Continued from Behaving Yourself in Circle (Part 1 of 2 Parts)(Pagan Blog Project #3)
Solstice ritual circle set-up. Fire pit in the center of the circle, holiday lights around the circle and path.
Now for the rest of Lorna’s Rules to Behaving Yourself in Circle, and while it’s a long and painful list of don’ts, it’s most painful [...]
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If you know the photographer of the beautful picture to the left, please let me know so I can give credit. I have seen similar but have not found one exactly like this one that has been credited. This is the Glory Window at Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, symbolizing the Divine reaching down, or so [...]
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Back yard circle, Summer Solstice ritual.
I can’t believe I actually have to tell people how to behave. Really? I mean, really????
While I am very much a live-and-let-live kind of person and I don’t believe that there’s only one way to do most anything, certain behaviors bother the hell out of me and will [...]
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Much of my fiction, even my hardcore suspense novels, has a spiritual bent to it. For me, writing is a great way to immerse myself in different belief systems and explore different questions and different facets of answers through the lens of spirituality, whether it’s Christian-themed or the characters are Wiccan High Priestesses. It’s been [...]
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Leaves change late here in Florida. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder.
A few days ago, in spite of everything in my life being absolutely fantastic, I hit a couple of days of unexpected emotional turmoil. There was just no way to explain it and I couldn’t shake it for a day or two.
As usual, I like [...]
Continue reading about Sudden Emotional Turmoil? Where’s your Vertex? (Applied Astrology)
Dancing widdershins? Or going backwards? Photo from an evening walk at the January 2011 Full Moon, rising just beyond this sign.
For readers of The Spiritual Eclectic, here’s a freebie on January 13-14 — a pagan love story.
For as much magick as we work and work hard at, too, sometimes the hardest part is [...]
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Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith.
Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next bend? [...]
I understand. Books have become outrageously expensive, especially in the current economy. It’s the high cost of paper that publishers pass along to readers, returned books that are so bruised that they can’t be sold in that condition and thus the cost is passed along to readers, and the 45 to 70% that the middle [...]
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Be careful what you wish for, especially in how you frame your desire with words. Sometimes I think the Universe is sitting back, howling, slapping its all-powerful knee, and saying, “Hey, the Law of Attraction always works! You received exactly what you asked for!”
One of the things I’d put on my list of intentions for [...]
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Writing is my way of working through emotional or spiritual turmol, whether it’s fiction, essays, or the dozen and more non-fiction guides I’ve written. I’ve found my audience–both Christian and Pagan–and I appreciate them very much for their open-mindedness and willing to explore new aspects of spirituality. I used to blog about spiritual matters and various [...]
Continue reading about The Year in Faith: Pagan Blog Project Fridays Throughout 2012
I love fresh starts. And do-overs. I think most people do. There’s the fresh start of 1 November, Winter Solstice, 1 January, Spring Equinox, my birthday….you get the idea. This 1 January, I am applying my Fresh Start medicine to specific things, like new covers for books that have been out for a while, breathing [...]
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