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 A Christmas Story
There is a simple way to reconnect with the Christ within us, and to true Christmas Spirit. That is through connecting to the Divine Mother. We can connect with Mary through a contemplation of the spiritual powers inherent in nature, and through Mary we will connect with the Holy Spirit. more >>
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 Amethyst Crystal
Amethyst is the gemstone variety of quartz -- popular with royalty, sages, mystics and magicians for centuries. more >>
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 Ametrine Crystal
Ametrine combines the purifying and elevating energies of amethyst with the cleansing and energizing properties of citrine. If you're ready to LIGHTEN UP, this stone's for you. In meditation, ametrine gives the bearer a feeling of buoyancy. The flow of prana increases dramatically, the mind stills, and the heart rejoices. more >>
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 Apophyllite
Learn about the metaphysical and physical properties of this magical luminous crystal. more >>
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 Crystal Spheres
The crystal ball is a microcosm, a doorway, a transmitter and receiver of energies and a very valuable ally for those involved in divination or meditation. more >>
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 Happy Holy Days
With Gratitude to all of our Friends & Customers, our Family & Family of Contributors, to all of our Loved Ones, we offer our Gratitude for filling our year with Inspired Challenges, Light, Joy & Love. more >>
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 Himalayan Ice Quartz
Learn about the amazing properties of this newly discovered quartz from the Himalayas, found under retreating glaciers. more >>
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 Indigo Quartz
Read about the awesome magical qualities of Actinolite & Indicalite Indigo Quartz. more >>
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 Lemurian Crystals
Learn about the various kinds of Lemurian Seed Crystals & their possible facet configurations. more >>
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 Michael Quartz
Learn about the qualities iron oxide imparts in clear quartz & its connection to the Angelic Divine. more >>
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 Reiki and the Zero-Point Field
The Source of Reiki energy originates in what some modern scientists describe as The Zero Point Field – a field of low-level energy that fills the seeming empty vastness of deep space. more >>
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 Reviewing the God Theory
The Divine Plan is for the Absolute Energy beyond time and space to come to know itself fully by creatively individuating itself in a myriad of forms evolving over time within the framework of the space-time continuum until each spark of individuated consciousness comes to recover its true identity and Unity with the Divine. This is Satya, this is Truth. more >>
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 Rutilated Quartz Crystals
The most common and familiar inclusion in quartz is needled rutile. Specimens range from brilliant silver to pale gold to rich orangey brown. more >>
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 Selenite
Learn about the metaphysical healing qualities of Selenite & Winnipeg Selenite. more >>
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 Smoky Quartz
Smoky quartz works slowly and thoroughly to relieve imbalances in the physical and etheric bodies, with special emphasis on the solar plexus and its associated chakra, the third or Manipura chakra. more >>
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 Spring Equinox Mysteries and History
We celebrate the triumph of love, life and light over darkness and death at the start of the Astrological New Year, on the Vernal Equinox. This is a time of equal day and equal night, and in the Aquarian Age the Spring Equinox is a celebration of the Divine Lovers. more >>
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 Spring Equinox: The Archangel Raphael Meditation
Archangel Raphael reigns over spring. Raphael commands a myriad of spirits who work on the regeneration and growth of vegetation. So at the beginning of spring establish a bond with the Archangel Raphael. Ask him to make you receptive to the virtues hidden in trees, grasses and flowers, so that this new life penetrates you as well. more >>
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 Tarot: Yoga of the West
The Tarot is the Yoga of the West, a system for obtaining personal enlightenment, visualizing future probabilities, and changing our inner reality to create more positive outcomes in life. more >>
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 The Five Reiki Principles
The secret of inviting happiness through many blessings and
the spiritual medicine for all illness -- five simple principles to accelerate spiritual advancement, open the heart and strengthen your Reiki practice. more >>
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 The History of Reiki
