Author · Astrologer · Essayist
Meaning-making across mind, body, and spirit.
Personal excavation leads to deeper evolution. Twenty years of essays, fiction, and unruly research — all in one place.
Lorna Tedder
“My purpose is to show you something new while I share my experiences and opinions, even at their rawest.”
Thousands of pages of original essays — unusual insights, deep inquiry, and life strategies for love, prosperity, happiness, or serenity. Twenty years on, still writing.
What I Write
Choose your way in.
Rite of Reckoning
Southern Gothic with bite. Betrayal, magick, and a Southern witch’s reckoning.
Shielding for Empaths
Practical protection against negative energy and overwhelming emotions.
Vertex, Anti-Vertex & the Fated Path
The complete guide to the “fated axis” of the birth chart.
Contracting for Rapid Acquisition
Award contracts in days, not years — the rapid-acquisition playbook from a thirty-year DoD contracting officer.
New · Read Free On This Site
Read my novels free in the Library
Fifteen novels and novellas — free to read start to finish, right here on the site. No app, no account, no catch. The download is the only part you buy.
Browse the Library →The Last Page Before Dawn
Unquiet thoughts, unruly research, and the fiction they become.
Travel for Solar Return: Month Three and the Expanding Circle
Part of an ongoing experiment in relocation astrology. After three months, the structure still holds — but the circle around it is finally expanding outward.
Read on →What If Being Alone Isn’t a Threat?
“You’ll be alone for the rest of your life,” he said, meaning it as a threat. It wasn’t. The punchline of someone else’s warning, met as a small private joke.
Read on →Still Walking, Thank You Very Much
A red hiking pole from the Camino de Santiago became my mother’s, then mine — and an unexpected conversation with a 90-year-old neighbor about why we refuse the cane.
Read on →Explore by topic
A monthly letter
Slow correspondence from the desk.
Once a month — what I’m reading, a piece of new writing, the occasional early chapter. Quiet and considered. No popups.