Category: My Life
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Lessons From the Ants – Today’s Animal Medicine
One of my cats is a food monitor. He lets me know whenever the food in their bowls gets below a certain acceptable level, or if the food has been out too long and has gone stale. When this happens, he’ll mew pitifully (which is so cute because he’s 18 lbs and has a kitten…
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Why I Read Tarot
I’ve been reading the tarot cards for a really long time – well over 10 years, which is a long time to be doing anything, really. I love reading the tarot cards – I find them to be an excellent resource to give you an objective perspective on a situation and to help explore the…
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It’s Raining Runes!
So, I’ve decided to dust off my runes and re-learn to use them in readings. It’s been mentioned a few times to me that I should, so I’m really going to do it again. I haven’t read them since I was much much younger so I’m pretty excited about it. But why am I mentioning…
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Of Forgetting and Forgiving
It’s a sad fact of life that, sooner or later, someone is going to hurt you in some way. It happens to all of us. Sometimes it’s intentional, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes they know it will happen, sometimes they couldn’t have predicted it. Sometimes they say they’re sorry, sometimes they don’t. But that hurt generates…
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Birthdays – Time For a Jumpstart
My birthday was this week, so I thought I’d discuss the importance of birthdays. Birthdays are like your own personal New Year’s Day. One year has ended and a whole other one is beginning. Before your birthday, you should have spent some time clearing out the old, the unused, the useless, and the unwanted. You…
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Jealousy and Shame
I was recently speaking to a friend of mine and she tends to do this thing where she compares her situation to other people’s and allow the comparison to cause jealous or shameful feelings. She feels ashamed of being upset about her problems when there are so many people out there with far worse problems…
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Be Kind to Yourself
We are so often difficult on ourselves. Society teaches us that we need to excel, be the best, do everything right. Our families have high expectations of us and we don’t want to let them down. We have expectations of ourselves, goals, and desires. There’s a lot of room there for failure, for not being…
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The Gift of Gratitude
In our modern society of run-and-chase-the-goal, we rarely take the time to reflect on the gifts we’ve been given and the goals we’ve achieved. A lot of this is just being too busy, and some of it is never being able to have enough. There are other factors as well – rising costs of living,…
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The Sacred Spiral
The spiral is one of 5 geometric shapes that are seen all throughout ancient cultures and the symbolism of the spiral changes from culture to culture. The spiral represents journeys of all types. This can represent journeys of the physical and the spiritual kind and can travel both inward and outward. Since it represents journeys…
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August is a #11/2 Month
This year’s August is an 11/2 month, which means exciting things for the world! It means that this would be an ideal time to focus on spirituality, divine knowledge, connecting to the Universal Source, and generally working in that area and increasing this bond. As 11s are also 2s, it also means that this is…
