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  • Spring 2023 Recap

    It’s time for a personal update. And I have a lot to catch up on. I left off here, sometime in late April. The coolest bookstore I took a day trip by myself to Baldwin’s Bookstore, which is a used bookstore with about five floors – lots to explore! It has about every genre you…

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  • 30 day challenge | day 21 | your favorite physical exercises

    21: [THOR] Your favorite physical exercises. Thor is the Norse god of thunder and the sky. When I think of Thor, I think of a man incredibly muscular, like Chris Hemsworth, who plays him.

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  • 30 day challenge | day 20 | how have you changed recently?

    DAY 20: [KALI] How have you changed recently? Kali is the Hindu goddess of destruction and transformation. I’m a lot more open, social, and confident in who I am, in the past several years. I’ve always been very closed and a little bit antisocial. And from 2020 to early 2022, I really shut myself away…

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  • Day 19 | how has jealousy caused you pain?

    Set is the Egyptian god who murdered his brother Osiris out of jealousy. Jealousy has definitely brought out the worst in me in the past. It can really turn someone into an evil monster when it takes over. Jealousy happens when we lose empathy. We think that someone has it better than us because we…

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  • I’m seriously changing my diet

    First of all, this is not about weight… but I am really trying to make a change in my diet and fitness. This is about my health. I’ve always been health conscious and I’ve always been interested in nutrition, but I’m trying to take that to a higher level. While I’m vegetarian, limit my eating…

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  • 30 day challenge | day 18 | what are your accomplishments?

    DAY 18: [ISIS] What are your accomplishments? Isis is the Egyptian goddess known for many things, most especially her strong ambition and how ability to move through obstacles. One of my proudest accomplishments is that I have written and published two novels. I’m really proud of how much time and effort I put into them.…

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  • 30 day challenge | day 17 | what are you grieving?

    Osiris is Egyptian god of the dead and the Underworld. He was murdered by jealous brother Set, his wife Isis pieced his body back together in order to conceive their child Horus. I think that to live is to grieve. I am grieving every single person who was once in my life and is now…

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  • 30 day challenge | Hecate | what feels like magic to you?

    Day 16 / Hectate / what feels like magic to you? Hecate is the goddess of magic! Magic is – when someone randomly says something kind to you with no ulterior motive, when the weather is the perfect temperature and it’s not too hot and not too cold, when you put something together from scratch…

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  • This Is Why “Old Music” Feels Better

    There’s a reason why, as you grow older, newer music becomes harder to listen to – meanwhile, music you listened to as a teen or young adult just feels better somehow. I remember my grandma going on about how “they don’t make music like they used to,” and telling us how great the music of…

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  • 30 day challenge | day 15 | what makes you feel powerful?

    DAY 15: [AMEN-RA] What makes you powerful? Amen-Ra is the Egyptian god of the sun who ultimately rules all. What makes me feel powerful is earning something after I’ve worked really hard for it. I don’t think that getting what I want is as satisfying when it comes easily. I like knowing that it was…

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I’m Lotus Laura

I write about all kinds of things including spirituality, philosophy, mythology, health, cats, witchy tips, media reviews, and more, along with some personal life updates. I’m a self-published indie author of three novels. I am an astrologer and tarot reader. I offer personal readings for sale; you can also find free readings on my blog and youtube channel.

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