Taurus: Staying focused on work and business brings satisfaction. A wonderful month for pragmatic, productive and results oriented accomplishments awaits you. Communication could be complicated during the first couple weeks of May so check and double check your interactions with others. Gemini: It's time to focus on financial matters and clear up any old problems. Paying attention to limiting spending and increasing savings may be frustrating now, but will pay off in the future. Social … [Read more...]
The Voice of Fate vs. the Voice of Destiny
It's human instinct to reach for the familiar, but the soul is here for experience, not security. A life without risk, loss, death and pain is hardly vitalized. The more we resist the call to adventure, the more we fate ourselves to suffering of the worst kind. In such cases, the Universe will often deliver increasingly drastic events until we finally give up the ego's hold on our soul's schedule and allow the next chapter of our purpose - our Destiny - to unfold. It's at this juncture of … [Read more...]
The 10 Biggest Roadblocks to Personal Transformation
Personal transformation is the process of changing an aspect of ourselves to a more desirable state. People may encounter many difficulties when creating change, and each person’s experience is unique. Outlined below are 10 of the most common roadblocks I have observed. 1. “Therapy” is a four letter word. There is a real stigma around the word therapy. Whether it’s session work, a conversation with a good friend or communing with nature, therapy goes by many names and is really about … [Read more...]
Read My Aura, Twin Cities
1st Mega Aura-Palooza May 2 • Midtown Global Market, 920 E. Lake St., Minneapolis • 612.922.4272 This free, daylong celebration of people's intuitive gifts, energy and the shared human inner-connection will feature over 30 psychic intuitives, healers and vendors of metaphysical-related consultations and merchandise. Mega Aura-Palooza hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. The public can expand their knowledge of their own inner connection, and their connection with the world around … [Read more...]
Letters to the Editor
I liked the article you wrote on the Jim Self program. I was at the same program you wrote it about. I went again last night. I love the huge potential, excitement and mystery of the time we are living in. Also, thank you and everyone else involved for continuing this magazine. It is a major lifeline for the Minneapolis/ St. Paul area, and for me too. Till you go other places in the country, sometimes you don’t realize what a huge metaphysical, organic, spiritual market we have access to … [Read more...]
News from the Edge
Real estate paradigm shift: Marita Rahlenbeck, a Twin Cities Realtor and healer, will launch a new way to approach buying and/or selling a home by actively bringing energy, intention and Spirit into the real estate process. She seeks to help clients find clarity on their needs, and with creative and effective tools sets the stage for success in what can be a stressful transition. The public is invited to attend the Fusing Energy & Real Estate Focus Group, a free event, from 7-8:30 p.m. … [Read more...]
Yoga In Minnesota: Eighty Years Young
It was September 1927, and Paramahansa Yogananda was electrifying Twin Cities audiences with a novel but soul-rousing message. Clad in orange robe, with long hair and golden brown skin, he lectured nightly to sold out auditoriums on the benefits of yoga meditation and inner communion, almost a century before modern medicine and pop culture would make these practices synonymous with enlightened wellness. Yogananda first arrived in America in 1920 at the age of 27 as India's delegate to an … [Read more...]
Common Ground: Resolving Conflict without Violence
Conflict is fueled by and often stems from our indirect attempts to express our unmet needs, such as respect, appreciation, autonomy and equality. Instead of stating our needs clearly, we convey them indirectly by making judgments, evaluating others, and pointing out faults to justify our position. This behavior generally breeds hostility and disagreements, because it leads others to engage in self-defense and counter-attacks, rather than respond positively to our needs. Since the blame game … [Read more...]
Cultivating ‘metta’ in our conscious lives
When we talk about learning to love and accept ourselves, I've heard some people describe it as coming across as kind of "cheese-ball," and frankly, it often tends to be. I don't wish to denigrate the wisdom that holding oneself in a place of respect and kindness is important. In fact, I am here to support and endorse it. After all, how can we truly develop a compassionate, healing presence with others without including ourselves? What I want to do is change the context of what it means to feel … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to President Obama
There has been tremendous hoopla even before the caucuses about whose plan or what approach is best to "solve" the "health care crisis" facing our country. Unfortunately, none of them really address the issue because all of them are too limited in perspective. We are approaching a four-dimensional problem with a one-dimensional solution. It is like playing a four-dimensional chess game on only the first level when your opponent understands the bigger game. You might appear to be making … [Read more...]
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