Ophiuchus Our 13th Constellation

Sol…

Essential Oils For Your Yoga Practice



Essential oils are the pure essence of plants, extracted for their healing, cleansing and magical properties. The olfactory nerves in the brain work by transporting us, encouraging us or relaxing us through the power of scent. In order to benefit from all the rich aspects essential oils have to offer, it is important to look at each structural source as an individual and unique frame of reference. The therapeutic "signature" of each plant,…

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Galileo and the secrets of Hermeticism

The Autumn Dipper?

A Flying Horse?

Image: Space.com / …

Do Spirits Have "Past Lives?"

Of course they do! At least for spirits of the recently deceased people, which is what people generally mean when using the word "spirits." We live, we die, then as spirits we inhabit the spirit world for a time, then we are born again, and the cycle repeats again, and again—time after time. We journey through many life times, both while incarnated in the physical…

Gratitude for the Day

Written by Donald Altman |   | …

Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?

Walter Cruttenden

 

The two equinoxes act as markers on the face of the celestial clock. The ancients used the autumnal equinox (AE) as the hour hand of the ages, with 500 AD as the low point. The renaissance represents the awakening from the Kali…

A Crystal Gratitude Grid



Many energy workers add the subtle vibrations of stone energy as a complement to

their healing sessions or daily lives. Usually this includes the laying on of

the appropriate colored stones to coordinate with the Chakra centers, Aura

layers, meditating with a particular stone,…

Crystals for Sagittarius 



The Archer is brilliant at public relations. They tend toward the excessive, expressing it as carefree, adventurous and searching. With their expansive nature, they are freedom loving and fortunate because of this attitude, yet very judgmental of others. They enjoy traveling and exploration, because their minds are constantly open to new dimensions of thought. They are basically ambitious and optimistic, and continue to be…

Friendship Between Dog and Elephant Ends, But Compassion Remains

Steve Hartman has a sad update to one of our favorite stories from 2009 involving the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. A story of compassion between the most unlikely of friends.

For nearly a decade, Tara the elephant had…

The Gratitude Project

by Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac.



This is a self awareness exercise I started in my practice in New York City over

12 years ago. It has always been an offering to my patients who come in during

the week of Thanksgiving for…

The Galactic Planes

Annual Cycle of Invocation and Evocation

The following zodiacal references are to the signs,

not the constellations, unless stated so.

See …

Navigating with Orion

The Hunter Heralds the Coming of Winter…

A Leonid Meteor shower around the constellation Canis Major, the big dog, shows the trail of a spectacular fireball meteor appearing to leap from the constellation's brightest star Sirius, near the top right. …