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 2012 And All That
The end of the world is coming… it’s a sure thing! I was reminded of the imminent demise of the world by a client who visited recently. Adam (not his real name) has been so kind as to allow me to use his horoscope to illustrate the phenomenon of apocalyptic thinking. more >>
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 Any Kind of Sovereign
Jed Myers explores the illusion of the separate self as mental illness in this humorous new metaphysical poem. more >>
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 Be Not Immune
James Bertolino shares his raw vulnerability to the impulses of his Muse with our readers in this new poem. more >>
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 Carrot
This poem offers reflections on the coming of a golden spring by a humble root vegetable. more >>
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 Clarifying the Timeline of Change: 2012 and Beyond!
June 24, 2012 is the “critical mass” point, the date of the initial partile pass of Uranus in first-quarter square to Pluto (exactly 90° ahead). That day, month, and even season does not, however, represent any “great awakening.” Rather, it is simply the first of the seven exact passes Uranus will make to Pluto over the three years from summer 2012 through spring 2015. Think of 2012 as the tipping point past which a Brave New World awaits and will unfold. more >>
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 Credo
Mystical poetry from James Bertolino's Greatest Hits celebrates the web of life. more >>
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 Fearless Women
"You are the Energy of The Consciousness Which Pervades All, of infinite valor, the Seed of the Universe, that which is beyond limitation. By you, Oh Goddess, all is deluded by attachment, and if you are gracious, you are the cause of liberation in this world." more >>
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 Flower Essence Formulas: Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis
Flower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis. more >>
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 Flower Essence Society Archive
The Flower Essence Society (FES)is an international membership organization of health practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in deepening knowledge of flower essence therapy. more >>
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 Impediment
Read this little inspiring 'pocket' verse from James Bertolino's treasure of verses, "Pocket Animals". more >>
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 Indra's Falls
Experience a transformative & benevolent Uni-verse in Bertolino's timeless paean to Indra. more >>
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 Love-Lies-Bleeding and Francis of Assisi
Love-lies-bleeding flower essence helps lift the consciousness beyond individual suffering to identify with world suffering. In offering one’s suffering to a higher purpose, while cultivating compassion for the suffering of others, one’s own pain no longer weighs so heavily on the soul. more >>
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 Meditation and the Simple Life
Emptying the mind is the greatest activity. It seems as if you are doing nothing. It seems like escapism and selfishness to those who are egocentric. But only one among millions can do it. Read Swami Amar Jyoti's Satsang to learn more. more >>
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 My Sister's Daughter
James Bertolino celebrates the mysteries of birth and the cycles of life in his latest poem about the recursive nature of human existence. more >>
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 Nature’s Poem
An offering of another visionary wandering through Nature brought to us by James as we dream through winter of summer days. more >>
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 Out of Step
James Bertolino's new poem is a meditation upon the synchronous and asynchronous dream-time of love. more >>
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 Planet
James Bertolino's poetry helps us to remember our connection with planet Earth. more >>
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 Richard Katz & Patricia Kaminski Bios
Richard and Patricia are authors of numerous articles and books about flower essences, including the best-selling Flower Essence Repertory, now in its fifth edition and translated into sixdifferent languages around the world. more >>
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 Saint John's Wort
Saint John's Wort is an outstanding herbal remedy steeped in many folk legends and traditions of healing. It has five-petaled, bright yellow blossoms with protruding stamens which flower at the height of summer. more >>
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 Sequoia
James Bertolino's new poem records a wordless conversation converying the fiery spirit of the poet's heart's desires. more >>
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 Spirit or Empire? The 21st Century Revolution
I am introducing the discourse of “spirit” back into social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. more >>
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 Sunflower & Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Study in Spiritual Surrender
The Sunflower essence is a catalyst for developing one's personal identity in relation to a larger spiritual Self. Love-Lies-Bleeding essence has proven to be a powerful balm for those undergoing great physical and psychic pain. When the soul has been stretched to the breaking point, it can enter another dimension of spiritual awareness. more >>
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 The Ladder
James Bertolino's new poem explores the metaphysical epistemology of every day life. more >>
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 The Wedding
This epiphanic love poem by James Bertolino startles the mind and opens the heart. more >>
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 To Be Loved By Nature
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. more >>
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 Toward an Activist Sprituality
The integration of magic and activism sometimes means bringing magic into an action -- doing a spiral dance in the midst of the tear gas of Quebec City, or in Grand Central station surrounded by riot cops. It might mean starting our strategic planning with a trance or a Tarot reading, or invoking Water as we work against the privatization of water resources. more >>
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 What Water Says
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. 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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 AQUARIUS SOLAR FESTIVAL 2013
January 26, 2013
This is a truly humanitarian full moon, as indicated by the sextile between the Sun and Uranus. This is a most fortuitous and portentous full moon period, and much of great good can come from it. more >>
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 Astrological Patterns Signal Social Transformation in 2013-2014
December 21, 2012
A string of Uranus-Pluto aspects and other outer planet configurations will cause global turmoil in the next two years. Challenges apply to all corridors of massive, concentrated power and the institutions that provide support and reap the benefits. Corporations and governments around the world are vulnerable to the profound challenges of revolt (Uranus) and upheaval (Pluto). 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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 Scorpio 2012: Discipleship. Fear and Power. Saturn in Scorpio. Japan. US election.
