Category: Magic
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Maybe Prayer Isn’t What I Thought It Was
 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 I wouldn’t be discovering new insights into such a simple concept as prayer when I began my attendance of religious…
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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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A Frustrating Moment of No Movement…or Is It a Powerful Pause?
Pausing on the beach on Thanksgiving Day, Grayton Beach, Florida, (c2008, by Shannon Bailey) … (see second photo below) This is a Powerful Pause. I’ve been paying attention to my intuition for several years now, and sometimes I’m able to step aside and take a look at what I “know” is coming as opposed to…
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Ghosts in the Mirrors
Click on the pics in this post for larger views. Back in college, one of my term projects was to find and point out erotic objects in advertising as part of my demonstration of how subliminal advertising works. Yes, there were plenty of phallic symbols–some VERY plain–in the shadows and curves of liquor ads. I’ve…
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Looking for a Sign?
Photo by stitch; creative commons license. If you’re looking for a sign, this is it. How many of us are torn—or think we are—about a direction to take, and so we look for “signs” that will push us in one direction or the other? We already know the answer but either don’t trust our intuition…