by Heather Roan Robbins
Turn inwards, fill up, then get out there and change the world, these are the stars’ instructions for the week.  As the weekend begins we may be feeling over-exposed or over-extended, excited but drained by the recent national hoopla, or other larger scale events that pulled our attention outwards and distracted us [...]

By Marlene Buffa
From stuffed turkeys to full tummies, we celebrate Thanksgiving by immersing ourselves in the moment.  We enjoy ourselves by coming together and sharing our food and memories. We reflect on our country, our faith and our family.  The day-long - and sometimes week-long - preparation of one meal, testifies to the significance of [...]

In what could be a sign of America’s changing spiritual composition, Mahima (a 39,000 square foot meditation center), will officially open its doors on November 8th. Mahima, (located amidst 1,200 acres of green forests in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee), will be a resource for the science of yoga and will be the largest meditation [...]

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
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
I have noticed that when you refer to the new and full moons, you call them by very colorful names, for [...]

By Heather Roan Robbins
Happy Halloween, an old Celtic New Years; ending of one cycle with the harvest and begin a new. Every Halloween we sweeten our future as we give sweets the kids, our symbolic future.But slip them some nutrition this year as well, our future needs all the sweetening, and all the nourishment, we [...]

Re-Creating Your Self  by Christopher Stone
If you’re a faithful follower of this pillar, then you’ve already completed a major first step in the Re-Creating Your Self process: identifying the personal beliefs that coalesce to create your life and all of its conditions.
It’s time to begin the second major step: examining and evaluating the ideas that [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Halloween, the day of the dead, is traditionally time to face our fears and get help from our ancestors. This year as Halloween grows closer, the fears we face may be less metaphysical and more financial. A banker bearing bad news may be the scariest costume but he’s just a symbol for [...]

 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 Bob Livingstone LCSW
There are periods of time in all our lives when we feel despondent, lethargic, depressed and hopeless.  These feeling states can last from a few minutes to many years.  The length of time feeling down depends on what loss, trauma or hurt you maybe suffering from. Examples of personal traumas are: One [...]

by Diane Saarinen
Five tarot readers. Forty Barack Obama supporters. One art gallery. Three hours. By the end of the evening on October 17, these components added up to a cool $1000 at a unique fundraiser titled, “It’s In the Cards: Tarot for Obama.”
The scene was Kris Waldherr Art and Words gallery in Brooklyn, New [...]

Ask Your Mama, The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of  Ceremony & Spirituality
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
I am not a follower of the Goddess, but I was walking around in downtown Brooklyn with my six-year-old daughter, Beatrice, when she said to me, “Mommy, I don’t believe in God. I believe [...]

Hurry Up and Meditate; Your Starter Kit For Inner Peace and Better Health
By David Michie
Snow Lion Publications
178 pages $14.95
ISBN: 10 1-55939-306-8
Review by Corinna Underwood
You may at first think that the title of this book presents rather a contradiction, but as Michie points out in his introduction, many people quickly dismiss the personal practice of meditation [...]