As I checked my astrological transits, I see the planet Mars just moved into my 3rd house.   Mars is the planet of action and the expression of will through activity.  Mars represents strength, determination and achievement.  The third house is the house of communication, local travel, siblings, neighbors and education.  This means I will likely have increased activity in these areas during the 6 weeks of this transit.   The text for this transit reads: “Information comes easily to you and is available for use at this time.  Your communications and thought processes partake of an energetic nature.  During this transit, for about six weeks, you are adventurous and mentally active and may also find yourself inclined toward sarcasm, or there could be verbal conflicts with friends and relatives. You may need to work through being sharp-tongued or possibly indulging in gossip during this period of time. You are also especially dexterous and creative mechanically. It is important at this time to make good use of your available energy, rather than waste it on idle chatter, or in simply attempting to impose your ideas on other people.”   Good to know.  I’ll curb the sarcasm and idle chatter.

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Soul Centered Astrology Reports

I’ve been catching up on sending out the astrological transits reports. While I’m doing everyone else’s, I check mine as well. That’s what I mostly use the transits for, to let me know when I’ll be on the other side of challenging times.  Here are some excerpts of my transits for this week.  It’s good to know this one will be over by the end of the week because I have felt unusually restless for no real reason: Transiting Saturn square natal Uranus. You may feel restrictions to your freedom during this period of time, or feel that you want to be breaking away from something, but find yourself unable to do so. Powerful feelings of restlessness may come up for you at this time, but you may feel stifled and unable to cope with them or break out of the rut you feel yourself to be in at the moment. This conflict is unsettling for a time, but it will pass as the transit moves on and eventually diminishes in its influence. What you can take away from the experience is a more focused awareness of your energy for freedom and the search for new horizons, in spite of remaining, and to whatever extent you do remain, in the limitations of your established place in the world. Continue reading →

Rita Karpie

Melbourne Beach, FL, Mayor Rita Karpie, passed Wednesday night.  There will be a “Celebration of Life” in her honor Saturday July 23, 2011, at 6:30 pm at the Melbourne Beach Community Center.  Bring pictures, memories and stories.  Rita taught during a 30-year span at Brevard Community College, where she worked full-time as an assistant professor of biology.  She coordinated Indian River Lagoon coastal cleanup campaigns and led students in removing invasive plants from Space Coast parks.   She has always been a dedicated advocate of human rights and environmental issues.  She made positive contributions to the lives of countless students and touched the lives of  the community in meaningful and lasting ways.  She was truly a gift to our community. Rita will be deeply missed. She really did make a difference. Continue reading →

Domino has a reputation for being a ladies man who presents himself to fragile women as a guru of sorts. Note: I have never dated this man. At the time of this writing, his typical m.o. is to approach mutual female friends in a spiritual/social setting, and tell them he can heal them of their childhood trauma with his own brand of energy work.  He won’t disclose who he’s formerly trained with nor what technique he uses. He’s a handsome guy, he’s single, he can be charming and witty.  He schedules private and group sessions and the students end up being pitted against each other from behind the scenes with favoritism and outcasting due to sexual relationships he asks them to keep secret.  I know because through the last dozen years I’ve done readings for people who have been involved with him and his classes (including 2 he was “engaged” to) and heard their experience.  Each thought they were planning a future together. He  comes off like a sexual predator, and that is what he’s known for.  When I mentioned it to him once, he laughed if 0ff as being “their problem and maybe that’s what he’s here to fix.”  It’s not my job to police what anyone else is doing nor determine what their karma with anyone might be.    Their own momentum will catch up with them soon enough. I know how tempting it can be to have a handsome, engaging man in front of you spouting spiritual truths and telling you they can heal you.  The chemistry you feel means there’s a lesson to learn.  Chemistry does not necessarily mean you’re found The One.   The lesson might be: if you knew he was doing this with ten other women at the same time, all behind the scenes, saying the same words, making the same plans as soul mates for a future together, would that impact his value to you as a teacher?  If all the rest was a lie to keep you as a paying student he could have sex with, is the lesson worth the weekly tuition? Just some food for thought.

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My friend Katie Randall wrote on Facebook yesterday, “I was going to complain about how hot it is… then I realized that: 1.) it isn’t 115+ degrees;  2.) I’m not 7,200 miles from home;  3.) I’m not dressed in ACUs and helmet and carrying 70+ lbs.;  and 4.) there is very little chance that anyone will shoot at me or that I might drive over a bomb in the road today!”  Having a husband in the military sure gives you some perspective. Continue reading →