This is a part of a weekly series, posting on Wednesdays, about stress. Today’s installment focuses on techniques for mitigating stress in the home. The body responds to stress by releasing chemicals that raise your blood pressure,speed up your heart rate, and raise your blood sugar levels. Evolutionarily speaking, stress came from perceived threats, like…
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Stress and Your Energy Levels
Each person has a finite amount of expendable energy at any given time. Stress will eat up some of that energy, giving you less to work with. This can lead to even more feelings of overwhelm, and more stress, which uses up more of your energy… You see where this is going, right? The way…
10 Reasons You Might Want A House Clearing
I have been approached recently by people who are curious as to what a house clearing entails. While I bring many tools to the table, here are some reasons why you or someone you know might want to have a house clearing. (1) You just moved (or are moving into) a new place and want…
Drive-by Astrology: Last Quarter Moon
Today is a Last Quarter Moon. That is to say that we are halfway between Full and New Moon. Luna is waning, shrinking; our energy retreats inward. Some people see this as the perfect time to re-evaluate one’s course and make necessary adjustments. Take a moment, over the next 24 hours, to look at where…
Deep Breathing as an Antidote to Stress
The body responds to physical, mental, or emotional pressure by releasing stress hormones (such as epinephrine and norepinephrine) that increase blood pressure, speed heart rate, and raise blood sugar levels. These changes help a person act with greater strength and speed to escape a perceived threat. Research has shown that people who experience intense and…
Full Moon in Scorpio
Full Moon isn’t usually my thing. This one was pulling on me and I couldn’t figure out why until I realized it was in Scorpio, which features strongly in my chart. If it’s calling you as well, here are some thoughts from the astrologers I read the most: Jessica Shepherd: “This Scorpio Full Moon wants…
Celebrate Lemuralia
Thursday night/Friday Morning this week marks the celebration of the annual clearing out of the dead and old energies, according to the Roman calendar, known as Lemuralia. Why not take the opportunity to exorcise your own demons? According to Ovid, this is done by having the head of the household walk barefoot through the house…
The April 25th X-Class Solar Flare
Solar flare alert! On April 25th, an active region near the sun’s western limb erupted, producing an impulsive X-class solar flare. A pulse of extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized Earth’s upper atmosphere and caused a shortwave radio blackout on the dayside of Earth. However, a CME hurled into space by the explosion will…
Storm’s A Comin’!
INCOMING STORM CLOUDS: Three or four CMEs that left the sun earlier this week will arrive in quick succession this weekend. Mostly, the blows they deliver to Earth’s magnetic field are expected to be weak, but the combined impacts could stir up significant geomagnetic activity. NOAA forecasters put the odds of a high-latitude geomagnetic storm…
Crystal Clearing Bowls
A number of years ago, Spirit gave me a piece of very clear direction: I was to have a bowl of salt, with hematite and aquamarine. After every client, I was to run my hands through it. When I came home for the day, I was to run my hands through it. Before and after…
For the Aries New Moon
Before he makes each one of us, God speaks. Then, without speaking, he takes each one out of the darkness. And these are the cloudy words God speaks before each of us begins: “You have been sent out by your senses. Go to the farthest edge of desire, and give me clothing: burn like a…
The Universal Connection and Magnetic Crochet of this Solar Flare
Last night, this appeared in my inbox: The magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2017 erupted yesterday, March 29th, producing an impulsive X1-class solar flare. Ionizing radiation from the flare produced electrical currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere and a ripple in Earth’s magnetic field detected by magnetometers across the dayside of our planet. Read more about this…