The Reiki tradition began over 100 years ago as an exclusively oral set of secret teachings, handed down from teacher to student, similar to the methods of many other spiritual traditions in the East, such as yoga. more >>
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 Vernal Equinox 2006
This day of the Vernal Equinox is a good time to reconnect to Mother Earth with gratitude for her many gifts. It is a good time to reconnect with the sacred during the simple act of eating a meal. more >>
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 Vogel Crystals
Learn about the Vogel Master Cut Crystal Properties & their inventor, Marcel Vogel. more >>
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 What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese word, often translated as Universal Life Force Energy, electrical excitation or aura. Reiki is also a Twentieth Century Japanese system of natural healing introduced to the world by Dr. Mikao Usui. more >>
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 Summer Solstice 2013
June 21, 2013
It is a time traditionally for bonfires, for lovers trysts, for making wishes to fulfill love. When the Sun enters Cancer, the traditional time for weddings, betrothals & new expressions of love, the full moon is called the 'Mead Moon', (or honeymoon). more >>
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 Pentecost Sunday: Speaking in Tongues, Kundalini Awakening and Christ Consciousness
May 19, 2013
When the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles at Pentecost, they entered a higher state of consciousness, and traveled near and far, spreading their Teacher’s message of love fearlessly throughout the world. The Apostles healed many by prayer and the laying on of hands. The miraculous events of Pentecost bear a startling resemblance to the signs of enlightenment discussed for thousands of years in the ancient Hindu tradition of yoga. more >>
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 April 2013 Full Moon in Scorpio Cosmic Weather Forecast
April 25, 2013
Our challenge this Full Moon Festival is to overcome fear, take courageous risks to advance the onset of the Forces of Light and Love, patiently endure the frustrations of a time when oppositions create a kind of Cosmic gridlock in the stars, and meditate deeply upon matters of human death and transformation. This can lead to empowerment. more >>
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 Wesak Wisdom: The War Between the Ego and the Higher Self
April 25, 2013
In this article, we offer some simple meditations on liberation, communion with the Higher Self and the loving wisdom of Christ and Buddha which are appropriate for this High Holy Festival of Wesak, which celebrates the Unity of the Wisdom Teachings of East and West. more >>
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 Spring Equinox 2013
March 20, 2013
Western Astrologers celebrate the start of a New Year today. For those of us who would like a fresh start in our lives, the Equinox offers us an opportunity to connect with the Universal Life Force which is now moving powerfully within the plant kingdom and which is now beginning to manifest throughout all the elements of Nature, accessible to us through water, earth, fire and water. more >>
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 February 2013 Full Moon Cosmic Weather Forecast
February 25, 2013
With six planets in Pisces this week, expect this unusual super-watery configuration to unleash a flood of difficult and long-repressed emotions, a cascade of confusing astral glamours, and simultaneously an undeniable soulful yearning for a transcendent realm of peace, unity and healing. more >>
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 Candlemas
February 2, 2013
Festivals occurring at the mid-point of a fixed sign, like Aquarius, are traditionally feasts of prognostication. The month of Aquarius is the month of the Rowan, tree of the quickening, and of prophetic visions. more >>
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 January 2013 Cosmic Weather Forecast
January 26, 2013
This Leo Full Moon Aquarius Solar Festival is the ideal time to ask Spirit to release you from your habitual patterns of thought and old ways of being. Aquarius is the sign of innovative thinking, group work and humanitarianism, so this is the time to overcome all self-imposed limitations and faulty mental maps of the world. more >>
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 The Winter Solstice Gabriel Meditation
December 21, 2012
We are pleased to offer you these instructions for obtaining “The Gabriel Initiation", a simplified version of an Ancient technique that was originally offered only to advanced students of the Western Mystery School traditions. more >>
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 A Thanksgiving Prayer from the Mohawk Nation
November 22, 2012
Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People. Now our minds are one. more >>
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 Thanksgiving: History of Community & Conflict
November 22, 2012
