Category: Personal Growth

  • Wearing Blinders? Redefining “Success” during Mercury Retrograde

    Wearing Blinders? Redefining “Success” during Mercury Retrograde

    Play the podcast of this article below During this Mercury Retrograde, I’ve been taking my own advice and have been revisiting the quality of my life. What’s surfaced has been interesting and frankly unexpected. Referring to my last article, I began to explore my “Home or Personal Life” (see Leo)…

  • Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: From the Darkness into the Light

    Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: From the Darkness into the Light

    #3 in a Series of 3 (While this was originally published in 2013 when Mercury was retrograde from Monday, 10/21 through Sunday, 11/10, any time Mercury is Retrograde in Scorpio, the following post will apply.) Mercury gets a bad rap. Every 4 months or so, Mercury turns retrograde (meaning it…

  • Your Ticket Out of “Crappy-Land” – Get Through a Bad Day

    Your Ticket Out of “Crappy-Land” – Get Through a Bad Day

    “What we resist, persists.” — Carl Jung Circumstances, real or imagined, can send us on a downward spiral. We can fight it, trying all the usual aphorisms: “look at the bright side”… “remember all the good” in an effort to play “keep away”, but sometimes we can’t seem to avoid…

  • Everybody Like You? The Libra Challenge

    Everybody Like You? The Libra Challenge

    If you’ve got some Libra somewhere in your chart, you probably want everybody to like you. I hate to break the news to you, but it ain’t gonna happen. It all started with Aries… As the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries says “I am” and proceeds to discover just…

  • Are You Enough? Know Your Value

    Are You Enough? Know Your Value

    Too few of us know what “value” we bring to the world and are trapped by our Saboteurs into believing we are somehow “not enough”. Despite all of our years of education (theoretically designed to understand our contribution) very few of us know our value. What is Value? It’s no…

  • Sun Signs of Change

    Sun Signs of Change

    Is your life “perfect”? Perhaps you are one of the “well-adjusted” people who can recognize every moment as one that serves a purpose; you flow with what comes, you create your days and live in perpetual gratitude, giving from an endless well… Mazel Tov and a heartfelt blessing goes out…

  • The Pilot of Your Soul: Your Patterns of Choice

    The Pilot of Your Soul: Your Patterns of Choice

    (Podcast and Post Originally Published: 9/18/13) People are often surprised when I talk about Astrology from the perspective of “choice”. Many seem to believe that astrology is about static, carved in stone, “the way it is”, fated information… and they couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the reverse that’s true; the…

  • The Success Zone

    The Success Zone

    “Success” is a mysterious land for many of us. For some it’s like Shangri-La; a mystical place where everything is beautiful and always just out of reach. For others, “Success” is a “Twilight Zone”, even more frightening than failure, because it is pregnant with possibilities and potentially dashed expectations. In…

  • Saying “Yes” when you mean “No”? Reclaim Your Sun

    Saying “Yes” when you mean “No”? Reclaim Your Sun

    Why do we say “yes” when we mean “no”? When we say that what someone wants is more important than what we want; we give them our power. (Note for Parents: Our children are very important and… they learn self-valuing by watching us. Striking a balance here is vital which…

  • Quit “Shoulding” on Yourself? Reclaim Your “Why”

    Quit “Shoulding” on Yourself? Reclaim Your “Why”

    Shoulding all over yourself? (Wish I could claim that one, but an excellent friend coined it, or borrowed it…) Are you doing what you “should” do?You ever get stuck in your day ‘cuz you’re “shoulding” all over yourself? You know what I mean, “I should do that…” no wait, “I…