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Maggie Shayne
- Mar 6, 2021
- 5 min
Thanks before eating?
Food and I have a new relationship. It used to be love-hate, but now it’s just love-love. I changed my deepest feelings about food, and that changed everything else. How it happened and how to apply this method to any area where you feel stuck. The Old I’ve been a lifelong dieter. Every day of my fifty-nine years, I’ve either been eating what I love and feeling bad about my body, or starving myself and being happier with my form, but feeling bad about depriving myself of thin
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Brand New Book!
Our series of annuals has grown with the release of A YEAR OF BLISS, Volume 3. It’s on sale now in eBook format at Amazon for Kindle, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Kobo for Kobo eReaders, and GooglePlay for android devices. The Apple iBooks version is being slow, but it should be live there any time. It’s only in eBook for now, but there will be print copies eventually. We had a heckuva time figuring out how we could refer to 2020 as a year of bliss, but I think we managed to ha
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 13, 2021
- 6 min
Year of the Ox
In yet another moment of putting last year behind us, we have just ended the Year of the Rat, and are now fully in the year of the Ox. You dirty rat... Even if you didn’t know last year was the Year of the Rat, you probably knew last year was one ratty-ass year. I mean, really, what do In Chinese lore the animals were in a race to reach the emperor. The first 12 to get to him would be in the royal guard or something, but it didn’t matter because it was a small honor compared
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 6, 2021
- 5 min
Partying Like it’s My Birthday
Because it actually is my birthday. I’m having all the feels. 59. Holy fork. So I’m pondering, as one does on birthdays, on what 58 brought. A lot of contrast. (I just started listing it all. Um, no. Backspace, backspace, backspace…) The details of the “problems” are not the part that’s important. EVER. It’s what the problems made us want that counts. Last year’s challenge was practicing what I preach. I mean, I always try to do that. My success varies. But last year, I stru
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Ripples, Swells, and Jingle Bells
It seemed like a small kindness, at the time, decades ago, buying a gift for some kids who didn’t have much. But the youngest one contacted me later. All grown up, she was spending her time working to give gifts to kids who didn’t have much. She told me that long ago gift had been magical to her, and had touched her deeply. It had stayed with her all this time, and made her want to help other kids who needed what she’d needed that year. It broke my heart with joy to know that
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
As above, so below, duh
As this year winds down, I’ve begun trying to truly follow my intuition and heart, and do what I’m most compelled to do each day, regardless of whether it seems productive or not. Mostly, these days, it does not feel like anything I would call “work.” Part of me is afraid of going broke, but that part only crops up once in a while. Mostly, I’m confident that I’m being led to a huge breakthrough in some area of my life. I’ve used this method to greater and lesser degrees over
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 10, 2020
- 7 min
66,000 Pounds in NY Harbor
Everyone is talking about the humpback whale in New York Harbor, breaching and tail-slapping in front of the Statue of Liberty, and of course, being an everyday Mystic, I immediately wanted to explore the metaphysical symbolism. Whales in NY Harbor This is not a new thing. Whales get into the harbor from time to time and usually get back out into the open Atlantic again without too much trouble. This time, with so little traffic in the harbor due to Covid, there’s even less d
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 1, 2020
- 3 min
Word for the Year
A group of friends and I have a tradition. We each choose a kind of a focus word for the new year. Usually it’s a word we think of as a goal. Something we want to do more of or do better Last year I chose “Balance.” It seems to me, at the end of 2020 as I look back at the year I’ve had, that the word we choose teaches us something. We don’t necessarily become more of our word, although sometimes we do. But sometimes, I think we just seem to inhale the word. We assimilate its
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Maggie Shayne
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Winter, Solitude, and Feeling Better
It struck me today how we in the northern hemisphere are entering winter, the dark part of the year, at the same time the pandemic is forcing us to become even more isolated. For the first time in my memory, we won’t be doing a whole family get-together for Thanksgiving or Christmas. And I thought how, to people of magic, to mystics and witches and those tuned into nature, that’s what the winter months are all about. Especially the dates around the Winter Solstice, the short
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Maggie Shayne
- Oct 20, 2020
- 3 min
WTAF is really going on here?
