Category: New Age General

by  © Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
Ask Your Mama™
The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
Dear Mama Donna,
I just came across your photo of standing eggs on end at the art-that-heals.org web site. This was only minutes after I [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins

This week we’re at an astrological pivot point, returning (after some air-clearing turbulence) to a transformation that began last winter as Pluto entered Capricorn, but which got put on hold in the springtime. This change may be personal or it may be national, it is any place where we’re searching a new [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Labor Day weekend, the Virgo holiday when we supposedly honor workers of the world by taking a break from our usual labors to enjoy summer’s end, but usually spend it on home or self improvement. This year, an industrious Virgo New Moon over Labor Day weekend, truly is great for any fix-it [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
The harvest begins as the Sun joins Mercury and Venus in industrious Virgo; we see the worth of what we planted, whether it was a solid business proposal, new curriculum or an old grudge. Efforts bear fruit and friendships sustain us.
Virgo season kicked in early this year, Mercury and Venus are already [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Responsibilities to the larger community and how we can blend that with responsibility to our selves is an underlying theme of this week. Complex layered aspects make just about any situation or mood possible this week. It’s up to us to choose which layer we respond to.
An emotionally-abundant Venus trine Jupiter encourages [...]

An angelic visitation has two Oregon women busy filling orders for appreciators giving wings to angels on earth anonymously at angelwingkisses.com. Southern Oregon’s Sunie SeventhHeart and Shawnette Hastey have created an internet business where anyone, anytime, anywhere can thank someone who has touched their life by performing a delightful pay it forward random act of [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Welcome to the peak of Leo season, as the Moon joins the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Leo. It brims with generosity and spectacle, but we truly are the center of our worlds, immersed in our own experience, and may find hard to get out of it to walk in another’s shoes. [...]

The Living Gaia Prayer Wheel Activation!
Equinox ~ September 22nd, 2008 ~ 1 to 3 PM your local time all across the Earth.
This is a Joyful Invitation to the Awakening Masses of Gaia to come together in ONE UNIFIED HEART to Activate our Planet as a LIVING GAIA PRAYER WHEEL!
We Invite all to join together with [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Leo season ripens as Mercury joins the Sun and Venus in Leo. Fixed fire-sign Leo asks us to shine our light on the crops of life and ripen its fruit, the peaches of creative expression, the plums of romance, the wheat of familial warmth. Bask in the sun, [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
This week it feels good to do something with and for our community. People need to connect, but not in a way that leaves us too vulnerable or raw, as for many there’s been too much going on below the surface lately. Tending to the home (however we define it) can be [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
The aspects this week are great to refine a skill or put passion into a disciple, discipline into a passion as Mars conjuncts Saturn in ever-improving Virgo.
Because each of us is listening to this inner whisper to improve some aspect of ourselves or lives (though some get worse just to deny the [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins

Around this week’s New Moon in Cancer, family and family-like personalities take top billing this week, whether we define ours as the nuclear family, our chosen family of friends, or the family of all sentient beings.
Many people will chew over how we relate and what responsibilities do we owe this family of [...]