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Back in college, one of my term projects was to find and point out erotic objects in advertising as part of my demonstration of how subliminal advertising works. Yes, there were plenty of phallic symbols–some VERY plain–in the shadows and curves of liquor ads.
I’ve heard the [...]
Pluto and Vertex in my Solar Return 5th house heralded my daughter’s arrival. Copyright 2008 by Aislinn Bailey.
If you’re not interested in astrology, just skip this post because it’ll be too obscure for you. If you are, or you want to see how such patterns apply to your own love life and when you’ll find [...]
I know, I know. After everything you’ve heard about Kristin being all evil from those Generation Hex authors, you probably expected her new cookbook to be about newt eyes and Hansel and Gretel cookies, but nope, sorry.
Instead, you get 188 pages of really wonderful and different recipes that will keep you from ever having another [...]
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When I was a little girl in a Southern Baptist church, the preachers often talked about how we’d all recognize each other when we got to heaven. Even as a child, I had a few problems with the way this scenario was presented to me. Sometimes we were told that [...]
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When is it DRAMA and when it is just life? I figured it out–for me, at least.
DRAMA seems to be a big buzz word now. Overused like crazy, and in the dating scene, it’s hard to let a day pass without being pummeled with the word. Men often throw [...]
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Continued from Part II of this series….
4. An unusual new sex trick. If he hasn’t obviously been reading a self-help book to spice up your relationship or searching such advice online, a new trick in his repertoire might be cause for alarm—especially if he seems to be well-practiced at [...]
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In my world, there are three phrases that are forbidden:
“You need to….”
I can live the rest of my life without ever hearing this one again. It’s one of those phrases that seems to spew from the lips of controlling people, and I had quite enough of it when I [...]
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Continued from Part I of this series….
First, the ordinary signs:
1. Unusual smells. This is an unusual sign that most cheaters miss. A man will come home after an afternoon tryst, freshly showered, but his unwashed hair will smell of sex. Or a woman who doesn’t smoke will have a not-so-subtle [...]
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I didn’t realize until today that I’ve completely stopped a habit that used to rob me of countless hours of my time. I’m at a place in my life where time is more important than money, but it has to do with perspective moreso than wealth. [...]
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I’m not sure whether to be appalled or amused by the news, but one of Spilled Candy’s long-running books is apparently a bad influence. Here’s the message I received from author Kristin Madden:
“When Pagan Parenting first came out, the Fundie Christian Right compared me (and MTV) to Hannibal Lecter. Now a new book entitled, Generation Hex: [...]
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For the past year, I’ve used “going with the flow of energy” as a guideline for making the most of my efforts. On a very tiny scale, this principle was as simple as having a sudden urge to clean the house from top to bottom—and doing it while [...]
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I’ve been shying away from talking about certain subjects recently, and I promise I’m going to stop that. Right now.
I pulled a series of articles/posts because I was afraid they’d be misconstrued by somone they weren’t about and would cause more trouble. But it really doesn’t matter because I think anything I write about will [...]
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
-Fortune Cookie
Sometimes you have to pull yourself out of the Ether to make things happen. Sometimes you have to take action in a very concrete, physical way. Or, as an old friend once told me, “Sometimes the best magick [...]
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If you’re looking for a sign, this is it.
How many of us are torn—or think we are—about a direction to take, and so we look for “signs” that will push us in one direction or the other? We already know the answer but either don’t trust our intuition or [...]
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Someone recently accused me of lying about something, and the true irony was that, of all the people involved, I was the only one who wasn’t lying. That accusation actually hurt my feelings—a lot—because I’d insisted on honesty and openness from the very beginning and thought I’d established a [...]
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The November Full Moon, aka the Beaver Moon or the Frosty Moon, occurs in Taurus on November 13, 2008 at 12:17 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle.
Taurus is a sign of solidity, sensuality, earthiness, pleasure, enjoyment. Sounds great, huh? Except that, astrologically, this moon has some difficult angles, plus the Sun is [...]
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Shannon and Lorna get silly at a mother-daughter reunion. c 2008
My younger daughter, Aislinn, asked me an interesting question that changed the course I took in a personal situation. “Mommy,” she said, “what if this thing that’s happening is really another chance to do it right? What if you’ve already done this once–or a thousand [...]
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When I talk about feeling energies or “energetic connections,” non-empaths usually think I’m crazy. They don’t understand if they’ve never experienced their world through that particular sense, much as a man blind from birth might not understand when I talk about the subtle hues of different colors. Experiencing energy is [...]
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When I first began meeting “intuitives,” I heard several of them say that they could not read their own futures. I thought it was odd at the time, given that some of them had told me amazing things about my own life–right down to names, ages, locations, specific projects [...]
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Shannon and Lorna, Thanksgiving 2006 in Destin– where will we be this year for Thanksgiving?!
“You had something to hide;
Should have hidden it, shouldn’t you?
Now you’re not satisfied
With what you’re being put through.” — Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth”
Many years ago, I had a friend who had based most of his relationships on lies. I later [...]
About a decade ago, my friend Vicki Hinze had a literary agent, Helen Breitweiser, who was a blast to be around. Helen was young, hip, intelligent–and had a mouth on her. That was part of her charm. (In my opinion, at least.) One of her favorite phrases was to refer to someone’s literary masterpiece as being [...]
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For months, I’ve noticed how many people around me have trust issues, and I’ve also noticed that these trust issues didn’t just pop up over night. They’ve been there for years, through series of relationships, maybe all the way back to childhood. They’re still there because they’ve never been healed–only [...]
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It’s important that we as both seekers and teachers don’t become so secure in our own little universes that we fail to sample the knowledge of another universe. I have made some of the greatest progress on my own spiritual journey by talking to people outside my circle and sometimes even [...]
Continue reading about A Breakthrough: "For the Highest Good of All" and Other Caveats
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(Yes, S.B., this is for you…because we’re tired of your cell phone going off 30 times every morning!)
Oh, the subjects that come up over lunch with a friend! Her live-in boyfriend has accused her of cheating and, honestly, she’s fed up. This time, it’s all because she didn’t respond immediately [...]
