Many spiritual disciplines teach us that living in the present is a source of great calm and peace. Much of our emotional misery stems from focusing on the past or…

Tension is more than physical, it is also an emotional state. We carry clouds of anxiety and depression around with us. Learning to release emotional tension and live in peace…

Breathing is so automatic that many of us never think about it. We can fall into bad breathing habits, sitting slumped, breathing shallowly, breathing through our mouths. Tension pools at…

We can get so tense about achieving exactly the result we want that we get in our own way. The first step in using magic effectively is to learn to…

Everywhere I look there are trees. One forest. Saplings growing from a common trunk. Roots twined like fingers, like lovers, like family standing together long enough to know everything any…

Saturn is the last planet the ancients could see. The next planet from the sun after Jupiter, Saturn too is a gas giant, one surrounded with spectacular rings, photographed by…

I call on the powers that govern nature. Let the rain fall and damp the fires. Let the winds subside and the storms disperse. Let the floods subside and the…

Jupiter, the next planet out from the sun after Mars, is the first of the gas giants, planets composed primarily of gases rather than rock. Recent exploration vehicles have sent…

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