Category: New Age General

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 [...]

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 Circle [...]

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 of it.  [...]

 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 (October [...]

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 Mars [...]

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 is [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
The trouble with visionary aspects is that is seems to be easier for people to get caught in a negative vision, stuck in a nightmare, than it is to run with a positive vision.  We have some wonderfully visionary aspects right now, but it can be hard to wake up when we’re [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
An exciting, ungrounded week, a real rollercoaster, but whether we ride up or down is up to our collective mind. For the last few weeks the winds have stayed tempestuous, a storm of words, hopes and fears as well as the literal winds, mixed with balmy moment on a sunlit autumnal day. [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Mid-September has a gusty, creative glow, a Venus, Mercury, and Mars dance together in egalitarian air sign Libra and trine inspired Neptune in Aquarius.  We can share a beautiful dream, whether at the beginning stages of a romance or opening stages for a new political era. We just have to watch a [...]