Remember that awful fitness rule from the 80s, “No pain, no gain?” We’ve come a long way since then. Now most of us realize that torture is not the way to achieve our goals, fitness or otherwise.…
Cancer Full Moon: Family is Where You Find It
You never know who may be watching your back.
At the height of the Depression, Martin Klapper’s family was forced to go on welfare. Christmas looked bleak. A few days before the holiday, ten-year-old Martin looked out a kitchen window to see his father sitting on the stoop, head in hands.…
Sagittarius New Moon: 30-Day Challenge
We all know the importance of physical fitness. But how much attention do you pay to your mental fitness? In a recent issue of Science of Mind magazine, Mitch Horowitz mentions a passage from a 1931 book called Body, Mind and Spirit.…
Gemini Full Moon: Let Us Give Thanks
GUEST POST by April Elliott Kent
Sex and Money? Bring ’em on!
At first glance, this young Eve in the garden might seem offensive – even pornographic. Or at least anti-wealth. Granted, we may not want to be selling our bodies for money.…
Taurus Full Moon: Protect What You Hold Dear
“Everything is speaking to us, and we are speaking to everything.” –Doryan Dean
I’ve been spending more time in my backyard lately, communicating with my enormous pepper tree. Each day I ask it a question (a practice suggested by Jean Houston).…
Libra New Moon: Mirror, Mirror
“A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” …
Blood Moon Eclipse: What’s Your New Superpower?
Over a two-year span from 1967 to 1968, I went from a chubby, awkward child to a slender, sexy guy-magnet (not that I knew how to handle my new superpower!) In the world at large, the hippie movement burst onto the scene with the Summer of Love, and the Civil Rights Act was finally signed – but not before its most persuasive advocate, Martin Luther King Jr.,…
Virgo New Moon Eclipse: A Clean Slate
Shortly after being crowned Mrs. Universe, Ashley Callingbull is already stirring up trouble – and winning admirers. She’s calling for political change in her native Canada by thrusting the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women into the spotlight.…
Pisces Full Moon: Fill Your Bucket
Yesterday I got a message from a client, asking if the world is really going to end in September. Apparently there have been reports of impending doom, from an asteroid hitting the earth (disproved by NASA) to the culmination of a series of Blood Moons predicted in the Bible to mark the end days.…
August 14 Leo New Moon: Smile!
In the 1970s, random guys on the street would always exhort me to “Smile!” I perceived this as a come-on, and enjoyed it about as much as those obnoxious “happy face” stickers that were everywhere then.…
Brags and Blue Moons
I just watched a great little interview, in which the inspiring Regena Thomashauer (aka Mama Gena) shares how she begins all her staff meetings with what she calls the Holy Trinity.…
July Theme: Reclaim Your Inner Queen
“Your happiness is the spark that will ignite global change.” –Ross Arntson
Rarely do the stars align in such a way that it makes my jaw drop. But we’re entering such a period now, in which one potent point of the zodiac will be activated so strongly and repeatedly that an important message is obviously trying to get through.…
July 1 Full Moon: Pride and Patriotism
As Independence Day approaches, many are cheering the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn same-sex marriage bans, while others are tearing Confederate flags down from government buildings in the wake of the horrific shooting of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist in Charleston.…
Gemini New Moon: Speak Your Truth
There aren’t many goddesses who embody the warrior spirit of Mars – but I experienced one last week at Volcano National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. When the Polynesian people migrated to Hawaii a thousand years ago, they brought with them the legend of an all-powerful goddess with a fiery temper.…