Whenever I’ve visited a place I consider sacred ground, I must both approach and leave it in a respectful way. Otherwise, I have a hard time absorbing the specialness of it and an even harder time breaking loose from it.
I first discovered that I needed a technique for getting the most out of such sites [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I have been silent long enough. I had decided to keep quiet as long as Daddy was alive because there were times, growing up, when I saw Daddy wave a gun to defend other people and I was afraid he’d be my hero and [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I’m checking out my mailbox for who’s been naughty or nice. Sometimes I get unsigned posts and anonymous emails through online forms. Those intrigue me.
The hate mail is easy to pick out right away and I usually know the identity of the sender before [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Everything in my bones says the next few months are critical. A major life turning point. Whatever new course is set in motion will happen then. And just for fun, I ran a planetary influences chart to check the astrological weather for me…and I [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
More has happened in the past year than I dreamed possible, and other things I’d dreamed have not yet come to pass, though I understand why now and they are just beginning to come into place now. I guess that makes this a pretty [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
What I really want to ask my mother is this: exactly how many people still owe you money and will you honestly tell me?
Just because Daddy’s dead now does not absolve the moral obligation to pay it back to her, and she could use [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I took my mom for a little drive around town so she could see the Christmas lights. Things had changed a bit since she was last able to be gone from home (and from Daddy’s bedside) long enough to see the lights, and we [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Occasionally, the Universe gives me these little presents of insight. They normally hit me like the proverbial anvil on the head. And they almost always come after a big breakthrough of some sort.
I’ve had that breakthrough in the past couple of days, though I’m [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I’d don’t believe you need a gazillion credentials to be good at the job you do, though if you’ve been recommended to me for brain surgery, I’m probably a little more concerned about your skills than your bedside manner. However, I do understand the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I’ve heard about the Law of Attraction for decades and for at least the last five or six years, as part of my spiritual study, I’ve understood it and tried to follow it.
Like many (most?) who are attracted to the Law of Attraction for [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
It hit me on my way home from work. I already know what my intentions (not resolutions) will be for 2007, and I’m going to get a head start on them. As of tonight.
Last year, the phrase I lived by was: risk everything! That [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
I remember the first time my Personal Obi-Wan used the term “Devil’s Play” in a conversation with me. She’s tried to tell me since then that it’s not always as with the motivations I’d thought, but I never understood that until the latest batch [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
When I took a look at Aislinn’s 14th birthday pictures, taken at my mom’s kitchen table, I understood at last that I am now in the Middle Age. It’s not a year or span of years or any way society or a medical record [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
You know what? I don’t really care if you wish me a “Merry Christmas,” a “Blessed Solstice,” or “Happy Holidays.” I don’t. But just wish it for me and don’t demand it of me. Such a wish, in my opinion, should be meant as [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
It’s the Winter Solstice, which literally translates “sun stoppage.” For most people, they think of this time in relation to birth—the birth of God, of the Year King, of a new year—but for me, it’s often been about the death of something, too.
There is [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Ye Gods, but that man is hot! He just wanted to remind me of that amid a very difficult week when raw sexuality has been the last thing on my mind. I guess he knew it would make me smile.
Last night, in a meditative [...]
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In a deep meditation, I ask for a glimpse of the future and what it can be, should I choose to invite it in. What I see is a world where my delight takes flight, a sense of lifting up and loving deeply. I [...]
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I heard a song today that made me realize I’ve known quite a few strippers over the past couple of years, and hey, ones I wasn’t even related to!
No, not currently “working” strippers and “exotic dancers” but rather, both men and women who once [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
In the What’s-with-People-these-Days department, I’ve noted a lot of my online friends enduring some rather invasive comments and actions from friends, coworkers, and rank strangers recently, leading many to wonder just how much of our current population was born in the proverbial barn.
Such nosy [...]
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My guides weren’t kidding about this month being all about business and money! In my monthly reading, I had wands and pentacles all over the place. I’m used to the past six months being about business and spirituality (a bazillion wands) but not so [...]
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Jillian frequently sends me emails that make me laugh. Out of the blue and hysterical. Like the funeral of the guy who wrote the “Hokey Pokey” and the problems that began when they put his left leg into the casket.
And then other emails are [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Grrrr. I’m still highly offended.
Out of deference to my children—and the several times this has happened—I’ll keep it vague, but I am righteously pissed off. Not that you read my journal. That would require you to actually explore my beliefs rather than violating your [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Some men don’t appreciate my sense of humor.
“Hey, gorgeous, I’m looking for some fun. Can you help me out?”
“Sure. Twenty feet to the west, and take a quick right.”
Hmmm, and they say men never ask for directions….
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Contrast.
Sometimes it’s easy to see the Law of Attraction at work, especially when certain women get what they want. You can see them living the life, even before it manifests in the physical, and you can see how they draw it to them.
Occasionally at [...]
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Somebody gave me some bad information about women over 40. A lot of somebodies. Over the years. I don’t blame them. Not really. They believed what they were telling me.
Growing up in a tiny Southern town that was timewarped by at least 25 years, [...]
