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Cancer New Moon: Nourish and Protect

One Saturday when I was 14, my friend Erin and I were hanging out at my home when the minister of our church stopped by to lay his hands on my mom’s sprained ankle.…

Capricorn Full Moon: Playing a Long Game

Our beautiful green planet just marked a shocking new milestone – enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat. Every single month from June 2023 to May 2024 was the world’s hottest such month on record.…

Gemini New Moon: Power of the Mind

What if, all through your childhood, your dad told you things like, “You’re gonna shake up this world,” and, “You’re gonna win Wimbledon.” And drove you past mansions in the wealthy part of town, assuring you that some day you’d have one of your own.…

Sagittarius Full Moon: Think Big

It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of us (like me) who spent our summer vacations haunting the local library and devouring adventure novels, but many U.S. kids have no library near where they live – and thus no access to books.…

Taurus New Moon: What’s Your Pleasure?

Waxing Moon Goddess by Ramona Szczerba

I went salsa dancing last Saturday night for the first time in years. Salsa used to be my world, and I was out dancing at least five times a week.…

Scorpio Full Moon: On the Wings of Change

A butterfly is a delicate, ephemeral creature. So, the Zuni Butterfly Dance, which took place off a dusty, remote New Mexico road, came as a shock to many. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes it in Women Who Run with the Wolves, the dancer, Maria Lujan, was a large, elderly native woman with long, gray hair wearing a one-shouldered, red-and-black blanket dress and sporting butterfly wings.…

Aries New Moon Eclipse: A Twist of Fate

Debra Poneman with Jack Canfield, who called her impromptu talk “a textbook example of a great speech.”

Some years ago, motivational teacher Debra Poneman was preparing a big speech for Jack Canfield’s Transformational Leadership Council.…

Libra Full Moon: Welcome the Shadow

“Anything done for another is done for oneself.” –Pope John Paul II

Human beings can be profoundly contradictory. Take Pope John Paul II, who helped usher the Catholic Church into the 21st century.…

Pisces New Moon: Keep the Faith

At age 35, Jennifer Flewellen was put into a medically induced coma after crashing her car into a pole. Doctors soon became certain she would never recover and encouraged Flewellen’s mother, Peggy Means, to take her off life-support.…

Virgo Full Moon: Perseverance Pays

“Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. And we here are living in darkness and tragedy, and rockets are falling on us, therefore I thought of creating light.”…