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By Rebecca BrentsMar 31, 20071 topic

Your Sun Sign, Moon Sign, and Ascendant Sign -- Just What's Going on Here?

The short answer is: Your Sun sign describes your basic ego, your Moon sign describes your emotional inner self, and your Ascendant describes the facade you show the rest of the world.nnWant to know more? Read on.nn Your Sun Sign nnFrom these three components, an astrologer can develop a thumbnail sketch of your personality -- a recognizable line drawing as opposed to a full-color portrait, but still, clearly, a picture of you. The fact that we have three reference points ins

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJul 18, 20071 topic

The Cancer Character -- The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac

The Cancer CharacternThe Fourth Sign of the Zodiacnby Rebecca BrentsnnCancers are spirits of emotions and moods. Their feelings -- and inconsistencies -- the shifting climates of their inner world form the landscape where they live. Cancers have a mood for every occasion. Feelings count with them more than thoughts, or logic, or even the evidence of reality. Cancers pay attention to their intuition, gut reactions, hunches, and their "take" on people, ideas, places, situations

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJun 2, 20071 topic

The Gemini Character -- The Third Sign of the Zodiac

Gemini is one of the Zodiac's most intellectual signs. Reading, writing, learning, talking, sharing viewpoints and opinions, gathering facts and data, communicating in all the ways you can imagine is what Gemini is all about.nnGeminis love words ... and jokes, and puns. They love odd pieces of wisdom like trivia, and word games, and "Twenty Questions," and "Jeopardy." Some are an intellectual collection of clutter, hoarding interesting but useless anecdotes, silly paradoxes a

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsMay 10, 20071 topic

The Taurus Character -- The Second Sign of the Zodiac

The Taurus CharacternThe Second Sign of the ZodiacnBy Rebecca BrentsnnWant some words to describe Taurus? How about "laid back" and "easy going?" Taurus likes to mellow out, take life at a measured stride and on its own time schedule. What can I say? Taurus believes in conserving physical resources ... and "conserving" its own energy is first on the list. You just can't push these folks any faster than they have a mind to go. Either get used to it ... or decide to make antaci

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsOct 8, 20071 topic

The Leo Character

A Leo soul is a true showman, celestial royalty, the undeniable star of the Zodiac. He can be a delightful mix of youthful exuberance, playfulness, enthusiasm and joy ... like a real-life Peter Pan, the kid who refuses to grow up. He can be an inspiring leader ... able to rally followers and inspire confidence with his own dramatic displays of courage and personal charisma. He can be the elegant, creative artist and performer who knows how to charm his audience and hold the s

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJan 3, 20081 topic

The Libra Character -- The Seventh Sign Of The Zodiac

Libras don't do well as "singles." They feel incomplete without "another half" in their life -- meaning another person to whom they feel profoundly connected, with whom they feel intimately "involved." They deeply feel the need for other people in their lives, and so a well-functioning Libra will also be well-skilled in all the little social graces and interpersonal courtesies the make relationships work smoothly for everyone concerned.nnLibras feel adrift and unfocused witho

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsNov 29, 20071 topic

The Virgo Character -- The Sixth Sign Of The Zodiac

I will try to keep this brief. I know how Virgos like efficiency. Work and service are their passions. They'll find it -- or at least what they define as it -- even if they have to make it up. A Virgo in his heart of hearts wants to be useful. Virgos can be the most selfless, dedicated, indefatigable workers in the world.nnThey run errands, they finish chores, they do favors, they tidy up, they fuss over things -- as a way of showing they care. Taking care of all the mundane

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJan 5, 20081 topic

The Scorpio Character -- The Eighth Sign Of The Zodiac

Scorpios have extremely important work to do in life, so I suppose it's only fair to indulge them for being so reserved and solitary. It's not easy being the most powerful sign in the Zodiac. All that potential is a tremendous responsibility. The contributions Scorpio makes, generation after generation, to the progress of humankind are undeniable ... and crucially important. Scorpio has tremendous access to vision and wisdom and a natural talent for using fundamental creative

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsNov 20, 20071 topic

Can Astrology Tell The Future?

