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Archive for December, 2010
Top 10 Astrology Books for Saturnalia
Dec 23rd
“O Urania! Io Urania! Great Muse of Astronomy & Astrology Glorious Heav’n Urania Great watcher of the Empyrean’s dance Traced constellations and swirling globes Those cosmic Harmonies shared with her sister Euterpe Muses of Sacred Mount Parnassus Near Zeus’ Omphalos & Apollo’s Pythia Beautiful intergalactic Urania Please help us sing the songs of the stars”
Here comes our selection of astrology books the celebrate winter solstice and Saturnalia, a Roman winter festival, from which Yule possibly originated, as well as its traditions of special markets and giving presents (though the customary massive orgies don’t seem to have made it to present day celebrations …
1. Far Out – A Space-Time Chronicle by Michael Benson Over 50 years of jaw-dropping astronomical photography from the great telescopic wonders of the modern world. From the furthest galactic clusters and deep range filaments to the immense clouds of cosmic matter and galactic fold-outs of the local yet still grandiose Milky-way, the sheer scale and resolution of these beautiful quality photographic prints pushes your imagination as the mind reaches to comprehend the incredible distances and humbling periods of time involved. Gaze with wonder on the supernova remnants and feel holy awe as the book moves out through the patterns More >
The Creative Genius of Your Dreaming Mind
Dec 8th
Dreams have fascinated us for millennia and with good reason. Every sleep of our lives presents this unique opportunity to access a fantastical, mystical world where quite literally anything could happen and generally does. This is the world of our dreams. Moments of truth that, reveal something of our selves.
The definitive purpose of dreaming remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of life. The worlds of science and psychology both have their views but no one has the absolute answer as to whether dreams are purely a physiological or psychological necessity. Dreams are many things, often all at once. Science has so far proven that they are ways of seeking solutions; maintaining our mental health; improving performance and maintaining sleep.
From my own experience of dreams I believe they play a more fundamental role in our lives than we have thus far given them credit for. For me, their purpose is threefold; they are a process of re-organisation of the self, a means to understanding who we truly are and an infinite source of creativity and inspiration.
This latter idea, of exploiting their creative potential, is the most unexplored and potentially evolutionary way of using our dreams. The idea that dreams are More >
How to Get What You Want from Tarot – Step 1
Dec 6th
THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW.
Every Wednesday I sit in the window at Watkins, waiting to give Tarot readings; watching people come & go, overhearing snippets of arcane conversations and reflecting on …
ON TAROT
As a professional Tarot reader I find that lot of my clients mention that they have their own Tarot decks but have difficulty reading for themselves. It’s very common problem but it is a pity not to be able to use such an elegant and useful tool. Most of them mention the difficulty of interpreting the cards; but really that’s not the problem, otherwise we’d all have to spend weeks, months or years studying textbooks to find the right answer. It’s easier than that if we start at the beginning, because it’s those first steps that we need so much more in reading for ourselves – and are so much more likely to neglect.
So first – The Tarot is a symbolic map of our situation. Given “this” question what, for better or worse, are the possibilities for success? This means that our very first question is – “What do we want?”
Let’s take an example – “Will I get this job?” Asking in this way puts us into an More >
