“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”  Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) You never dream? Everyone dreams; they just remember them in varying degrees. During 1982/1983 I kept a detailed Dream Diary, because my dreams had become even more vivid, as though trying...
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How Meditation Was Invented by William Bloom
Having taught meditation for decades, I want to reassure people that meditation is a natural human behaviour. All you need is an instinct to be quiet and calm. So why are there all these competing meditation traditions and schools? Here are three short stories that illustrate how meditation might have...
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Spiritual Teacher Gemma Polo Pujol
You are starting to love life as it is. Seeing this messiness, this confusion, as a road, as our good friend. Trying to discover what it’s really about, without settling for just any answer. When the people I teach tell me that they’re depressed I see it as a sign...
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Letter from the Editor: Forever Changes
As the outside world gets crazier, Cygnus stands for inclusivity and kindness Welcome to our Summer Review: I hope you like what we have put together. There are some great new voices and a couple of great familiar ones. Two of the contributors are ordinary (or not so ordinary!) Cygnus...
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What is Sensory Herbalism by the Seed Sistas
Sensory Herbalism is designed to aid people on their journey to health. In Sensory Herbalism there is a focus on how we as humans can restore our own health by interacting with the plants themselves through energetic doses and through the growing and harvesting of them. Sensory Herbalism has a...
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The Way to Achieve True Abundance by Lee Harris
This is a channeled communication from “the Zs”, a group of nonphysical beings from another plane of reality. Abundance. This word carries so many connotations within your society. There are many misleading beliefs and ideas – so many un-abundant experiences – associated with this word. What does this word mean...
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Current Cycles of Opportunity by Jenny Jones
What are the current planetary movements telling us? The backdrop is the Aquarian-Leo harmonic and so it’s an age of learning where we serve with loving intent and sacred purpose. There are two powerful signals occurring right now: Saturn is moving through its own sign of Capricorn until it finally...
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Do you find it hard to feel or express your emotions? by Fiona Maguire
Do you… Get confused as to what you are feeling Not feel emotions when you think you should? Not feel a deep connect with anyone else? Prefer to be in your head analysing things rather than feeling them? Or maybe you do not feel your emotions? If you have answered...
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Elder: Tree of Transformation by Jo Dunbar
At this time of the year, the hedgerows are dripping with spider webs and elderberries. The elder tree is beloved of gypsies, witches and country folk. She is known as Helder Moer in Danish (also spelled Hyldemoer), the elder mother, and is associated with the wisdom of the cunning woman. ...
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A Butterfly in November and Saturn Returns by Wendy Erlick
When a client commissions a reading in Watkins Books, my first question is “What brings you here and how would you like to feel when you leave?” In their answers I notice a common theme: they are caught in the In-Between and seeking insight or reassurance. In the In-Between they...
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