Can Astrology tell the future? Well, yes, actually it can. But not in the cut-and-dried way many people would like to use it. It won't tell you when you're going to win the lottery. (Let's face it. The almost-certain answer to that one is "Never." No, not ever ... put it from your mind, save your money. There are reasons why people joke that the lottery is a tax on people who are really, really, really bad at math.) It won't tell you if that cute guy who hit on you last night

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJan 20, 20081 topic

Do You Recognize Yourself In Your Sun Sign Description?

There are some people who, in all sincerity, look at the list of traits and qualities assigned to them by their astrological Sun Sign ... and say the description just doesn't fit them. Sure, some of them are smug and pleased to have confirmed their belief that astrology is a bunch of hokum, which is what they thought from the start. But others say rather wistfully, "I'm not a typical Libra," or "I must not be a real Pisces." nnAnd in the tone of their voice I hear the disappo

Primary topic: Horoscopes

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 22, 20071 topic

Chi - The Energy and Essence of Life

Physicists have been saying for decades, maybe centuries, and mystics for eons that everything is made of energy. It's one thing to learn that fact as a kid so you can spit it back on a science exam. It's another thing to accept it intellectually.nnIt's something very profound and different, however, to really get inside that notion and understand intuitively, unquestionably, what that means. When you do that, the knowledge becomes an inalienable part of your life ... and it

Primary topic: New Age

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By Rebecca BrentsJan 14, 20081 topic

Your Moon Sign -- What Is It And Why Is It Important?

In Astrology, the Moon represents your emotions, your inner self, your instincts, habits, and reactions. The sign it occupied when you were born is your Moon Sign in your horoscope. Your Moon Sign describes character traits, feelings, and personal responses that are very familiar to you. In fact, it's common for people to relate to their Moon Sign qualities far more than their Sun Sign characteristics when finally they learn, through research, by having their Natal Chart inte

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 19, 20071 topic

Moon Magic

The Moon has a mystique all its own. It is often associated with secrecy and mystery ... and is associated with strange, uncanny powers. It evokes a peculiar range of responses in cultures everywhere, from curiosity and wonder, to romance and affection, to awe and dread. In legend (and the lore of police and hospital personnel), the Full Moon brings forth weird behaviors, extreme reactions, and over-the-top emotional outbursts associated with no other time on the calendar.nnF

Primary topic: New Age

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By Rebecca BrentsOct 8, 20071 topic

More About The Leo Character

Leos! As a group they strut and fret their hours onstage -- for the amusement and bemusement of the rest of us. And they are always uniquely themselves. In everyday life, sometimes you just gotta love 'em. Other times you just want to strangle them. They don't seem able to walk much of a middle ground, either. You're either on one end of that feeling or the other ... with a lot of no-man's-land in between. You can get whiplash changing sides.nnMostly, though, Leos know how to

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsFeb 28, 20081 topic

Does Knowing Your Moon Sign Information Help You Understand Yourself?

In describing character qualities, pop culture Astrology deals with Sun Sign descriptions as a matter of convenience. Almost everybody knows his birthday, and from that, he can almost always find himself in one of the Sun Sign categories that describe the creative personalities of humankind. But the Sun is only one of 10 celestial elements in a basic horoscope.nnGranted, the Sun's position is important ... and granted the fact that it's usually nice and easy to locate in one

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJun 26, 20071 topic

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrogradenby Rebecca BrentsnnWhen Mercury is retrograde (Mercury Rx -- in shorthand), it is a time of rethinking, refocusing and re-communicating. Metaphorically, Mercury represents your use of intellectual energy; your mental focus; the application of your mind's assets; your ability to read, write, study, talk, absorb information and learn new things; your communication skills, your use of knowledge, your own mind's individual perspective; and your ability to be mo

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsOct 25, 20071 topic

What Are Aspects In Astrology?

