Time for New Year’s resolutions and Burning Bowl intentions! It’s a great time of year to check your personal growth. Here, ducking out of a holiday party to send some cheer to absent friends.
How My Burning Bowl Ritual Began
Years ago, I made New Year’s resolutions. Usually the same ones, every year: lose weight, stop biting my nails, [...]
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I’m at the point in my spiritual life where I no longer need tools. Oh, don’t get me wrong–I love my tools just I still love the beauty of a well-crafted ritual. I just don’t use them much anymore. I haven’t needed to in several years, and when I do now, it’s sheer indulgence in Art [...]
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Enjoying the sugar-white sand of the Grayton Beach – Destin area at Thanksgiving, pre- Oil Spill. Photo copyrighted; all rights reserved.
Since I posted A Pagan Point of View of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago, I’ve been inundated with requests for rituals, spells, and prayers–both pagan and Christian–for the oil spill. [...]
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I stand with my toes in sugar-white sand and squint through bright sunrays at the turquoise-green waters. It’s eerily beautiful yet it feels more like a death watch for an old friend—not of natural [...]
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Once you get pretty good at understanding how the Law of Attraction works–or how magick works–or how prayer works, it can be a little amusing to see your desires given to you so soon after you ask. I am so amused tonight that I’m still laughing because apparently, I’m manifesting elephants to take care of [...]
SEE BOTH PHOTOS. At the Florida Pagan Gathering, these beautiful creatures stopped a few feet away from me to preen, so close I could have reached out and touched them. Both pictures, photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey; all rights reserved.
For a woman called “Trauma,” the acquisition of an Automated External Defibrillator has been an elusive [...]
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Today’s Book Spotlight is on Salt and Fire: Cleansing and House Purification Rituals. Lauren Hartford uses a “novel approach” to explaining how to perform a complicated (and possibly dangerous) ritual to cleanse your home. All details are provided in the form of a short novella, covering the materials needed, the actual process, the [...]
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Since when has Let Go and Let God become a synonym for Give Up?
Several years ago, I was facing an extremely shaky time when I was leaving a long-term marriage and starting a brand-new life. It was the first step in [...]
The “Light Altar,” a combination of a door mirror and three garden pedestals. Photo by Lorna Tedder.
Understand and amplify your magick and rituals by using the Law of Attraction, whether your intent is to manifest love, prosperity, healing, protection, or something else.
Making your rituals and spells work is easy if you understand Universal Law.
Ever since [...]
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I am truly blessed. I had the honor during this Solar Eclipse of January 2010 to facilitate the Third Degree Elevation of my youngest student, Lord Midlight, who began studying with me in August 2007. During this time, I watched him really come into his own, and especially as a powerful [...]
NASA photo: Earthrise
Super sensitive. That’s what I am. I’m still trying to assimilate the weirdness (thus far) from yesterday’s eclipse, August 5, 2009. I had some strange physical effects, and it felt like the veil between the worlds was thinner than ever yesterday. In fact, I know it was, based on what [...]
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The July Full Moon in Capricorn, aka the Buck Moon and sometimes called the Thunder Moon, occurs on July 7, 2009 at 4:22 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. Last month’s Full Moon was about telling your story the way you want it to be, even if it’s not always the way it’s [...]
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The May Full Moon, aka the [...]
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The April Full Moon, aka [...]
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The February Full Moon, aka the Full Snow Moon, occurs in Leo on February 9, 2009 at 8:49 Central time here in [...]
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“How can I release old resentments and anger?” a friend asked. She’s a very wise and together person, and very spiritual, so the question surprised me a little. There’s always that expectation, you know, that spiritual people don’t get angry or carry resentments but some wounds are deep and take [...]
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Every time there’s a New Moon, Full Moon, or an Eclipse, I get thousands of search engine hits from readers looking for rituals/meditations [...]
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I’ve always had a hard time delegating, and that probably explains problems I’ve had with both Christian prayer, Wiccan magick, and the Law of Attraction.
Among those who practice the Law of Attraction and those who practice Magick, whether they are WIccan or some other variety of paganism, I’ve been [...]
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Lorna Tedder, adding a little spice to life…or at least to a wonderful Winter Solstice feast. Photo by Aislinn Bailey; all rights reserved.
Most people I know make New Year’s resolutions, manage to give up on them in defeat within two weeks, and feel like failures for the rest of the year because they couldn’t manifest [...]
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Maybe prayer wasn’t what I thought it was. Prayer has always been a huge part of my life, whether I was devoutly Christian or devoutly Wiccan. You’d think I wouldn’t be discovering new insights into such a simple concept as prayer when I began my attendance of religious services at [...]
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Around the riverbend, life is sometimes pretty amazing.
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Inexplicably, things suddenly seem shinier than they have in previous years. Given the state of the world at the moment—and the state of my current social trend toward being, well, unsociable after several of my dearest ones had [...]
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The December Full Moon, aka the Full Cold Moon, occurs in Gemini on December 12, 2008 at 10:38 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. This Full Moon, I feel, is all about having an “idea of who we really are.”
Gemini is a sign of mental processes—communications, ideas, intellect, flexibility, adaptability, changeability. [...]
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Pausing on the beach on Thanksgiving Day, Grayton Beach, Florida, (c2008, by Shannon Bailey) …
(see second photo below)
This is a Powerful Pause. I’ve been paying attention to my intuition for several years now, and sometimes I’m able to step aside and take a look at what I “know” is coming as opposed to what [...]
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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 [...]
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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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