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May 30, 2023
Sagittarius Full Moon: Take the High Road
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.…
May 14, 2023
Taurus New Moon: Blooming Anew
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.…
May 2, 2023
Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse: Shedding Our Skins
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 attached to their old skin.…
April 16, 2023
Aries New Moon Eclipse: Now or Never
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.…
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March 31, 2023
Libra Full Moon: A Cuddle or a Kick?
We all need love in one form or another!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.…
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March 16, 2023
Aries New Moon: Warrior Spirit
The woman who would be king…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 express her warrior nature.…
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March 2, 2023
Virgo Full Moon: Crow Wisdom
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.…
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February 15, 2023
Pisces New Moon: Born Anew
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!…
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January 31, 2023
Leo Full Moon: Unexpected Treasure
Let your childlike sense of wonder be your guide…you never know what you might find!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.…
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January 17, 2023
Aquarius New Moon: The Power of Friendship
An enduring friendship…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.…
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