Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

November 5 to 12, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter  Evening: Saturn Early November brings us the fourth and last cross-quarter day and week of the year. It is here the Earth reaches the halfway point between autumn equinox and winter solstice in its annual...

October 29 to November 5, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury,Venus,Mars,Jupiter Evening: Saturn Boo! It’s Halloween, when the veil between the worlds grows thin. Spirits have been arriving now for weeks, and tonight it’s time to play! I love Halloween. The spontaneity, fun and frolic of this mid-autumn...

October 22 to 29, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury,Venus,Mars,Jupiter Evening: Saturn Dark and light, illumination and darkness, yin and yang, male and female, love and hate, war and peace… The polarities go on and on. We live in a reality defined by polarity. We are constantly qualifying...

October 15 to 22, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter         Evening: Saturn Here we are, mid-October. My garlic order arrived on Friday, the weather has changed and I feel pressure to plant. But what about the tomatoes still on the vine, the cucumbers, eggplant...

October 8 to 15, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter     Evening: Saturn October 12th marks the day of 2015’s annual Libra New Moon and begins the year’s most auspicious lunar month to reboot, rebirth and renew existing relationships, as well as initiate new ones....

October 1 to 8, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter  Evening: Saturn As a child who grew up in a family of religious wars, I learned that arguing over spiritual philosophies and dogma was a tragic, horrendous waste of time and energy. Prevented at times...

September 24 to October 1, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars   Evening: Saturn The Autumnal Equinox marks one of the four most significant celestial points in the Earth’s annual orbit around the Sun, and in the Northern Hemisphere, opens the door on the longest seasonal celebration...

September 17 to 24, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Saturn “Same thing only different.” It’s something an old cowboy friend of mine liked to say. He was also the one who used to tell me to “baby up” – as opposed to “man...

September 10 to 17, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter   Evening: Mercury, Saturn Dr. Deepak Chopra. I don’t know exactly when or how I first became aware of the man who would become an important part of my [life] physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological, but...

September 3 to 10, 2015     Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars   Evening: Mercury, Saturn Today, driving back home from running to Norwood for carryout pizza, I was overcome with the beauty of the countryside surrounding me. The vast mesa, with its big ranches and crisscross wire fences,...