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 Autumn Relish
A yummy compote to brighten any autumnal meal, made quick from leftovers & fall seasonal treats. more >>
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 Beet Soup Recipe
This delicious healthy spring, summer or autumn soup needs a minimum of ingredients and preparation. I recommend using heirloom beets. 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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 Iroquois White Corn
Irouois white corn is an heirloom variety grown on the reservation in upstate New York. Here's how to get some, plus a tasty recipe for white cornbread that really rocks your tastebuds. more >>
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 Jane's Homemade Anointing Oils
Jane's Homemade organic Reiki & crystal infused anointing oils have been lovingly crafted for sacred work, for entering into sacred time. Anoint yourself and unite your body with the Divine Source of all Creation. more >>
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 Let Love Lead
Wishing you, your families, your communities & the world community on the path to PEACE in the New Year! more >>
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 Plant Medicine
Flowers and seeds, stems and leaves, roots and fruits feed us and clothe us, house and protect us, soothe our fevers and our fears and form the basis of our rituals and celebrations. Plant medicine has helped women and men to conceive life, to nurture life, and to die with grace and dignity. more >>
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 Psychic Self Defense
Empathy is the forerunner of compassion, and therefore a potentially very positive experience. However there is a danger involved in the empathic experience we should all understand. more >>
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 Roasted Beet & Pecan Salad
This roasted beet and pecan salad can be served for lunch, or as a side dish or dinner salad.Bringing nourishment that is colorful and refreshing, it is easy to prepare. more >>
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 Saffron Brown Rice with Carrots
Serve this dish as a main course or side dish. According to Ayurveda, saffron has wonderful healing qualities for all body types especially as a “blood revitalizer”. more >>
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 Salad Vinaigrette
Learn to dress a salad, make a marinade with oil and vinegar or lemon. An easy way to make vegetables & salads come alive with health and flavor. 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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 Squash Soup Recipe
Now that the weather is cooler, warm yourself with a winter squash soup. Make an easy nutritious Squash Soup. This recipe is good with either summer or winter squash, with Vegetarian, Vegan and Sattvic variations. more >>
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 Stocking Your Cupboard in the Nuclear Age
We are charged with the Soul task of being good stewards for the earth & for ourselves & one another. Here are some things you can do to prepare for living on our Mother Earth in the nuclear age. more >>
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 Stuffed Cabbage
Learn how to make this delicious and nourishing dish from leftovers or anytime you need extra vitamins and fiber. Easy and fun for vegans, vegetarians and fish and meat eaters alike. 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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 The Lazy Gardener's Spring Cilantro Pumpkin Seed Pesto
I am such a lazy gardener that I had the good fortune this spring to discover a veritable emerald forest of 'volunteer' young cilantro seedlings in the vegetable bed! Upon this serendipitous discovery I created a delicious way to make use of this delicious, nutritious & fragrant herb. more >>
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 Tomato Raisin Chutney
Try this East-West flavor fusion that combines fruity, sour, sweet and hot and goes well with rice dishes or fish. more >>
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 Vegetarian Feast of Gratitude
Delight in a combination of local fresh and exotic ingredients in this multi cultural vegetarian feast. Gratitude to all who tend their gardens so lovingly to feed us all. more >>
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 Venus Unbound
The book explores the misogynist history of both Eastern and Western civilizations and reclaims the symbols of female power which have been subverted by priestly cultures worldwide. 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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 Weather Report Summer 2004
This garden is our cathedral, where we pause to reflect upon the inter-relations between earthly life and spiritual realms, and to continuously express our gratitude for the abundance of beauty in our lives. more >>
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 Wheat Berry Veggie Burgers
Veggie Burgers are a satisfying way to have your whole grains satisfy both your appetite and a desire to seek real nourishing vitamin and mineral rich whole foods. 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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 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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 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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 Peach Tomato Salsa
August 1, 2012
A versatile super summer treat, easy to fix fast so you have an elegant exotic meal of the freshest summer foods! Use in hot or cold foods, as a side dish or salsa on a wrap. more >>
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 Summer Solstice 2012
June 21, 2012
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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 Healing the World-Japan Earth Talisman
March 15, 2012
Use this free talisman as a tool to focus your affirmations & love of our Mother Earth. Send healing energy to the etheric tear above Japan and healing energy to all of Japan. 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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 Memorial to All We Lost on 9-11-2001
September 11, 2011
In 1975 I lived in the financial district, two blocks from Wall Street near Trinity Church in an office building with a bathroom down the hall & a shower upstairs 6 flights. A group of artists moved into this commercial building with the landlord's blessing as long as we didn’t ask him for anything other than the right to live in what was a commercially zoned building, where we could watch the Twin Towers being built from our roof. more >>
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 Salad Plate with Fava Bean and Snap Pea Purees
June 24, 2011
Spring and early summer are times to celebrate one of my favorite legumes, the Fava Bean. If you've never seen, eaten or grown favas, also known as broad beans, you've been missing out on one of life's short & healthy sweet pleasures! more >>
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 Anti-Radiation Salad Medley or Seaweed & Green Salad
April 14, 2011
Why not build up your immune system, eat delicious food & escort potential radiation exposure out of your system at the same time! Try this easy way to eat your seaweed & your greens too! Just add a cup of nettles & red clover tea with this meal & you'll double your benefits in protecting your health after exposure to radiation or to prepare your immune system for whatever the future may hold. 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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 Summer Quinoa Salad with Vegetables served with Tomato, Peach & Corn Relish
August 31, 2010
This main course grain & vegetable 'salad' has been the hit dish of this summer season in our household for home or pot luck meals. The cooked quinoa, mixed with roast potatoes or tofu along with the freshest just cooked green vegetables from the farmer's market, lightly seasoned with the tastes of summer, make this dish not only easy to prepare but delicious to eat & filled with protein for someone on a vegetarian diet! more >>
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 Tomato, Peach & Corn Relish
August 31, 2010
I recently discovered this recipe in a recipe journal that I started when I moved to Houston with Curtis in 1984. I used to get lots of local peaches in Texas, one of the fruits that state is known for & make peach salsa, peach chutney & this peach relish! The acidity of the tomatoes & the peaches seems to complement one another. If you're a corn, tomato or peach lover like we are, their abundance now in the late summer makes this a fast & easy relish to add the sun's energy to any meal! 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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 Jane's Whole Wheat Orzo Pasta Prima Vera
April 26, 2010
Our most recent visit to the farmer's market in Brentwood, California, inspired me to create this local version of a pasta primavera, which after all, is a dish where you get to celebrate the vegetable stars of springtime! This dish of vegetables with a bit of pasta will really shine & deeply satisfy your hunger for nourishment. 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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 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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 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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 Fast Food Summer Meal
August 15, 2008
You can't go wrong with an easy to prepare farm fresh vegetarian medley crowed by seasonal herbs! Try any variation on this theme for a satisfying & fast meal to nurture you and your family after a hot summer's day. 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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 Jane's Garden Report-Autumn 2007 & October Full Moon Newsletter
October 23, 2007
This Taurus Full Moon, occurring during the time of Sun in Scorpio, is governed by the planet Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld. Pluto is in some ways like the River of the Underworld, the River Styx, which is the crossroads between life and death, the path of initiation into the world of Spirits, and also the symbol of the collective unconscious, the great underground river of universal archetypes, myth, symbol, wisdom and power that flows through each and every one of us. 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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 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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 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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 Weather Report from Jane's Garden
January 19, 2004
2003 was a very stormy year. Steady snowstorms all winter & a rainy spring. Twice I watched the little spring by the neighbor's house creep perilously close to spilling over its banks. more >>
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