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: From Inspiration to Transformation
I am very pleased to include in this spring issue an attractive new edition of the Findhorn Classic Encounters With Nature Spirits by R Ogilvie Crombie. It’s an enjoyable account of a solitary mystic’s encounter with a faun and with the great god Pan in the everyday streets and gardens...
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Happy Spring Equinox! How will you celebrate?
Are you feeling the buzz of vital energy heralding the arrival of spring? It’s potent stuff! The birds are doing it, the bees are doing it … even educated fleas are doing it! And while they’re all doing it, the trees are already starting to blossom with young, blushing petals...
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Creativity, Inspiration and Passion – Are they Important?
We live in a world that by and large puts lots of emphasis on left-brain logic and reason and far less on creative pursuits. Academia and the corporate world understand inspiration more in terms of motivations and getting people to do things they might not really want to do. Because many work environments...
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Zero Limits
Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients–without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient...
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Hero
Every obstacle or challenge you encounter on the Hero’s Journey transforms you as you acquire strength of character and the qualities and abilities you need to overcome the obstacle or challenge. The emergence of these qualities and abilities shape you into the kind of person you need to become to...
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Loving Yourself
. Here is a selection of the affirmations many Cygnus members have sent in for the book we hope to compile, entitled ‘Loving Yourself’. We still would like to receive more affirmations, so if you, too, would like to make a contribution, please send it in to us. ‘Our gift...
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October Chat Page 2013
Star Letter: Inspiration One day in my garden I was kneeling, weeding between two rows of flowering broad beans. They were scented. Suddenly it came to me – I knew the plants were glad to be weeded and allowed to grow unencumbered. I realised they were thanking me. This was...
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Not a Catchy Headline
I would like to lift the illusion that is formed somewhere in the publication process. Is it in the neat layout, the catchy headline (no pressure, Louisa), the ink on the page or is it the sheer number of copies that somehow form the impression that the writer has it...
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