Category: Books
Posts about books — mine and others’. Behind-the-scenes notes on writing them, reviews of the ones that shape my thinking, and reflections on what gets put into print and what doesn’t. Browse the full catalog on the Books page, or read select titles free on-site in the Library.
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Nothing Will Satisfy
Uranus is stationing retrograde, meaning all that electric energy of the unexpected is turned inward and we’ll see a lot of strange personality transformations between now and Thanksgiving. Lots of strange and intense energies surrounding us these days. I wonder if that has anything to do with this feeling of not being satisfied with anything…
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The Boy Finds His Heart— Prince of Cups
I ask to see a year into the future…late Summer or Autumn of next year. I want to know what happens to my Prince of Swords. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees — an emotional short read about love, healing, and a little magic. Available direct from the author → And this is the…
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The Wanted Poster: Prince of Swords
I’m experimenting, testing, trying my intuition. My clairvoyant friends tell me they’ve seen this man in my future and they try to describe him but to no avail. My kingdom for a psychic pal who can draw! The Prince of Swords (in the Witches’ Tarot deck) has been presented to me recently as someone very…
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Working Through: Breaking Through
Thursday night, driving home From the Bookshelf Rite of Awakening — Southern Gothic with bite, Book One of the Rites of Passage. Available direct from the author → Or read it free in my online Library. I’m not sure, but I think I understand this up-and- down pressure in the past week, the constant waffling…
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Working Through: Directing Energy
Thursday, lunchtime, walking between buildings to yet another meeting. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees — an emotional short read about love, healing, and a little magic. Available direct from the author → Scientifically, I must decide where to allocate my energy. That’s what my current dilemma boils down to. I have a lot…
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Working Through: Moving the Earth
Driving to work, I waffle by the hour about a new man, then ten minutes later, again. I’ve never been this indecisive. Something is shifting. Someone is going to make the earth move.
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Manifesting Men
While in Daytona, Maggie Shayne reminded me of one of the earliest lessons I had in magick—structuring reality…also known as manifestation. It’s not that I had forgotten it. At this point in my spiritual path, it’s inherent in everything that I do, but I needed to be reminded of the process, how things move through…
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Lending History to a Stranger
Last fall, a colleague asked if I was still friends with a mutual acquaintance of ours. I confessed to her that no, I’d ended the friendship because the person wasn’t what I thought she was and that she had lied to me. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees — an emotional short read about…
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Dreams…Again
He’s back—the man who haunts my dreams. I never see his face, but he’s there, right there next to me. From the Bookshelf Give Your Life Direction — 23 life-coaching tips to get unstuck and moving again. Available direct from the author → We’re going somewhere. We have to get from here to there. But …
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Squish
Wildlife totems have been everywhere and, Nature Girl that I am, I like it. A lot. Except of course, when animal parents are irresponsible. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees — an emotional short read about love, healing, and a little magic. Available direct from the author → Deer. Baby deer. Lots of baby…
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I Dream of Monks and Cinderella
I am helping him pack. Who? I don’t know. From the Bookshelf Give Your Life Direction — 23 life-coaching tips to get unstuck and moving again. Available direct from the author → He’s just the man in the dream, one of these surreal dream-visions I sometimes have. He’s so close that I can feel the…
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The Lord and Lady of Incredibly Bad Timing
A year ago today, with sunset impending. From the Bookshelf Give Your Life Direction — 23 life-coaching tips to get unstuck and moving again. Available direct from the author → Shannon says I remind her of the calendar because I remember past calendar dates and very, very specific times and am so attuned to them.…
