You’re familiar with these, right? You know, people cut out photos and words of all the stuff they want and paste them on a board. It’s a simple Law of Attraction technique to focus the soul’s intention on manifesting desires. And while that’s an occasionally effective idea, it’s actually a highly limited way to approach the world. I’ll tell you why. While it’s true, to some extent, we create the world through our thoughts, feelings and expectations, that’s too simplistic an explanation. There’s a Sanskrit term, “Parabdha Karma:" the lessons that someone came to learn in a given life. A...

One last one and thank you Gail Godin Wilson for this one! But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. - Rumi

Bidden or unbidden, God is present. ~C. G. Jung To me, music is one of the endlessly compelling forms of the Divine. But with four planets in open-minded Aquarius, I could never have a narrow view of so-called ‘spiritual’ music. I figure if it speaks to your heart, moves you, comforts you, or just makes you fly, that’s plenty. How could God NOT be present? Once a woman called me who had been a resident of a meditation community for many years. She said the group had very strict ideas of ‘dharmic’ music. Certain chants and bhajans were considered godly,...

The stories in this book were adapted from two years of writing as the SF Spiritual Examiner.  Because of my long history as an astrologer, I initially assumed the columns might be about how to best navigate current and upcoming planetary cycles.  But, over time I realized I mostly adored discussing how to “align with the Divine”, independent of life’s endless fluctuations. I know without doubt that a Force of Love exists that can guide, help and interact with each of us in the most intimate and practical way no matter what the conditions. If only we know how to invite It...

Learning to surrender to a very sophisticated Deity has been the single most important lesson of my life.  ~Shirley MacLaine Lose your inhibition, follow your intuition, free your inner soul, and break away from tradition…  ~Black Eyed Peas When I was in ninth grade my friends and I played a certain game for months on end.  No matter what someone said we just added the words “during sex.”  Such as, “She loves to eat anchovy pizza (during sex).”  Or, “He always forgets to do his math homework (during sex).”  For whatever reason, this never failed to send us into gales...