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I have developed a tremendous appreciation for honest men. Not honesty wielded as a weapon or as a shield but more like a cup of clear water for a thirsty woman.
Relationships are the best place to see honesty in action—and the different interpretations of honesty [...]
To everyone placing orders through our onsite store (thank you!), please keep in mind that this site is still in transition. The order buttons and downloads work but may re-route you to our old site before you get back to here. Don’t let that scare you–we’re combining several websites into one for your [...]
For those of you on my RSS feed, you’ll be seeing lots of posts coming through in the next few days as I move articles from other sites to this one. My plan is still to relaunch The Spiritual Eclectic under this new site in the next few weeks (I’ll tell you why in a [...]
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I don’t recall ever feeling better in my life than I do right now unless I was head-over heels in love or just hanging up from an editor’s call saying she wanted to publish my book or being wheeled out of the delivery room to see my newborn. [...]
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We’re relaunching this blog under a different site so please be patient while we make a few changes here and update links.
Support groups are supposed to help you out, right? Offer some help and emotional support from people who’ve “been there”? I’ve always been an advocate of them, particularly when they’re related to Scary Medical Stuff. I’m not so sure anymore.
I’m feeling a lot less stable tonight than before I joined. I [...]
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Continued from Part II of this series….
4. An unusual new sex trick. If he hasn’t obviously been reading a self-help book to spice up your relationship or searching such advice online, a new trick in his repertoire might be cause for alarm—especially if he seems to be well-practiced at [...]
I’ve been shying away from talking about certain subjects recently, and I promise I’m going to stop that. Right now.
I pulled a series of articles/posts because I was afraid they’d be misconstrued by somone they weren’t about and would cause more trouble. But it really doesn’t matter because I think anything I write about will [...]
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My apologies to my regular readers, especially those of you expecting a New Moon in Scorpio meditation for October. I’m in grieving mode right now and need some time to recouperate. The happiness I’ve wished for will have to wait–there’s a divine timing for everything, as I’ve been shown many times, and right now it’s time [...]
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This article continues the series of “Guess Who’s Coming to Your Spiritual Gathering” about the different types of people who often show interest in your circle, coven, church, or other spiritual get-togethers. Here’s the next batch!
4. The Yeah-Butter. This person seems honestly [...]
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***Aislinn contemplates the powers of air and water…and the future. Photo used with permission.***
At Shannon’s high school graduation, the top grads got a chance to make their speeches to family, friends, and faculty before going out into the future to change the world.
Back in 1980, when I graduated, I made a long speech that [...]
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I’ve come to trust my intuition more than ever in the past year. And at the same time, there are still the times when I’m unsure. And I like to be sure. I do.
How do you verify your intuition? If there’s a pattern to follow, then it tastes like it might be [...]
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I’m quite sure most people think I look at things quite differently. I think they’re right. I hung up the phone tonight after a fascinating one-hour phone conversation of “romantical nature” and thought, Wow, his root chakra’s REALLY active!
For the second time in a row, my weekend plans with Maverick have fallen [...]
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Here’s a replay of a previous post about a ritual from 2005, just because we have double full moons in Scorpio with a Taurus sun for the April-May 2008 time frame. This was during my Cancer Scare of 2005–turned out to be a caffeine-induced lump–but I was just coming to grips with starting over and how [...]
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As the Sun moves into Taurus 20 April, it’s time to celebrate with a give-a-way. Why? Well, because CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is my personal theme for this year and if you look, it’s not hard to find good things in life.
The prize is a pretty orange and blue Balance-and-Expression necklace by a local artist, as seen in [...]
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Maidens and Mother photo, copyright Thanksgiving 2007, Destin, FLorida.
That’s right: the real pagan pride is our children, whether they’re the children of our bodies or of our hearts. They are the next generation, the young ones who’ll take up our spiritual torches when we are enjoying our crone-age. This next generation that we are teaching and nurturing–whether [...]
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A witch by any other name…would smell as sweet?
On this site, you’ll often see us use certain terms interchangeably –Witch, Wiccan, and Pagan, for example–based on staff members’ personal belief systems,
but in reality, these terms aren’t always synonymous.
Yes, a Wiccan may call herself both a Witch and a Pagan.
Or not.
Pagan is [...]
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Twice in the past month, I’ve drawn the Two of Cups. It’s one of the most beautiful cards in my Arthurian Tarot deck. A man and woman stand together aboard a dragon-faced ship, locked in a deep embrace, her head against his chest, his hand curling around her head. They are in love, [...]
***Rev Edward Livingston and Lorna Tedder, photo by Aislinn Bailey***
How often does a conversation make you do a real double-take? You know, one of those “I’ve never thought of that before” moments?
I’ve always enjoyed talking to Edward, as in Rev Edward Livingston of the Fire Dance Church of Wicca, and I had the opportunity to [...]
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If you’d told me 6 months ago that I’d love Mondays–that they might even be my favorite day of the week–I would have said you were crazy. For good reason, too–I’ve hated Mondays for my entire life.
Here’s what’s wrong with Mondays…or what was wrong:
1. The weekends are never long enough. I hate [...]
Energy, love, and comfort go out to Maggie Shayne, (Witch Moon Rising) who lost her home and doggies to a fire Thursday night.
Maggie has always been a treasure to us, both at Spilled Candy and personally.
We love you, Maggie!
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Remember my vow to “do something new today”? I’m not able to do something new every day, of course, or even to find the time to figure out something new to do, but I have been leaving myself open to new adventures whenever they might crop up. I did this on my [...]
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Photo of LittleSprite’s Pink Altar
Written by Kristin Madden, author of Pagan Parenting and Pagan Homeschooling
We all have our altars, whether they are formal tabletop altars, talismans hung on a doorknob, Medicine pouches, or a subtle arrangement of crystals and feathers on a shelf somewhere. Altars serve as focal points for magic and as physical [...]