October 29, 2012
Scorpio is a sign of incredible perseverence and tenacity, and whether you have planets in Scorpio or not, everyone is able to invoke its energies annually when the Sun passes through this sign. The full moon meditations are designed to engender an awareness of each sign and how they can be drawn into consciousness. Scorpio affords the opportunity to transform our most profound inadequacies and fears into strength and self-mastery. This is why Scorpio is one of the prime signs related to discipleship and initiation. more >>
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 Libra Solar Festival, Aries Full Moon September 29, 2012
September 29, 2012
If 'Libra admits the soul into the world centre which we call Shamballa', then the tension of the T-Square in this full moon horoscope certainly encourages that potential. Libra is a sign of Decision. The configuration of this chart promotes decisive action, its the push that comes to shove. But its the right decision that chooses 'the Way that leads between the two great lines of force'. more >>
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 Gemini Solar Festival and Partial Lunar Eclipse June 2012
June 4, 2012
This underlying love of Deity reaches our solar system primarily through Gemini, which forms, with the constellation of the Great Bear and the Pleiades, a cosmic triangle. This is the triangle of the cosmic Christ and is the esoteric symbol lying behind the cosmic Cross. more >>
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 Taurus Solar Festival 2012
May 3, 2012
The ability to direct subtle energies is heightened during the full moon. Meditating in a group creates limitless possibilities for transforming the world. Vulcan, the divine smithy of Taurus, through meditation and visualisation, shapes ideas and knowledge into thoughtforms that will precipitate into the minds of humanity - distributed in the following sign of Gemini. more >>
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 Please Join Masaru Emoto in Healing the Waters of Japan
March 15, 2012
A prayer well worth repeating on this anniversary of the Earthquake in Japan last year. Repeat this prayer whenever you are able to do so! Original Day and Time for Prayer: March 31st, 2011 (Thursday)12:00 noon in each time zone OR AT ANY TIME YOU ARE ABLE TO SEND LOVE & PRAYERS FOR HEALING TO JAPAN!! more >>
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 The Occupy Uprising: An Astrological Perspective
March 14, 2012
My intention is to illuminate Occupy through the lens of astrology, primarily by giving it a context in time. What is the meaning and the role of the Occupy uprising in this most amazing of periods in our history, specifically over the decade to come? What does it represent in the overall scheme of what is unfolding and might come to pass?
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 Capricorn Solar Festival 2012
January 9, 2012
In times of crisis such as we face on the world stage, the excellence within us that is the soul and spirit of humanity is called forth. The end result of the attainments in Capricorn is right human relations and a greater sense of inclusiveness, as indicated by Venus, the ultimate ruler of the sign. Let us hope this year and this interval in particular will see such possibilities manifest in the years to come. more >>
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 The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness
October 15, 2011
Scientists are discovering the physical basis for empathy in the structure of the human brain. We are wired for social understanding and co-operation, not rugged individualism and ruthless competition. The younger generation of wired global citizens will lead the way to a new global civilization based on new sources of energy, new forms of human interaction, and new relations between people and the planet. 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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 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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 Uranus-Pluto and the Murdoch Meltdown
September 11, 2011
From mid-2012 until late-2015, Uranus and Pluto will jockey for position around a 90° arc between them. Seven times over that period, they will be exactly perpendicular. Only two previous Uranus-Pluto transits were comparable: a seven-pass transit from 1755-1758 that set up the American revolution, and a nine-pass transit from 1496-1500, that marked the beginnings of colonization of the western hemisphere by Europeans. The 2010s will be just as important. more >>
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 Can Nothing Stop the Education Reform Bubble?
