Archives: 2009

by Heather Roan Robbins Change, adjust, adapt, rinse, and repeat; be light on the feet and ready to respond. Take advantage of opportunity, duck the punches and be ready to offer help as Mercury, now direct, opposes Uranus and conjuncts Saturn this week for the third time since August. In mid-August, Mercury conjuncts Saturn, a [...]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone Last time, we began our review of positive thinking and affirmations as tools for personal change than can assist you in becoming the person you want to be, living the life you desire- – as described in your Blueprint for Personal Change. We reviewed some popular misconceptions about affirmations [...]

The Native American medicine wheel is familiar to most people. Few, however, know the spiritual meaning of each direction, or that those energies can be called on for help. Spiritual Messenger and modern shaman Laine Cunningham’s Four Winds program aligns participants at the medicine wheel’s center. “When we stand at the center of the medicine [...]

By Marlene Buffa In the romanticism of this nation’s early years, the one-room schoolhouse represents ingenuity at its finest.  Depicted in the movies as the epicenter of the small, rural communities, this learning environment united the spirits of cooperation, patience, initiative and flexibility.  When we step back and look at life in general as a [...]

By Heather Roan Robbins This week begins with a thoughtful mood, hard work and some frustration, but ends as the knots loosen. Mercury now retrogrades close to hard-working Saturn, which keeps our nose to the grindstone just when other factors tell us to forget efficiency, it’s just not working, so chill and retrospect. And we’re [...]

by Jonathan Lockwood Huie We all want to be happy, but something always gets in the way. There is never enough time… or money. Somebody is always failing to do what they are “supposed” to do… or not do. Our boss, our spouse, our kids, our parents, our friends, government, big business, whoever… “They” aren’t [...]

The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned Stephen Schettini Greenleaf Book Group Press 345 pp, $24.95 Review by Christine Gertz In a hotel room in Teheran on his way to India, Steve Schettini casts the I Ching and the coins respond to him with the result of [...]

By Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman The autumn ushers in the dark season. The season of diminished light. From now until the Vernal Equinox, six months hence, the nights are longer than the days. Shade and chill prevail. The year, the season, the sun, are slowing down, growing cold, getting old. The insidious forces of [...]

Love by Paul Avgerinos RoundSkyMusic.com (2009) 63:17 minutes www.roundskymusic.com Review by Kate Russell Seeing in technicolour, feeling goosebumps and a slowly spreading pleasant warmth. What`s this feeling? It`s “Love” by Paul Avgerinos. Touchingly dedicated to his parents, who Avgerinos credits with showing him “… by their selflessness and devotion, what true Love really is”, this [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins We feel pressured by decisions, deadlines and work as the weekend begins, pressured to hurry up and get serious as the Moon, Sun, and Mercury all conjunct Saturn. Just as Mercury retrograde gives us the contradictory message to slow down and learn from the past. So let’s deal with what’s on [...]

by Tom T. Moore Perhaps you’ve asked yourself how can we raise the vibrational level of everyone in order to lift ourselves to a fifth dimensional level? Well it’s actually much easier than you can imagine-so easy that many will not believe it can be so simple. If you can imagine a huge ladder going [...]

Lunar Lore by Donna Lee Rob Hand said one of the main things that many forget, or never knew, about the Moon and emotions in his book, Planets in Composite, is, “It is often difficult for others to deal with the lunar aspects of one’s being, because the level of intensity of feeling is so [...]