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Focus on Family!The forces pushing and pulling us for a while now and for a while yet to come give us a bit of a reprieve at the outset of June.  After the latest round of eclipses in May, we are momentarily allowed to come up for air the first week of the...

May 1st marks the ancient Celtic festival Beltane.  It is the Rite of Spring celebrating fertility and welcoming Summer which may find some of us dancing around the May Pole.  Camelot's Queen Guinevere noted how lusty the month of May can be, a...

A universal truth is that all things are difficult before they are easy.  Such is the transition we find ourselves in this Springtime between March and April.  Rarely is there a month where astrologically, so many blessings and opportunities may be...

The month of March kicks off with planets seemingly swimming in an ocean of water.  Until the New Moon on March 11th, five planets plus the asteroid Chiron are all in watery Pisces.  For the record, these planets are:  Neptune, Venus, the Sun, Mercury...

No, it is not October or near Halloween, nor the in-between seasons of fall and spring.  But we are finding tornadoes and twisters blowing in the southern United States, most likely due to global warming.  Seeing that news, I was reminded of...

The beginning of 2013 offers significant promise:  an immense capacity for communication, ideas and ingenuity effectively tied to raw collective strength.  Wow.  Aim your words right, written or verbal, and you will do well.  It is a particularly...

As a survivor of last month's cosmic land mine, I hope you were also able to dodge and sidestep yourself to safety.  WHEW!  We made it to the other side.  The likes of such upheaval and scrutiny are rare indeed.  Thank goodness.  But it is...

I'm a true believer in silver linings.  November is one of those months where believing and having faith that good ultimately prevails will really help.  This month actually kicked off at the end of October with the full moon on the 29th.Not all of us have...

No month is without its challenges; but if you felt as though you were hanging on to the edge of a cliff by your fingernails at the end of September, you were hardly alone.  The full moon last week combined with three, count 'em three, planets preparing to shift...

September brings a shift of the lunar nodes from fiery Sagittarius to the water sign Scorpio.  The nodes are directional points, determining the push and pull of our lives.  Think of them as a compass:  north and south poles on a map.  They...