Aspects are the different angles planets form with one another as they move through the sky at their different speeds and in their different orbits. It is the aspects -- these angles -- planets make between themselves, either between planets in the sky or between planet positions in the sky when compared to the stationary planet positions in a Natal Chart -- which allow an astrologer to see and describe the way the energies they represent interact in a horoscope, and so in th

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsFeb 14, 20081 topic

Why Sun Sign Astrology Sometimes Misses The Mark

Some people think Astrology begins and ends with a Sun Sign description of your personality -- a list of qualities, characteristics, and possible short-comings that may seem assigned to you essentially at random based on the day you were born -- a day when, of course, the Sun was traveling through a certain, often easily-determined, sign of the Zodiac. That then becomes your Sun Sign -- and dime-store astrology seems to imply you're stuck with it.nnYour Sun Sign position is w

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsOct 29, 20071 topic

The Energy Of The Sun -- Interpreting The Symbolism of The Sun In Astrology

The Sun symbolizes your basic personality. The Zodiac sign it is in describes the "essential qualities" of your character. This sign is also the easiest one to find. You probably already know it. It's what you mean when you tell someone "I'm an Aries," or "I'm a Capricorn," or "I'm a Pisces."nnAstrologers consider that your Sun sign describes your core personality ... and many will say it is the most important sign you have, although that's not entirely correct. The Moon sign

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 23, 20071 topic

On the One Hand -- And on the Other

On the One Hand -- And on the OthernMaking Decisions You Can Live Withnby Rebecca BrentsnnThe consequences of a bad decision can range from inconvenience, wasted time, embarrassment, and wasted money ... to the truly catastrophic -- the loss of something valuable and irreplaceable, even the loss of life itself. It's why people agonize over important decisions -- so much is riding on the right, or best, or most appropriate choice.nnThere are moral decisions (issues of right an

Primary topic: Empowerment

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 7, 20071 topic

What's Your Favorite Colors... Today?

What's Your Favorite Color ... Today?nMaking Color an Ally in Your LifenBy Rebecca BrentsnnI have known for years that color affected me. If the colors I'm wearing don't fit my mood, life and I are out of synch somehow. Now it seems physicists, mystics, and healers ... strange allies in our constant quest to understand the reality of our world better ... have shed light on some reasons why. Physicists teach that absolutely everything is composed of energy ... solid objects, s

Primary topic: Happiness

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By Rebecca BrentsMay 2, 20071 topic

Clearing Your Minerals and Gemstones

It is important to purge negative energies and recharge positive ones in your stone and mineral allies if you use these tools in your visualization and inner work. Clearing your stones periodically dispels negativity that has built up either in a stone's history or through past work it has done for you. It also recharges your tool, the way you recharge a depleted battery ... and refreshes its power the way you do your body with a good night's rest. (In a way it's only courtes

Primary topic: New Age

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 20, 20071 topic

Your Sun Sign -- What is it -- and Why is it Important?

In Astrology, the Sun represents your basic personality, the central cluster of traits and interests, strengths and personal issues that color and influence the various other parts of your character -- the inner selves and different roles described by the nine other planets in your horoscope. The Sun is an important component in Astrology, but as you see ... it is only one player among many.nnAstrologers consider The Sun one of the three most essential elements in any horosco

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJun 12, 20071 topic

The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 2

The Key to Your CharacternThe Code in the StarsnRebecca BrentsnnAstrology uses the positions of the eight known planets, not including the earth, plus the positions of the Sun and the Moon to "describe" the cycles of experience, the stages of evolving energy, that were operating, that had "come up for attention" when you were born. Your horoscope is a snapshot of the sky, taken at the moment you were born, that "describes" the energies your soul is working to develop and expe

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsDec 4, 20071 topic

The Path of the Mystic

There are reasons why the better writers, teachers, and mystics offer at least a word or two of caution to the novices who toy with the notion of exploring the mystical path through occult studies, dabbling in rituals and magick, and opening their minds through other avenues and interests to experience the "something more" they sense is out there -- just beyond the veil of illusion we call reality. We all sense that "something more" ... even if it's just in the elementary and

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 21, 20071 topic

Why Take Astrology Seriously?

