Inspiring a Mindful Nation

Inspiring a Mindful Nation

Two hundred and thirty-six years after the Great American Revolution, there is another revolution in progress quietly sweeping its way across our nation.   There are no marching bands or shots fired across the Potomac, but instead a subtle effort by a few, including movie stars and politicians, to improve our habits and reduce our … Continued

JUNE ASTROLOGY 2012

Bookended by a Scorpio moon from beginning to end, June rolls in under two significant eclipses, a day apart! The June 4th lunar eclipse, 4:10 am PDT, is followed by the very rare Venus eclipse of the sun, June 5th, 6:10 pm for about 3 hours.You might recall the events – in your life – back in … Continued

MAY ASTROLOGY 2012

Welcome to one of the better months of 2012. May is here with some happy moments, a few Jupiterian gifts, and a memorable full moon. It's fairly auspicious beginning with the Moon and Mars in Virgo lining up nicely to the Sun, and Pluto, makes for nice earth sign harmony, and didn’t our president just … Continued

APRIL ASTROLOGY 2012

April begins on a confusing note, Mercury retrograde finally moves ahead on the fourth, and Mars by the 15th, the Sun squares Pluto, and Uranus sits right there too. So there has been an overall sense of being hemmed in and frustrated. Take the lottery for instance, 173 million disappointed people left feeling like April … Continued

Spiritual and Religious

  During the exercise we were asked to not fall back upon religious terms or jargon, if possible. While for some, these kinds of happenings can happen in a traditional church setting, the responses from the group were varied although most contained a single unifying theme.   Richard went first, and recounted that early in … Continued

MARCH 2012 ASTROLOGY

March winds have arrived with a fury of tornados devastating parts of the Midwest and the south, all of which occurred under the squaring of Venus and Saturn and the moon, a very sad combination indeed. With both Mercury and Mars retrograde– and personal planets affect our intimate everyday lives so much– it tends to … Continued

FEBRUARY 2012, ASTROLOGY AQUARIANS UNITE

What is it about Aquarians? There have been more US Presidents born in February, than any other sign. Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Wm Henry Harrison and although his birth was  January 30th, FDR was also an Aquarian. With the exception of Washington, the other three were born earlier in the month, under the star, Danistha, symbolized in the Hindu … Continued

January 2012 Astro Update

Appropriately named for Janus, the two headed Roman god of beginnings and endings , January is that doorway into  the year ahead, from 2011 to 2012. Contrary to the  many dire predictions of catastrophe and destruction, an overview of 2012 from the Vedic (Hindu astrology) perspective,  indicates a better year than the preceding one. The … Continued

Winter Solstice: Celebrating the Return of the Light

  Farmers and cave dwellers looked skyward for the return of the sun since all of life and agriculture depended upon it. That souls crossed between the earth and sky through the portals of the solstices was widely believed. And, in fact, at one of the hospices I was involved with, about 80 percent of … Continued

December 2011 Astro Update

Zing! goes the arrow of the Sagittarian archer right into the heart of the matter. “Please don’t be so honest” were words spoken to a Sag child. Lacking the verbal discretion of say, Scorpio, these, the most blunt and freedom seeking  of the 12 zodiac signs, will find the first 3 days of December aflame … Continued