We can only guess what the Wampanoags must have thought when they first saw the strange ships of the Pilgrims arriving on their shores. But their custom was to help visitors, and they treated the newcomers with courtesy. It was mainly because of their kindness that the Pilgrims survived at all. more >>
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 Happy Halloween, Samhain and Diwali
October 31, 2012
Pagan, earth-centered religions see the Divine manifest in Nature and all of Creation, believe in the concept of immanence (the Goddess/God within), believe in the spirit which resides in all things seen and unseen and in unending cycles of birth, growth, death and renewal. more >>
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 September 2012 Harvest Moon Cosmic Weather Forecast
September 30, 2012
The coming extreme environmental events, and the potential war of all against all that could be unleashed by water shortages, food shortages, greed and lust for power during the end of the age of abundant, cheap oil can only be averted or mitigated by the emergence of a group consciousness that honors the Earth and simultaneously maintains the welfare of all individuals. Those of us who can successfully integrate these communitarian impulses into our psyches and our lives, and find common cause with those who share our goals, but who may have different belief systems and values, will be richly rewarded by the Universe, and will be given the tools enabling us to work together to ameliorate the coming global troubles in our immediate vicinity and around the world. more >>
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 Autumn Equinox: The Archangel Michael Meditation
September 22, 2012
It's fall! Archangel Michael comes armed with subtle fire and a sword of iron, to redirect Universal Life Force Energy on planet Earth upward, lending support to all spiritual practices, and offering the promise of accelerated spiritual growth in the season to come. more >>
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 June 2012 Cosmic Weather Forecast Part 2: Uranus-Pluto Global Financial Meltdown Part Deux
June 4, 2012
Europe is melting down. The top ten industrialized debtor nations owe $70 trillion. There are $700 trillion in derivative debt instruments resting upon that $70 trillion in debt. So if these countries’ debts begin to default and financial markets and banks lose confidence in the ability of counter-parties to make good on the $700 trillion in extremely complicated wagers and counter-wagers they have made to one another it’s game over! more >>
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 Holi: The Spring Festival of Colors
March 27, 2012
Holi is a venerable and potent festival of regeneration, resurrection, renewal and new life, celebrating the Victory of Lord Vishnu, Sustainer of the Universe, over the King of Demons, and the Victory of Eternal Light over Darkness. more >>
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 December 2011 Cosmic Weather Forecast
December 10, 2011
An extremely rare Full Moon Total Lunar Selenelion Eclipse marks this as a time of dying dreams and simultaneously as a time when new visions for humanity's future are incubating within the collective consciousness of humanity. more >>
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 November 2011 Cosmic Weather Forecast: The Taurus Full Moon, Scorpio Solar Festival
November 10, 2011
Romance is in the air! A rosy emotional glow permeates the atmosphere this Full Moon and is likely to touch each and every one of us. The moon is in its sign of exaltation, Taurus, a position that is associated with the fusion of love and sexual attraction, the rare alignment of heart and head. Understanding others is easier this week, and opening the heart completely to a compatible love partner can lead to a transcendent experience. more >>
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 October 2011 Cosmic Weather Forecast: A New American Revolution?
October 7, 2011
This Full Moon our spiritual community, both incarnate and discarnate, bolsters our self-assurance in a time of troubles, when it appears that we can no longer depend upon existing social structures to provide for our financial well-being, our personal security, our health and the health of our communities. more >>
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 Traveling Between Two Worlds
September 12, 2011
We are now being given the opportunity to achieve greater awareness through self-transformation. The Universe is gently bringing us face to face with our control issues, our fears, our anger, and our other "sore spots" so we can relinquish our identification with these bad habits, which are not part of our essential nature in any way. more >>
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 April 2011 Libra Full Moon Cosmic Weather Forecast -- Happy Easter and Passover!
April 17, 2011
Feeling stressed? You're not alone. The Sun, Uranus, Mars, Mercury retrograde and Jupiter are all in Aries, opposed by the Moon and Saturn retrograde in Libra. All these planets are part of a T-Square formation which features Pluto retrograde in Capricorn as the linchpin.