I know what you’re thinking… The world is off the rails. Mankind is like a group of monkeys crammed into the seats of a speeding roller coaster with a crucial section missing up ahead. Everything has gone crazy. But none of that is true. Things have not gone off the rails. But there is something important happening here. WTF is actually happening? Our experience of reality is a mirror. And collectively, it reflects back what we are as a group, as a whole. Humanity itself. And
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 28, 2020
- 5 min
Numerology and the American Rennaissance
In my own practice, I like to look to other sources besides numerology for the significance of the number, so here I will include symbolism from the Tarot as well as from the Qabala. November 3rd, 2020 Election Day. To get a single digit from 11/03/2020 you just drop the zeroes and add each individual digit together. So 1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 9 In Numerology 9s are all about the very end, but not quite the finalé of a matter. They are completion, the end of a cycle that ushers
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 13, 2020
- 6 min
The Magical Power of Distraction
There’s a method I’m using with great success at the moment, the method of distraction, which is a form of magic all its own. A person who is lying in a sick bed thinking about their illness, is going to suffer every bit of that illness. A person on a roller coaster is not going to feel any part of his illness. Unless he gets motion sickness, in which case… Okay maybe that’s a bad example. Did you ever notice that a great movie or book can make you forget you had a headache?
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Maggie Shayne
- Jul 25, 2020
- 8 min
Spiritual Lessons of Hamilton
Repeat after me. All is well, and all is well, and all is well. Take a nice deep breath and open your mind to the possibility that everything is exactly the way it is. And be okay with it. Parts of it are actually very good. Most of it is good. Take another deep breath, and maybe one more. All is well. We have to be okay with what is, because it is as it is. In our lives, the longest, hardest times are what we call our Dark Nights of the Soul. They are a universal part of the
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Maggie Shayne
- May 31, 2020
- 5 min
God as Gamer
Today to help me get into the the vibe of meditation, I thought being aligned with my non-physical self means leaving it all behind. All those things I worry about all day, the to do list, the grocery list, the bills. All the stuff I know about my profession. All the rules and facts and methods. All the grammar and spelling. All the point-of-view rules especially. (You’ll see why.) I felt myself rising and spreading broader. I sensed I was experiencing myself as consciousness
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Maggie Shayne
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
Transitions are hard, aren’t they? I’ve been noticing how hard it is every year going through the transition from winter to spring, and how it feels, here where I live, we go two steps forward and three steps back over and over again. I had a glorious Sunday outside, with sunshine and nearly 70 degrees. Then yesterday it poured and the wind blew and today the sun is bright but the high temp will not get out of the forties. We had an overnight frost. And I feel like throwing a
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Maggie Shayne
- Apr 20, 2020
- 7 min
Working through my anger in 2000 words or less
I’ve been quieter than usual because I’ve been wrestling with a burgeoning anger, and I’m not yet ready to release it. So I decided to dive right into it head-on, and discuss it openly. Sometimes there’s a satisfaction in anger. Anger is actually a step up from feelings of helplessness, powerlessness, despondency, grief, depression, etc. So I’m giving myself the okay to feel angry, because feelings are made for feeling. I’m angry because my family has suffered this illness du
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Maggie Shayne
- Apr 13, 2020
- 7 min
Yesterday, I hit a wall
Here’s how I fixed it There is so much grief, fear, sadness, worry, and pain in the world right now, that it forms waves of energy, masses of thought-forms. They have their own vibration, as everything does. Many report having bouts of grief or sadness that doesn’t feel like their own, bouts of crying “for no reason.” Here’s what that is. Any time our own vibration dips down to the frequency that matches sadness, worry, or fear, we tune in that massive tidal wave of grief. A
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Maggie Shayne
- Apr 5, 2020
- 7 min
Getting Through This
It's hard right now I know it is. It’s hard to stay aligned when there seems to be disaster all around us. But that’s the thing. Disaster isn’t really all around us. We only perceive it that way because disaster has our full attention. Look, there is a global pandemic, there’s no denying that. But we don’t have to focus exclusively on that. We can. There’s constant coverage of it and it’s really awful and a little bit addictive. I have found myself scouring the internet for m
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Maggie Shayne
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
Incoming Message from the Big Giant Head
Okay, so I was meditating, and this happened. So I just started typing and let it go. Afterward, I did some formatting, and felt moved to add the Goddess gifs by Nina Paylee. So you can see Her dancing while you read Her message. I am the Goddess. I am the Universe. I breathe. I inhale all you experience…all I experience through you. All you sense through your eyes and ears and skin is my breath. All you do and be and see and wish for is my oxygen. All you suffer, I inhale.
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 15, 2020
- 3 min
Magical Spring Cleaning
I know it’s early, but I’m an eternal optimist. (Or as my grandsons would say, “Optimus”.) We’re more than halfway through February. There are only 5 weeks until the Vernal Equinox! That’s spring, so my spring cleaning is already getting underway. Starting with the DECLUTTERING. Decluttering 101 I am doing a major purge this year. All those clothes I’ve had for years, the ones on the hangers I push aside while muttering that I have nothing to wear–those are going. All the sh
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