Tag: ritual
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Florence + the Machine: When a Concert Becomes a Ritual
At a Florence + the Machine concert, I recognized the same charged collective energy I’d felt in Southern Baptist tent revivals and large Wiccan gatherings. Different traditions, same underlying current—songs functioning as spells and prayers.
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New Year’s Resolutions, the Burning Bowl, and Personal Growth
Time for New Year’s resolutions and Burning Bowl intentions! It’s a great time of year to check your personal growth. Here, ducking out of a holiday party to send some cheer to absent friends. How My Burning Bowl Ritual Began Years ago, I made New Year’s resolutions. Usually the same ones, every year: lose weight,…
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Eclipse Rituals and Unexpected Insights
I hadn’t planned a Full Moon ritual for the eclipse on 21 December 2010–not because I didn’t recognize its importance this year but because I wanted to incorporate that energy into my annual “Burning Bowl” ritual at a gathering in my home the following night. All I’d planned for the eclipse was to stay up…
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Winter Solstice Full Moon Eclipse and a Ritual for 21 December 2010
“I’m living in a powder keg and giving off sparks….” — “Total Eclipse of the Heart” This year’s Winter Solstice promises to be an extra powerful one for setting your intentions for 2011, especially with the boost not only of a Full Moon but a Full Lunar Eclipse occurring 21 December 2010. This one will…
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Why Can’t I Be a Normal Girl?
Argh. I am so freaking tired. The energies have been so heavy today, following the Virginia Tech massacre as well as things closer to home that aren’t mine to deal with but I get them anyways…. I’d hoped to spend some time in ritual tonight, needed to for a calmer footing, but couldn’t find…
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Romance of Nature
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. How strange it is, this juxtaposition of nature and technology. It is midnight on the last day of March, and I am sitting at the top of a green and grassy hill, alone, with my laptop and a great wireless connection. The moon is almost…
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The Joy of Knowing
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. I’m still feeling a bit euphoric, though I cannot explain why except to say that I know some things I’ve wanted most in the past year are now manifesting. Not that anyone else can see them or that logic would dictate. If I said what…
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Beltane Ritual Memories, From 2007
From the upcoming book, Passion to the Third Degree; Originally published in 2007. I am exhilarated, mellow, happy, calm, peaceful, powerful, amazed, excited, sleepy, and awake all at once. Ah, I feel wonderful. You know it’s a great ritual when you feel the energy coursing through your body to the extent that your whole body…
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July 2009 Full Moon and Eclipse Ritual/Meditation
The July Full Moon in Capricorn, aka the Buck Moon and sometimes called the Thunder Moon, occurs on July 7, 2009 at 4:22 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. Last month’s Full Moon was about telling your story the way you want it to be, even if it’s not always the way it’s…
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May 2009’s Full Moon Rituals and Meditations for the Flower Moon
The May Full Moon, aka the Flower Moon, occurs in Scorpio on May 8, 2009 (May 9 elsewhere) at 11:01 PM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. This Full Moon, I feel, is all about…speaking our truth and using that truth as a sword to separate ourselves from that which would hold us back.…
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Better than New Year’s Resolutions–A Ritual that Really Works
Most people I know make New Year’s resolutions, manage to give up on them in defeat within two weeks, and feel like failures for the rest of the year because they couldn’t manifest a handful of changes in their lives in a few days’ time. I do something different, something that really works for me.…
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A Breakthrough: “For the Highest Good of All” and Other Caveats
What I learned from my conversation with Dorothy was that I’ve become too enmeshed with the philosophies of some of my spiritual friends. That’s not uncommon for me, being a Double Pisces, because I do tend to mesh with others, and while that’s a lovely thing to happen in a romance, it’s not always the…
