Radical Beauty, the Witch & Yoga: You Can Too!
What does beauty, er, radical beauty have to do with yoga? Or witches? My teachers Sharon Gannon & David Life taught me that being a yogi means being a radical, because radical means "to [...]
Desperately Seeking Non-Toxic Goo Gone
Before DIY Goo Gone The other day I was both desperate for some Goo Gone & desperately not looking forward to inhaling its toxic aroma of lighter fluid. So I was almost [...]
Splendid Suns One & All
what to know so you can align with today's energy from a vedic (not western/tropical) astrology point of view: it's friday, july 17, moon is in leo, in the starspace called pūrvaphālgunī, it's the [...]
Who Needs a Life Coach when We’ve Got Saturn?
it's friday, may 8, moon is in capricorn, in the starspace called uttarāṣāḍha until mid-ish-morning, then śravaṇa, it's the seventh phase of the waning moon & venus' day. capricorn is ruled by mature & [...]
Disaster Relief
it's friday, january 9, & moon is in virgo, in the starspace called hastā. virgo vibrates with the frequency of preventing disaster, getting ahead of it, being proactive, getting all our ducks in order [...]
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers …
it's tuesday, september 2, & moon is in sagittarius, in the starspace called mūla until about 10 a.m. MDT, then pūrvāṣaḍha. after being tossed & turned on the emotional waves of scorpio, under the [...]
The Power of Connection
it's friday, august 8, & we have a full moon overnight in capricorn, in the starspace called śravana. full moon in capricorn means sun is opposite, in cancer, where the new moon started this [...]
Recipes for the Resistance—and Resilience
Looks like we’re in for the long haul when it comes to Covid-19—our new normal being that infection will be a present danger for longer than we can even imagine. Which means continuing to [...]
The Impossible Burger May Be Plant-Based, but Is It Vegan? Does It Matter? Perhaps Just as Importantly, Is It Healthy?
Is the Impossible Whopper a Whopping Lie? I was recently lured into what turned out to be a kinda, sorta divisive thread on a vegan FB page about whether the Impossible Burger [...]
Killer Winter Boots That Don’t Kill
Oh, the Challenge of Being Cool and Conscious! My UGGs were sooooo old, I couldn’t even remember when I bought them. Resoled at least twice. Footbeds like concrete. But it wasn’t until I discovered rents [...]
Foster Failure or Foster Success? It’s Just a Shift in Perception.
The universe kept SOS’ing me about fostering animals: the Humane Society was offering a foster training, RezDawg Rescue needed foster parents. My nearly 15-year-old girl kitty, Mukti, had recently died, and her brother, Bhakti, [...]