This morning marked the third day of a week-long Sadhana at my beloved local yoga studio.
Sadhana is a spiritual practice that entails a lengthy morning prayer at 4:30 a.m., followed by a half-hour or more of yoga, followed by an hour-plus of chanting meditation. The practice ends by about 6:45 a.m.
Though I was looking forward [...]

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Remember the case of Nature v. Nurture? And how the brilliant psychoneuro- biologists finally resolved it with a burning, complex, insightful answer (”Uh, it’s both, people.”)?
Well, the even-more-esoteric among us have been taking sides for years in a similar debate: Opposites Attract v. Likes Attract. Which is it?
Uh. It’s both.
Because, like Nature and Nurture, if [...]

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Lunching with a friend this afternoon, she told me she’d had her chart read once and that it’s amazing how accurate it is. I agreed and then couldn’t help adding, “When it’s done right.” She agreed back. She’d had a good experience, for which I’m always grateful.
But it got me wondering what I meant by [...]

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A friend gave birth this morning, and of course my first instinct (after tearing up, staring at the pictures and sending my excited congratulations) was to check out the child’s birth chart.
It is an extraordinary thing to look at the chart of a new person because, like the baby, it is pure potential. It is [...]

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Duh.
In the haze of a sinus infection last week (more on that later), I left some very important information on Mercury out of this post.
In addition to commerce, travelers, gymnastics and the underworld, Mercury is also closely associated with data, information, learning and communication. (Though not patently obvious at first glance, these themes do dovetail [...]

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