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Aquarius Full Moon: Looking Up

Recently I’ve been playing with an exciting new approach to manifestation, as outlined in the book Scripting the Life You Want, by Royce Christyn. It involves a daily practice of writing down your intentions for the day ahead, including things you hope will happen along with others that you absolutely know will happen.…

Leo New Moon: Take a Bow

Have you been watching Simone Biles at the Paris Olympics? If so, you know greatness when you see it. “She’s not even human,” I’ve heard several people say of the world’s most decorated gymnast – who’s been wowing star-studded crowds.…

Capricorn Full Moon II: Cosmic Flashpoint

By the early 1950s, Frank Sinatra’s career had hit a low ebb. No one wanted him as a singer or an actor. Yet when he read the book From Here to Eternity, which was about to be made into a movie, Sinatra knew he was born to play the part of Maggio.…

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.…