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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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If you’re looking for a sign, this is it.
How many of us are torn—or think we are—about a direction to take, and so we look for “signs” that will push us in one direction or the other? We already know the answer but either don’t trust our intuition or [...]
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The November Full Moon, aka the Beaver Moon or the Frosty Moon, occurs in Taurus on November 13, 2008 at 12:17 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle.
Taurus is a sign of solidity, sensuality, earthiness, pleasure, enjoyment. Sounds great, huh? Except that, astrologically, this moon has some difficult angles, plus the Sun is [...]
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When I talk about feeling energies or “energetic connections,” non-empaths usually think I’m crazy. They don’t understand if they’ve never experienced their world through that particular sense, much as a man blind from birth might not understand when I talk about the subtle hues of different colors. Experiencing energy is [...]
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When I first began meeting “intuitives,” I heard several of them say that they could not read their own futures. I thought it was odd at the time, given that some of them had told me amazing things about my own life–right down to names, ages, locations, specific projects [...]
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About a decade ago, my friend Vicki Hinze had a literary agent, Helen Breitweiser, who was a blast to be around. Helen was young, hip, intelligent–and had a mouth on her. That was part of her charm. (In my opinion, at least.) One of her favorite phrases was to refer to someone’s literary masterpiece as being [...]
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It’s important that we as both seekers and teachers don’t become so secure in our own little universes that we fail to sample the knowledge of another universe. I have made some of the greatest progress on my own spiritual journey by talking to people outside my circle and sometimes even [...]
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Halloween, 2007; copyright Tedder/Bailey
It’s 1 AM, the morning of Halloween. Halloween, not Samhain, for the Sun is not yet at 15 degrees of Scorpio.
Something in the house is troubling me, taunting. Only now do I remember the talisman on my dresser. I’ve hardly slept at all in my room these past few weeks, choosing instead [...]
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I temporarily gave away my power and my happiness, and it’s taken the past week to get it back and get to my previous place of serenity. (Sort of–I’m not quite there yet because there are things unsaid that I cannot say now.) The truth is, I’d been watching my [...]
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Oh, the power of words! Especially when said in a ritual circle.
As my Circle grows, I find it helpful to discuss situations with other High Priests and High Priestesses because at some point, I’m going to be asked a question I really cannot answer and that the questioner really [...]
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Not everyone keeps a Book of Shadows in the “traditional” way. You know, the hardback tome of paper, perhaps even wrapped in some kind of animal hide or decorated with all sorts of magickal symbols.
In my guest room, affectionately known as “Brian’s Room” because of his extended summer stays, I [...]
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“You have an interesting life path,” a clairvoyant friend told me 3 weeks ago. Her eyes widened and then she chuckled as she said it. She never told me what she saw that made her laugh. I could use a laugh about now.
Perhaps it was that life has a way [...]
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Clarity is a beautiful thing…eventually. To be honest, the fog can be prettier but sometimes it’s best if you see the truth.
It’s one of those things that highly spiritual people ask for. They don’t ask for money or power. They go for the more spiritual quality that can help [...]
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I’ve been trying to explain the Wiccan degree system of formalized training to a new student who is excited about taking this important step on her spiritual path in late December. I think it would be prudent of me to make sure I space out the rest of the Initiations [...]
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For four or more years I had potential students come to me, asking me to teach them, to Initiate them into my sacred path. Some wanted power–for revenge, for money. Some wanted me to arrange my circle to suit their personal needs and no one [...]
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The Hunter Moon, the full moon after the Harvest Moon, occurs in Aries on October 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. Aries, as the first sign of the Zodiac, has its own themes of exuberance and fresh starts–think of a four-year-old boy [...]
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Pagans and New Agers just loooooove to “send energy.” Me included. It makes me feel a little less powerless when someone else is in trouble, and if they use the energy in a way that’s helpful to them, I’m glad. But it’s also a sign of how codependent [...]
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It was Edain McCoy who first called my attention to it—the link between the current economy and prosperity spells. I honestly had not noticed. And maybe that’s a good thing.
I’d just returned from a trip to the Daytona-Orlando area where New Age shop owners talked of the current economy, of [...]
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“Nature abhors a vacuum.” –Francois Rabelais
Or to put it another way: When one door closes, another opens. Or, when one door closes, a window opens. Or to put it the Lorna-way, When one door closes, find me a sledgehammer because I’m making a hole in [...]
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Highly recommended–here’s a beautiful book for the Autumn season, beginning today!
Mabon: Pagan Thanksgiving (Revised)
Author: Kristin Madden
Trade Paperback, 6×9, 280 pages
Publisher: Spilled Candy Publications
ISBN 978-1-892718-68-6
Acclaimed homeschooling author Kristin Madden shows adults, parents, teachers, and children how to celebrate the Autumn of the year with myths surrounding Mabon (the Harvest), customs and traditions from around the world, recipes, [...]
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Have you been absolutely exhausted recently and can’t figure out why? Extra sleep and vitamins aren’t cutting it?
I’ve been that way for a couple of weeks, and I’ve cheerfully blamed the guy I’m seeing because he’s been exhausted, too. But my Shannon called from college and has also been exhausted, regardless [...]
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If you’ve followed my previous visions for Full Moon meditations and rituals, you know that I’ve been following an interesting interactive series of meditative ideas, presented in terms of a river as emotion associated with the moon’s new and full phases, as well as eclipses. I have now gone “around [...]
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AND SHE WILL ALWAYS CARRY ON
SOMETHING IS LOST
BUT SOMETHING IS FOUND
THEY WILL KEEP ON SPEAKING HER NAME
SOME THINGS CHANGE
SOME STAY THE SAME
–”Hymn to Her,” The Pretenders
If you know me well enough to know what happened with my last relationship and still know me well enough to know what’s happening in [...]
I’ve been through many, many hurricanes, and Hurricane Gustav has made me feel anxious since it was a blip in the Atlantic that no one but the online meteorologists were talking about. It’s as if something energetic, something in the Ether, gets all worked up, as if the energy of an area is preparing for [...]
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