Tag: Winter Solstice
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Damn You, Law of Attraction, Damn You
Be careful what you wish for, especially in how you frame your desire with words. Sometimes I think the Universe is sitting back, howling, slapping its all-powerful knee, and saying, “Hey, the Law of Attraction always works! You received exactly what you asked for!” One of the things I’d put on my list of intentions…
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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…
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Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Yourself this Year
This photo is a great example of #9 below. Copyright by Lorna Tedder. The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Color Mobile Scanner: The smallest ScanSnap document scanner—multi-page, double-sided scanning, all sized of documents from receipts to legal paper, fast, up to 10 sheets at a time, up to 600 dpi. It’s a teensy tiny…
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Where Others Fail to Do You In, the Self-Saboteur Takes Over
Photo credit by TimOve; creative commons license From the upcoming book,23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It It’s easy to blame all the lying, cheating, mean bastards out there, but if they’re not bringing us down every chance they get, don’t worry: we’ll do it to…
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Better than New Year’s Resolutions–A Ritual that Really Works
Lorna Tedder, adding a little spice to life…or at least to a wonderful Winter Solstice feast. Photo by Aislinn Bailey; all rights reserved. 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…
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Winter Solstice Comes Early?
Around the riverbend, life is sometimes pretty amazing. Photo by Chan Worley, Copyright all rights reserved. Used with permission. Inexplicably, things suddenly seem shinier than they have in previous years. Given the state of the world at the moment—and the state of my current social trend toward being, well, unsociable after several of my dearest…
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Kristin Madden’s Pagan Celebrations Cookbook, Festival Feasts, Is Now Available!
I know, I know. After everything you’ve heard about Kristin being all evil from those Generation Hex authors, you probably expected her new cookbook to be about newt eyes and Hansel and Gretel cookies, but nope, sorry. Instead, you get 188 pages of really wonderful and different recipes that will keep you from ever having…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Photo by auntikhaki; creative commons license. AND SHE WILL ALWAYS CARRY ON SOMETHING IS LOST BUT SOMETHING IS FOUND THEY WILL KEEP ON SPEAKING HER NAME SOME THINGS CHANGE SOME STAY THE SAME –“Hymn to Her,” The Pretenders If you know me well enough to know what happened with my last relationship and still know…
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Once in a (Scorpio) Blue Moon
Photo by robwallace May 19-20 (depending on your time zone) marks the second Sun-Moon combination of Taurus and Scorpio in a month, and I’m always surprised at how many new readers drop in to find a ritual or a good ritual tip for this Full Moon. This one, being an even more intense Scorpio…