Category: New Age General

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or Yule, spiritually minded people are often overwhelmed and depressed by the over-commercialization of the winter holidays. For people who are scratching their heads, hoping to find gifts that are not only wholesome and constructive but also don’t cost an arm and a leg, the Spiritual Cinema [...]

By Nancy Seifer and Martin Vieweg “America is “the prototype of the universal society… and a global pioneer.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski (11.07.08) On the morning before Election Day, two conservative pundits on cable TV were discussing what they already sensed would be a political tsunami.  Bewildered by the Obama phenomenon, they were trying to make sense [...]

 by Marlene Buffa Halloween.  My favorite holiday!  Derived, as most holidays we celebrate, from ancient customs, the eve before All Hallows Day, evolved into the Halloween we know and love today.  In Celtic times, the Gaelic culture celebrated with the festival of Samhain to mark the end of the harvest.  They believed at this time [...]

by  Heather Roan Robbins We want to make sense, and we want our politicians to do so too, but that’s not easy these days. We may not be stupid, but deep primal emotions are running close to the surface and can distort our thinking, pulling at us like a giant magnetic stream with Venus and [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins Something which does not show up in our ephemeris – but astrologers watch carefully- is the Sun’s cycle of activity. The Sun usually fluctuates on a roughly eleven year cycle, quiescent to aurora-causing solar storms. This Cycle is synchronous with our general level of action here on earth;  when the Sun [...]