On the plus side, the Full Moon trines Neptune in Pisces and Chiron, providing a highly charged spiritual current of healing and inner transformation, which is quite likely to manifest as a stream of meaningful synchronistic events that act as guideposts for us during this time of stress, when we most lack clarity. These synchronicities will open up new doorways for us, providing us with golden opportunities for accelerated spiritual advancement. more >>
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 The Japanese Nuclear Crisis & The Spring Equinox Cosmic Weather Forecast 2011
March 18, 2011
The chart for the spiritual new year in 2011, at zero degrees Aries, is very powerful and positive. Throughout the days to come, through the Full Moon, and past the Equinox, for the next month let us meditate together, pray together, and send energy, Reiki, and blessings to the Japanese people and to the elementals, the devas, the nature spirits in Japan, especially in the radiation-afflicted areas. more >>
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 2011 Full Moon in Leo Aquarian Solar Festival
February 17, 2011
The call of this Leo Full Moon is to connect with the spiritual Lion within, to open the heart to the demands of the suffering billions around the world. My Guides suggested that all Lightworkers who are able and motivated to do so join in a Full Moon Meditation focused upon loving kindness and the establishment of right human relations. Details in the article! Join us in this Full Moon Meditation! more >>
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 January 2011 Cosmic Weather Forecast
January 19, 2011
The Full Moon this week is beautifully aspected which helps to offset the continuing global difficulties we have encountered during the Year of the Iron Tiger. It's time for Lightworkers to connect with Archangel Michael and summon the Spiritual Warrior within! more >>
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 Winter Solstice Newsletter 2010
December 21, 2010
As we look back on this year of intense personal change, which began with a move from New York to California just before last spring, we recall the heart-felt agony triggered by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, apocalyptic fires in Russia, the floods in Pakistan, the cholera crisis in Haiti, the periodic panics in global financial markets, the riots in Athens, Paris, Rome and London, the TSA groping scandals, and the sky-high unemployment rate in America. more >>
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 Autumn Equinox 2010 Cosmic Weather Forecast
September 22, 2010
During this Full Moon the Sun in Libra will be opposed to Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces virtually at the Aries cusp, lending a feeling of tension to this month's normally meditative energy signature, and guaranteeing that unexpected energy spikes, sudden revelations, instantaneous changes of heart, and revolutionary reversals in the social, political and economic realms of collective consciousness will manifest around the world. more >>
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 Golden Healer Lemurian Crystals
August 28, 2010
Jane and I have discovered through direct experience that Lemurian golden healers are true "ascension stones", raising the vibrational frequency of the entire chakra system and promoting a higher energy signature throughout body, mind and aura. Just keep reading and we'll tell you all about what we experienced. more >>
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 Full Moon in Pisces, 2010 August Cosmic Weather Forecast
August 24, 2010
This Full Moon in Pisces humanity ascends the cross of transformation. The challenge for us all, individually and collectively, is to leave behind our everyday concerns, our mental maps of the world, and our typical emotional reactions to stress and conflict, and to allow Spirit to open our hearts and connect us with Higher Mind. The path is one of suffering and the destination is a place where suffering is no more. more >>
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 Full Moon in Aquarius 2010 July Cosmic Weather Forecast
July 23, 2010
This is a weekend to celebrate our own unique individuality, and to honor our own deepest heartfelt impulses and intuitive spiritual guidance. It's time everyone on Earth began to trust their own heart and their own Higher Self rather than what they see or hear on TV, radio, Internet or newspapers. That's the first step toward global transformation, after all. more >>
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 The Grand Cardinal Cross of Summer 2010
May 26, 2010
On an individual level, and on a global scale, the current global crises, reflected in the stars by the Grand Cardinal Cross of Summer 2010, challenge us to transcend our conflicts with others and to find ways to work together for our mutual benefit and for the overall good of humanity. more >>
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 Cosmic Weather Forecast: The Festival of Wesak 2010
April 28, 2010
On Wesak, the Enlightened Ones send a continuous energetic stream of intellectual inspiration, loving wisdom, compassion and will forces to those who have become conscious of their Guides and Teachers. This stream of Light, of Grace, of Guidance, is designed to strengthen spiritual seekers and open the door to Inner Spiritual Guidance for all humanity. more >>
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 Happy Holy Days & Nights 2009!
