Archives: 2007 October

by Donna Oxley

When Halloween comes around the streets are alive with the activity of trick or treaters. children and adults alike parade around in ghoulish dress. Pumpkins glow and witches cackle!
But what is the origin of these spooky festivities? Why do we dress up as ghouls, skeletons, tortured victims, headless lords, […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Scorpio likes to look in the dark places. Halloween, the Scorpio holiday, dead center of autumn here in the northern hemisphere, is traditionally time to face our fears before real winter hits, whether we fear a local ghost, a rocky economy or urban drought. It’s also time to review what […]

by Joanne Brocas
Halloween is the time of year when our imagination can go into overdrive and we end up thinking of all things scary like ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. The popularity of mediums in the media with programmes such as ‘Most Haunted’ and the ‘Sixth Sense’ has opened up […]

“We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. […]

By Lexi Soulios
Around the globe, hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry every night. Over a billion have inadequate access to water. Tens of thousands of children under five years old die each day due to poverty related causes. Why is it that the richest nations allow the poorest ones to suffer any […]

by Judith James
“The Mistress” PO-TI-NI-JA The most apparent characteristic of Minoan religion was that it was polytheistic and matriarchal, that is, a goddess religion; the gods were all female, not a single male god has been identified until later periods. It is not easy to describe the nature of the mother-goddess of Crete. There are […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Is life getting a bit strange these days? Mercury is retrograde Oct 12 through Nov 1. When Mercury is retrograde, when the peculiarities of its orbit make Mercury look like it’s moving slowly backwards in the sky, things get strange. Everything we associate with Mercury takes on a unique twist: the […]

by Gayle Goldwin
You’re only human, of course you want to know what your future holds. And your Spirit Guides—those devoted Angelic Beings who are at your side to help you have the life you came to have—know you want to know. But They’ll never predict your future as if it were set in stone.
They won’t […]

by Micheal Lewin
I wonder what feelings inspire a man to complain of having nothing to do? I am happiest when I have nothing to do.”
Kenko Yoshida ( 1283 - 1350 )
At the age of 41 Kenko Yoshida gave up his life as an officer in the Imperial Palace Guards and became ordained as a Zen […]

Kuan Yin: Accessing the Power of the Divine Feminine
by Daniela Schenker
Sounds True, 2007
pp. 160, $22.95
Kuan Yin, the Eastern goddess of compassion, is more than a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has attained the wisdom of the Buddhas but chooses to stay in this world to support sentient beings so that they may […]