Archives: 2008 February

 by Heather Roan Robbins
Willful idealism is this week’s theme. Our feelings are tender, and our vision often hopeful under the Pisces Sun while Mercury conjuncts optimistic Venus tin Aquarius.  But at the same time, we’re also busy, easily irritated and tend to shoot straight from the hip as Mars perfects an opposition to Pluto.
Self-determination is […]

By Jock Brocas
The domino effect is not a science but a truth that is as old as the laws of the universe. It is universal knowledge and a gift for all of humankind – it’s a gift that we can all give and costs nothing, but the effects can be staggering. Why the domino effect? […]

by Keith Varnum
“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life, before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” Sound advice from Billy Holiday, one of the most soulful jazz singers of the 1950s.
Say What, Billie?
Billie is wisely suggesting that personal abundance is necessary […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Can you feel the winds of change beginning?  They start subtly, a bit of spring fever through the winter storms, longer days though still-freezing nights. The tenor of the news has changed, it’s growing more exciting, potential filled as a series of aspects and eclipses break the momentum of the past and […]

By Shannon Nelson
“Your daughter will never walk again”. When my mother heard those words from the neurologist at Maine Medical Center, she fainted. She was still mourning the death of her beloved husband, Bob, who had died just two months earlier after a long battle with colon cancer.
When she received the call from my friend […]

Many thanks to everyone who contacted us about this opportunity.
We have now found our new book reviewer.
-Ed.  February 22, 2008 
New Age Journal could use another book reviewer. Ours is swamped right now, and we’re getting more offers for review copies of interesting books, CDs, etc. than we can handle right now.
Are you qualified to read […]

by Keith Varnum
I cringed at every loaded word in the title of Dale Carnegie’s celebrated book, How to Win Friends and Influence People! My mother—God bless her!—made me take the Dale Carnegie Training forty years ago when I was in junior high school. The idea that I had to change myself to “win” friends and […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Last week marked a turning point, we had the chance to release images of the past and hatch new ideas both personally and collectively as the Aquarian New Moon eclipse conjunct Mercury and Neptune. This week we get the opportunity to get these new ideas cooking, but first have to take care […]

by Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
The Romans celebrated the sacred sexual frenzy
(Febris, in Latin) of the Goddess of amorous love,
Juno Februa, on February 14, coinciding with the
time when the birds in Italy were thought to mate.
These orgiastic rites of the Patroness of Passionate Love,
merged with Lupercalia, the festivities in honor of the
pagan god, Pan which were […]

by Heather Roan Robbins

This week we get in lessons in communication, how to both speak what we really mean, and hear what’s really said as Chiron conjuncts retrograde Mercury and both semi-square Pluto. It is so easy to miss the signals. Wacky thoughts can trouble us, dark thoughts and conspiracy theories abound, […]

by Marlene Buffa
While visiting my dear Aunt Frances in Hospice, I asked her,
“What’s the secret to a successful marriage?”
“How should I know?” she replied, “I’ve only been married once.”
“Exactly,” I smiled, remembering her speak fondly of her 51 years with my uncle.
You can’t help who you fall in love with.
Personally, I never used to believe […]

By Ariadne Green

Searching for Jesus’ words, his true teachings, amongst what Christianity has presented as the authoritative works in the New Testament, the four canonical gospels, left me wondering if Jesus had other things to say that might better satisfy my quest for enlightenment. Could he have left a secret written legacy and if […]