December 21, 2009
Wishing You and Yours a Shining Holiday Season! Merry Christmas, Sunny Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwaanza, Happy Saturnalia & A Healthy, Happy New Year! With Love & Light from Curtis & Jane! more >>
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 PEACE & LOVE in 2010!!
December 21, 2009
May we all seek a greater peace through love, within ourselves, our families & our communities and inspire our leaders to seek peace in all relations. May We Work & Pray Together For Peace & Love in 2010!
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 Winter Solstice 2009 Cosmic Weather Forecast
December 20, 2009
After a month or so of very ragged energy, sharp Saturn-Pluto aspects and an active Uranus cycle that seems to affect computers, computer networks, deliveries dependent upon such networks, all technology, tools and houses, and trigger unexpected health crises, we could all use a day or two of sweet Cosmic Weather. Good news! This Winter Solstice is extremely well-aspected. more >>
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 November 2009 Thanksgiving Meditation Moment
November 25, 2009
In spite of the ongoing Saturn-Pluto dramas, the wars, the weird weather, the economic gloom and an underlying vibration of deep-rooted fear gripping the world for much of this year, now epitomized by the apocalyptic sensationalism of the 2012 global disaster horror films, there is a brilliant Light arising within humanity, and that Light is being met by a tsunami of Shakti from the Source of Spirit, under the guidance of the Ascended Master Hierarchy and the Guides and Teachers incarnate on this planet who bear the standards of the Mystery School traditions of the East and the West. more >>
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 September 2009 Cosmic Weather Forecast
September 4, 2009
We as a culture have consigned the ancient wisdom teachings to a museum of the mind as if they were an ancient sword, an obsolete weapon. Now is the time to seize the ancient sword in our own hands, using it to disperse the demons of fear, anger, doubt and uncertainty that beset us. more >>
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 Leo Solar Festival and the Aquarius Full Moon Eclipse 2009 Satya Center Newsletter
August 4, 2009
Our Celestial Weather Report for August includes an amazing array of astrological interactions among the large, outer planets, signifying changes taking place at the most profound levels of the collective consciousness, with major shifts in social relations sure to follow in many areas of life. Political and economic fault-lines are being triggered and major upheavals are likely during the next year. more >>
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 The Spring Festival of Goodwill -- Full Moon in Sagittarius
June 9, 2009
During Sunday’s Festival of Humanity, the love of Christ and the wisdom of the Buddha are showered down upon the Earth. Spiritual disciples of all paths and lineages and religions around the world receive inspiration and instructions concerning their roles and duties for the upcoming year. more >>
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 Wesak Full Moon in Scorpio Festival Newsletter
May 8, 2009
At Wesak, the Enlightened Ones gather in Shambhala and send humanity a continuous energetic stream of intellectual inspiration, loving wisdom, compassion and will forces, along with immensely detailed spiritual guidance concerning each individual's spiritual path in the upcoming year. Let's meditate on that Friday night! more >>
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 The Decade of Global Transformation and the New American Evolution
March 13, 2009
In this newsletter, using research compiled over the last two years from honest and reliable financial experts, environmentalists, independent journalists and famous astrologers, I will give you a bird’s eye view of the current global financial crisis, provide you with a clear outline of its scope, depth and probable duration, and together we will take a look at the BIG picture – the cultural, political, economic, social and environmental changes set to totally transform human civilization during the next decade. more >>
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 The Quickening of the Year
February 3, 2009
Candlemas is one of my favorite times of year, the time when in the depths of winter, I can dream of spring again, when the days wax in light & the birds return to our yard looking for food. Candlemas is the promise of the quickening not only of the seasonal year, but also the promise of desires' fulfillment. more >>
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 Tsunami of Hope: November 2008 Full Moon in Taurus Newsletter
November 12, 2008
If we are to rise up and fulfill our full potential, if we are to achieve our Higher Purpose, we must be willing to stretch ourselves to new heights, to leave our comfort zone and enter a new land with no map or compass. We must find ways to get our leaders to listen, and to make the changes that most Americans know are essential to our future and the future of our children. more >>
