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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 22, 2020
- 7 min
Balance is an Illusion
Blessed Mabon! Last evening, I captured the final sunset of summer. The Autumnal Equinox takes place at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time this very...
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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...
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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...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min
My Walk on the Dark Side
Gemma Teller Morrow, SOA My usual Mary Sunshine persona is currently in quarantine. My inner Gemma wants to be the focus of today’s post....
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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...
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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...
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Maggie Shayne
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
Light Wins!
Today is the vernal equinox of 2020, and the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere. The energy of the holiday focuses...
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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....
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 7, 2020
- 5 min
How to Use Your Birthday Wishes
Wishes are thoughts Thoughts are things. Thoughts exist. They have vibrational wavelengths. Everything that exists was once a thought. An...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
Imbolc Ritual
I promised in my last post, IMBOLC: The Quickening, that I’d post a ritual soon. So here it is. To review, Imbolc falls on February 4th,...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Imbolc: The Quickening
Aside from being Groundhog’s Day, February 2nd is also the traditional date of Imbolc, or “Imbolc Brigantina” also known as St. Brigit’s...
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 26, 2019
- 4 min
The Power of the In-Between
Mystics and sages have always known the power of the in-between. The most powerful times for magic, for example, are in-between times:...
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Maggie Shayne
- Dec 21, 2019
- 2 min
A Winter Solstice Ritual of Release
This is my second Winter Solstice post this year, but I felt inspired, so here you go! It's Winter Solstice What you'll need You’ll need...
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Maggie Shayne
- Nov 16, 2019
- 9 min
How Divination Works
Briefly: What is Divination? Divination, according to the dictionary, is “The practice of seeking knowledge of the future by supernatural...
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