Author: Lorna Tedder
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Why Some People Will Never Be "Happy"
Every time I turn around, there’s a new book out about how to be happy. It seems we’d have enough already, but the audience is not only vast but growing. To top it off, an acquaintance asks me if I’m happy and I find myself hesitating to answer. It’s not that I’m unhappy. Far from…
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The Kundalini Rise Is Rocket Fuel for a Blast from the Past
Photo of Beale AFB antennas by casch52 As with most Mercury Retrogrades, people from my past are coming out of the woodwork, but the most amazing thing was not the phone call I received late today but in what happened before. I’m left with an odd feeling of intense interest, annoyance, and a little bit…
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The Spiritual Ad Lib
Photo by Computer Science Geek Eclipses are wonderful times to harness the power of the moment for a personal new moon ritual. They also have a tendancy to surprise me with little messages that come up, sort of like a spiritual ad lib. Last night under a bright smattering of stars, with grass under my…
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The Miracle of Bad Things
Photo by Jonanamary This may be the most radical thing I’ve ever said, even by my own standards, but I caught a glimpse of something that shocked me. Bad things, I saw in that moment of clarity, are miracles in disguise. I’m not talking about death or illness–though I honestly know that they sometimes can…
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How to Make It Better
Photo by fdecomite By the end of the first hour at the office, I was feeling overwhelmed and didn’t like it very much. Not that anything was particularly any weightier than usual. It was just the annoying little time and energy consumers that plague most work days and add unnecessary stress. Most of them are…
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Morning Strategy Sessions with the Universe
Photo by MaddieDigital   On my way to work in the mornings, in the dark without a lot of traffic on the road, there seems to be much more time to think. It’s a quieter spot in the day, even though there’s really no obvious difference in driving to work 2 hours later. Yet, the energy…
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Fun and Games with Eclipses
Photo of the 3 October 2005 Eclipse by Victor Nuno For those of you who follow astrology and enjoy watching patterns, a lot is going on in the next couple of weeks. We just had Pluto enter business-minded, structured Capricorn, which will have interesting ramifications on the global turf or, if you prefer, the things…
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Photo by Howie Berlin Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she…
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Enjoying My Flaws
Photo by true2source I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between. They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size…
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Why I'm Not Looking for My "Other Half"
Photo by Dave Parker It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still…