Category: New Age General

Dear Mama Donna,
Why is Friday the 13th supposed to be so unlucky? Is this just a superstition or is there some ancient history attached to it? Should I be worried? It seems weird to celebrate bad luck! Thanks in advance for your answer.
Don’t Need More Bad Luck in Utah
Dear Lucky,
When the 13th day on the [...]

By Marlene Buffa
Halloween brings to light our memories and our apprehensions and enlivens our imagination. Each year we honestly portray ourselves as something other than who we are, and venture out into the night fearlessly asking for what we want from strangers and friends. The chant, “Trick or Treat!” resounds on neighborhood streets, [...]

By Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Of all the creatures who had yet walked on Earth, the
Man-apes were the first to look steadfastly at the Moon.
And though he could not remember it, when he was very
young Moon-Watcher would sometimes reach out and try
to touch that ghostly face rising above the hills. He has
never succeeded, and now [...]

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 moody [...]

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 basic that [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Take care of personal business this industrious weekend. We may not have time to get our life in order after September 6, because Mercury retrogrades for three weeks and slows us down just as the fall season gets under way, and while Mercury retrograde helps us reconnect with old friends and review [...]

By Father Peter Bowes
Let’s face it: the current state of your mind is most likely a mess. If you’re honest, your mind is probably a rapid succession of scenes displayed in your cortex like so many commercials on television. You might enjoy experiencing time moving along as you are lulled to sleep by the drone [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
This July 4th weekend we won’t take our freedom for granted, and not just because we’re celebrating Independence Day. An expansive Sagittarius Moon pulls against a tough, moody Mercury-Pluto and reminds us that freedom is precious, freedom to work or be away from work, freedom to hit the trail, and, most of [...]

Guided Meditations for Pregnancy and Birth
By Michelle Robertson-Jones
Paradise Music Ltd. (2009) 60:42 minutes
www.paradisemusic.co.uk / www.paradisemusic.us.com
Review by Kate Russell
When this CD came across my desk at 9 months into my pregnancy, I have to say I was pretty excited to give it a listen, especially as I have been gearing up these past few weeks towards [...]

by  Heather Roan Robbins
Happy Equinox! It’s the astrological New Year’s today; spring begins as the Sun enters Aries at 4:43 am MST. The Sun in Aries imparts the gumption to start over and gives our life force a surge. Like a crocus shooting up after the winter snows, we have to choose our timing but [...]

By Marlene Buffa
Regeneration:
·  (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
·   the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
·  re-formation: forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
When we bid farewell to the prior calendar year, we symbolically close the door on our past.  With lessons and experiences completely [...]

The following is the second part of an interview by Sadiq M. Alam with Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, author of the book ‘A Commuter’s Guide to Enlightenment‘.
Web: http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-traveling-sufi-path-interview-with.html
“Lets remember
who we are…
each moment
is another opportunity
to draw closer.”
- Stewart Bitkoff
“As our society moves forward in its study and growing understanding of different spiritual paths, one of the [...]