Update: Here's Beyonce as the fiery Brigid! It’s the cross-quarter holiday between winter solstice and the spring equinox—which helps to fuel the Superbowl frenzy here in the states. We want to party. For those of us with Northern Hemisphere bodies, this is the instinctive, genetically encoded turn towards the coming vitality and brightness of spring. If your … [Read more...]

The future of civilization depends on women. That's the finding of  Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich.  In a recently published report, the Ehrlichs predict that overpopulation and over-consumption (by the world's wealthiest people) are leading our species and the planet to the brink of collapse. At the rate we're going, we'll need an additional half-planet full of … [Read more...]

That’s what my friend numerologist Nancy E. Wood calls the 2000’s. In numerology, 1 is the number of the Masculine, and 2 is the number of the Feminine... so   1492,   1776,  1953 -- all denote by their first number that they belong to the Millennium of the Masculine.  But since 1999, with 2000, 2009, 2012 -- the years are launched by the Feminine signature.  Numbers denote … [Read more...]

The world didn't end on December 21. Nor did we all shift consciousness and ascend to higher dimensions.  Yet both memes were woven into the strange and awful events of the past month and into our collective hearts.  England's joy at Kate Middleton's pregnancy (echoing the ancient winter solstice theme of divine birth) was marred by a prank that led to a suicide.  The mass … [Read more...]

May we do more than heal... may we do what it takes to prevent future unbearable losses like these...  at Sandy Hook, Clackamas, Aurora... the list is already too long. … [Read more...]