March 2012
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The Astrology of Mega Millions
As the drawing near for the $540 Mega Millions drawing approaches, I thought I’d try a little experiment. After all, the lottery has become simultaneously the symbol for all that is hope and the American Dream, the idea that anyone can plunk down a dollar and walk out a day or so later as a millionaire, and a cautionary tale. I mean, when’s the last time you saw a TV special called How...
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All the Great Ones
“All the great ones have a screw loose,”
— Stanford coach Tara Vanderveer, talking about 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh
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I'm More Spiritual Than You
Don’t you love those people who treat spirituality like it’s some sort of club you’re supposed to want to get into? As if they’re the sole bouncers at the velvet rope just outside enlightenment?
It’s so close, you can smell it. You’re watching all those beautiful, couture-dripping, drug-toting people get into the land of plenty, beats booming, while...
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Hey Girl ...
Ryan Gosling or Ryan Phillippe?
My husband says Ryan Gosling; I’m not so sure.
Ryan Gosling was a Mousketeer. Not that cool. But he dated Rachel McAdams. Way cool.
Ryan Phillippe was on One Life to Live. Totes not cool. But he was in Stop-Loss as well, which was pretty darn cool.
These are the things you talk about when you’re both exhausted.
If people made Ryan Phillippe...
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Confessions of a Buddhist Psychic
I’ve always known I was a little “different.”
A vivid imagination and near photographic memory of my textbooks saved on hours of study, making it easier to pass tests in school. Finding creative excuses for why I’d done this, or failed to do that, were as simple as tuning in to the wildest impulses of my mind.
Spiritually, my explorations were all over the place as I was led by curiosity to the...
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Words to Live By
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Meditating on this one big time today …
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Look Closer
Sometimes when it rains, it’s great to get out of the house. Since I have a little curiosity but not much desire to see The Hunger Games, and I figured everyone else in L.A. would be there anyway, I chose to see some art. LACMA had a few exhibitions I was interested in, including one by photographer Robert Adams and a collection of female surrealists from Frida Kahlo to Louise Bourgeois.
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Wishes Into Dreams
Maybe it’s the 2012 phenonemon, and the people who still keep writing to me, practically on a daily basis, asking if I believe the world is going to come to an end this year.
Short answer? No, I don’t.
Long answer? I’m being guided in a big way to offer some new programs, providing accelerated healing for those who are interested. I use a hybrid kind of energy work,...
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Obstacles Are Impermanent, Too
Mercury retrograde periods, for most people, are just shy of outright torture. Cars break down, technology goes kersplooey, and forget about getting anywhere on time, It’s probably not gonna happen unless you leave a lot of extra time to get there.
So it’s with a certain amount of understanding and tolerance that I deal with my friends, relatives, clients and colleagues during these...
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The Patterns, The Patterns
Lately, I’ve felt a little like the Marlon Brando character in Apocalypse Now, crouching under a light bulb, glare bouncing off … well, that’s about where the similarity falls off. I’m not bald, that large, or crazy. I don’t kill people, or imprison them in jungle cages made of bamboo spikes. But I did have a revelation recently, which was much like Brando’s...
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Some New Love
As a psychic and reader of over twenty years, I’ve learned that there is one main question that unites us all. Does someone love me? Will I find someone to spend my life with, or end up alone? Am I lovable, and will someone connect with me on that level?
There are, of course, many variations on this theme. Does he/she love me? Will he/she love me? Will I end up with this or that person?...
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Sallie Felton's Book Launch!
My friend Sallie Felton’s releasing a really interesting book tomorrow on Amazon, and I wanted to write a little about it this evening. The book is called Why Can’t I Get Rid of This Clutter? and it’s not just to figure out why you’re a slob. I’m kidding, of course. It’s about how our minds are always spinning around, stressing out about the past and projecting...
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Balancing Monsters of Love
Found this quote today, which seems to pretty much sum up every single moment of my life these days:
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint...
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Further Reason for Celebration
Did something I’ve never done before today — hypnotherapy. I’m a big fan of trying new things, meeting new people and traveling new places, as much as time and cash will allow. I’ve done plenty of past life regressions, which are sort of similar, but this was something new for me. Which is how it should be on a Sunday.
It went well, if a bit confused, in keeping with the...
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An Anniversary
Two years ago, something major happened in my life. Today, after Pilates and a manicure, after some work and returning emails and reading a great new book I found, I wanted to be quiet for a bit, and just let the events of the past two years wash over me.
I realized I’m happy to be here.
I realized I’m happier to be free of whatever was holding me back.
I realized I’m so...
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Get Your Ass Off My Arm!
