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by Kimberlee H. Anderson Having arrived, the first thing I noticed was the hanging baskets on the porch. Rich with color and textures you wouldn’t think would go together, but it works. Reds, purples, gold; roses are her specialty. Mother was always very attentive to her flowers and tried to put her hands in the dirt on a daily basis. It was a sort of healing, she said, good for the soul. It gave her time to reflect without distraction and rid herself of the day to day worries that come with being a single mother.   Her flower gardens thrived by her regular feedings and grooming. We knew to give her that time especially on Saturday mornings to center herself and have some time of her own. She worked long hours to make sure we were fed and clothed with very little time left over for self care.   I didn’t realize how hard it was for her until I became a single mom myself. In dealing with all those similar pressures and experiences [...] Read more »

by Janice Van Cleve It was sometime in the 1990′s that I was introduced to a CD by Jennifer Beresan called “Returning”. It is a haunting chant that undulates like rolling waves in mid-ocean. The background melody and the echoing lyrics unavoidably cause listeners to sway with the rhythm and to be carried back into the womb of the Mother.   Which was exactly her intention. Beresan recorded this hypnotic piece inside the Neolithic cave temple on Malta called the Hypogeum. I had heard of the surface temples on the island which were constructed at least 1000 years before Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids, but I had never heard of the Hypogeum. I was immediately intrigued and resolved to go into that temple some day.   Malta is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia. The first time I tried to get there from Sicily, Air Malta canceled the flight and I ended up in Rome. The second time I tried to get there from Tunisia, but because of the [...] Read more »

Happy Birthday Aries and Taurus Sun Signs Welcome to Aries: Spring’s theme is always of birth and resurrection.  This year we have added an extra, hurry up and wait energy.   “We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story as we rebirth our lives from day to day .” — Mary McCarthy   What do you want to birth or resurrect? KEYWORDS for now are aggressive, straightforward and Adventuresome from March 19th as the sun entered ARIES we entered the Vernal equinox and a time of FIRE.. Spring, the sun and LIGHT: but we have to add Mercury retrograde in Aries in march Backing into Pisces moving direct in Pisces on the 4th. And We also have to figure into the mix of astrological very confusing soup, the energy of Chiron the wounded healer and Neptune (intuition and vision) in anything but hurry up Pisces. This energy of the sun and Aries planets wanting us to get moving really [...] Read more »