Are you ready for the powerful Full Blood Moon Total Eclipse in Scorpio? I just spent a week at the Optimum Health Institute here in San Diego. It was an intense time of cleansing with wheat grass and raw foods, revving up the body, and learning more about healthy living. But when the usual coping mechanism of relying on food for comfort is taken away, you have no choice but … [Read more...]

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.” – a favorite saying of Audrey Hepburn’s, by Sam Levenson Despite being widely admired for her beauty, Audrey Hepburn never considered herself attractive. The … [Read more...]

My thoughts have been occupied lately by a very dear Libra man. His name is James Hubbell, and he turned 90 last October 23. Many San Diegans know him as the gifted artist-sculptor who created a wonderland of adobe dwellings inlaid with mosaic and stained glass in the peaceful mountains near Julian (now known as the Ilan Lael Center). Hubbell and his wife Anne lived there for … [Read more...]

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.. When reasons to despair are everywhere, staying happy can be a challenge. Yet happiness is our natural state, and we feel best and do the most good when we stay tuned to that frequency as much as possible. Some people manage to be genuinely upbeat most of the time. Aries folks are often quite good at it. Take singer, … [Read more...]

This Full Moon is made for scrying… In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl writes of an elderly man who came to him two years after the death of his wife. Dr. Frankl sat quietly as the widower poured out his still-fresh grief. When the man was done, Frankl asked him a question: “What would have happened if you had died first, … [Read more...]