Author · Astrologer · Essayist
Meaning-making across mind, body, and spirit.
Personal excavation leads to deeper evolution. Twenty years of essays, fiction, and unruly research — all in one place.
Lorna Tedder
“My purpose is to show you something new while I share my experiences and opinions, even at their rawest.”
Thousands of pages of original essays — unusual insights, deep inquiry, and life strategies for love, prosperity, happiness, or serenity. Twenty years on, still writing.
What I Write
Choose your way in.
Rite of Reckoning
Southern Gothic with bite. Betrayal, magick, and a Southern witch’s reckoning.
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Shielding for Empaths
Practical protection against negative energy and overwhelming emotions.
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Vertex, Anti-Vertex & the Fated Path
The complete guide to the “fated axis” of the birth chart.
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Speaking of Innovative Contracting
Hard-won truths from thirty-plus years in federal acquisition.
Browse all books →The Last Page Before Dawn
Unquiet thoughts, unruly research, and the fiction they become.
What If Being Alone Isn’t a Threat?
“You’ll be alone for the rest of your life,” he said, meaning it as a threat. It wasn’t. The punchline of someone else’s warning, met as a small private joke.
Read on →Southern Cemetery Etiquette
There’s a certain etiquette in Southern cemeteries. A long grassy road at sunset, summer haze blending lavenders and dusty blues, and what we owe the people who came before.
Read on →In Life, I’m a Regular
At this stage in my life, I’m a regular. Not a small, not a large, not average. The kind of regular you are at your favorite restaurant — knows the menu, willing to try the specials, exactly clear on what she wants.
Read on →A monthly letter
Slow correspondence from the desk.
Once a month — what I’m reading, a piece of new writing, the occasional early chapter. Quiet and considered. No popups.