Month: September 2012
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How a Pagan Goes to Church: Woodpecker Totem Song
In this week’s Cathedral of Nature, I was greeted by my resident woodpecker in the backyard. Technically, he wasn’t in my back yard. This tree is on community property about six inches from my property line. The pine died around the time Hurricane Opal (1995) hit my home and, while I removed other damaged trees…
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Spiritual Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Can Never Go Back the Way You Came
You can dream, but you can never go back the way you came. Particularly if you are referring to a spiritual pilgrimage like the Camino de Santiago. We were only about 20 kilometers outside of Santiago de Compostela, our destination, when we began to notice an occasional backpacking pilgrim walking against the flow of traffic…
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Intimate Acts of Writers: Sharing Naked Creativity
Do you remember sharing your first venture into creativity? What that was like? Who shared it with you? Their response to you? Often the first venture into the intimacy of creativity happens as children, and most often with our primitive artwork. It is an encounter with Deity that often is never lost, but as children,…
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Goodbye to Toxic People from your Past
Say goodbye to toxic people from your past! You’re drained, exhausted and confused. If this is how you feel after spending time with someone, chances are that they are toxic. You know this person is not good for you, but how do you get away? This person might tell you things like if you loved…
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Interview with a Pagan Bookseller: Trends in Spiritual Books
Pagan bookseller Debra Strasser is my go-to person to find out what’s happening with spiritual books, whether Christian, Pagan, or other religions. She blogs at The 5 Things I Need for Pagan Blog Project 2012 and at 200 Books I Own and Haven’t Read. When I asked her if I could use her real name…
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Divorce on Facebook: the Usual Reason Marriages Break Up
The sad thing is that some of these couples might actually be able to work things out or at least part amicably if their Facebook friends and family would stay out of it and stop bringing more hostility into an already bad situation. Divorce on Facebook turns into a divorce by Facebook, often. Mutual friends…
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Change Is Good
Dear readers: I’ll be making some changes at THE SPIRITUAL ECLECTIC over the next couple of weeks. I’m in the mood for a new look and, as new developments occur in my life and what I enjoy doing, I’ll be adding those things to the site. Plus, funny enough, I couldn’t possibly be busier, so…
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Teresa Giudice Reality versus Real Life Reality
Teresa Giudice, I am not. You’ve probably heard of Teresa Guidice. It’s hard to miss her. Teresa Giudice on the magazine covers in the checkout lane at the grocery store. Teresa Giudice on the magazine someone leaves dangling over the toilet paper in the restrooms at work. Teresa Giudice, everywhere! A few nights ago while…
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Sacred Space: An Outdoor Altar
A simple and discreet outdoor altar To you, it’s a very simple, very discreet outdoor altar and stone circle. To your neighbors, your in-laws, your kids’ friends, and the meter reader, this arrangement looks like a stone bench or possibly a table in your garden, and a circular path. All you need to shift between…
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Interview with Pagan Author Christine Ashworth
Below: the book trailer for Demon Soul by Christine Ashworth — if you like True Blood, you’ll like Christine’s paranormal romances. Christine Ashworth: A Brief Interview Author Christine Ashworth is the first in my new interview series with writers, teachers, musicians, artists, and readers who are either pagan or fit the “Spiritual Eclectic” description. Christine…
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How a Pagan Goes to Church: September Spiders
This week in the Cathedral of Nature…. Here in hot, sunny Florida, the temp has suddenly cooled. This is why I love September and October so much–that feeling of abundance and harvest, yet the stifling heat is gone. September seems to be full of spiders! Somehow, I always associate September with hurricanes, golden orb spiders,…
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Healthy Homemade Chocolate Candy
I promised you my favorite healthy homemade chocolate candy recipe, didn’t I? I’ve been tweaking this one for about 2 years, and I’ve found a version that suits my particular health needs perfectly. Translation: no gluten so that I’m not sicksicksick, no sugar so my blood glucose doesn’t soar, and extra virgin coconut oil which…