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 October 2008 Financial Meltdown Newsletter
October 13, 2008
While the middle class has declined under President Bush's reckless economic policies, the people on top have never had it so good. For the first seven years of Bush's tenure, the wealthiest 400 individuals in our country saw a $670 billion increase in their wealth, and at the end of 2007 owned over $1.5 trillion in wealth. That is just 400 families, a $670 billion increase in wealth since Bush has been in office. more >>
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 Autumn Equinox 2008: The Sword and the Balance
September 18, 2008
The Autumn Equinox is a Festival of the Divine Lovers, celebrating their sacred marriage and the establishment of a New Age civilization based upon the balance of male and female principles in a Union designed to serve the needs of the family, the greater community, and Mother Earth herself. more >>
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 July 2008 Full Moon
July 18, 2008
This newsletter is devoted to news of recent world developments that are of great concern to us all. Be sure to read through the entire article if you can, because there is a message of hope at the end! more >>
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 Summer Solstice 2008
June 17, 2008
We’ve been deluged by reports of people who are stressed out, overworked, worried about money, hit with health challenges, being plunged into a transformational cauldron, and feeling overheated by it all! So it’s up to each one of us to set aside anger, fear and worry and to join together in a festival of community and community healing.
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 Spring Equinox 2008
March 19, 2008
By consistent practice and the Grace of the Divine, we can transform our hearts and our energy signatures. We can alchemically transmute the lead of egotistical rationality into the gold of Unity consciousness. We can eventually transform our hearts from leaden mirrors that can at best occasionally be cleaned sufficiently to reflect the Holy Spirit in some small way into luminous light-giving Sources of energy, true inner tabernacles lit by undimmable lamps of radiance serving as the suitably purified homes of Spirit. more >>
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 2/08 Global NewsLetter: The Coming Collapse of Globalization
February 7, 2008
We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of “globalization”, which is shorthand for a set of political, economic and social policies, including Reaganomics, free trade and the leveling down of global wages, human rights and environmental protection, financial deregulation and corporate oligarchy. more >>
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 Gratitude on Thanksgiving 2007
November 22, 2007
We turn our thoughts to the Creator, or Great Spirit, and send greetings and thanks for all the gifts of Creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on this Mother Earth. For all the love that is still around us, we gather our minds together as one and send our choicest words of greetings and thanks to the Creator. more >>
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 Wesak Full Moon Festival 2007 Newsletter
May 1, 2007
“The Wesak Festival takes place whilst some great and heavenly event is going on, and it is in the nature of a participating ceremony,” says Alice Bailey. "There is release upon Earth (according to the measure of man's demand) of the blessing of God Himself, transmitted through the Buddha and His Brother, the Christ.” more >>
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 Honoring the Divine Mother: Satya Center Easter Newsletter
April 8, 2007
Something Divine seeks to restore equilibrium between humanity and the natural environment. Something Divine seeks to bring peace to the warring classes of humanity. Something so sacred, so subtle, yet so powerful that in its global balancing act it is both disruptive & healing at the same time. This subtle energy is the energy of rebirth, the prelude to the restoration of the Dominion of the Divine Lovers -- it is the Sacred Emergence of the Divine Feminine. more >>
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 Satya Center Valentine's Day Newsletter 2007
February 13, 2007
"Each one of us has only one person to change and that person is at hand twenty-four hours a day, at our command. What beauty in God's mathematics! It comes to billions. If everyone evolves to a higher consciousness- or even most of us- the world will change." more >>
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 Satya Center September Full Moon Eclipse Newsletter
August 31, 2006
This Full Moon Eclipse emphasizes the need for each of us to turn within, to subordinate our egoistic will to the Higher Purpose we each have incarnated to fulfill, and to listen carefully to the Divine Guidance available to us through our connection to Higher Mind. more >>
