Category: Relationships
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A Breakthrough: "For the Highest Good of All" and Other Caveats
What I learned from my conversation with Dorothy was that I’ve become too enmeshed with the philosophies of some of my spiritual friends. That’s not uncommon for me, being a Double Pisces, because I do tend to mesh with others, and while that’s a lovely thing to happen in a romance, it’s not always the…
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The Metaphysics of Cheating
(Yes, S.B., this is for you…because we’re tired of your cell phone going off 30 times every morning!) Oh, the subjects that come up over lunch with a friend! Her live-in boyfriend has accused her of cheating and, honestly, she’s fed up. This time, it’s all because she didn’t respond immediately to his fifth…
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A Cleansing of Sorts
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Halloween, 2007; copyright Tedder/Bailey It’s 1 AM, the morning of Halloween. Halloween, not Samhain, for the Sun is not yet at 15 degrees of Scorpio. Something in the house is troubling me, taunting. Only now do I remember the talisman on my dresser. I’ve hardly slept at all in my room these past few…
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A Return to Happiness
Photo by acorna; creative commons license I temporarily gave away my power and my happiness, and it’s taken the past week to get it back and get to my previous place of serenity. (Sort of–I’m not quite there yet because there are things unsaid that I cannot say now.) The truth is, I’d been watching…
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Walking Away from Someone You Love (and Hate and Fear)
Photo by Lorna Tedder, copyright December 2006; Peaceful on the farm at sunset–a much gentler energy after Daddy died. I hated him. I loved him, too. But this is probably the first time in my life that I’ve been grateful that Daddy was a tyrant. It’s afforded me the opportunity to see his traits…