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Cancer New Moon: Claim Your Power

Activist Deborah Kushner, top, protests the Atlantic Coast Pipeline last year.

She’s been arrested three times for acts of civil disobedience related to gas pipeline construction and permitting. In one of those incidents, as seen above, retired social worker Deborah Kushner chained her rocking chair to an old police cruiser painted with attention-grabbing slogans that made folks take notice!…

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Sagittarius Full Moon: Aim for True North

One spring night in 1968, 21-year-old Patti Smith went with some friends to see The Doors live at the Fillmore East in New York City. A recent college drop-out, Smith was working in a bookstore and wondering what to do with the rest of her life.…

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Gemini New Moon: A Different Kind of Hope

When Michael Meade was twenty years old, he was thrown into solitary confinement in a military prison for refusing to go to Vietnam. “I wasn’t a very good prisoner,” he explained in a recent talk on Hope and Imagination in Hard Times.…

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Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse: Embrace the Shadow

Are you ready for the powerful Full Blood Moon Total Eclipse in Scorpio?

I just spent a week at the Optimum Health Institute here in San Diego. It was an intense time of cleansing with wheat grass and raw foods, revving up the body, and learning more about healthy living.…

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Taurus New Moon Eclipse: Uncommon Beauty

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.”…

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Libra Full Moon: Meaningful Connections

My thoughts have been occupied lately by a very dear Libra man. His name is James Hubbell, and he turned 90 last October 23. Many San Diegans know him as the gifted artist-sculptor who created a wonderland of adobe dwellings inlaid with mosaic and stained glass in the peaceful mountains near Julian (now known as the Ilan Lael Center).…

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Aries New Moon: Stay Positive

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth..

When reasons to despair are everywhere, staying happy can be a challenge. Yet happiness is our natural state, and we feel best and do the most good when we stay tuned to that frequency as much as possible.…

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Virgo Full Moon: A Clarifying Moment

This Full Moon is made for scrying…

In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl writes of an elderly man who came to him two years after the death of his wife.…

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Pisces New Moon: Taking the Plunge

Do you remember the Hopi Elders’ message that was circulating widely about 20 years ago? It read, in part: “There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.…

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Leo Full Moon: Bask in the Love

Love comes in all shapes, sizes – and species!

Animals fall in love just as deeply as we do, says Ellie Laks, founder of The Gentle Barn, an animal rescue organization in Santa Clarita, CA.…

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