Astrology provides an interesting roadmap that can help you "decode" some of the mysteries of your life, your relationships, other people, your individual pasts, your unfolding future, and your personal destiny. If you look at that list carefully, you'll see a tremendous wealth of material available through this often abused and misunderstood occult discipline.nn* If you (or someone knowledgeable) can read it properly, your horoscope ... the map of the sky frozen in time at t

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsMay 13, 20071 topic

The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 1

When people ask why I believe in astrology, I answer, "Because astrology works."nnLong ago I proved to myself that I could look at a person's horoscope and know without question very explicit and observable things about his or her character. And because I also knew the current planetary positions and other information astrology uses to forecast trends and events in life, I could further know and explain quite clearly the themes and issues that were unfolding, needing attentio

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsApr 25, 20071 topic

Vitality, Connection, and Change -- The Three Tenets of Chi

Three central ideas provide the essential platform that support all the rest of feng shui's concepts and principles. These ideas involve Chi, the "stuff," the dynamic energy that flows through and is part of absolutely everything ... animate and inanimate, tangible and intangible. It's like one of those inscrutable, circular Oriental notions: If something exists, it has Chi; and only because something has Chi ... it exists. That, in fact, is basically the first principle.nn C

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Rebecca BrentsSep 29, 20071 topic

Signs Of The Zodiac -The Building Blocks of Character

Life is about energy. Everything ... living or not, material or not ... contains energy. You, as a living human being, are certainly complex cluster of energy. Everything you know and can possibly comprehend also contains its own special kind of energy ... including the rocks you walk on and the thoughts that pass in and out of your mind.nnAstrology is about energy, too, and the metaphors that describe various clusters, cycles, and constellations of energy. These cycles are d

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsOct 17, 20071 topic

Yes, Most Daily Horoscopes Are Junk -- But Daily Horoscopes Are Not Real Astrology

You may know "astrology" through the pop-culture categories of dime-store booklets or through reading your daily horoscope in the newspaper. These are supposedly the descriptions of who you are and what's going to happen to you today based on some mysterious elements at work in the sky and little more than the luck of the draw you were handed on the day of the year you were born. Usually the dime-store booklets are simplistic but accurate as far as they go. Daily horoscopes i

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsJun 24, 20071 topic

The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 3

The Key to Your CharacternThe Code in the Starsnby Rebecca BrentsnPart 3nnUnderstanding the metaphors of Astrology as they apply to you is one of the best, most efficient, ways I know to accomplish what can almost amount to a miracle of rebirth into being the person you were meant to be. Because as the person living the life depicted in the chart, you can draw your own perfectly valid conclusions about how you are working with -- and experiencing -- certain "raw materials" of

Primary topic: Astrology

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By Rebecca BrentsNov 6, 20071 topic

The Dark Of The Moon -- A Natural Time Of Magic And Creation

The Dark of the Moon is considered an especially mysterious, fruitful, and flexible time of "molding" the creative experiences that will come forth in the weeks immediately ahead. It is said that wishes made as the last sliver of the Moon's light fades on the left, and affirmed through the Dark of the Moon period until the first sliver of new light appears again on the right, have special support -- special empowerment -- to come true. Affirming them again at the moment of th

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Rebecca BrentsDec 11, 20071 topic

The Celestial Event Of the New Moon

In both astronomy and astrology, the celestial phenomenon known as the New Moon occurs at the exact moment the Sun and the Moon occupy precisely the same point in the sky-map of the Zodiac -- the same degree and minute of arc in a particular sign. In Astrology, this aspect of alignment is known as a conjunction.nnWe often speak colloquially of the New Moon as that tiny sliver of light in the night sky that will progress over the next month to create the bright circle of the F

Primary topic: Astrology

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