There is knowledge and there is information. Knowledge can become wisdom when it has been applied effectively. Information is helpful, but it cannot transcend itself and become anything more than information.

              I cannot remember where I first came across this knowledge that when it comes to relationships, we maintain harmony and balance when we try to ensure a ratio of at least 5 “good” moments with a person for every 1 “bad” moment with this p...

Life could just as well be fiction. Perhaps it is. It is. But it is a play we must play out.

                Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson never met, although they could have, and each in their own “queer” ways having changed poetry forever—untrapped the possibilities of it. Would they have even liked each other? Whitman, the bold political revolutionary (though literature classes have forgotten that of him) who lamented “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don�...

This, self-love, has been one of my own greatest lessons. I have spent a lifetime questioning my own worthiness and my own goodness. I have been, as many of you may relate to, a compulsive giver. Giving my time, energy, love, and resources to others in a compulsive bid to find validation. Is that true giving? Selfless on the one hand, self-seeking on the other.

One of the greatest acts of service one can engage in is self-love. Unlike compulsive over-giving, which inevitably leads to depleti...

They heave me into the boat,
my shell and legs encumbered
with barnacles.

I hear the scraping of their knives,
their eager voices, the sound of
writhing disease hitting the floor.

I have been sick with attachments.
My saviors delight in freeing me
as equally as they will delight
in their after-beer of celebration.

I am relieved to lose these barnacles,
but there is a disease that feels
much deeper—

there is a disease that will slip back
into the cool water with me
when they let me go.

What Does it Mean to Have LIME GREEN in the aura?

                All of the loving, compassionate energies we commonly associate with the heart chakra (which is the green-colored chakra) will be present in anyone who has lime green in their aura. However, the lime-green shade carries its own specific energy as well.

                The person with lime-green in their aura is very creative—in fact they can barely contain their creative impulses. Inspiration comes to this person in sudden,...

     I wanted to talk a bit about fear and anxiety, emotions that often lead us to seeking guidance from psychic readings. The function of fear is a biological, evolutionary one, and it does come in handy in certain circumstances. Imagine you are out in the woods and come across a bear--VERY SCARY!--right? Well, the fear that you feel in that moment serves only one purpose: to bring your awareness to something that you need to address. The most helpful thing you can then do is to switch out o...

                I love working with animal spirit guides. The first time I recall animals trying to deliver a message to me I was 18 and my Papaw (aka grandfather) was going back and forth between nursing homes and hospital stays. He was 83 years old, had dementia, and his body was failing him. As I was driving down the road one day, I passed five different animals, all of which were black in color. I cannot recall now, at almost 40 years old, specifically which animals. Most likely a cow, ...

This e-mail contains THREE separate readings. One of them is for you. To determine which reading is meant for you, pick the number/gemstone combination that most resonates with you, then scroll down to that portion of the reading.

Pick One:

Reading #1: 333 Citrine

Reading...

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I've been very aware of other people's emotions ever since I was a child. I never realized there was anything particularly intuitive going on. I did often feel that I just "knew" certain things to be true but had great difficulty explaining why. "Just trust me, I can tell!" I would say to my friends, and simultaneously be frustrated because I was convinced they still would not understand. I had no idea this was an indication of intuitive ability though. I even remember when I was young, readi...

Let me help you kick your year off right by teaching you how to find your “Personal Year Number” for 2013. According to numerologists this number will define the general theme for the year to come. If you'd rather do things the EASY PEASY way, visit one of the many Personal Year Number calculators on the web, such as THIS ONE. If you want to know how the math works follow along. All you need to do is add together the digits of your month of birth, day of birth, and the digits of the year....

                I have long had a fascination with Emily Dickinson, partly because of our shared birthday. Emily was born December 10, 1830 and I was born December 10th exactly 150 years later. From a young age I also enjoyed writing poetry and I encountered Dickinson's poetry for the first time when I was in middle school--it was the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" in a children's book illustrated with frogs. :) I can't remember when it was I realized she and I shared a birthday,...

 

I was recently inspired by Michelle at Astrofix.com's blog post wherein she explored the meaning of her south and north node placements as well as their sign rulers. One of the greatest tools an astrologer has is their own chart, but oftentimes it is the hardest to decipher! It's like looking at a painting when you're an inch away from the canvas. It helps to step back a bit, depersonalize a little (hard to do when you're looking at your personal chart!) and all...

    Yesterday I opened up a fortune cookie to find the message, “The key to failure is tr...

It can be frustrating for the person learning astrology to understand how the individual parts of their birth chart work together to make one unified whole.  One way to put it all together is to create sentences for how plan...

What is a Full Moon?

If you think of the Sun and the Moon as the minute and the second-hand on the zodiac chart, like hands on a clock, then the Full Moon is the moment when the tips of the second and minute hands (the Moon and Sun) are at their most opposite points in the sky.  This happens about every 29 days, roughly once per month.

Full Harvest Moon September 22, 2009

T...