Taking Stock of Your Friendships If only we had unlimited numbers of friendships and all were perfectly encouraging, life would be ideal. But we all know that is not how it works. Sometimes ending friendships is the only way forward. Reasons for Ending Friendships: You Grow Apart Often this happens with friends from your […]
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November brings a transition from autumn to winter; nature is preparing to rest. Likewise, we must prepare spiritually for the dark, inner times. As the harvest season comes to an end, we feel like celebrating and enjoying it all while we can. The counterbalance to November in the year’s calendar is May, when we fully awaken
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At 21, I was full of idealism and ideas. My mind was full of story ideas and projects of all kinds. I had a strong burning desire that I wasn’t going to be wasting time, that I wasn’t going to spend my life doing humdrum work. I made a pledge to myself that I was going
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October asks us to experience the things we have been ignoring in our lives. Here are 15 October Affirmations for those autumn days.
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September contains the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere (and the beginning of spring in the southern hemisphere). As the weather begins to change,imperceptibly at first, plants and animals instinctively adjust to nature and the growing year’s midpoint change. So must we. Refocusing is the dominant spiritual energy of September. Get back to your
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While August is a hot month that conjures up fun and vacations, it is also the dwindling down of summer and the hints of the oncoming coolness. The yearly cycle is a gradual progression, not a sudden change of one extreme to another. Many people return to a new school year in August, and this
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July is sunny, in many northern hemisphere locations it is the warmest month of the year. This suggests boldness, brightness, joyfulness and impulsiveness. Enjoy these qualities of summer, but find ways to stay connected to your purpose, your soul and the true spirit of your being. Focus Questions for July: How do you stay connected
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Symbolically igniting the “fire of the year” (summer), celebrated on the summer solstice later in the month, June has the most hours of daylight (in the Northern hemisphere). We are finally into the active, warming, loving, fertile part of the calendar. It is the season when we are active, creating our supplies for the year.
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The growing season has gotten started, animals are active, hopefully the weather isn’t too harsh. It is a wonderful time to get back in touch with nature, and let nature remind us how to stay balanced. Just as things are getting going, we get inspired, and we can visualize the finish line. Yet we must
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April is when the growing season really seems to get going. It is a month that symbolizes growth, rebirth, new beginnings. New life emerging in terms of plants emerging miraculously from the soil and baby animals being born all awaken in us the desire to reawaken ourselves to the goals (spiritual and otherwise) that we have
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