personal finance that the best way to create and grow your savings account–that foundation for an economically rainy day–is to pay yourself first. The idea is, you take out…Thanks for reading! The complete version of this article is now included in The Long-Awaited, Honest-to-God Secret to Being Happy.
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The last book of the Gifts for the Goddess quartet (Spring!) has been a long-time coming and will soon be available at our website. During the time it’s taken to finish what was started years ago, the girls have grown up, my marriage has ended, and the family unit has moved forward in [...]
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I’m quite sure most people think I look at things quite differently. I think they’re right. I hung up the phone tonight after a fascinating one-hour phone conversation of “romantical nature” and thought, Wow, his root chakra’s REALLY active!
For the second time in a row, my weekend plans with Maverick have fallen [...]
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Ever had a really odd memory bubble up to the surface unexpectedly?
Everyone on my dad’s side of the family was a big fan of Jerry Clower’s tales of the Ledbetter family, partly because any one of the stories could have come from our own dysfunctional hick-lit-come-to-life pedigree. I even have cousins named after that chainsaw-wielding rascal, Marcel [...]
Here’s a replay of a previous post about a ritual from 2005, just because we have double full moons in Scorpio with a Taurus sun for the April-May 2008 time frame. This was during my Cancer Scare of 2005–turned out to be a caffeine-induced lump–but I was just coming to grips with starting over and how [...]
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Photo of Shannon playing with a garden scepter, by Lorna Tedder
Just a reminder to all of our friends in Florida– Shannon, Aislinn, and I will be attending the Florida Pagan Gathering at Camp Ocala for Beltaine 2008! We’ll be there laaaaate Thursday, May 1st (after Shannon’s college classes) and leaving early Sunday, May 4th (to get Shannon back [...]
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Several years ago, author Teresa Hill (Sally Tyler Hayes) challenged a group of authors, including me, to write about a specific topic, which I decided to include in my healing journal/self-help book, Third Degree of Separation. The topic was “Communications I’ve Withheld,” and when I shared it with the light-hearted group of writers, [...]
As the Sun moves into Taurus 20 April, it’s time to celebrate with a give-a-way. Why? Well, because CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is my personal theme for this year and if you look, it’s not hard to find good things in life.
The prize is a pretty orange and blue Balance-and-Expression necklace by a local artist, as seen in [...]
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I am happy. And do you know why I’m happy? Why, for the best reason of all!
None. That’s right. I’m happy for absolutely no reason at all. (I’m also not crazy, not drunk, not on drugs, and not basking in the afterglow of hot sex.) I’m simply…happy…for no reason.
But you see, that’s exactly [...]
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I can give you a laundry list of energetic and astrological reasons why this Spring 2008 is so powerful and so good for launching yourself in new directions, but I’ll focus on the answer to just one question:
How can this full moon be in Aries and the first of the solar new [...]
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I am not a person who runs around with eyes glazed over and a phony grin, telling you how “excited” I am about some big project I want to sell you on. When I’m “excited” about something, you can tell by the gleam in my eyes. So, if you could see me [...]
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When it comes to romantic relationships, I like to think of myself as a Goddess, though I suppose I’m really more of a Trinity of Goddesses.
I’m not so much Kali or Aphrodite, and I’m definitely not a submissive Goddess. Not to mix pantheons, but I’m part Greek Athena, [...]
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Passion is killing me. I can’t keep going like this. I have got to get more than 3 hours of sleep per night!
I had been warned about this. All the prophets in my life told me this was coming. I’ve been hearing about it for several years now from older women and more bohemian pals. An astrologer friend who told [...]
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Photo: US Geological Survey Hazard Program’s map.
It wasn’t until I heard about the undersea earthquakes that I remembered it was the Year of the Rat…and what exactly that’s supposed to portend.
My artist friend, Jillian, is seriously into Chinese astrology, but it’s never really been that interesting to me. Until she came along, my only working knowledge of [...]
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While reading this weekend, I suddenly realized that the US isn’t leaving Iraq anytime soon. And why.
It’s a combination of Universal Law and Parkinson’s Law.
I’m not arguing that the US should be in Iraq. I’m not arguing that the US shouldn’t be in Iraq. I’m not saying to pull out or [...]
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Life purpose. Some people just don’t get it.
Then again, some people want everyone else’s life purpose to match theirs. This is really rather…normal. We live our lives by a certain theme and we cannot understand why someone else isn’t as passionate about that theme as we are.
If you’re a [...]
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Maidens and Mother photo, copyright Thanksgiving 2007, Destin, FLorida.
That’s right: the real pagan pride is our children, whether they’re the children of our bodies or of our hearts. They are the next generation, the young ones who’ll take up our spiritual torches when we are enjoying our crone-age. This next generation that we are teaching and nurturing–whether [...]
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Mary and I had agreed that we’d both seen the souls of men in our lives, but we were wrong. Maybe we’d felt their souls. Or maybe we’d just wanted to believe they had really opened up at some point and let us see inside to their core to something so deep and [...]
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I adore M, my counselor, who’s also a gifted psychic. I don’t talk to him often, partly because it takes weeks and even months to absorb all the things he makes me think about, and this session is no exception. He uses multiple decks of Tarot cards, his own clairvoyance, and his training [...]
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Some Witches like to explain that they practice only “white” magick.
This is probably their way of assuring you that they don’t cast “evil spells” or try to manipulate you through their magickal talents. The term white witch was much more prevalent in the early 1990’s, possibly as a need to be [...]
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Quite possibly.
And the truth is, you may never know. Because followers of Nature Religions are still persecuted–yes, even in places that tout freedom of religion–many cannot afford to come out of the “broom closet.”
They’re not hiding who they are on the inside or ashamed of their religion. Not at all. Yet if they [...]
