Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I dreamed of The Treat this morning. It’s been several weeks since he’s visited in dreams or meditations and when he has, it’s been to show me things at his job. This time, he just kept saying that he’s been really focused on [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I’m making huge progress tonight on finishing a special project that’s been floating around for over a year now. In fact, it should have been done a year ago, but for some reason, it was delayed.
I didn’t understand it then. Why the delay [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Artists wear their work like a second skin, and flinch when their art is not as cared for, particularly by someone important to them. And when their art is appreciated, they glow.
Whether our medium is paper, paint, pixels, or measures of music, we [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Destroying a person’s self-confidence is a time- honored method of stealing his power and harnessing it for personal or corporate purposes.
One of my colleagues whom I respect was recently offered a slot with a prestigious firm. Good money, great career status, a very [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Elizabeth, the woman who dominated my childhood is dead. The most hateful woman I have ever known in my life.
My father’s mother died this morning. She didn’t care for me even before I was born, and yes, I’ll share that story, too.
The last [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I’m a jealous girl. And that is by no means an apology. It is a statement of fact. An acknowledgement of a “darker” emotion that we, as humans are supposed to keep under tight control or be judged as inferior and that we [...]
Continue reading about No Apology: I’m Jealous and That’s the Way It Is
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I have on one very recent occasion allowed my older daughter, who’s close to 17, to stay alone overnight while I was away on a business trip. Her dad was aware and she had plenty of backups. I’d also offered to make arrangements [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Since I was 14, I’ve had different types of dreams. Some are a hodge-podge of daily life…just mundane things or fear dreams or simply recounting the day.
Some are prophetic—that first happened with my cousin Terri’s unexpected death when I was 14, followed by [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I love the afterglow of a good ritual.
The smell of bonfire smoke in my hair and dragon’s blood on my skin.
The way the evening started out cloudy until a certain point in the rit, and now there’s a huge circle around a crystal-clear [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
After the oh-so-sweet full moon ritual last night, I wondered how my next meditation would go. The answer? Strangely. I have to write this out in order to make sense of it.
I was in a building (here we go again with metaphysical houses), [...]
Continue reading about Meditative Work: Just More Weird-Ass Zombie Dreams
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Ah, political season, and the time to decide whom to vote against. That’s right. Against. Very few politicians seem noble enough to encourage me to cast a vote for them. The only political poll that counts (for me) is the one I take [...]
Continue reading about Negative Campaigns: Deciding Who to Vote Against
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
My daughter has asked me about some differences in adolescence between her generation and mine. I can’t say it’s true for all of my generation (small town, rural GA in the 1970’s) and hers (military and tourist-related town, Gulf Coast, FL in the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
A couple of years ago, when I was just starting to meditate on a regular basis, it was really hard for me to get into it. I’d always heard about people who would meditate and get the full-blown TV movie playing on their [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
When I was Southern Baptist, they called it something else. What was it now? “Division within the church?” “A divided house?” Something like that. Among pagans, it’s known as “witch wars.”
Regardless of the religion, they all seem to come down to one thing: [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Yay! I’ve been productive at home and I have things to show for it!
Of course, you can’t tell that by looking at my house. It’s completely trashed right now, what with furniture moved all over the place and stuff stacked to the ceiling [...]
Continue reading about I Run My Household (or Does It Run Me?)
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I don’t know if it’s my hopeless romanticism or if I simply have an old-fashioned streak, but honor, integrity, and nobility are important to me. And I’m discouraged that it’s something I have to look for—actively—in people I encounter in my every day [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Did you hear me screaming?
Four minutes into a phone conversation with my mother and I was slam-dunked into how things used to be. Daddy must be driving her nuts again, because our conversation was driving me nuts right away. In my last conversation [...]
Continue reading about Four Minutes to Losing My (Positive) Mind
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Over three months ago, around the end of July, my guides told me that the man in my meditations feared he would do something to hurt me, something that would break my heart. I asked if he had ever done anything to hurt [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I am observing someone, and apparently I’m as flummoxed as the person I’m observing.
The person I’m observing seems outgoing, friendly, carefree. He is always surrounded by friends and colleagues, never a dull moment in his social circle, though he might not think so. [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
I had a brief chat with a very insightful friend tonight—I’d shared some good news with her a couple of days ago—and I copied down snippets of things she said that I liked. These apply to me. Do they apply to you?
- Competition [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
WTF? Is there no one left in my present? Have I cleared those out? The Universe now is dredging up long- lost, decades-old relationships?
That’s the way it seems. The Gods are going way back
into my ancient past to show me my old relationships [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
My third workshop for the Florida Pagan Gathering was fairly crowded. I never saw several of the attendees at anything else related to the weekend events. Maybe they were aliens or angels or something just dropping by!
In any case, that was the workshop [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Doubt has been replaced with anger. The answer is, “Not no, but hell no!” Disappointment has been replaced with perspective. I know what I know, and I’m so fucking pissed at anyone who knows nothing about something and tries to tell me otherwise, [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Someone had encouraged me to look for a boyfriend this past week, given that I was going to be in the presence of so many sexy pagan men from all over Central Florida (not easy to find where I live) who have their [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
Crescent moons always speak of new beginnings. Something special is happening between now and the 29th of October, but I don’t know what.
The Orionid meteor shower is still going through the 29th, with the maximum already past. But that’s not the clue. No, [...]
