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March 7, 2011

Dine Like Your Sign! Pisces

This month we’re going to start with a little quiz. Look at this picture and tell me how you think a Pisces would best respond…

a)    Bar-b-que! Make mine medium-rare, please…
    b)    Hurray! My very own cheeeeeeeese factory!
    c)    Margarine is evil in a cube. Pass the BUTTER.
    d)    Awww look at the sweet little moo cow! I’ll name her Bessie…good Bessie…

If you picked d), then you’re well on your way to dining like a Pisces. But as you can also probably tell, this issue won’t make the carnivores very happy. Hey, I love a good steak as much as the next person, but this month we’re looking for a Win/Win for us AND Bessie and we all know how she’d feel about that juicy 10 oz. sirloin. Pisces, as the most compassionate of all, want everyone to be safe and happy, which includes the faceless entrees that end up on our plate. For this month the DLYS! motto is ‘Do no harm’, which means exploring ways of eating that do less damage to animals, the planet, and even ourselves.

March 7, 2011

A Time for Setting Things Up

It is always a fun challenge to try to encapsulate the nature of any particular period our planet is experiencing at any given moment. One of the reasons I began to become attracted to astrology did NOT come from an astrological book or speaker. It actually began as I was reading the works of a French philosopher and author, Rene Guenon. He wrote quite a few esoteric books on Hinduism as well as being a commentator on the nature of western civilization in general. One of his books that struck me very strongly was entitled “The Reign of Quantity.” This book was a critique of a civilization that so evaluates itself by quantitative measures that it has lost the awareness of the fact that what makes life meaningful and worth living is when the quality of the moment matters most. It’s not the quantity of what is accomplished, for example. Our culture places great importance on numbers, polls, and values everything accordingly. It assumes that every moment is just like every other one, and that what is possible in one is just as possible in another. But is this assumption true? Can it be questioned and investigated?

February 28, 2011

Spotlight on Pisces

The only thing harder than change is endings. Ask anyone who’s gone through a divorce, or retired. Or read a Stephen King novel. With Pisces we’ve reached the denouement of the archetypal story and to encapsulate the sign, well, it feels futile to even try to find the words. Language, as we know it, can sometimes be almost meaningless. It would be like asking someone who’s celebrating their 100th birthday to tell you their life story over coffee, all they’ve experienced and learned. It would earn you a smile and a headshake. Each chapter of the journey has played its part and contains profound purpose impossible to see in the moment. You simply had to be there. Pisces has an experiential appreciation of life like no other, which gives them an unassuming sage-like wisdom that separates them from the rest of us.

February 16, 2011

The Beginning of the 'New'

On January 22, 2011, Jupiter entered Aries, the archetypal sign of new beginnings. Within only 3 days and with Jupiter still at 0 degrees of Aries, the first demonstrations broke out in Egypt and only 18 days later, on February 11th Mubarak had resigned. The world was shocked, amazed and also bewildered. No one knows for sure what will happen next. Will the army give control back to the citizens marking the first true democratic state in the Arab world or will there be detours or even betrayals in the future? Yet, it does seem that something truly new is being born. There is the sense that we are watching history of epic proportions as the meaning of these events potentially has such wonderful possibilities for the entire region and the world. It is easy to become overly optimistic, but who can deny the joy of hope that seems to be emerging now.

February 10, 2011

January 31, 2011

Spotlight on Aquarius

Eventually there comes a time when there is the need for change. The word has been bantered around so much in recent years. We all say we want it, why it sure looks good on paper, but deep down, do we? Whether or not we’re willing to admit it we like the comfort of familiarity, the security of the established and the promise of consistency. There’s an enticing malaise of continuing on with the tried and true, capitalizing on the relentless and lasting foundations laid by the Saturnian work ethic. But more importantly, change scares us. What will happen if you start rocking the boat? – Why who knows… It could be like that Butterfly Effect where you think you’re making just a minor alteration when really you’re creating a tidal wave that hits Manhattan! And after all, if you just keep doing what everyone else is doing and has been doing for virtual eons, well, it has been working, so why shake things up?

January 31, 2011

January 25, 2011

January 18, 2011

OMG, My Sign Has Changed

As many of you probably know the internet is ablaze with near panic as people are being told that they may not, in fact, be the Sun sign they thought they were. I have been contacted by many students and clients about this and even got a call from the Associated Press about it. If you are interested, you can see a brief comment I made here:

Let me speak about the confusion and let you know that nothing has changed and that you are still the sign you thought you were. Actually, the confusion arises from two different things. The first is the issue of the so-called new sign, Ophiuchus, and the second has to do with what astronomers refer to as the precession of the equinoxes.

January 10, 2011

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