What is it about baseball games that tosses personal space out the window? Sure, you’re crammed in next to strangers, most of whom are eating and drinking to excess, seemingly without notice of, say, the thousands of other people around. But that doesn’t mean that if you have to bend down to pick something up, you put your entire ass in my face and then on my arm as you move around to...
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The Biggest Douche
Why is it that you’re doing something enjoyable — watching a baseball game, say — and then there have to be those guys who can’t keep their mouths shut, try to pick fights with pretty much anyone walking by, and actually manage to make alcohol and its consumption look uncool? Why do they always have to know nothing about the sport in question, and make your viewing of same...
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Baseball Burning
I never get used to living in a desert. Maybe it’s that L.A. hogs most of the state’s water, receiving it through miles of pipeline even from Nevada, and other reservoirs nearby. But once you leave the edges of the city, you’re in straight up sandy, scrubby desert, where the horizon stretches out endlessly flat and close to the ground.
Our trip to Scottsdale was easy, even on...
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Idiot Proof
Those days right before you’re trying to blow out of town are always the most hilarious. They’re the ones when every friend who’s moving calls at the last minute for some help, or they lose your clothes at the dry cleaner, or you get a flat tire — you know, the stuff that takes up your time and drives you crazy in slow motion. I had my own version of that today, with small...
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To Have
Though I live in self-involved L.A., I mostly manage to avoid that part of the city. I’m lucky to be in a multi-cultural area, where people of all kinds live together, work together and interact. So when I have to go to the West Side, as it’s called (anything west of, say, Hollywood to most people), or even the dreaded Hills of Beverly, it’s done with some trepidation.
Today, I...
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Game Over
My mind’s been blown again, this time by Tom Shadyac’s documentary called I Am. It tells the story of this former Hollywood insider (he directed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty and The Nutty Professor, among many others) and his injury (not to mention near death) which led to questioning the way his life had always been — moneyed and still not happy.
The film...
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Scratch That Itch
Ever notice that the more you can’t do something, or you’re not supposed to, the more you want to do it? Take meditation. You’re meant to quiet your mind, watch your thoughts, maybe return to your breath every time you notice your attention straying. Hopefully, you’re spending some quality time turning your awareness inward.
So why is it every time that happens, your nose...
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Tumbling, Tumbling
Maybe it was a sub-plot on tonight’s Up All Night, but I can’t stop thinking about classic rock this evening. For the guy on the show, it was Bob Seeger’s “Night Moves.” For me, it’s a song I don’t even know the name of, with the lyrics,” When the wall, comes tumbling down, when the wall, comes tumbling, tumbling …”
I don’t know...
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Going Around, Coming Around
By now, everyone knows the phrase “what goes around, comes around,” meaning that you better watch your ass, because what you do to others may come back around and be done to you. Not that that seems to stop most people. They do crimes, cheat on each other, and seldom recognize themselves in the mirror afterward. For along time, I thought it was my business to somehow fix that, or try...
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The Vanishing Point
Over the past day or so, I keep thinking about those drawings we did in junior high art class, drawing in perspective. There had to be a vanishing point, the point where our vision converged with the horizon line. No matter whether we were forcing the perspective, the line always had to end up getting skinner and more slanted as it moved away from our eyes.
I suppose issues are like that when we...
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Interview Season
First interview for the book is officially here — well, tomorrow, that is. I’ll be speaking with Shelley Overton who has a great online radio show called AstroEnergy. We’ll be talking about Searching for Sassy, astrology (I’m sure) and some other spiritual topics.
If you’re interested in taking part, or calling in with a question, the link to the show is here....
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Inevitably
You ever notice how you try to control things, even little things like when you get somewhere, only to find that you have no frickin’ control over anything? Sure, those times are annoying as hell. But they’re also pretty cool. They’re reminders to look at our expectations, which are engaged pretty much all the time. It’s just that we don’t notice it, so our...
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There is No Now
Most of the time, spiritual people are trained to stay in the present moment, or return to the present moment. And after 16 years of meditation, I’ve engaged in quite a few of those. Taking it into “real” life is a bit harder, though, and by doing it again and again and again, I’ve learned that there is no now. Not really.
Even having the thought “present...
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Wanting, Getting, Having
So much is manifesting for me right now that it’s almsot embarrassing. I never planned to have a book out this year — it just kind of happened that way — and then I never planned to win the Hay House Pitchfest in New York, or have a play of mine staged in the Baltimore area. I never planned to be on a book tour this summer, but that looks like it’s pretty likely to...
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Why Not Me?
Short post tonight because I’m tired and happy and wish I had more hours in the day to feel this way. So much of my life is spent on personal work that it sometimes feels like a second or third vocation. When something actually clicks, and I act out of a newer, healthier way without having to think about it, it’s pretty amazing.
The other times, I have to remind myself not to bite...
