Month: April 2008
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Powerhouse Rituals: One Reason this Spring Is So Bright
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 year? I…
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Teaching Witchcraft to Christians
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 now, you’d know…
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Wanted: Goddess Consort
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, the war strategist and intellectual; I’m…
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Passion Is Killing Me (aka the Uranus-Venus Combo)
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…
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The Year of the Rat Starts Early
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 Chinese astrology was…
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Universal Law or Not: Why the US Isn’t Leaving Iraq Anytime Soon
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 stay in.…
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Life Purpose: Why Some People Just Don’t Get it
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 long-time fan of my…
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The REAL Pagan Pride: Our Children
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…
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How to Recognize a Soulmate
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 unknown and…
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The Spiritual Importance of Relationships
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 as a…
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Are You a White Witch?
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 1990s, possibly as a need to be more politically correct…
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Is There a Witch Next Door?
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…
