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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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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Letter from the Editor: Miracles and the Joy of Being Human
The spiritual path never goes as expected. At one moment I think I am “there” and in the next I make myself promise never to say that I am “there” again. Something happens which I can’t explain and I punch the air and say “yes that’s proof ” and one...
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Letter from the Editor: Approaching Life as Something Enchanting…
With past reviews, I would sometimes ask before going to sleep for inspiration regarding what I should write in this letter, as if I could expect divine intervention in some dramatic form. I hoped that a dream might tell me something or that I would wake up with a phrase...
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Letter from the Editor: Beacons of Light
The light might be slowly dwindling, but it always comes back in a bright blaze at the turn of the year. Hope is always there and things will always get better. It’s been a demanding year. Personally, I have found that a lot of certainty, solidity even, has fallen away....
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Letter from the Editor: 21st Century Hero’s Journey
I live in the city. However, I long for the countryside. I love being on the grass, amongst the trees and in places where the sky is big. Then it’ll start to get dark, and I pine for the security of the city where a solitary toad laboriously crossing the...
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Letter from the Editor: Lessons from Glastonbury
I am lucky and have been to the Glastonbury Festival many times over recent years. It’s one of the greatest events in the whole world. No exaggeration. Most people have the time of their lives. They get angry sometimes but not that often. I have never seen a fight there....
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Letter from the Editor: Tools for Bringing Love into the World
It’s a privilege to be editing this magazine. It gives me this little soapbox and I want to use it as to make a positive difference. The world has become a more demanding and anxiety-provoking place for most people over the past year or so. I believe, though, that all...
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Garden Herbs for Stress by Jo Dunbar
We are separated from Mother Nature, and whilst we all know that it can be very hard to find our way home… Just this morning, I received an email from someone in India saying that although his health had improved, he feels lonely, scared and has lost his self-confidence. How...
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Celebrating the Women Poets Who Died During the Holocaust By Amber Poole-Kieniewicz
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date. You Who Wronged by Czesław Miłosz In 2015, when my husband and I left Scotland for Poland, we moved into the ancestral home of his Aunt...
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