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  • Reasons To Write & Publish Your Own Books (besides the money)

    Let’s be blunt — writing and publishing your own books will not make you much money, if anything at all. You may even end up losing money. If you are looking into book writing as a full time career, you’re facing a lot of competition in a waning market. This is an entirely different ballpark

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  • Epagomenal Days (Intercalary days) in Egyptian Mythology

    The Egyptians followed their calendar based on the sun: 365 days a year divided into twelve months. But according to Egyptian mythology, the world was originally created as 360 days. The five extra days were added on during the birth of the gods. Geb (the god of Earth) and Nut (goddess of the sky) wanted

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  • July Recap: Ocean Grove & Lunar Faire

    Ocean Grove In early July, I went on my annual family vacation to Ocean Grove, Jersey Shore. It’s always a very fun and relaxing time. We have a lot of traditions that we do each year, but there’s also something new every year, with businesses opening and shutting down. It’s always sad when your favorite

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  • A Self-Led 3-Day Spiritual Retreat

    I was inspired by an article that my sister Julie sent me titled “Camp Blueberry” about a self-led retreat that you can do over the weekend (or over the course of 3 free days). It has a schedule to follow with activities, exercises, and seminars. It’s all designed to get your creative juices flowing. I

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  • Tarot 101 | Major Arcana | Tarot Card Meanings

    The Fool Astrology: Aries Numerology: zero / infinity Timing: childhood / spring Gender: masculine Keywords: beginning, new, taking a risk, leap of faith, trying something new, taking the first step, the unknown, youthfulness, blind optimism, lack of experience. Meaning: The Fool is the very first card in the deck of tarot. It’s not “one,” it’s

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  • Reflection On My Twenties

    Now that I am only a few months away from thirty, it felt like the perfect time to look back and deeply reflect on what my twenties held… 20 On November 14, 2014, I turned twenty. I was finishing up my first semester as a junior at university. I was studying animal science but I

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  • I Had a Professional Aura Reading Done

    This was my experience… I recently had an aura reading done by a professional reader. First, I had my photo taken which would give me a photo showing the colors of my aura. Next, she sat me down and gave a detailed explanation as to what this all means. It was at a mystical crystal

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  • Never Forget The Salem Witch Trials

    We are the daughters of the witches who they tried to burn. From 1692 to 1693, a travesty took place in Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials was a series of over 200 people accused of witchcraft. Thirty of them were found guilty, nineteen of them put to death by hanging, and the remaining were tortured

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  • On my way to healthier eating

    The past several years have been a slow but steady track into focusing more on home cooked meals and less processed foods. It’s taken me probably much longer than it should to get here. My first few years of living away from parents and having to figure out all of my own meals, there was

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  • It makes me sad to say as someone who genuinely enjoys her music but the way that her team is selling so many variants of the same album, clearly as a way of bringing in more sales, is disheartening. The Tortured Poets Department is continuing to be released on multiple variants as a way of

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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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