When Luna first held a snake as a young child, she fell in love with it. Over the years she’s admired and handled a wide variety of (even venomous!) snakes, with the expert guidance of folks at the San Diego Herpetological Society. She received a junior reptile handler’s license at the age of five. And now, at 13, just as we enter the Year of the Snake, she has finally adopted … [Read more...]

Susan Chernak McElroy was desperately seeking a miracle in her struggle against advanced cancer. In her deeply moving book, Animals as Teachers and Healers, the author recounts her experience being part of a support group in which 24 cancer patients danced, meditated, painted and chanted for a healing vision. “We cried and wailed together and recorded our dreams,” she … [Read more...]

On April 15 2019, a horrific fire broke out in the roof area of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.  When the spire collapsed, it created a draft that slammed all the doors and propelled a fireball through the attic. Shortly before the spire fell, the fire had spread to the wooden framework inside the north tower, which supported eight very large bells. Had these bells … [Read more...]

  Slow-rolling Pluto goes like a great wave through the global sea, transforming the power dynamics in whatever sign he touches.  Pluto defines generations. He alters history. And when he returns to his natal position (an event occurring every 250 years or so), he incites tremendous upheaval and change.  It's this transit that best articulates the scary ledge on which … [Read more...]

Nobody could have foreseen the young Mohandas Gandhi becoming a world leader. Small and unassuming, with a big nose and jug ears, the Hindu boy was so shy he couldn’t speak up for himself. But another side of him began to arise after he was married at 13 to a girl of the same age. He became a bossy husband who fought constantly with his wife. But at least he began to assert … [Read more...]