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Maggie Shayne
- 1 day ago
- 1 min
Season of the Witch
FINAL SALE OF THE BLISS BLOG MAGIC SHOP We are having a blowout sale throughout the darkest part of the year, from Mabon through Yule!...
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 15
- 1 min
GODDESS REMEMBERED (video)
Required viewing for my students back in the day, this is part 1 of Women and Spirituality trilogy, a Canadian Documentary by Donna Read...
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 15
- 1 min
THE BURNING TIMES (video)
This video and its two companions GODDESS REMEMBERED and FULL CIRCLE, were required viewing for my students back when I was actively...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jul 30
- 5 min
First Harvest - Lughnasadh
This post was supposed to be scheduled for August 1st, but I hit publish instead of schedule, so here is. Blessed Lughnasadh! It is the...
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Maggie Shayne
- Apr 9
- 6 min
Help! I've been cursed!
I heard a tale from a reader about a friend who was being blackmailed by someone who claimed to be a person of magic. They threatened to...
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Maggie Shayne
- Feb 4
- 6 min
The Spiritual Meaning of Sun Dogs
This beautiful image is of something we call a sun dog. It's a circular rainbow that seems to surround the sun. The sky within the circle...
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Maggie Shayne
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
The Year-End Review
This post includes how to accomplish a year-end review, how to sort experiences into a naughty list and a nice list, and instructions on...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jul 30, 2022
- 8 min
Lughnasadh: A MODERN TAKE
I went in search of something fresh about Lughnasadh, the holiday Wiccans north of the Equator are celebrating in early August, some on...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jan 14, 2022
- 5 min
What are Fairies?
There's a simple rule for puzzling out how things work and what things are. "As above, so below. As within, so without."
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Maggie Shayne
- Oct 27, 2021
- 8 min
SAMHAIN: The Inward Spiral
The Highest of the High Holy Days The Veil between the worlds is said to be thinnest at the Great Sabbat of Samhain. It's just as thin,...
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 12, 2021
- 6 min
Working Widdershins
I have long held a firm philosophy if never working widdershins, but my practice and understanding are constantly evolving...
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Maggie Shayne
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
Two Ways to Meditate
I spent years believing I couldn't meditate. As a novelist, my inner mind chatter was necessarily more persistent than most. It was differen
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Maggie Shayne
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
The Element of Water
Water's direction is west, the direction of the sunset, and because of that, it's seen as the direction of maturity, fullness, abundance. Ha
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Maggie Shayne
- Aug 12, 2021
- 5 min
Creative Blocks and Self-Healing
So far in 2021 I've released zero new novels. I'm working on two of them, but working is a relevant term. Mostly I've been feeling bad
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Maggie Shayne
- Aug 2, 2021
- 4 min
The First Harvest | Lughnasadh
for me, it's the beginning of my favorite season of the year, the one that is known as the Season of the Witch.
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Maggie Shayne
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
Do Our Brains Synch Up With One Another?
According to Discovery Magazine, scientists have observed that when people are working together on the same goal, their brains synch up....
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Maggie Shayne
- Jun 18, 2021
- 6 min
Self-Care by the Numbers
My Top 10 Self-Care Techniques.
"Keep your well full, that others might drink."
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Maggie Shayne
- Jun 6, 2021
- 5 min
I AM
I am awareness in a void. You would say I was. I’ll use your terms, then. I was awareness in a void, with no sense of what I was, only...
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Maggie Shayne
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
Sacred Texts of the Craft: The Witch's Rune
The Witches Rune seems to be a basic Altar Devotion or Altar Quickening, that is a rite one performs at the very beginning of ritual.
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Maggie Shayne
- Jun 3, 2021
- 5 min
Sacred Texts of the Craft: The Charge of the Goddess
The Charge of the Goddess is sometimes recited by a High Priestess during a Wiccan ritual, right after she has drawn down the moon...
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