By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff Each traveler is a unique being and as such has an individual learning sequence.  All travelers are on the path to completion.  This is the Divine Command and the mission for which each soul was created and sent out into the universe.  Each soul is to travel and return more complete [...]

By Keith Varnum In my life I’ve been fortunate to witness many healings and miracles. From this direct experience I’ve noticed seven essentials ingredients to allowing magic in one’s life: 1. Realize that there are no real “secrets” to magic The keys to successful manifestation are apparent and obvious if you know where to look [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins The year of the Water Dragon lands on Monday’s New Moon in Aquarius, the Chinese New Year.  Dragon years are full of surprises and new beginnings, though the element Water softens the edge and may add more patience if also an erratic, meandering quality. They mark a moment when our societies [...]

Pregnant women are trying to be healthier.  Many take all the right steps to promote the birth of a healthy baby, including eating right, taking vitamins and eliminating alcohol and nicotine from their lives. Unfortunately, all those efforts may be for naught if they are still being exposed to unseen chemicals in their daily lives. [...]

Authenticity. It’s a word that gets tossed around quite a bit these days. (In fact, it’s in danger of becoming a bit of a cliché.) Sure, we all think we’re authentic in our words and actions. But are we really? Kathleen McIntire says that, consciously or not, most of us let the expectations of others [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins One name for the fear of Friday the 13th is friggatriskaidekaphobia, from the Norse Goddess Frigg, the fierce, farseeing householder archetype after whom Friday is named. Friggatriskaidekaphobia is relatively new but built on medieval traditions that Friday isn’t a good day to begin anything. There they may have a point, Frigga [...]

“You’ll never walk again.” This was the news Omer Rains heard from doctors when we awoke from a prolonged coma and found the right side of his body completely paralyzed, the result of a stroke and brain aneurysm that nearly killed him at age 61. But the former California State Senator – a politician on [...]

Review by Diane Saarinen I was intrigued from the start when I heard about Joanna Powell Colbert’s new venture: The Gaian Soul Grove, a place for online learning and connection with like-minded others with a decidedly nature-centered focus. I had recently reviewed Powell Colbert’s Gaian Tarot (review in New Age Journal here:  http://newagejournal.com/2007/gaian-tarot) and found [...]

by Shakti Gawain An Excerpt from the 25th Anniversary Edition of Living in the Light Most of us have been taught from childhood not to trust our feelings, not to express ourselves truthfully and honestly, not to recognize that at the core of our being lies a loving, powerful, and creative nature. We learn easily [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins Returning to regular- post-holiday schedule may have been difficult if productive this week, but we need this weekend to hit the reset button. A Full Moon in Cancer calls our attention to any tension we feel between home and private life, and our work out there in the world. Every January [...]

by Joyce and Barry Vissell Do you ever wonder why challenges come into your life? Do you ever wish that your life could be smooth and simple? Do you ever want your relationship to just be easy? These are things that probably every person has thought. And yet challenges are part of our human condition [...]

Starcodes horoscopes for Dec 30 2011 – January 5, 2012 plus a look at the year ahead by  Heather Roan Robbins This week Venus shines in the early night sky, and behind it, though we cannot see it, hovers idealistic Neptune, together they add magic warmth to an otherwise interesting time. Winter holidays ran deep [...]