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Aquarius Solar Eclipse: Throw Out a Bone

Kathy Wilkes-Myers was walking along a highway in central Tennessee recently when she came across a scrawny, starving Rottweiler. The dog, who she later learned was named Ella, rubbed against Kathy’s leg looking for reassurance.…

Leo Full Moon Eclipse: A Defining Moment

Late one night back in 1926, Grace bundled her two small children into her car and fled Memphis, Texas for good.  She’d had enough of her no-good husband and was determined to start a new life in Corpus Christi.…

Capricorn New Moon: Time’s Up!

By now you’ve no doubt heard Oprah Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at last weekend’s Golden Globe Awards. Winfrey was one of many Hollywood heavy-hitters who spoke up that night to support  projects like the newly formed Time’s Up campaign.…

Cancer Full Moon: Down with Resolutions!

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been making the same New Year’s resolutions year after year. Each January, we vow to lose weight, make more money, find true love or be a kinder person.…

Sagittarius New Moon: Changing Perceptions

 

From fake news, inflammatory tweets and breathtaking roll-backs on vital policies to devastating floods, earthquakes and fires, at first glance it might seem that 2017 was a bust. Yet consider how far we’ve come:

After years of pressure by environmentalists, the World Bank  just announced it will cease all investments in oil and gas exploration over the next two years.…

Gemini Full Moon: The Voices in Your Head

Recently I sank into a funk. For over an hour, a voice in my head had been accusing me of terrible things. Like not doing enough to save the planet – and thereby being responsible for its imminent demise.…

Scorpio New Moon: Rising From the Ashes

For two years, Wayne Winters and his wife had been hoping for a kidney donor to save her from stage five kidney failure. But Winters was tired of waiting. So with passion in his heart and resolve in his 74-year-old bones, he took to the streets of Farr West, Utah last month with a sandwich board sign reading: “Need Kidney 4 Wife”.…

Taurus Full Moon: Resurrect Your Dream

Lately I’ve been re-reading my 2001 travel journal, the account of a five-month road trip in which I visited earthen homes in six states and interviewed those who create and live in them.…

Libra New Moon: Unlikely Partnerships

Who would have imagined that an eccentric tech billionaire would partner up with a Caribbean island to rebuild its electrical grid after a deadly hurricane? Yet that’s exactly what seems to be happening, after Tesla chief Elon Musk recently reached out to Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rossello offering to transform the American territory’s grid using solar panels and lithium ion batteries.…

Aries Full Moon: Invoking Courage

The great psychologist Carl Jung once noted, “The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you.” Jung’s Leo Sun was conjunct independent Uranus – going his own way came naturally to him.…