Astro Alchemy

The daughter of a sharecropper, Anna Mae Bullock picked strawberries and cotton as a child. While her mom and dad fought, she wandered the land, playing with the wind and the animals. When she was eleven, her mom ran off and three years later, so did her dad, leaving her

In the preface to her book, Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma, Sister Dang Nghiem recounts a revelatory experience she had a few years back. After the Buddhist retreat she’d just taught was over, Nghiem was exhausted. But in deference to her hosts, she accompanied

Scorpio can be scary. It’s the shadows that lurk beneath the surface, the ferocity of feelings we dare not express, the stark reality of death. Yet it’s also the resilience and quiet power of the serpent, a creature which sheds its skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a mass twice the size of Texas, made up of trillions of pieces of plastic trash. Metastasizing for years in international waters, it was an out-of-control problem for which nobody had a solution. Until The Ocean Cleanup arrived on the scene. Founded in

In 2015, a 3 ½ pound wallaby (a petite variety of kangaroo) was found by the side of a road in Grafton, New South Wales. He may have been tiny, but this youngster had an instinct for survival. He bravely walked up to a potential rescuer and held out his

When Viola Davis, sculpted and strengthened after  months of training, first stood in the garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African soil, it was the apex of not just the seven-year push to produce The Woman King, but of a lifelong battle to fully

What message might the crow have for you at this Full Moon? Recently, I was watching a show with my cat on my lap when we were startled by three loud crow caws outside the window just behind our heads. This was unusual, as crows are rarely out at night.

The world took a collective gasp last week when volunteer rescuers pulled a two-month-old baby from the rubble of the catastrophic earthquake in Antakya, Turkey. The poor tyke had been trapped for 128 hours – over five days! – underground. Dusty and hungry but otherwise unharmed, the little boy with

Nine-year-old Molly Sampson has dreamed of becoming a paleontologist for most of her life. She often hunts for fossils in Chesapeake Bay’s Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, with her father Bruce. And she’s always had one specific goal in mind: To find a tooth from a 15 million year old Megalodon shark,

A wonderful documentary on Netflix called Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, illuminates the sweet, playful friendship shared by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Based on their 2016 collaboration, The Book of Joy, the film showcases these eighty-something spiritual masters who had

On Christmas Eve, Buffalo NY was being pummeled by the worst blizzard in recent memory. Snuggled at home with his wife, Alex Campagna heard frantic knocking on the door. There stood two shivering South Korean tourists hoping to borrow a shovel to dislodge their vehicle from a gigantic snowdrift. Knowing

There is so much suffering in the world right now. Most pointedly, as the war in Ukraine slogs into its tenth month, people are facing sub-zero temperatures  with no heat, water or essential supplies. Bombs are falling. Yet both sides have ruled out a Christmas truce as soldiers battle it

Once upon a time, when an elephant walked through  town with its keeper, the pachyderm’s trunk would tend to wreak havoc. Expressing the intelligent animal’s natural curiosity, the trunk would disrupt fruit carts and kiosks, leaving a mess in its wake. Wise keepers learned to offer a bamboo shaft for

Auri Katariina is the ultimate cleaning lady. She is so passionate about making things sparkle that she quit her job in Finland a year ago to help struggling women scour and declutter their homes at no cost. “My dream is to clean for free all over the world, and help

In The Call to Courage, now streaming on Netflix, researcher Brene Brown asserts that it’s impossible to be brave without being vulnerable. The tough-talking Texan, who came to fame in a 2010 viral Ted Talk on vulnerability, has made it her life’s work to dispel the deeply ingrained myth that