There is a very powerful practice to attune to the seasons and the wheel of the year at the time of the Celtic festivals and create our own ceremonies, together or alone in the stillness of meditation. We both animate and reclaim the past wisdom of our ancestors whose very...
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Discovering Your Soul Signature
Ascending our Soul Stairway Have you ever stood at the bottom of one of those old city buildings that has, at its center, a spiral staircase that goes all the way from the lobby up to the top floor? Well, those buildings look a lot like our lives. With each...
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An Astonishing Experience of Forgiveness
Meena Compagnon is a very dear friend who underwent one of the most challenging experiences I have ever heard of. While she was absent from her home, her husband committed suicide while with their two children, and then the house caught fire accidentally. In one night she lost absolutely everything...
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Living Your Life with Integrity
I really want to be a good yogi, and I am trying very hard to purify myself, but it’s so hard. What’s wrong? Purification is an act of letting go. In one of the Gospels it says that men need not disfigure their faces in order to know God. There...
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Magic Path of Intuition
Awaken, you that sleep. All that you desire or require is already on your pathway, but you must be wide-awake to your good to bring it into manifestation. Affirm: The Power within sweeps out of my mind, body, and affairs everything not divinely planned, and puts my house in order,...
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Growth Is Cyclical
Do you know some happy mystics? You may be one yourself. The luckiest of these people have had a most lovely experience since childhood. They have known and felt that existence is permeated with benevolence. They have felt loved by an invisible presence. They recognise and feel suffering and cruelty...
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What If…
. What if enlightenment is inevitable? What if the Dalai Lama were a news junkie? Would he be as sanguine as he is, seemingly without stress and judgement? He says he doesn’t keep up with any earth-plane events. Doesn’t watch television or movies and is unaware of the news. Perhaps...
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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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A Sacred Gift Awaits
. A secluded idyllic retreat in the heart of the Cotswolds, dedicated to healing and personal growth. All genuine seekers of the truth are welcome. These were the words nestling in the back of the Cygnus magazine which I was drawn to, just over a month ago, when I was...
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My name is Mike Scott. I’m a musician and singer and have led my band The Waterboys since the early 1980s. You may know our songs like The Whole Of The Moon and Fisherman’s Blues. My musical travels have dovetailed with my personal spiritual experiences, and I write about both...
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