Tag: healing
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Healing Yourself: Easing Dis-ease and Illness by Listening to How You Feel
Photo taken by camera phone at a beautiful lake near my house at sunset, April 2010, before the smell of oil tainted the air. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved. One of the most valuable things I’ve learned in the past year is that I can cure myself, that I do have that…
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Prayers, Rituals, and Spells for the BP Gulf Oil Spill
Enjoying the sugar-white sand of the Grayton Beach – Destin area at Thanksgiving, pre- Oil Spill. Photo copyrighted; all rights reserved. Since I posted A Pagan Point of View of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago, I’ve been inundated with requests for rituals, spells, and prayers–both pagan…
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Healing Old Wounds
Photo credit by publicinsomniac; creative commons license Healing old wounds of childhood trauma and self-esteem doesn’t come easily, but when it does come, it’s unexpected. Thinking back on my childhood, I might just as easily have been a child suicide. I remember thinking about it when I was nine years old, right after being humiliated…
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The No Longer List
As my body tries to heal, I find that the usual drains on my energy are too much for me and I need to conserve and focus on myself. Helping other people has been such a norm for so long that it’s hard to make the switch, but I am slashing through some of the…
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Dodging Lightning: Karma, Healing, and Addictions
Photo by recompose; creative commons license. One of my friends who is heavily into astrology tells me that for much of the year thus far and for the next few months, we are dealing with three strong influences in the cosmic weather—a conjunction or near-conjunction of the True Node (karma), Chiron (healing/wounds), and Neptune…