“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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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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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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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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Small Openings and Amazing Results by Tony Chrstie
In life, you experience a series of doorways, gateways and openings to love, light and wisdom; that if taken will bring you to a higher state of existence. You are at a gate, a doorway, an opening. Perhaps like me you got here via a circuitous route – the labyrinth...
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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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The Book You Were Born to Write by Kelly Notaras (Extract)
There are a lot of obvious reasons why I’m happy to devote many hours of labor to writing this book. I want to share what I’ve learned over two decades in books, first and foremost… But there’s another, less obvious reason I’m writing a book about how to write a...
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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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