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Two months ago, I participated in some “spiritual work” with some trusted spiritual leaders who always have an interesting point of view. I very much enjoy these sessions where I am a student rather than a teacher and where I am challenged to see things in a [...]
Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
My third workshop for the Florida Pagan Gathering was fairly crowded. I never saw several of the attendees at anything else related to the weekend events. Maybe they were aliens or angels or something just dropping by!
In any case, that was the workshop on building worm holes, Field [...]
The eyes are the windows of the soul, indeed! Yes, her eyes really are that color and those are lichens on the ground in this beautiful natural setting.
Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits.com, Niceville, Florida
Some cultures believe (or did initially) that a photographer could steal your soul if he [...]
Brace yourself. This is going to be controversial. It may make you cry, or it may make you angry, or–if you don’t believe in anything you can’t see–you may roll your eyes. In fact, if you’re not an open-minded person, just go ahead and click away from here now because there’s nothing in what I [...]
A few favorite cards from Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor Grimassi’s The Well-Worn Path deck
I have a lot of friends who read Tarot cards–and every last one of them is pretty good at it! Invariably, when we get together, we somehow end up drooling over the beautiful artwork of the newest deck among us [...]
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Can you feel psychic connections across time and space?
As in, can I connect with someone from 2 years ago or from 2 years from now? I don’t know.
I haven’t been able to, at least not much. Or have I just never really thought about what’s also known as energetic [...]
The unseen world around us is like this web except made of energy. Photo credit: Automania; creative commons license.
Empathy, empathic abilities, and what I call “energetic connections” (or emotional connections) between people are all about feeling what someone else is feeling. Some of us empaths, or “highly sensitive people,” have these abilities more than others, [...]
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Whether you call it psychic abilities, clairvoyance, or intuition, most of us have it—a least to some degree. A former circle-mate of mine used to call it “the gift of knowing.” She wasn’t what I would call a gifted psychic, but she did have what she described as [...]
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Visiting a psychic can be an incredibly bad thing in terms of the Law of Attraction, even if that psychic is the real deal. Whether it’s for entertainment, spiritual counseling, or just to talk through personal issues, a psychic advisor can help you attract what you want—or what you dread. [...]
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I believe in coincidences. And they believe in me.
I don’t believe they happen randomly, so I guess you could say that I don’t believe in them in that sense. Instead, I believe in them as messages and patterns. Or, if you will, gifts from the Gods. They are [...]
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If you’re psychic, how much of the story do you really know when you’ve seen only a flash of something? What do you disclose…and what do you interpret through your own filters? Photo of Lorna Tedder by Ais Portraits
Yep, I believe in psychics. Definitely. I’ve had enough of my own otherwise inexplicable coincidences, and several [...]
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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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I love this photo by Gaimpaolo Macorig (creative commons license) because there are blue skies all around…unless you focus on the more turbulent red that’s just a reflection in the glass.
I grew up in a small Southern Baptist church where the impending end of the world was prophesied every other year. I remember when the planets [...]
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There’s an edginess that’s been in the air for the past couple of hours. It’s the kind of feeling you get after a fight with a lover or when a dream just got deferred. I can’t pin it down but it’s been intense. Weighty. It’s nothing new…but I wasn’t [...]
Around the riverbend, life is sometimes pretty amazing.
Photo by Chan Worley, Copyright all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Continue reading about Why You Can’t Read your Future for Yourself (and Sometimes for Others)
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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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 [...]