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 Lammas 2006: Harvest of Peace and War
July 28, 2006
Let us plant seeds of peace in a world at war. Let us light a flame of brotherhood and sisterhood in a world where religion is at war with religion and nation with nation. Let us celebrate our common link to the Great Mother and to the bounty of her first harvest this high summer season. more >>
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 The Festival of Goodwill -- Full Moon in Sagittarius
June 7, 2006
This Full Moon is conjunct dark Pluto and the Galactic Center. Pluto in Sagittarius supports the transformation of our culture’s most basic belief structures. When Pluto is conjunct the moon, which is the seat of our personal subconscious beliefs, and also the Galactic Center, the time is ripe for a total shift in consciousness, a transformation of personal and cultural values on the broadest possible scale. more >>
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 Wesak 2006: Taurus Solar Festival with Full Moon in Scorpio
May 11, 2006
High in the Himalayas there lies a remote valley, circumscribed by lofty mountain ranges. On the third day prior to the May Full Moon, a slow but steady stream of adepts, high lamas, magi, monks, and seekers travel through a small funnel shaped opening in the mountains. more >>
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 Our Collapsing Food System -- And How to Fix It
February 24, 2006
The global agricultural-industrial complex is destroying the environment, exploiting farmers around the world, and delivering low-quality, high-cost food to unwary consumers. But a host of alternatives are springing up to provide nutritious food from sustainable farm communities. more >>
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 Shivratri, Valentine's Day Newsletter
February 13, 2006
Shiva and Shakti are the First Soulmates, and their Eternal Dance of Joy is the ecstatic playfulness that continuously propels creative evolution in all its manifestations in all the worlds. more >>
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 Candlemas 2006
February 2, 2006
Within frozen depths does warmth stir, and mud rises. Seeds of air & fire, water & starlight move into the cold and wet places that awaken from slumber.
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 The State of America's DisUnion
February 1, 2006
America is in a state of advanced political paralysis resembling national schizophrenia. Americans now reject the Iraq war for oil, and Bush's poll numbers have sunk to Nixonian levels but Americans seem willing to support a new oil war in Iran. more >>
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 The Harvest Moon and The Autumnal Equinox
September 17, 2005
In the northern hemisphere, the Moon will rise around sunset tonight--and not long after sunset for the next few evenings. Northern farmers who are working long days to harvest their crops before autumn take advantage of this phenomenon, which is what gives the Harvest Moon its name. more >>
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 The New New Deal: Learning the Lessons of Katrina
September 8, 2005
It is time for a New New Deal. The disaster in New Orleans is so immense that only a co-ordinated, co-operative national response is adequate to the occasion. Nothing less than a total re-orientation of our society and our way of life will do. more >>
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 All Fool's Day: Love and Cosmic Unity
April 1, 2005
In Rome, April 1 was the date of the Festival of Veneralia, dedicated to Venus, goddess of love, death, orchards, waters and sexuality. Women washed a statue or image of Venus in rivers and lakes, adorned her with precious jewels and long robes, then burned incense in honor of the Goddess. more >>
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 Easter: Uniting with the Cosmic Christ
March 24, 2005
Ask and it shall be made known to you, make a request and it shall be granted to you, open your heart and the chains of ego will fall away. Ask for your freedom and you shall be freed. This is Christ’s Easter promise. more >>
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 The Twilight of The Era of Cheap Oil
March 10, 2005
We are in the twilight of the age of mass industrialization and consumption, of a long spiritual cycle focused on the development of the individual sense of self. The Aquarian age of community is coming soon. more >>
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 Follow the Money
February 10, 2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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 Valentine's Day Newsletter
February 10, 2005
In 12th century southern France, “Valentine Clubs” appeared, which constituted a more playful, chivalric, and Christianized version of the ancient Roman fertility festivals. more >>
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 Microsoft.Net: Is it time yet?
