June 2011
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Em-Power Days, June 2011
Sure is a lot happening high in the skies during this halfway mark of the year! I’m not just talking about Gabby Gifford’s husband touching down either, although, I do think a rocket hurtling back to earth could shortly symbolize what we might soon see in our stock market. But I’ll do the financial stuff in a second. For now, we have astro energies that are going to, in some way or another,...
May 2011
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Em-Power Days, May 2011
May Day! May Day! But in a good way. Not the SOS kind. Are you ready for some relief? Yeah. I know. Me too. And May brings it. May rocks relief! See, during March, unpredictable bff to change, Uranus, provided all the, well, unpredictable changes. And, then, in April, Saturn was stuffing us full of contraction and fear. Thank goodness for May when the emphasis is on enthusiasm and...
April 2011
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Em-Power Days, April 2011
My, oh my, looking at the energies accorded to this April you might have thought that it was the Oracle at Delphi or even old Nostradamus himself calling this the cruelest month. As it were it might even seem as if T.S. Eliot maybe wasn’t so ‘wasted’ but possibly part of Apollo’s Pythia and given the gift of second sight? Don’t know. What I do know is that I’ve done a couple of double takes...
March 2011
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Em-Power Days, March 2011
Southern humorist George Grizzard once pondered that “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” Yes, yes, the earth is stirring, because that’s what it does, in March, it stirs. The proverbial pot maybe? A month that even when the sun shines hot can still find chill winds blowing cold. OR blowing change more likely. All due to Uranus, the planet aligned and...
January 2011
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Em-Power Days, February 2011
Hearts and flowers and February. Yes, yes, love is a many splendid thing and, of course, love does lift us up where we belong and lest you forget all you need IS love. Love. Love. Love. Is that all there is? The answer to that is a resounding “YES!” But not for the reasons you might think. Oh, okay, in homage to the zeitgeist of the month I will put my stamp on that ubiquitous letter from...
Em-Power Days, January 2011
Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanza et al, the time of rebirth and rejoicing is done while the one aligned with rejuvenation and re-choicing has only just begun! THIS is the time to announce your readiness to CHOOSE what it is that you want to come waltzing into your life in 2011. Celebrate and twirl to this burgeoning birth while deciding as well to choose a simpler yet MORE rewarding year...
December 2010
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Em-Power Days, December 2010
Oh by gosh, by golly, it’s time for mistletoe and holly! Especially if you are affixing the mistletoe in every corner of your dining room and then looking for abundance and prosperity to push each other out the way trying to kiss you with some coin this holiday season. Pucker up. And, of course, if you want to give yourself the ab fab best gift in the world this year you might want to hang...
November 2010
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Em-Power Days, November 2010
I could wax poetic but plain and simply this November will be one where gratitude will seem to flow oh so easily and plenty effortlessly too. As we reach the apex of Autumn, the crowning glory of the year, we might embrace the melancholy of the month but we’ll be doing that with an eye and optimism towards the immediate future. And even though you might be packing a bag and heading over the river...
October 2010
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Em-Power Days, October 2010
Giving the Devil his due is a recurrent theme in late Autumn as his alien aesthetic and lonely figure seems to brush up against the darkness of the dusky fall. The sacraments of the season, corn and grain and grain and corn, reminding again that all that falls shall rise once more. All Beelzebubs and boo’s aside, personally, I love this time of the year. Nature appears aglow and can sometime...
September 2010
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Em-Power Days, September 2010
We meet again in Autumn now! Yes, yay, it’s September. And we made it through. Oh, to be sure, that irrational and irritating astrological Grand Cross still hangs high in the sky. Just not as fearful anymore. Nope, nope, nope; not King of the Fffffffinances anymore. Take c-c-courage, because Scarecrow got dibs on the heart. And since it’s ‘Back to School’ that must mean that we got some...
August 2010
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Em-Power Days, August 2010
So what about that little red-headed orphan who’s always so darn positive that the sun’ll come out tomorrow? She better be singing about August 23rd because up and until then I’m more prone to listen to her little dog. You know, that barking beach blonde one that says that the days leading up to the 23rd are going to be kind of ruff, ruff, ruff. I mean, it’s August anyway, you know? Bright and...
July 2010
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Em-Power Days, July 2010
July brings the balm our embattled spirits are thirsting for since we are being given cosmic permission now to go ahead and shed our worries alongside our clothes. Clear and cloudless skies ahead and I mean that in every proverbial sense. We get a brief and sunshiny respite from the swelter and the swagger of that giant planetary cross forming high in the summer skies and all the attendant astro...
June 2010
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Em-Power Days, June 2010
May suggests. And then June fulfills. Maybe it’s because June feels so much like young love itself that couples choose this month to start out in, or, maybe it’s because this is the month of the honey moon? Bees on the hunt, roses swaying in the breeze, stars hugging a twilight that has nothing to do with teenage vampires. Holy songs sung from the sweet and charming breath of burgeoning buds...
May 2010
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Em-Power Days, May 2010
Ahhh May, a soft syllable and a gentle name for a time of year that makes anything seem possible. The great ‘Prophet’ Kalil Gibran advised us to “be like a flower and turn our face to the sun” in May so we could bask in these days of daffodils and violets, soft breezes and hope. Optimism! Opportunity! May! I mean, can any month that heralds and hearkens us to send big love to big Mama be...
April 2010
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Em-Power Days, April 2010
While he was all wasted in his own land, T.S. Eliot was wont to expound that “April is the cruelest month.” Now, Shakespeare shared this same rag too. But, to old Will, well, this was pretty much much ado about nothing. Not so much much Eliot though. You’ll see that he didn’t simply wax poetic about how this potentially could be the cruelest month, or, if April was personified and in a really...
March 2010
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Em-Power Days, March 2010
Even the weeds start to show small blooms this month. Illusions and memories stir awake. A robin hopping here. A daffodil blooming there. Summer inaudibly whispers something about the light while Winter hides in the shade. The return of green. And hope. A light exists in this month that we don’t see the whole other part of the year. Illumination and inspiration as the very earth itself...
February 2010
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Em-Power Days, February 2010
LOVE. Isn’t that one of the keywords we almost immediately think of when we think of this winter month of February? Fantasies of getting bouquets full ‘o spring blooms that take up space in our hearts. Even if they are often out of proportion to actual size or, gulp, intention. Whether it’s because you are wishing and wanting so badly to see someone that you’re willing to step on thin ice or...
January 2010
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Em-Power Days, January 2010
Minute by minute by chilly little minute the days are beginning to lengthen albeit almost as unnoticeably as when we are watching one of our own children grow. All of a sudden all of that imperceptible growth gives way to an astounding and delightful surprise and the days stand taller as does the precious child. But here we are in stark January, the turning of the wheel of the year continuing...
December 2009
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Em-Power Days, December 2009
What a nice way to end the year, with a month so merry and bright that the halls really will be the only thing you’ll feel like decking! And in the tradition of embracing the holidays in a new old fashioned way, let’s take a look at how we can use the secret Shui to enhance our rockin’ round the Christmas tree, ‘cause that’s how we roll. Now, all that fa, la, la, la, la said, I do have to be a...