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Eclectic Spirituality: What It Isn’t, What It Is, and Why It’s Important

March 11, 2012 · by Lorna Tedder · in **Most Popular**, Pagan Blog Project

Over the course of two weeks back in 2009, three strangers on separate blogs and articles referred  to me as “the Mother of the Spiritual Eclectic Movement” or “the Mother of Eclectic Spirituality.”   I…

The High Priestess Speaks: When the Student Is a Disappointment

September 27, 2011 · by Lorna Tedder · in Magic, Rituals

I’m at the point in my spiritual life where I no longer need tools.  Oh, don’t get me wrong–I love my tools just I still love the beauty of a well-crafted ritual.  I just don’t…

Teenage Mutant Christians? Why Do Christians Really Leave the Faith?

August 27, 2010 · by Lorna Tedder · in Serene Living

Full moon over a windmill on a sweet evening stroll….. When I spotted the CNN headline, More teenagers adopting ‘mutant’ Christianity, followed by “Author:  More teens becoming ‘fake’ Christians,”  I inwardly groaned and wondered if…

A Pagan Point of View of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

May 18, 2010 · by Lorna Tedder · in Magic

All photos on this page taken between 1993 and 2009 of Lorna Tedder, Shannon Bailey, and Aislinn Bailey are copyrighted; all rights reserved. I stand  with my toes in sugar-white sand and squint through bright…

Starting a Spiritual Group and Getting the Energy Just Right

February 25, 2010 · by Lorna Tedder · in Energy, Relationships, Rituals, Tarot

Jasmine incense, right after one of my famous Sunday Night Gatherings.  This smoke art is copyrighted by Aislinn Bailey, used with permission. When I was first looking for a like-minded spiritual group in Northwest Florida,…

“Let Go and Let God” Is Not a Synonym for “Give Up”: Christianity, Wicca, and the Law of Attraction

January 24, 2010 · by Lorna Tedder · in Law of Attraction, Magic

Photo Copyright by alicepopkorn; creative commons license. Please check out the artist’s work–it’s beautifully spiritual. Since when has Let Go and Let God become a synonym for Give Up? Several years ago, I was facing…

Blessings to the Third Degree

January 17, 2010 · by Lorna Tedder · in Magic, Rituals

Photo by Ais Portraits. I am truly blessed.  I had the honor during this Solar Eclipse of January 2010 to facilitate the Third Degree Elevation of my youngest student, Lord Midlight, who began studying with…

Maybe Prayer Isn’t What I Thought It Was

December 13, 2008 · by Lorna Tedder · in Magic, Personal Evolution

  Photo by pinkcigarette; creative commons license Maybe prayer wasn’t what I thought it was.  Prayer has always been a huge part of my life, whether I was devoutly Christian or devoutly Wiccan.  You’d think…

Quick! Get your "Evil" Books Here!

November 17, 2008 · by Lorna Tedder · in Books

These were letters to complain about customer service, for example.  I’d come home incensed and spend the rest of the day upset, and much of it exorcising this demon by writing it out in the…

A Time and a Place for Magick

November 15, 2008 · by Lorna Tedder · in Personal Evolution, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Serene Living

Amazing Photo by Stephen Poff, creative commons   license, at http://flickr.com/photos/stephenpoff/2761284719/ Many a false step was made by standing still. -Fortune Cookie Sometimes you have to pull yourself out of the Ether to make things happen. …

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