Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

August 9 to 16, 2012     Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn The month of August in southwestern Colorado enchants the soul and uplifts the spirit. Mornings cool and I feel the wistful call of autumn in the air. Cumulus clouds...

August 2 to 9, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mars and Saturn Accepting life on life’s terms. Challenging, at best. The human Earth Walk is one of ups and downs, twists and turns; flat plateaus, peaks and valleys. And we can’t forget the...

July 26 to August 2, 2012   Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn When I wrote the intro to Alacazem last week, I was looking forward to a family visit. My brother Jeff, his wife Mary, their two grown children – my...

July 19 to 26, 2012   Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn My family is coming to visit this weekend. How sweet. And especially for me, as I am feeling the powerful, poignant impact of the cosmic shift from sensitive, nurturing...

July 12 to 19, 2012      Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn Last Sunday I watched Ziggy Marley perform at the annual KOTO DooDah in the Telluride Town Park. When we left our house in the West End that afternoon, the sky...

July 5 to 12, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn It finally rained here yesterday. The forests, fields and gardens are grateful, as am I. After weeks of cloudless skies, super-hot days and unusually warm nights, it looks like...

June 28 to July 5, 2012   Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn Fire and brimstone, apocalyptic heat, images of a world burning out of control. That’s what we’ve been dealing with these days in Colorado. And it couldn't be more...

June 21 to 28, 2012  Visible Planets: Morning: Venus & Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars & Saturn Breakdowns and breakthroughs, tragedy and ecstasy, love and war. Music, mountains and muses, madness and mayhem, magic and magnificence...

June 14 to 21, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Venus & Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars & Saturn It’s suddenly the season of busy-ness. The mutable Gemini air blowing through our heads and hearts has us thinking, talking, moving and grooving. I notice many, many motorcycles on...

June 7 to 14, 2012           Visible Planets: Morning: jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars and Saturn The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun – our solar system’s primal, central star – last Tuesday, June 5th, was a stellar planetary event, and one that will not...