July 11, 2001
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Oracle chieftain Larry Ellison should be delighted with Microsoft’s new .NET initiative, unveiled last month. more >>
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 The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001
March 1, 2001
The coalition of unions, consumer and women's groups who have been fighting the bankruptcy law are just about out of ammo. Both houses of Congress are expected to pass the measure this week, and President Bush has said he's ready to sign it into law. more >>
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Irrational Exuberance: Deja-vu All Over Again?
February 21, 2001
"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin," explained famous philosopher, Hall of Fame ballplayer, and pennant-winning Manager (for the both the Yankees and Mets), Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, when asked about a long dry spell at the plate.
He could have been speaking for the equity markets' hivemind this week. The Nasdaq composite is off more than 53% from its high reached less than one year ago. After a big January pop, the COMP ended the month 46% off its March 2000 peak, and then proceeded to lose another 16% from its January 31 level.
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 California's Energy Crisis – Who's to Blame?
January 31, 2001
California's new $10 billion energy bailout plan is being greeted with skepticism by both industry experts and consumer groups. That’s not surprising because the state of California, which has already proven itself to be “the gang that couldn’t deregulate”, has rushed to implement an emergency plan that looks increasingly like a band-aid on a severe gut-shot wound.
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 Bush Policy Wonks Will Move Markets – and the Economy
January 15, 2001
No one expects Dubya to put on his thinking cap, network with policy wonks and forge a set of priorities for his new administration that will rock our collective world. That was Bill Clinton's modus operandi.
Ideas for Bush policies will be coming from a handful of big think tanks in Washington. As in the Reagan era, the most important is the Heritage Foundation.
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The New Year's Market Outlook
January 8, 2001
Those of us over 30 can only watch in horror and recall the spirit of the 1920s when Broadway musicals were high art, illegal booze was the King-Hell High, jazz was searing and markets were soaring until…well, you know, man, the correction happened -- and happened and happened.
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 Dance of Oil
December 7, 2000
It looks as if oil politics could be the vehicle for George W. Bush to define his administration's geo-strategic principles, solidify support in Congress, reward his supporters in the energy "bidness" and unify the country behind his foreign policy, just as it was for his father. That does not necessarily mean a repeat of the Persian Gulf War, but oil provides an ideal vehicle for restating the imperial American policy abroad. more >>
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Is Bad News Good for the Net?
November 12, 2000
The dot-com bubble has burst. The Nasdaq bear refuses to go into hibernation for the winter. “Geek chic” suddenly looks as tired and dated as those Priceline PCLN ads with William Shatner that looked so cool only a few months ago, when Priceline’s stock was soaring.
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 A Depleted Legacy
November 19, 1995
The story of the long twilight struggle that ended government subsidized housing in Houston. more >>
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 Who's Spying Now?
July 2, 1995
Writer Dashiell Hammett could never have dreamed up private investigator Joseph Seanor. Unlike a fast-talking, streetwise gumshoe who spends his nights pounding the pavement, Seanor does his research pounding on a keyboard. Each week he dons a virtual reality headset and spends 100 hours online. . . more >>
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The Clipper Threat
June 3, 1994
Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that he would shrink the defense budget, reorder Cold War priorities and rein in America's undercover warriors who had sold guns to the Ayatollah, supported an illegal Nicaraguan war, bankrolled Manuel Noriega and secretly armed Saddam Hussein. more >>
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 Privacy in the Digital Age
March 31, 1994
Welcome to the digital frontier, where network by network, metaphor by metaphor, a splendid, global, multimedia palace is being built through trial and error. more >>
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 A New Meaning for Car Wash
June 1, 1993
Forget "Miami Vice" and high-speed chases on cigar boats and shootouts with South American thugs armed with semiautomatic weapons.The really heavy federal drug enforcement artillery is now being trained on suburban car salesmen." more >>
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 BAD COMPANY: Part 2
May 4, 1992
Making Money the Old-fashioned Way--
Dealing With the Yakuza and Building
Golf Courses in China
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 Have Guns, Will Travel
July 22, 1991
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
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 Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
July 30, 1990
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high‑flying financiers who built low‑quality, see‑through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire‑sale prices.
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