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This is a call back to something I wrote back in 2016. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the large vast scene we call ‘paganism’ is also immensely diverse. There’s an old line you may have heard that sums it up beautifully: ask 10 pagans what paganism means and you’ll get 13 answers.
This post continues my thoughts on ways to break the negative feedback loop of DOOM. Because There are things we can do to reduce the stress of modern life. Even dissipate it completely. (First post is here.)
You hear it all the time, from everyone you know: “I’m so stressed.” “I feel overwhelmed.” “I can’t get caught up.” Stress is the defining characteristic of the 21st century, and sometimes it seems impossible to manage, which creates more stress — I call it the negative feedback loop of DOOM. When we are stressed […]
. . . if my apartment caught fire.
Next week Mercury, the planet governing communication and travel, will move “backwards” from March 1th until the evening of April 6th.
Writers have odd lives in a very particular way: we must simultaneously live in the future and present while creating new realities entirely.
Just at the beginning of January my husband’s mother died suddenly. (It was a situation where she didn’t feel well, went to the hospital, and was dead a few hours later.) As one does, the household dropped everything and figured out how to get from the western edge of Europe to the southeastern United States […]
I’ve got some new people joining me on various social platforms, so it seems like a good time to be explicit about how I am and act within the world, and to the extent that I can control. A Statement of My World View
I’m not a professional astrologer, but I’ve been working with (and teaching) this fascinating system for decades. One area it can be used for is finding the best time for a surgery or medical procedure, because there are a number of “rules.” (Rules is in quotes because we don’t always get to choose the time […]
In just a few days most people will celebrate a new year. Some large number of people will also make promises about things they will do to make changes in their life. I am not one of them.