August 4, 2011
The standardized testing educational system is to blame for many of the deficiencies in our schools. The Bubble silences debate and speech; it is a quieting force, suffusing the classroom in silence. It centralizes knowledge in the hands of the state, the federal government, and testing industry, taking it out of the hands of classroom teacher, local communities, parents, and ultimately, students themselves, who are increasingly mandated to submit to its authority without recourse, without debate. more >>
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 Emerging Islands
June 7, 2011
James Bertolino's new poem explores the intersection of intent and meaning, and asks whether we can ever know the full, true significance of our own utterances. more >>
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 Yarrow Environmental Solution: Say YES to your health!
April 15, 2011
Yarrow Environmental Solution (YES) from the Flower Essence Society is a highly beneficial blend of flower essences & plant tinctures in a sea salt base. Its purpose is to strengthen and protect against toxic environmental influences, geopathic stress & other hazards of technology-dominated modern life. This includes the disruptive effects of radiation on human energy fields from X-rays, televisions, computer monitors, cellular phones, electromagnetic fields, airplane flights, radiation treatments & contamination from nuclear power plants or fall-out. more >>
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 Sagittarius Solar Festival 2010, Full Moon Eclipse in Gemini & January Solar Eclipse
December 21, 2010
Something new is about to emerge. Pluto is tearing down the old Capricornian structures at the moment in preparation for that, but the real revelation and emergence will only come when Uranus moves squarely into Aries from March 2011 onwards. Yes, something is about to happen, both individually and collectively, and what that ‘something’ is will be revealed to us over the next year or two. It will be a good thing! 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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 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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 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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 Dying for Rain
December 20, 2009
This hymn is dedicated to the poet's heart entangled in a World Wide Web of human desires, full of courage and strength. 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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 It's Mars Retrograde: Hurry Up and Wait!
November 18, 2007
Mars goes stationary on November 15th, thru end of January 2008, so we're likely to be stuck in stop-and-go traffic on the Business Loop for quite awhile to come, with speed traps and breakdowns along the way. more >>
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 Mountain Lullaby
October 18, 2007
Another Love & Nature meditation from Jim Bertolino reprinted from his book, Snail River. more >>
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 The Importance of Plumbing
September 5, 2007
The decade of the 2010s will unfold as another lightning-bolt chapter in the recently accelerated evolution of humanity toward substantive change in how we live, work, and play on this garden planet. more >>
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 The Fight Over The BP-Berkeley Energy BioScience Institute
July 3, 2007
The biofuels boom is already having devastating effects on the world's poorest countries and on planet as a whole by accelerating deforestation and climate change. The $500 million takeover of Berkeley by BP threatens to bring the world's end that much closer. more >>
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 Where We Are; Where We're Headed -- The Road to 2012
June 30, 2007
On June 25th, Saturn made its final pass opposite Neptune, and that is very meaningful. Our collective disillusionment, social malaise, and the longstanding sense of being lost in confusion while sinking in quicksand are peaking right now after almost four years of Saturn-Neptune's scandalous revelations, endless deception, and fantasies polarized to realities. more >>
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 2007: Alchemical Portal
January 20, 2007
It's a year of potential major conflicts around the world. Yet we are entering a window of opportunity for developing sublime aspirations, as we simultaneously charge our personal auras and that of the planet with a flood of light. more >>
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 Day of Atonement
October 2, 2006
Jed Myers' new Yom Kippur poem explores the wonder, guilt, and pity of the human condition in the 21st century, as the temperature rises, and nations fight war after war -- over oil, water, religion, economic philosophies, race, and always, money. more >>
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 Words for Children
August 30, 2006
Poet Jed Myers shares a heartbreaking new poem that surfaces the pain of righteous rhetoric transformed into bullets, bombs and polarization in the Middle East. more >>
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 The Road to 2012
April 15, 2006
NOW is the time for us to prepare to participate positively in the dynamic process of evolution -- spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. There truly is very little time. more >>
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 Fr. Gerry Released!!/Urgent Health Alert for Fr. Jean-Juste
January 29, 2006
We have great news: Political prisoner Fr. Gerard-Jean-Juste, “Fr. Gerry” is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attention for the cancer, as well as for the pneumonia he contracted this week. more >>
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